Lail buil

Lail buil lies in the broad river country associated with the Wemba-Wemba people of southeastern Australia. Their country extended around the Loddon and Avoca rivers, north towards Swan Hill and across the Murray into what is now New South Wales. Lake Boga was among the places within this wider territory. Rivers, wetlands and woodlands formed a varied landscape, with water and other resources changing through the seasons.

Wemba-Wemba communities spoke their own language and maintained connections to particular places within this country. Their religious and cultural understanding included a Dreaming known as yemurraki. European exploration reached Wemba-Wemba territory in 1836, when Thomas Mitchell crossed the area. The region's Indigenous history, however, stretches far beyond that encounter and is rooted in enduring relationships between people, water and country.