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JANUARY The Victorian Aboriginal Protocols for Koorie Education in We highly recommend The Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. (VAEAI) was first
Education Association Inc. Victorian Primary and Secondary consulting with Aboriginal established in 1976 as the Victorian Aboriginal Education Consultative
(VAEAI) is the peak Koorie Schools has been produced by VAEAI people and Aboriginal Group (VAECG). The shared aim of the VAECG was to increase the
community-controlled body for following requests for guidance on sources for information. presence and voice of Koorie people in education decision making at a
Aboriginal Education and training appropriate protocols for schools to Where available, your local time when limited Aboriginal organisations existed.
in Victoria. follow in providing a welcoming school LAECG is a good first point
environment for Koorie community of contact and VAEAI can Today VAEAI continues to represent the Victorian Koorie Community in
Explore the VAEAI website , members, and working respectfully assist with contacts. Try to relation to education policy development and strategic programming at
subscribe for newsletters and with the Koorie community to enrich work with local community local, state and national levels.
follow us on Facebook. school curricula. people and Elders, and
always respect their VAEAI supports the provision of education and training that reinforces the
VAEAI website: Protocols for schools: intellectual and cultural Koorie community’s cultural identity, and increases awareness in the wider
http://www.vaeai.org.au/index.cfm http://www.vaeai.org.au/_uploads/_ckpg/files property rights. community of Koorie cultures, histories and aspirations in education and
/ProtocolsDocVAEAI18jan17final.pdf training.
26 Survival Day A day off, a barbecue and ONLINE RESOURCES in full Did you know that the The 26th of January aka Australia Day, Survival Day, Invasion Day,
fireworks? A celebration of who we celebrated Kurnai Sovereignty Day and National Day of Mourning marks an important time
January are as a nation? A day of mourning Gunditjmara world for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and for non-Indigenous
and invasion? A celebration of 1st National Day of Mourning: champion boxer Lionel Australians alike. For the first Australians the day essentially marks the
survival? Australians hold many http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collection Rose was the first survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their cultures.
different views on what the 26th of s-online/digitised-collections/day- Aboriginal person to be For non-Indigenous Australians it marks the landing of the First Fleet, a
National Day of January means to them. mourning-and-protest-aborigines- named Australian of the group of eleven ships from Britain that landed on the shores of Botany Bay
Mourning 1938 conference-75th-anniversary/26th- Year back in 1968? where the clash of two cultures and the fight for one land began.
In 2017 a number of councils january-1938
controversially decided to no
From 1940 until 1955, the National Day of Mourning was held annually on
longer celebrate Australia Day on http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginal
the Sunday before Australia Day and was known as Aborigines Day. In 1955
this day, while ‘Change the Date’ is culture/history/australia-day-invasion-day
Aborigines Day was shifted to the first Sunday in July after it was decided
the slogan of a prominent
contemporary campaign and http://www.naidoc.org.au/about/naidoc- the day should become not simply a protest day but also a celebration of
dedicated website. Consider why history/ Aboriginal culture and survival.
there is continuing debate and
conflicting emotions about our NACCHO communiqué & CTD campaign:
national day. For an Aboriginal http://nacchocommunique.com/2014/01/
perspective read the communiqué 24/naccho-aboriginal-health-and-january-
from the National Peak body of 26-debate-what-does-australia-day-mean-
for-our-mob/
Aboriginal health organisations.
http://www.changethedate.com.au/
Research the first Day of Mourning,
involving Victorian Yorta Yorta Lionel Rose
leaders William Cooper and Sir https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/
Doug Nichols and its connection to
NAIDOC week held later in July. https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/h
onour-
The Australian of the Year Awards roll/?view=search&query=indigenous
occur annually on this date. How
many Aboriginal Australians of the http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/ho
Year have there been? Who are nour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=68
they and where are they from?
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FEBRUARY 4 Anniversary of the
Cummeragunja
With older students watch the DVD
The Legacy of a People about the
Legacy of a People DVD
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/171001609?selec Try to embed real life stories and
February tedversion=NBD50015642
Walk-off of 1939 Shepparton Koorie community and
Cummeragunja Reserve, and
perspectives from your local
Cummeragunja Mission:
investigate the reasons for the
Cummeragunja Walk-off of 1939
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006112
3-
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
(VAEAI has a limited number of
copies).
0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cummera
gunja/default.html
Islander community members
The now archived Mission Voices
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006112 across your curriculum throughout
3-
website developed by the Koorie
Heritage Trust is a great multimedia
0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cummera
gunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/default.html
the year.
resource. Listen to the late
Bangerang Elder Uncle Sandy http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006112
3- Did you know that the
Atkinson and other descendants of
0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cummera legendary Bunyip is said to Cummeragunja lies on the NSW side of Dhungala – the Murray River – on
Cummeragunja discuss life in the gunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/uncle_sandy get its name from the the traditional lands of the Bangerang and Yorta Yorta peoples. The river
day, belonging and connection to _atkinson/uncle_sandy_talks_of_conservation
place. (‘Real Player’ free software _practices_/default.html
Wemba Wemba and is hugely important to the people and has sustained them for thousands
may need to be downloaded’). Wergaia languages of the of years.
