04/04/2026
A final deep thank you to my family
These are the people whose presence sits quietly beneath it all…the ones who hold, support, and believe, often without needing to be seen.
My parents, Angela and Paul, without your support and belief in me, none of this would have been possible for the thousands of women who have gathered.
You instilled in me the belief that anything is possible with hard work and persistence.
You showed me what strength and determination look like and encouraged me to keep stretching beyond what I thought I was capable of.
You walked beside me through it all,
through the intensity of COVID, financial pressure, planning permits, site relocation, personal challenges, and moments of success.
Dad, you were quite literally in the trenches with me…on the tractors, laying pipes, installing taps,
building what needed to be built, again and again.
Mum, you held me in all the ways only a mother can, with care, steadiness, and unwavering support behind the scenes.
Adam, my brother thank you for the many hours spent helping design and shape the land
working through site layouts, problem-solving, and bringing vision into form.
I know you all carried the weight…the concern, the protectiveness,
holding the risk of your daughter’s dreams as if they were your own.
And to my godmother Stella Jo Clifford,
thank you for hearing my dream in its earliest form, for offering your land for the very first gathering, and for helping me shape that first vision into something real.
To my godmothers Karen and Kym, and my cousins, thank you for the working bees, the tree planting, the early mornings and long days at the gates.
This was never something I built alone.
What has been created has come from the strength of the community around me,
from the foundations that were laid long before the first woman arrived at the gates.
And from that…a community of tens of thousands women was able to grow and flourish.
Thank you!!! ...and thankfully, due to the new owner Melanie, this community can continue to grow and strengthen for future generations of women to come.
I look forward to watching the rebirth of a new chapter of Seven Sisters.
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