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On 7th April 2006 I drove across the flat fertile volcanic plain that stretches west from Geelong to the South Australian border. I was heading for Koroit, a small town just north of Port Fairy. It was autumn and all along the road oaks and elms, planted by Scottish, Irish and English settlers, were turning dry and golden. Koroit takes its name from the Koroitch Gundidj people who occupied the...