As founder and panjandrum of the Jindyworobak movement, Rex Ingamells would have a difficult relationship with the Sydney Bulletin, then the nation's leading literary journal. That the Jindyworobaks had national ambitions of their own was undoubtedly part of the problem, but so too was the fact that they were Adelaide-based and so lay outside the dominant literary axis of the eastern states. In 1935, however, such ructions lay in the future, and the Bulletin saw fit to encourage the 22-year-old Ingamells by publishing the following poem in its 20 November edition:

‘From a High Hill-Road’ was not the first poem by Ingamells taken by the Bulletin that year but it was more clearly a promise of things to come. That the modern Australian landscape disguises a ‘vanished’ yet spiritually abiding Aboriginal presence would be a constant Jindyworobak theme. Here it is explicitly signalled by that single, terminal word ‘corroboree’; in later years Ingamells and his fellow poets would be much freer in their Indigenous borrowings.