Delegate Shack portrait Peeling paint and cracked tiles

Peeling paint and cracked tiles mark the room's slow retreat

its felt ripped and dulled with dust

Concrete public housing blocks and adjacent storage sheds stand in Yubari's outer residential streets

Dust settles on empty rooms

hinting at the rooms beyond

Delegate Shack portrait Peeling paint and cracked tilesA weatherboard cottage on the outskirts of Delegate, corrugated iron roof striped with rust, its front verandah half consumed by encroaching shrubs. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, Ngarigo country, one of the earliest European settled corners of New South Wales. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.