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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
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Donna’s
Place,
Clifton Hill
Donna Rawlins
1987
National Library of Australia
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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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