After more than a decade, a vision to build a giant cross in a remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia has become a reality. First proposed in 2009 by residents of Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), 230 kilometres west of Alice Springs, the 20-metre-high, multi-million-dollar steel monument has been erected atop Memory Mountain.
Bishop Philip Huggins writes on the eve of the Federal Election for year 2025 and imagines a waiting for a sacred interweaving of the sacrifice of Anzac and the Indigenous spirituality that is incarnational and includes the Christian Cross. The highways and byways somewhat resembling the 40 years wandering in the desert by Moses and his tribe suggests an Exodus toward self-awareness.