Story sovereignty
Public chapters come from consented stories only. People can be named, unnamed, held privately, or taken down.
The Story Bed Relay
Follow the relay
Fifteen story beds are travelling community to community across the centre of Australia. As stories are captured and cleared with the people who tell them, they appear here. Held with consent, theirs to take down at any time.
From the road
Wongatha Country (Kalgoorlie), WA
I Hope to Make Better Mattresses
I want a good mattress to sleep on. I hope to make better mattresses.
Told by Gloria Turner · 6 June 2026
The Little Boat Called Ivy May
My dad built a boat. The little boat was named Ivy May, after my two sisters. When they brought the food back, it fed us. We were happy and content.
Told by Iris · 18 February 2026
More dispatches appear here as stories clear consent on the road.
Where the relay travels
The route is indicative until each stop is set with the community on it. A window can be named, a visit cannot be assumed.
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Meanjin (Brisbane)
June15 beds aboard - 2
Bwgcolman (Palm Island)
15 to 17 June - 3
Mparntwe (Alice Springs)
29 June to 1 July - 4
Utopia Homelands (Arlparra / Arawerr)
1 to 3 July - 5
Tennant Creek, Warumungu country
3 to 4 July4 beds - 6
Katherine / Nitmiluk, Jawoyn country
4 to 6 July - 7
Lake Argyle to the Kimberley
6 to 13 July - 8
Broome, Yawuru country
13 to 17 July - 9
The coast run to Nyinggulu (Ningaloo)
17 to 22 July - 10
Boorloo (Perth) / Walyalup (Fremantle)
22 to 26 July — Recovery and logistics buffer - 11
Kalgoorlie / Karlkurla
26 to 28 July - 12
The Great Central Road crossing
28 July to 1 August - 13
APY Lands (Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara)
1 to 4 August — Provisional, permit-gated2 beds - 14
Mutitjulu
4 to 5 August — Return window; the community decides4 beds - 15
Mparntwe (Alice Springs), then home
5 to 10 August — Can extend into mid-August if needed5 beds, community nominated
Bed counts on later stops mark which of the fifteen beds land there — not beds added on top of the fleet that departs Meanjin.
Themes
What the public record is beginning to show
These are not hidden analytics. They are visible, consent-cleared patterns from the public journal and story-bed chapters.
community_resilience
1connection_to_country
1Education
1Family Legacy
1Healing from Addiction
1Home and Belonging
1kinship_systems
1mental_health
1Public proof layer
How these stories are held
Everything on this page reads from one shared, consent-cleared record: the route, the chapters, the journal, the themes, the counts. Nothing appears here before the people in a story have said yes.
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Story beds
Physical QR trails, each with consent-gated chapters.
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Route stops
Public route windows, named without assuming community access.
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Public chapters
Only stories that passed the publish and consent gates.
1
Journal entries
Road writing published as the working record.
8
Themes tracked
Themes present in public stories and journal entries.
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Places held
Route, journal, and consented story locations.
A working record, not a highlight reel
The journal notes what happened at each stop, and what the relay owes back, before anything becomes a public claim.
Patterns, in the open
Themes are drawn only from stories and entries that are already public. The patterns never know more than the page does.
One trail, many windows
The map, the fifteen bed trails, and the journal are all windows onto the same consented record. There is no separate campaign version.
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