Noongar Quotes

“While much of her true name lay beyond my knowledge of the Noongar language, as the minutes passed I understood that her name was also a history of her people, a sort of Bayeux Tapestry that bound myth with loves, births, deaths; hunts, battles, journeys; droughts, fires, storms; and names of every host within whose body Moombaki had sojourned.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“After all, they have as much right to live there as we have.”
― Denise Cook, That Was My Home: Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs

“Traces of the Fremantle camps are hard to find in the port and tourist city today. I hope that these stories will help to preserve their memory and encourage residents and visitors to see these places through new eyes.”
― Denise Cook, That Was My Home: Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs