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NAOMI HOBSON

GROWING UP IN COEN IN NORTH Queensland’s remote Cape York Peninsula, I felt like I had it all. In a material sense I had nothing, but I had a vast country passed down to me through more than a thousand generations that gave me the power to imagine anything.

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