Pecan Summer opera: Murray River Region?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txDrTCu On the 4th February 1939, over 200 residents of the Cummeragunja
With younger students (years 5-8)
aaM Numerous tales of the
explore the Voices of Mission walked off the mission station in protest against conditions at the
Cummerangunja links and read or https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/86
bunyip in written literature station, and crossed the Murray River into Victoria, leaving the state of
listen Uncle Sandy Atkinson talk 0269123626/Pecan-Summer-The-Opera appeared in the 19th and New South Wales. At the time, this was in contravention of rules set by the
about conservation practices. What early 20th centuries. One of New South Wales Aboriginal Protection Board restricting the movement of
evidence is there that people lived https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pecan+ the earliest known is a story Aboriginal people. Many settled in Barmah, Echuca, Shepparton,
summer+youtube&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=v in Andrew Lang's ‘The
in harmony with their land? Provide Mooroopna and Fitzroy (Melbourne).
id&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD8pL14urYAhUDU7wK Brown Fairy Book’ (1904).
at least one specific example of HaQ7DG4Q_AUICigB&biw=1222&bih=721
their conservation practices. (‘Real Explore the origins of,
Player free software may need to be http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about sightings and writings about
downloaded’). -town/first-aboriginal-opera--pecan-summer- bunyips.
20120815-248s4.html
With students research the opera
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about
Pecan Summer by Yorta Yorta -town/pecan-summers-ray-of-sunshine-
composer Deborah Cheetham – the through-song-20120907-25jtm.html
first opera written by an Indigenous
Australian and involving an
Indigenous caste – based on the
Cummeragunja Walk-off. A filmed
version of Pecan Summer is now
available through SBS On Demand
and a number of video clips and
news reports have been uploaded
Image from The Bunyip of
to Youtube. Explore the life of
Berkeley's Creek Written by
Deborah Cheetham and her journey Jenny Wagner and illustrated by
to be an opera singer and author. Ron Brooks First edition:
Longman Young Books,
Melbourne, 1973. Act 1 of Pecan Summer: photo by Robert Jefferson see: http://indaily.com.au/sport
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Murray River focus: Focus some Murray River Resources:
learning activities around Koorie http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-the-
murray/murray-river-aboriginals/
peoples, languages and stories of
the Murray River region, such as http://www.booktopia.com.au/murray-river-
the Bangerang Dreaming story * shane-
about the creation of Dungala strudwick/prod9780733330896.html?clickid=z
(Tongala), aka the Murray River, ObUOfSm8Ta5x%3AhxMcV7hx3mUkQSqsUM%
and the famous Bunyip story. 3ATXWTE0&bk_source_id=75030&bk_source=
DGM
Murray River Country with teaching notes
*Depending on the region or the
language group, there are a http://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/products/mu
number of Creation Stories about rray-river-country-ecological-dialogue-
the Murray River – for good traditional-owners/paperback
background material see: Ponde
http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/as
the Murray Cod – River Creator. p/education/mrc_final.pdf
Behind the News (BTN) have Murray River Creation Stories:
produced a short documentary that
looks at life along Australia's largest Bangerang story:
listen: https://youtu.be/TgjY27Sy48g
river system, the Murray River.
River Kids is narrated by Tyrone, a read:
young SA Ngarrindjeri boy, who http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22892111?select
introduces us to people who edversion=NBD42424768
depend on it.
Ponde the Murray Cod – River Creator:
http://www.riverspace.com.au/item/ponde-
the-murray-cod-river-creator/
With secondary students, explore
the ecological, spiritual, economic
and aesthetic significance of the Murray River Bunyip
Murray- Darling basin and http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-the-
approaches to custodial murray/bunyips/
responsibility, environmental
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip
management and sustainability.
Murray River Country: An
ecological dialogue with traditional
owners by geographer Jessica Weir
comes with downloadable teaching
notes and discusses the water crisis
from a unique perspective – the
intimate stories of love and loss
from the viewpoints of Aboriginal
peoples who know the inland rivers
as their traditional country.
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1965 Freedom Learn about the 1965 NSW Freedom Rides:
12
Rides Anniversary Freedom Rides against prejudice
February and racial discrimination headed http://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/s One lesson we can all draw from the
by Aboriginal students Charles tories/2012/01/19/3414788.htm
Freedom Ride is the importance of speaking
Perkins and Gary Williams.
http://www.vaeai.org.au/_uploads/_ckpg/ out against injustice, challenging oppression
files/The%201965%20Freedom%20Rides_
View and download our feature 120218.pdf and discrimination, and doing it now.
teaching resource The 1965
Freedom rides for a host of https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibrar
Ann Curthoys, honorary professor, author, original freedom-rider
curriculum-aligned activities, yofnsw/albums/72157654250887374
online links and multimedia
The 1965 Freedom Rides:
resources.
