In 1924, on the centenary of Hume and Hovell’s expedition from the Yass district to Port Philip, commemorative obelisks were erected along the route. It is worth stopping to read the inscriptions. At the junction of Growler’s Gully Road and the Maroondah Highway near Merton the plaque reads:
“They blazed the track that we might inherit the land.”
We should reflect on that inscription as we ...
