It’s been more than three months since extremists brought their race hate to Yaraan Couzens-Bundle’s community at Gariwerd, or the Grampians, in regional Victoria. She still feels unsettled by the incident, as she undertakes a cleansing ritual of white ochre to help heal and protect the sacred land. Over the January 26 long weekend, a group of up to 30 balaclava-clad men gathered at the Gariwerd and chanted white power slogans while burning a cross. The land, 230km north-west of Melbourne, is a centre of cultural and spiritual significance, and has been a gathering place for mob for millennia. “This is our church, this is our sacred place,” says Ms Bundle, a Gunditjimara, Yuin and Bidjara woman who lives on Djab Wurrung country in Halls Gap.