In February 1965 a group of Sydney University students called "Students
for Aboriginal Rights" (SAFA), led by Aboriginal students Charles Perkins
Previously unpublished
and Gary Williams, began a trip that would change Australian history. Their
photographs of the 1965
journey was both an attempt to emulate the US Civil Rights Movement
Freedom rides discovered in the
action in the early 1960s, and designed to expose the racist underbelly of
NSW State Library of NSW
Image of The Daily Mirror, at: Australian society in rural NSW.
archives were first exhibited in http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/imag
2015. Encourage students to es/history/1960s/freedom/fr13.ht
ml The book "Freedom Ride: a freedom rider remembers" by Ann Curthoys,
explore these photographs useful
relives the experience of the Freedom Ride, drawing largely upon a diary
for discussions and presentations.
written during the journey and the recollections of Indigenous and non-
indigenous people who were involved. Contemporary media reports as
well as secondary accounts supplement the story, drawing attention to the
impact of the ride and highlighting the ways in which the events have been
remembered.
See: http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/images/history/1960s/freedom/frdx.html
Why were students compelled to
take this action?
What do these types of actions
hope to achieve?
Excerpt of Unidentified boys in wood shack, February
1965 / from The Tribune archived collection. At:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/20
829135935/in/album-72157654250887374/
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National Apology Where were YOU when the VAEAI teaching resource: With sensitivity, honouring The National Apology to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
13 http://www.vaeai.org.au/_uploads/_ckpg/files
Anniversary Apology was made? the Apology Anniversary Peoples was delivered by the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on February
February /National%20Apology%20_10th%20anniversar
and National Sorry Day 13, 2008 and acknowledged in particular the Stolen Generations.
y%20resource.pdf
Invite a Stolen Generations builds understanding and
member or another Aboriginal or NSDC: respect between school Each year the National Sorry Day Committee encourages all schools,
Torres Strait Islander parent, http://www.nsdc.org.au/ and community, teachers community groups, workplaces and individuals to commemorate the
Elder or community member to Learning About the Stolen Generations
and students. anniversary of this important event in Australia's history.
speak with your students about Resource:
the Stolen Generations and the http://vaeai.org.au/support/dspdefault.cfm?lo Discuss with your guest
importance of celebrating the adref=126 speaker prior to the lesson
Apology Anniversary. what they are willing to
The Apology speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLnsFyAV talk about, especially
Engage with and download our qE relating to potentially
Vic Curriculum-aligned National sensitive issues.
Apology Anniversary teaching Remember that across
resource for background Victoria and the rest of the
information, suggested activities, nation almost every, if not
online links and teaching all Aboriginal families have
resources. been negatively affected
by the policies and
Download the National Sorry Day practices that have led to
Committee’s excellent resource dispossession and what we
Learning about the Stolen now call the Stolen
Generation: the NSDC’s school Generations. For some,
resource for great classroom and this is still very difficult to
whole-of-school activities. reconcile and talk about.
Some questions you might want
to consider with your students as
part of a lesson:
1. When might we apologise and
say sorry for something, and how
important is it? Any personal
stories to share? How did you feel
when someone apologised?
2. Why was it so important for
Parliament to make an Apology?
3. How did your family members
feel when the Australian
Parliament said ‘sorry’ in 2008?
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21 International Talk with students about their International Day of Mother Language: Did you know that there International Mother Language Day celebrates language diversity and
Mother Language own language backgrounds using https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/ are approximately 250 variety worldwide annually on February 21, established 20 years ago n
February Day a range of maps where possible, motherlanguageday/2018 Aboriginal languages 1998. Significantly it also remembers events such as the killing of four
and encourage children to use (around 500 including students on February 21, 1952, because they campaigned to officially use
https://www.una.org.uk/get-
their mother languages to dialects) in Australia, and their mother language, Bengali, in Bangladesh.
involved/learn-and-teach/international-
introduce themselves and talk days/mother-language-day
around 40 Aboriginal
about their families and culture languages in Victoria? This is a day to celebrate languages spoken world-wide, to highlight the
or sing a song. https://www.una.org.uk/mother- importance of preserving linguistic diversity and the human right to use
language-day-factsheet these languages.
Talk about the language situation
in Australia, and explore In the wonderful words of Nelson Mandela, “If you talk to a man in a
Australian Languages online with Aboriginal Languages maps: language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his
the magnifying glass on the http://www.vaclang.org.au/Resources/ma language, that goes to his heart”.
language map link making ps.html
connections between language
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/
and place where students and
teachers were born. Large
printed maps can be purchased Koorie Language apps on iTunes
"Towards Sustainable Futures
through Multilingual
from AIATSIS and other outlets. https://itunes.apple.com/au/developer/vi
ctorian-aboriginal-
With your students identify the corporation/id928978621
traditional language group or
country associated with your
Education." IMDL 2017 theme
school and research the language
and its language community.
Download a range of Koorie
interactive digital story apps
made for iPads and iPhones
featuring Koorie languages and
English versions, by searching for
VACL at the iTunes store.
