From Quandamooka Country to Canberra — Dr. Valerie Cooms
Valerie’s first seven years were in her mother’s Quandamooka country, living in a Brisbane Bay suburb, Wynnum, and often ‘over home’ to Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Sometime later, when Valerie told her classmates at a tiny school in West Queensland that the poetry they read was written by her aunt, they didn’t believe her. But … Read more