Oombulgurri, Oombulgurri, Mission built of stone and clay, Where our fathers lived and laboured, In the heat of day.
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"Rusted shut" playground equipment symbolizes the stagnation and death of a once-vibrant community.
The search for an is a search for a ghost in the machine. Oombulgurri the place has been physically dismantled; Oombulgurri the poem exists only in fragments—a Kinsella stanza here, an anthropologist’s footnote there, a line sung by an elder on a humid night in 1986.