Work with VAEAI, the Victorian
Corporation for Aboriginal
Languages (VACL) and local
Koorie community members to
introduce the local Koorie
language to your school in a
variety of ways, formal and
informal.
Aboriginal Languages of Victoria map reproduced with permission
from the Victorian Corporation for Aboriginal Languages:
http://www.vaclang.org.au/
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MARCH International Day Focus lessons around pride in Racial discrimination: Did you know that in 1938 The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is
21 http://www.racismnoway.com.au/
for the Elimination identity and celebration of prior to WWII, an observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire
March of Racial diversity. Aboriginal delegation and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South
Discrimination http://www.racismnoway.com.au/teachin headed by Yorta Yorta Africa, against the apartheid pass laws. Proclaiming the day in 1966, the
Discuss the effects of prejudice g-resources/anti-racism- leader William Cooper, United Nations General Assembly called on the international community to
activities/lesson_ideas/index_bytheme.ht
and racial discrimination with protested against the redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
ml#
students through a range of treatment of Jewish People
Harmony Day personal and anecdotal stories. https://teentalk.ca/2018/03/13/internatio in Germany and tried to Harmony Day also celebrated on the 21st March centres on the message
nal-day-for-the-elimination-of-racial- hand a resolution to the that “Everyone belongs”, reinforcing the importance of inclusiveness to all
Explore the Racism No Way site discrimination-2/ German consul-general Australians. Since 1999, thousands of Harmony Day events have been held
for Australian schools which condemning the Nazis' in childcare centres, schools, community groups, churches, businesses and
features a wide range of teaching William Cooper- led protest against Nazi persecution of Jewish federal, state and local government agencies across Australia.
activities and resources. treatment of Jewish peoples: people? At the time, the
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012 German consul-general 1965 Freedom Rides:
Teen Talk features some /s3649212.htm refused to see the In February 1965 a group of Sydney University students called "Students
background information, tips for Aboriginal delegation, for Aboriginal Rights" (SAFA), led by Aboriginal students Charles Perkins
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-
dealing with discrimination and world/jewish-world-features/an-
which had walked into and Gary Williams began a trip that would change Australian history. Their
who to talk to, and ways we can aboriginal-protest-against-the-nazis- town from William journey was both an attempt to emulate the US Civil Rights Movement
encourage more diversity in our finally-delivered.premium-1.483806 Cooper's home in action in the early 1960s, and designed to expose the racist underbelly of
schools and community life. Melbourne's west. Australian society in rural NSW.
https://atributetoaustralianchristians.wor
Learn about the 1965 NSW dpress.com/2010/10/22/william- Go to our February 12 activities and links for more details.
Freedom Rides against prejudice cooper/https://atributetoaustralianchristi
and racial discrimination headed ans.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/william-
by Aboriginal students Charles cooper/
Perkins and Gary Williams.
International Day for the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination:
Why were students compelled to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International
take this action? What do these _Day_for_the_Elimination_of_Racial_Discr
types of actions achieve? imination
http://www.un.org/en/events/racialdiscri
minationday/
1965 Freedom Rides:
http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collection
s-online/digitised-
collections/documenting-freedom-ride
Go to February 12 activities and The Argus, 7 December 1938. p. 3
links for more details about the
1967 freedom rides.
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30 10th Anniversary of With your students, research The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story: Lake Condah in the Budj On the 30th March 2007, Gunditjmara People in south-western Victoria
Gunditjmara native Gunditjmara country, people http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/_files/ntru/public
Bim world heritage area is won an 11-year legal battle for native title rights over 140,000 hectares of
March title recognition history and culture. If able, invite ations/monographs/MonographGunditjmara
one of the world’s most crown land. Celebrations were held on Gunditjmara country to celebrate
Gunditjmara community members .pdf
and settlement ancient examples of the native title consent determination – a determination that was reached
to come to the class or school and
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/n traditional aquaculture, through the consent of all parties, rather than litigation. The celebrations
speak about Gunditjmara matters. ative-title-win-for-gunditjmara- dating back at least 6600 were at the base of the volcanic mountain Budj Bim, also known as Mount
people/2007/03/30/1174761734730.html years and preceding Eccles National Park, and followed a special hearing of the Federal Court of
With older students research the Stonehenge or the Australia on Country. On this day, the Gunditjmara people spoke about
Gunditjmara struggle for Native http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/i Pyramids of Egypt, how the native title determination was the end of a long struggle for
Title recognition. ndigenous-victorians-close-to-settlement-in-
southwest/2007/01/03/1167777154140.htm
consisting of complex recognition of their status as the first peoples of their country. They also
systems of traps and ponds talked about their future work to protect their native title rights and
Lake Condah, extremely significant l
engineered by the interests, and how the business of land justice continues.
to Gunditjmara People, is an See: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/_files/ntru/publications/monographs/MonographGunditjmara.pdf
Indigenous Protected Area. Visit or
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/ Gunditjmara people.
