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Summary
This submission is a draft of a fiction book that Mark Holden is writing which is loosely based on his own non-Indigenous family history and their contact with First Peoples. His great great grandfather, Samuel Holden, occupied land on Wathaurong/Wadawurrung Country in 1852. The book was inspired by a story told to the author by the late Uncle Dave Tournier about life before colonisation, and the frontier violence that followed. The book is a fictional re-telling of this story with the Holden family history.
Date: 4 August 2023