Newham and District Landcare Group invites you to hear Honorary Professor Barry Golding speak about his recently published book Six Peaks Speak - Unsettling Legacies in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country.

The stories of six volcanic peaks in Central Victoria threads insights and evidence from diverse historic sources, including First Nations, geological, ecological, community, and reserve management.

It raises questions about how mountain peaks have been managed, providing ideas for creatively healing and reconnecting with them.

Honorary Professor Barry Golding AM self-describes as a ground-up, community-oriented, polymathic, place-based story teller. Barry is widely published internationally in the field of adult and community learning, former President of Adult Learning Australia and Patron of the Australian Men’s Shed Association since 2009. His recent (2024) book is local, multidisciplinary and First Nations-focused: Six Peaks Speak: Unsettling legacies in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Barry is a community representative on Hepburn Shire's RAP (Reconciliation Action Plan, has lived in the rural landscape between Daylesford and Creswick for almost 50 years and was founder of the Great Dividing Trail (in 1991).

Barry is a great raconteur, a geologist, a keen cyclist and, as a keen bush-walker, one of the inaugurators of the Great Dividing Trail, an astute reader of landscape, a diligent researcher and a valued friend of the DJARRA with a commitment to building a sense of place in himself and others. Talks about its geology, something about what it means to First Nations people, and about the land use since European settlement. And a vision for its future.

Author-signed copies of the recently published (Sept 2025) soft cover version of Six Peaks Speak will be available for purchase at our event for $55

https://barrygoanna.com/2024/11/11/six-peaks-speak-book-published/

Doors open at 7:00pm for a 7:30 start. Supper and drinks provided.

Any questions, contact:

Jane Trikojus 0413 499 252

trikojus_j@fastmail.com