Gunditjmara-win-native-title- Regarded as the world’s
learn about Indigenous Protected battle/2007/03/30/1174761740241.html
Areas (IPAs) in Victoria, such as first engineering project,
Kurtonitj or Lake Condah in the the extensive and
Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA):
South-west of Victoria. https://www.dpmc.gov.au/indigenous- elaborate system of
affairs/environment/indigenous-protected- channels and dam walls
In 2011, a Bush Blitz occurred on areas-ipas were used over millennia
Gunditjmara country with predominately for catching
Traditional Owners to survey https://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files short-finned eels for
biodiversity in the IPAs. Investigate /publications/IPA_FS_2015_1.pdf consumption and trade.
the program and some of the flora
Victorian IPAs:
and fauna surveyed. Research and https://www.environment.gov.au/indigenou Go to our curriculum-
discuss management strategies, s/ipa/declared/vic.html aligned STEM special
and how to work collaboratively feature for more details
with Traditional Owners, to Bush Blitz: and online resources.
preserve ecological biodiversity. http://bushblitz.org.au/
Watch the video with Gunditjmara http://bushblitz.org.au/kurtonitj-lake-
Elder Ken Saunders about involving condah-tyrendarra-indigenous-protected-
Traditional Owners to survey areas-vic-2011/ Woven eel trap
biodiversity in IPAs and investigate
Honour Roll inductees and others:
the program and some of the flora The Federal Court convening at Budj Bim (formerly Mt Eccles national park), for the
http://www.standard.net.au/story/2592687
and fauna surveyed. Where else is /gunditjmara-pair-elevated-to-state- Gunditjmara Native title claim. Photo by Damian White.
Bush Blitz Working? indigenous-honour-roll/
Bush Blitz on Gunditjmara country: In March 2011, a team of more than
Research the lives of Gunditjmara http://www.vic.gov.au/aboriginalvictoria/co 30 scientists gathered in SW Victoria, on Gunditjmara country, within the
Elders and community members mmunity-engagement/leadership- Budj Bim National Park to undertake a Bush Blitz survey. Six reserves were
who have been strong advocates programs/aboriginal-honour-roll/2013-
investigated together comprising the IPAs of Lake Condah, Kurtonitj and
for their communities like Edna victorian-aboriginal-honour-roll/the-lovett-
brothers.html Tyrendarra. Sites at the Lake Condah Mission were also surveyed, situated
Brown and William Rawlings, the 350 km from Melbourne. The survey team included experts from Museum
Lovett Brothers, Laura Bell, Young Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, University of NSW, SA
http://www.vic.gov.au/aboriginalvictoria/co
Australian of the Year state finalist, mmunity-engagement/leadership- Museum and the Australian Biological Resources Study. A highlight of the
Benson Saulo, world famous singer programs/aboriginal-honour-roll/2013- survey was the close collaboration between the Gunditjmara traditional
Archie Roach, playwright, author victorian-aboriginal-honour-roll/laura-
owners, the Working on Country Budj Bim Rangers and the visiting
and musician Richard Frankland bell.html
scientists. In total, 854 species new to the reserves were identified and
and Australia’s first commissioned
Aboriginal officer, Reginald http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/hon 18 are possibly new to science!
Saunders for starters. our-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1072
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25 ANZAC DAY ANZAC Day on the 25th April is a
prime time to acknowledge
VAEAI ANZAC Day Feature:
http://www.vaeai.org.au/_uploads/_ckpg/
Did you know that
Gunditjmara man Reg “When my uncle came back
April files/ANZAC%20Day_2018.pdf
from serving in Korea he
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Saunders was the first
Islander services to this nation. Aboriginal person to be
Exhibitions and memorial box:
commissioned as an officer
Over 1000 Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islanders fought for
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhi
bitions/iaaw/home.html
in the Australian Army? couldn't even get a beer in a
Australia in World War I despite
profound barriers to enlisting.
https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-
search?query=aboriginal
pub let alone a pension, and
View and download VAEAI’s https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/memorial he wasn't permitted to become
-boxes
curriculum-aligned interactive
ANZAC Day feature with online
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/LIB10
a citizen until 1968.”
multimedia resources and
0043517
suggested activities to explore John Kinsella, nephew of Captain Reg Saunders MBE
Indigenous Australians’ war https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/education/
service. resources
Over 1000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders fought for Australia in
The Australian War Memorial site https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/schools/r World War I despite profound barriers to enlisting. In proportion to
has a variety of online resources esources/research-a-soldier population, no community in Australia contributed more to the war effort
as well as the Department of “Unable to vote but eligible in the Second World War than the Torres Strait Islanders. By 1944 almost
Veteran Affairs. http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/sites/defaul every able-bodied male Torres Strait Islander had enlisted. However, they
to die”
t/files/publication- never received the same rates of pay or conditions as white soldiers,
attachments/Indig_primary.pdf initially one-third that of regular soldiers, and after a two-day "mutiny" in
Former Richard Wynne, State
Aboriginal Affairs Minister, December 1943 this was raised to two-thirds.
