Place - Knowing the Country

Maps in the Mind

If anyone asks me where I come from, I’m a Mosquito Island girl, a Mossie Island girl … I have at home maps on the wall ... And I just can’t explain to you that powerful identification, emotion, feeling of belonging …

Belonging workshop,
Newcastle, New South Wales,
6 March 2000

Donna’s Place, Clifton Hill
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Donna’s Place,
Clifton Hill

Donna Rawlins
1987
National Library of Australia

In 1987 writer Nadia Wheatley and illustrator Donna Rawlins created a children’s book, My Place, which tells the story of a Sydney house and neighbourhood over 200 years. Donna Rawlins also drew a ‘mental map’ of her own neighbourhood at Clifton Hill, Victoria. It is different in many ways from the Melway street map of the same place.

 
 
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