This column is dedicated to those who have gone before us, to those present and to those who will follow us.

WE HAVE an amazing ngurambang (country) here in Wiradjuri garray (land).

Everywhere I look I see places that connect me to an ancient history.

It is a ngurambang (country) that connects me to ancient mayiny (people) who have yanhanha (walked) this place for many thousands of years.

Just recently I read an article from a Sydney newspaper that told me that Wagaan Wagaan (Wagga Wagga) is now in the top 10 places to see in Australia!

Now that is something, isn’t it?

It seems that when you live and work in a certain place you tend to forget the dandaa (beauty) of where you are, we tend to overlook what is about us.

Mayiny mawang gaway (people all together come here) to look at what we often drive past in our daily rush to get to school, work or sport.

We often go about oblivious to the madhu (many) special places in our wonderful area.

There a places like the bila (river) places in the dyiramarra ngurambang (high country) like Dumut (Tumut) places in the wunhudha-bul ngurambang (low country) Euabalong NSW on the Galari Bila (Lachlan River) and Cudgeligo NSW (Lake Cargelligo).

Everywhere I look in nature I see madhu balugan (many animals), some of which are unique to our garray (land).

Madhu mayiny (many people) mainly tourists, flock to our ngurambang (country) to see, and touch, what many of us just take for granted as we move through life.

But what our visitors to our fine towns and cities also see is the discarded smoke butts, the drink and food containers, the old lounges and fridges that badly decorate our amazing waterways and parks.

In my murru (journey) around ngadhi ngurambang (my country) I see evidence of lazy people who just dump and discard their unwanted goods and packages into a our garray (land).

What you throw away dhalang (today) will eventually end up in our waterways.

It will ngumbaay yiradhu (one day) end up wrapped around your legs as you go to take a dip in the bila (river) to cool off, or to just be with your dabaa malang (family).

That rubbish that you, or someone, else dumps will come back to haunt us all sooner rather than later.

Care for country and she will care for us.