‘Share our country’: changing the cycle of sorrow with Mutawintji cultural festival

Warlpa Thompson shows some of the rock engravings and stencils scattered throughout Mutawintji national park. Photograph: Otis Filley/The Guardian

For Wiimpatja Marli man Warlpa Thompson, living in a state of loss can be hard to escape when everyone around you is so connected.

Thompson is chairperson of the board of management of Mutawintji national park, the first Indigenous-run national park in New South Wales.