Cara Peek Finding my way home
It’s a hot September morning in Broome and a pint-sized rodeo rider is kicking up dust in the very same ring that’s about to host a Brazilian heavyweight, Adriano Moraes, one of the great bull riders of the world. In the shade of a nearby kurrajong tree, local families swap news and plan to meet up at the country music stage later in the day.
A couple of seasoned Indigenous stockmen from a remote community to the north-east approach the event organiser, Cara Peek, shake her hand and express their gratitude. “Thank you for doing this,” they say. “I can’t believe we are doing this!”
Cara is proud that they feel a sense of ownership of the festival. “It’s probably the first time they’ve seen people who look like them, with a similar lived experience to them, running the show from top to bottom,” she explains. “And that’s a powerful thing.”
Saltwater Country, the not-for-profit organisation behind all this, is also a powerful
