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Leanganook Learnings

This year I have had more sleepless nights than normal. And not just because of COVID-19. Sure, living in the age of coronavirus threw up many personal challenges, the primary one being adapting to working from home whilst simultaneously helping my eight-year-old son complete his remote learning tasks for school. But the main thing causing me sleepless nights was thinking about my brushed and prepped projects up at Mt Alexander, known to the Dja Dja Wurrung people on whose land it stands, as Leanganook.

I’ve been living in Castlemaine in Central Victoria for the past ten years, and one of the best things is being 15

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