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RESPECTING NATURE

do enjoy reading about the houses and gardens of people of all ages in the heartland. I assume, like me, most readers are white and middle class, as represented by your articles. Yet we are a nation made up of so many cultures, including First Nation peoples. I, probably like many Anglo-Australians, know very little about indigenous people and their culture. I am a gardener

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