'How we heal as a nation': the replanting and return of the forests of Tower Hill

A lush landscape devastated by colonisation, and a people disenfranchised and decimated - nearly two centuries later, could Tower Hill be returned to its former owners and glory?Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDriving through the parched farmlands in south-west Victoria, it is difficult to imagine that much of this coastal stretch was once a vision of untarnished natural beauty.To assume this familiar rural landscape - the solitary naked tree protruding from a yellow field lined with wire fences - is its fixed setting is nothing short of deception. Continue reading...