http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/sites/defaul Victoria
Consider participating in the t/files/publication-
Shrine of Remembrance Poster attachments/Indig_secondary.pdf Source:
Competition highlighting the http://www.creativespirits.info/abori
participation of Aboriginal service ginalculture/history/anzac-day- Australian War Museum Memorial Box:
coloured-digger-march
men and women as a class or Captain Reg Saunders: Each memorial box contains artefacts that students can handle, as well as
whole-school activity. photographs, case studies, uniforms, a video, oral histories, teacher’s
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/multimedi notes, and more. Memorial boxes can be adapted for use across many
a/publications/greece-and- areas of study and are accessible to a wide range of students, from lower
crete/biographycaught-chickens-and-ate- primary to senior secondary.
them-raw
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/co
nflicts/korean-war/events/china- Shrine of Remembrance Poster Competition:
intervenes-korean-war/captain-reg- The winning poster will become the official Remembrance Day 2019 poster
saunders for the Shrine of Remembrance and will appear on banners and posters
around the City of Melbourne. Schools awarded prizes to the winning and
highly commended artworks receive a selection of books from the
Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a personalised visit to the Shrine and are
Shrine of Remembrance Poster Comp: invited to place a flower in the Field of Poppies whilst attending the Official
http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Post Remembrance Day Service on 11 November. Winning entries and highly
er-Competition
commended artworks will be displayed in an exhibition at the Shrine to
coincide with Remembrance Day 2019. Entry closes, September 2019 (date TBC).
See more at: http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Poster-Competition.
Koorie Education Calendar 2019
.
National Sorry Day National Sorry Day was born out Stolen Generations resources and Did you know that a
MAY 26 testimonies:
Lake Tyres,
of a key recommendation made Victorian Aboriginal team, Aboriginal Station,
May by the National Inquiry into the http://vaeai.org.au/_uploads/rsfil/000386 led by Wotjobaluk man Aug. 14th, 1930.
Separation of Aboriginal and _fadc.pdf and star all-rounder Most Excellency Lord Stonehaven,
Torres Strait Islander children Unaarrimin aka Johnny State Governor,
http://www.stolengenerationstestimonies Canberra House, N.S.W.
from their families in the Bringing .com/
Mullagh, was the first
them Home Report that was sports team to represent I'm a full - blooded Aboriginal by birth decent from Royal Blood. I used to write
tabled in Federal Parliament on http://indigenousrights.net.au/ Australia overseas and letters to Queen Victoria in my young days. Your most Excellency, I beg to ask of
26 May 1997. began a 6-month tour of his Excellency a great favour - would his Excellency kindly grant me permission
http://indigenousrights.net.au/resources England in May 1868? to get my three grand - children who were snatched suddenly from me by an
Ordering Council under escort of Nurse Singleton from Lake Tyres Aboriginal
View and download VAEAI’s http://www.australianstogether.org.au/st Sporting Life reported that Reserve, transferred to the State Public Home, Melbourne. Three girls ages ranging
ories/detail/the-stolen-generations from 13 years, 5¼ years, baby 2½ years Mary Darby, Sarah Darby and Nelly
National Sorry Day feature for “No eleven in one season
Darby. The three girls were my only comfort when their mother Lizzie Darby, my
background information, ever played so many daughter, expired nine months ago at the Bairnsdalegate Hospital. When we came
http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cc
suggested activities, curriculum matches so successfully.” down to the town Captain Newman made a covenant with me in the presence of
e/student_task_sheet_the_stolen_generat
links and a host of online ions,9737.html Patrol Walter M'Cready, that I could have the three grand - daughters till such time
resources. I'd be married. On the eve of my marriage to Mrs. Edwards who looked after and
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publicat never neglected the children, they were snatched away by an Ordering Council. I
ions/track-history-us-taken-away-kids- wish to bring under your Excellency's consideration the matter. I was decoyed to
marry for the sake of the three grand - daughters, to keep them, and for them to be
co.mmemorating-10th-anniversary-
snatched away by an Ordering Council. God is no respector of persons. We are in
bringing-them-home
His sight equal to all His subjects. Before the white people came to Australia. God
gave us children to bring and train up for His service in our own disposition. Our
Native XI and Unaarrimin aka Johnny
disposition is instilled in our children and I don't consider it fair the white people
Mullagh:
should deprive us of our children to bring them up in their disposition. It can never
http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/abo
be done.
riginal-affairs/projects-and-
programs/leadership/victorian- I am, Yr. obedient Servant,
indigenous-honour-roll/victorian- (SGD.) Frederick Carmichael
indigenous-honour-roll-2011-
inductees/johnny-mullagh-or-unaarrimin-
1841-1891 Source: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/track-history-us-taken-away-kids-
commemorating-10th-anniversary-bringing-them-home
http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/collec
tion_interactives/cricketing_journeys/cric
ket_html/the_australian_eleven/the_aust
ralian_eleven_the_first_australian_team Australian Bicentenary issue
shows Unaarimin (1845-
National Sorry Day is a day of commemoration and remembrance for the
1891), whose European name
Stolen Generations - the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
was Mullagh, the star all-
rounder of the first Australian forcibly removed from their families, communities and cultures between
team to tour England, issued the 1800s and the 1970s.
on 29 January 1988, first day
of the Bicentenary Test The first Sorry Day was held in Sydney on 26 May 1998 and has been
Match. commemorated nationally on 26 May each year since then, with
thousands of Australians from all walks of life participating in memorial
The First Cricket Tour services, commemorative meetings, survival celebrations and community
commemorative stamp was gatherings, in honour of the Stolen Generations.
released by Australia Post in
2018 on the 150th anniversary
of the historic tour.Koorie Education Calendar 2019
.
