Corio

By Eloise Grills

Edited by Veronica Sullivan

Sources cited & further reading

Djillong: Useful website which presents research and history of the Wadawurrung people, and timeline of interactions with European invaders.
Wathaurong – The People Who Said No – prepared by Bruce Pascoe for the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative and Coast Action (2003)
Wathaurong: Too Bloody Strong – Bruce Pascoe (1998)
“Wetland wanderings 2 brochure.” Geelong Australia Website.
“Orange-bellied parrot recovery”. Bird Life Australia.
Wathaurong Aboriginal Collective website.
“3214: North Shore Walk”. Geelong Australia Website.

Some non-copyright images, used in original form and for drawing reference, sourced from the collections of the State Library of Victoria, The Geelong Library and the National Library of Australia have been included in the comic.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Reg Abrahams from the Wathaurong Co-operative for his assistance and guidance, without his support the comic would have been extremely lacking. I would also like to thank Candice and all the kind volunteers and students who work with Greening Australia for their help and for letting me observe their work. Thank you also to my uncle Graham Grills, my Grandy, Beverley Joyce for their willingness to be interviewed for this work. Thanks also to my editor Veronica for all her help and patience.

This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne.

Eloise Grills is a comics artist, writer, photographer, zine maker and editor living in Melbourne. Her work has been published in The Lifted Brow, CHART Collective, Scum Magazine, LOR Journal, The Age and VICE, among many others.