Forged by Fire: The Unsettling History of Victoria's Southwest - Part One

How a culture which had survived 60,000 years of fire and ice, nearly disappeared within 50 years of European "settlement".

This is a land forged by fire.

If you look across the plains from Penhurst west towards the dormant Mount Napier, the vast lava fields reveal their full prominence in the morning light, when the sun still sits low in the east. The stony rises show where the hot molten rocks once flowed across the flat landscape, consuming all before it and changing its g…