Margaret OConnor grew up in Eastern Maar Country (the Western District of Victoria) and has been based in Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) for the last 26 years. She is a semi-professional musician and is passionate about history and sustainable living. She is a coordinator and administrator of a Canberra sustainability group with almost 6,000 members, and writes about her many interests for Pearls & Irritations, Crikey, Honest History and No Fibs.