Qualla: Mount Grenfell https://qualla.com/mount-grenfell en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/r/m/mount-grenfell-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mount Grenfell https://qualla.com/mount-grenfell Mount Grenfell: Introduction https://qualla.com/mount-grenfell/ Photo credit Shiftchange at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The water came first. Long before anyone counted the paintings, before the Barrier Highway, before the word "Australia" reached this country, there was a semi-permanent waterhole tucked against a rocky rise in the mallee. In a land where rain falls rarely and unevenly, water that lingers is everything - and around this one, generation after generation of Ngiyampaa people gathered, sheltered in the overhangs, and left their mark. That mark is one of the finest collections of Aboriginal rock art in western New South Wales, and it belongs, once again, to the people who made it.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/r/m/mount-grenfell-wp/r4rm-mount-grenfell-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mount Grenfell: The People of This Country https://qualla.com/mount-grenfell/ Photo credit Shiftchange at English Wikipedia, Public domain. This is Ngiyampaa country, and more particularly the country of the Wangaaypuwan, whose name comes from their word for "no." For thousands of years they returned to the waterhole below Mount Grenfell - to drink, to camp, to meet, to hold ceremony. The site sits about 70 kilometre...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/r/m/mount-grenfell-wp/r4rm-mount-grenfell-the-people-of-this-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Mount Grenfell: Reading the Walls https://qualla.com/mount-grenfell/ Photo credit Shiftchange at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Across three rock overhangs, more than 1,300 images have been recorded - hand stencils, human and animal figures, birds, ceremonial marks, and depictions of food, medicine, and Dreaming stories. The techniques vary. Many are fine linear paintings, drawn by pressing pigment onto s...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/r/m/mount-grenfell-wp/r4rm-mount-grenfell-reading-the-walls.mp3 0:06 3 full Mount Grenfell: Handed Back https://qualla.com/mount-grenfell/ Photo credit Shiftchange at English Wikipedia, Public domain. On 17 July 2004, the land was returned to its Aboriginal owners. The Australian government formally handed Mount Grenfell back to the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people, who lease it back to the state for joint management - only the second time in New South Wales history that land had...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/r/m/mount-grenfell-wp/r4rm-mount-grenfell-handed-back.mp3 0:06 4 full Mount Grenfell: Approaching With Respect https://qualla.com/mount-grenfell/ Photo credit Shiftchange at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Today two walking tracks share the site. The short, gentle art site walk leads visitors to the painted overhangs. The longer Ngiyampaa walking track climbs into a wider country of red dirt, mallee, and open plain, where emus, kangaroos, bearded dragons, and geckos still move thro...

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