Shannon Barnes
Founder
Shannon Barnes is a proud Ngiyampaa woman whose work sits at the intersection of cultural leadership and creative storytelling.
As the founder of Boomalli Consulting and an award winning writer and emerging author, she brings a rare blend of cultural authority, strategic insight and narrative craft.
Shannon’s career spans executive‑level cultural training, First Nations governance advisory, sensitivity reading, and a growing body of literary work that centres strong women, Country and Community.
Boomalli Consulting
Make Your Mark
Grounded in lore and protocol, Boomalli Consulting delivers culturally safe, high‑integrity services across Australia and abroad. Built from grassroots beginnings and shaped by lived cultural experience, Boomalli supports organisations, communities and allies to work with respect, clarity and cultural responsibility.
Strangelands
Strangelands is a multi-generational literary fiction novel set on Ngiyampaa Country, following the Yawatyal-Harris family as they move through grief, kinship, silence, and the spiritual undercurrents that shape their lives. The story spans decades and perspectives, weaving together the quiet violences of assimilation, the weight of inherited memory, and the very real contemporary impacts of trauma that still shape families today. At its core, it shows that even in the midst of all this, Country keeps calling us back – steady, patient, waiting for us to hear it again.
