This book has been put together by Ballardong Noongar elders with the assistance of Community Vision. It contains images of community members who have passed away. We are indebted to the Ballardong Noongar families who helped us with photos of our history on country since the early 1930s. We honour the elders who have gone before us and celebrate connection to country, connection to culture and connection to family and kin.

Thank you to the State Library of Western Australia for giving us images of our families from their Badjaling Winmar collection for this book and community exhibition, and additional thanks for "Storylines", the great service where Noongar families can access family memories that would not otherwise be possible. We thank the Shire of Quairading for access to images of local community events over the years.

A special thanks to the Community Arts Network (CAN) for its continuing support of our community. CAN has many gifted photographers who have provided images for this book. We thank them all and hope we have been able to properly acknowledge their work.

The running of community workshops, family outreach and local exhibitions was supported by the Department of Communities.

Finally, we thank Community Vision for supporting us and our ongoing work together. Ballardong elder Murray Yarran and Ian Thompson from Community Vision have co-ordinated this project.