Recent wet weather set the project back a week, but the team from Tablelands Builders had made enough progress in previous weeks for it not to be a concern.

“If we hadn’t had the rain this week, we would have been out of there tomorrow,” project manager Phil Hampton said yesterday.

The site is looking remarkable thanks to the landscaping work carried out in recent weeks.

The glass pyramid that sits over the proclamation cairn was installed on Wednesday and the flag staff is due to be erected today.

“By the end of [today] we should be very much close to being finished, with just some external work to do,” Mr Hampton said.

Bathurst Regional Council revealed yesterday that further work to the flag staff site includes a tribute to the Wiradyuri people. 

Two glass panels will be installed between sections of railing around the flag staff that depict two Wiradyuri stories and will also feature the handprints of local Wiradyuri students.

The stories that will be featured are Girawu and Biladurang, or the stories of the tree goanna and the platypus, as they may be better known. 

Glass artist Bridget Thomas was told of the stories by Dinawan Dyirribang and Wiradyuri/Ngyampaa Elder Aunty Jill Bowe and has been able to recreate them for this project. 

Mayor Gary Rush said he is pleased to be able to acknowledge Bathurst’s connection with the Wiradyuri people through this significant monument.