Anniversary of the On 1 January 1901, the Australian Digger J. Jones: On 27 May 1967, the Australian Government held a referendum.
27 http://www.scholastic.com.au/schools/ed
1967 Referendum Constitution came into effect, This was a momentous turning point in Australian history. More than 90
May establishing the Commonwealth ucation/teacherresources/assets/pdfs/Dig per cent of Australian voters chose ‘Yes’ to count Aboriginal and Torres
of Australia. There were two ger_J_Jones_TN.pdf Strait Islander peoples in the census and give the Australian Government
references to Aboriginal people the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
http://www.macquariepenanthology.com.
contained in the Australian au/files/unit_3.pdf
Islander peoples.
Constitution of 1901.
’67 Referendum: The purpose of the 1967 Referendum was to make two changes to the
Firstly, section 51 of the http://indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights Australian Constitution. These changes enabled the Commonwealth
Constitution gave the /the_referendum,_1957-67 Government to:
Commonwealth power to make
laws with respect to ‘people of http://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/referend (i)Make laws for all of the Australian people by amending s51 of the
any race, other than the um-australia-had-have Constitution (previously people of the ‘Aboriginal race in any state' were
Aboriginal race in any state, for excluded) and;
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/2
whom it was deemed necessary
9241/australia-s-1967-referendum
to make special laws.’ (ii)Take account of Aboriginal people in determining the population of
Vote yes for Aborigines: Australia by repealing s127 of the constitution (formerly, Aboriginal people
Secondly, section 127 of the http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/0/ had been haphazardly included in the census but not counted for the
Constitution provided that ‘in 492.html?words=vote+yes purposes of Commonwealth funding grants to the states or territories)
reckoning the numbers of people Did you know that from
of the Commonwealth, or of a School referendum: 1947 Aboriginal and Torres From 1967, Aboriginal people were counted in the census and included in
State or other part of the http://geckos.ceo.wa.edu.au/primary/soci Strait Islander People were base figures for Commonwealth funding granted to the states and
Commonwealth, aboriginal al-political/Pages/1967-referendum.aspx territories on a per capita basis.
counted in the official
natives shall not be counted’. Commonwealth census but
Faith Bandler:
were first classified as Contrary to popular thinking the 1967 Referendum did NOT
http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1568/
The states remained responsible Polynesians, then as Pacific − give Aboriginal peoples the right to vote
for the welfare of Aboriginal 50th anniversary: Islanders? Prior to this, − give Aboriginal peoples citizenship rights
people until the 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twm Torres Strait Islander − give Aboriginal peoples the right to be counted in the census.
referendum. T3p5ghpE people were regarded as
'aboriginal natives’ and
View and download VAEAI’s were excluded from
interactive online resource: The population figures if they
1967 Referendum for suggested were of more than 50 per
activities, background cent Torres Strait Islander
information, links to teaching heritage.
resources and the Vic curriculum.
See:
50 years on from the 1967 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/myth
s-persist-about-the-1967-referendum
referendum, WA Nhanhagardi and
Elder the late Clarrie Cameron http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf
/Lookup/2071.0Feature+Article2July+
shared some of his memories of 2011
this historic event. For a strong
contemporary Aboriginal
perspective on being Aboriginal in
this era, watch the short video
and discuss points and issues
raised.Koorie Education Calendar 2019
.
National Download the VAEAI National Reconciliation resources: Did you know that What is Reconciliation week?
27
Reconciliation Reconciliation Week teaching Reconciliation week starts National Reconciliation Week celebrates the relationship between
May- Week resource for a curriculum-linked http://www.vaeai.org.au/_uploads/_ckpg/ with the anniversary of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and all other Australians. Every year,
files/National%20Reconciliation%20Week
3 June brief.
_2018.pdf
1967 Referendum and the week is held between the same dates, 27 May to 3 June. The dates
ends on the anniversary of draw attention to significant historical events. The 27 May marks the day
If your school does not already www.reconciliation.org.au
the Mabo victory, which in 1967 when the referendum was passed for the Australian Government
have one, consider developing a led to the Australian to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and to allow them
Reconciliation Action Plan and https://www.reconciliation.org.au/raphub/ Government recognising to be recognised in the census. The 3rd of June marks the day in 1992 that
include activities linking National native title and led the Australian Government to recognise native title and acknowledge
Sorry Day and Reconciliation https://www.reconciliation.org.au/nationa acknowledging Indigenous Indigenous Australians as the original occupants of Australia.
