Goulburn Square is on Gandangara and Ngunnawal country, we pay our respect to the traditional owners, their elders past & present, and value their care and custodianship of these lands.

The Drawing Us Together initiative which ran from June 29 - July 14 now in its fifth year, is a celebration of indigenous culture through the creation of a children’s story book written by Indigenous authors and illustrated by local school students.

In honour of NAIDOC Week 2024, we are proud to have partnered with five First Nations authors from across Australia to create a selection of short stories and poems inspired by this year’s NAIDOC theme, Keep The Fire Burning. We are delighted to have partnered with Jayden Boundry, Coral Reeve, Bernadette Hardy, Ellen van Neerven and Alton Walley to write this year’s short story.

Joined by our local primary schools, students were asked to submit a series of artwork to be featured as the illustrations within the story book. We thank all the talented students for their contribution.

Throughout July, we invited you, our much-loved Goulburn community, to have your say and vote on your favourite of 70 illustrations created by local student artists to be featured in the community storybook. We received overwhelming support with 1,124 votes over the two-week period and thank all the talented student artists who contributed illustrations.

WINNING ILLUSTRATIONS

Front Cover  Lexie Price & Clare Edwards, Goulburn East Public School
Page 5   Tijanna Little & Bella Robertson, Bradfordville Public School
Page 7  Kundai Muzondo, Bradfordville Public School
Page 9  Jaxson Astle
Page 10  Lexie Price & Clare Edwards, Goulburn East Public School
Page 13  Tanisha Dongo, Goulburn East Public School
Page 15  Clare Edwards & Lexie Price, Goulburn East Public School
Page 16  Lilah Chalhoub, St Joseph's Primary School Goulburn
Page 18  Arianwen Edwards, St Joseph's Primary School Goulburn
Page 21 Lucy Croker, St Joseph's Primary School Goulburn
Page 22  Emily Morgan, Goulburn Public School
Page 24  Piper Hanly, Goulburn Public School
Page 27  Jayden San Antonio, Goulburn Public School