Carnes Hill Marketplace is on Cabrogal country, we pay our respect to the traditional owners, their elders past & present, and value their care and custodianship of these lands.

The Drawing Us Together initiative which ran from June 29 - July 14 now in its fifth year, is a celebration of indigenous culture through the creation of a children’s story book written by Indigenous authors and illustrated by local school students.

In honour of NAIDOC Week 2024, we are proud to have partnered with five First Nations authors from across Australia to create a selection of short stories and poems inspired by this year’s NAIDOC theme, Keep The Fire Burning. We are delighted to have partnered with Jayden Boundry, Coral Reeve, Bernadette Hardy, Ellen van Neerven and Alton Walley to write this year’s short story.

Throughout July, we invited you, our much-loved Carnes Hill community, to have your say and vote on your favourite of 70 illustrations created by local student artists to be featured in the community storybook. We received overwhelming support with 1,141 votes over the two-week period and thank all the talented student artists who contributed illustrations.

WINNING ILLUSTRATIONS

Front Cover  Adel 
Page 5   Alice Starky, Austral Public School
Page 7  Nitya Thapa, Austral Public School
Page 9  Summer L
Page 10  Adel 
Page 13  Kyesha Gallagher, Leppington Public School
Page 15  Marni R Choma, Leppington Public School
Page 16  Daniel Tagoai
Page 18  Isabella Browne, Leppington Public School
Page 21 Isabella, Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School
Page 22  Lana, Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School
Page 24  Olivia Irawan, Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School
Page 27  Johanna Abuel, Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School