Climbing Coolum Mountain in 1927

A brooding Mt Coolum. Image: greghardwick.com.au

The following story is taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. In this breezy account of a clamber up Mount Coolum, Vance Palmer, one of Australia's most significant writers of the time, opens with the Aboriginal Creation Story. Now we leave those paragraphs out, in respect to the Indigenous owners. And while Vance doesn't … [Read more...]