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Mark Harris

Mark Harris is a writer and painter who grew up in small town in country Victoria on the banks of the Murray River in the traditional lands of the Latji Latji and Tati Tati. His family and connections to the land are central to his writing and art. His base now is in the township of Yandoit in central Victoria in Dja Dja Wurrung territory. While he has travelled widely and lived in a number of different countries, his affinity with the red dirt, big skies and landscape always draws him back.

That Day on the Ruark Plain

We set out when the sky, too blue, fell into the white rutile plains. Past the ruins of a failed salt venture, heat already smudging the horizon, until the Ruark Plain opened. My uncle— in a Jackie Howe and shorts— …

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