What's 'wabonga'?
THE word wabonga is the Anglicised interpretation of an Aboriginal phrase and placename, wabong ngon boojek (meaning 'trouble'). It is believed to have been adapted from the Pangerang language and refers to the Wabonga Plateau, an area overlooking the headwaters of the King River in North East Victoria, Australia.
At the conclusion of World War II the Wabonga Plateau was among parcels of Crown land subdivided for distribution to returning servicemen under Australia's soldier settlement scheme. Among those taking up acreage there was Private Gordon Butler, who with his wife built a double-storey log hut on his allotment and cleared away native eucalypts, wattle and tea-tree to create open grazing pasture for his small herd of dairy cattle.
In the early 1960s the Butlers left the farm they had created and the property was sold to Frank and Barbara Ryan of nearby Cheshunt, whose daughter would go on a quarter of a century later to found Wabonga Press.
The Wabonga Plateau in its entirety is now in the hands of Parks Victoria and forms a small but historically significant part of Victoria's Alpine National Park.
Wabonga Press is named as a tribute to the tenacity of the Butlers and Ryans during their decades on the plateau and to the Pangerang people who were the original custodians of the land.
At the conclusion of World War II the Wabonga Plateau was among parcels of Crown land subdivided for distribution to returning servicemen under Australia's soldier settlement scheme. Among those taking up acreage there was Private Gordon Butler, who with his wife built a double-storey log hut on his allotment and cleared away native eucalypts, wattle and tea-tree to create open grazing pasture for his small herd of dairy cattle.
In the early 1960s the Butlers left the farm they had created and the property was sold to Frank and Barbara Ryan of nearby Cheshunt, whose daughter would go on a quarter of a century later to found Wabonga Press.
The Wabonga Plateau in its entirety is now in the hands of Parks Victoria and forms a small but historically significant part of Victoria's Alpine National Park.
Wabonga Press is named as a tribute to the tenacity of the Butlers and Ryans during their decades on the plateau and to the Pangerang people who were the original custodians of the land.
How can Wabonga Press help me?
WABONGA Press is a boutique publishing company whose approach is summed up by the motto "publishing solutions for the 21st century and beyond".
Personalised, professional attention to your project is guaranteed.
The business's principal, Rosalea Ryan, has worked consistently in the print publishing industry since taking up a photographic traineeship in 1987. She has edited, written for, sub-edited and designed books, magazines and newspapers both inhouse and as a freelancer and holds post-graduate qualifications in journalism. Among her career credits are media awards from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the Keep Australia Beautiful Council, the Country Press Association of Victoria and the International Badminton Federation. In 2006 she was the chief reporter covering more than a dozen individual sports during the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for Australia's most extensive group of regional and rural newspapers.
Rosalea works with a network of trusted publishing industry associates — writers, editors, proofreaders, graphic artists, photographers, printers and distributors — to ensure every client's needs are met consistently, cost-effectively and on time.
Individual services provided include editing, writing, research, proofreading, indexing, e-book formatting, website construction and maintenance, photography, illustration, map-drawing and graphic design. The business also offers a full publishing option to deliver your book, magazine, newspaper, brochure, flyer or poster as a completed package with multi-media marketing support.
Wabonga Press liaises closely with leading printers throughout Australia and New Zealand and in Asia to provide books and magazines of exceptional quality at the best possible price. Runs ranging in size from only a handful of copies to many thousands are produced quickly and to the highest standards using offset, sheetfed or digital printing technology.
Distribution through a retail network of approximately 4000 primary newsagencies and/or booksellers and thousands of additional sub-agencies can be arranged.
Full itemised quotes are provided for all projects.
Wabonga Press supports Australasian industry and workers by purchasing goods and services locally whenever possible.
Personalised, professional attention to your project is guaranteed.
The business's principal, Rosalea Ryan, has worked consistently in the print publishing industry since taking up a photographic traineeship in 1987. She has edited, written for, sub-edited and designed books, magazines and newspapers both inhouse and as a freelancer and holds post-graduate qualifications in journalism. Among her career credits are media awards from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the Keep Australia Beautiful Council, the Country Press Association of Victoria and the International Badminton Federation. In 2006 she was the chief reporter covering more than a dozen individual sports during the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for Australia's most extensive group of regional and rural newspapers.
Rosalea works with a network of trusted publishing industry associates — writers, editors, proofreaders, graphic artists, photographers, printers and distributors — to ensure every client's needs are met consistently, cost-effectively and on time.
Individual services provided include editing, writing, research, proofreading, indexing, e-book formatting, website construction and maintenance, photography, illustration, map-drawing and graphic design. The business also offers a full publishing option to deliver your book, magazine, newspaper, brochure, flyer or poster as a completed package with multi-media marketing support.
Wabonga Press liaises closely with leading printers throughout Australia and New Zealand and in Asia to provide books and magazines of exceptional quality at the best possible price. Runs ranging in size from only a handful of copies to many thousands are produced quickly and to the highest standards using offset, sheetfed or digital printing technology.
Distribution through a retail network of approximately 4000 primary newsagencies and/or booksellers and thousands of additional sub-agencies can be arranged.
Full itemised quotes are provided for all projects.
Wabonga Press supports Australasian industry and workers by purchasing goods and services locally whenever possible.