Action Week, so that colleagues l-reconciliation-week/ Australians as the original
and students see how these days occupants of Australia?
are inter-connected. Include
Two Mates:
students, colleagues and your
http://www.magabala.com/two-
LAECG where possible in its mates.html
development.
http://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwy
To find out more about g/pdf/Two_Mates.pdf
Reconciliation Action Plans
(RAPs), and about planning
events to celebrate NRW,
contact Reconciliation Australia
and/or download their Teaching
and Learning Ideas resources for
National Reconciliation Week.
With local Koorie community
members and colleagues organise
a week of cultural activities such
as performances, films, stories,
workshops. Focus on the
contribution that Aboriginal
people have and continue to
make to Australian society, and
work with students to complete a
variety of tasks that explore what
reconciliation means for young
Australians.
With younger students read
stories to encourage thinking
about reconciliation such as the
Broome-set Two Mates by
Melanie Prewett (teaching
resources available).Koorie Education Calendar 2019
.
Annual Shrine of Consider attending the annual Shrine of Remembrance Victorian The Shrine of Remembrance Victorian Aboriginal Commemorative
31 Aboriginal commemorative service:
Remembrance Victorian Aboriginal Service, is an annual commemoration and wreath laying ceremony for
May Victorian Aboriginal commemorative service at the http://www.shrine.org.au/Remembrance/ Indigenous service men and women held at 11am on the 31st May.
Commemorative Shrine of Remembrance, 11am Services?page=11
Service with your students.
Indigenous Service Publication:
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/education/
Annually, Victorian Primary School students and classes are invited to
Download DVA’s Indigenous resources enter the Remembrance Day Poster Competition. The winning poster in
Service publications for primary the Shrine of Remembrance Poster Competition, will become the official
and secondary schools for Poster Competition: Remembrance Day 2019 poster for the Shrine of Remembrance, and will
background and suggested http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Post appear on banners and posters around the City of Melbourne.
inquiry activities. Search er-Competition
‘Indigenous Service’). Schools awarded prizes to the winning and highly commended artworks
will receive a selection of books from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs,
Enter the Shrine of Remembrance a personalised visit to the Shrine and will be invited to place a flower in the
Poster Competition and design 2015 Shrine of Remembrance Field of Poppies whilst attending the Official Remembrance Day Service on
Poster Competition, winning
posters highlighting the 11 November, 2019. Winning entries and highly commended artworks will
entry by Emily Hall, Grade 5,
participation of Aboriginal service Genazzano FCJ College, Kew be displayed in an exhibition at the Shrine to coincide with Remembrance
men and women relative to this Day 2019. See more at: http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Poster-Competition
year’s theme as a class or whole-
school activity (entries close
September 2019, date and theme
TBC).Koorie Education Calendar 2019
.
Mabo Day Held on June 3rd each year, Eddie Koiki Mabo: Did you know that when
JUNE 3 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/mabo/welcome/
feasts, dance and celebrations Europeans first settled the
June can be found not only in the Port Phillip region it was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabo_Day
Torres Strait but all over the already occupied by five
Australian mainland to honour an Behind the News report: Aboriginal language
amazing man. http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3765672. groups? These groups
htm spoke a related language
View and explore VAEAI’s and were part of what is
multimedia resource Mabo Day ABC Mabo Classroom: commonly called the
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/mabo/videos/?pl
with background information, Vic ay=messagestick_2012_ep17.mp4
KULIN (koo-lin) nation of
curriculum links, suggested peoples. The five language
activities, BTN reports, and links http://www.abc.net.au/tv/mabo/timeline/ groups are: Wathaurong,
to podcasts, videos and other Woiwurrung, Taungerong,
online resources. Yorta Yorta land justice struggle: Dja Dja Wurrung and Boon
https://waynera.wordpress.com/yorta- Wurrung.
yorta-struggle-for-land-justice/
With students listen to the ABC
National podcast Don’t Fence Me
In - a deeply personal account
about Edie Mabo presented by
family spokesperson Gail Mabo
and filmmaker Trevor Graham, as
they remember what life was like
while the court case consumed
their lives - full of stories we've
not heard before about Eddie
Map source:
Koiki Mabo. http://lrd.kangan.edu.au/indigenous
%20sporting%20heros/images/kulin
map.jpg
Significant in Victoria is the Mabo Day Celebrations in Townsville, QLD 2011 see:
rejection of the Yorta Yorta http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2011/06/03/3235188.htm
Native Title case in 1998 in the
High Court - a decision upheld
again in 2002. With senior
secondary students discuss: to
what extent does the concept of
justice correlate with courts
upholding laws; and to what
extent is the law adequate in
addressing issues of justice,
under current Native Title
legislation?
Comprehensive information
about the Yorta Yorta Struggle for
Land Justice can be found on the
‘On country Learning Course’
Image source: https://waynera.wordpress.com/yorta-yorta-struggle-for-land-justice/
Wordpress site.Koorie Education Calendar 2019
.
World Environment Visit or learn about Victorian World Environment Day "Gunditjmara will conserve World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 to raise global
5 http://www.un.org/en/events/environme awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet
Day Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA) Lake Condah. It is an
June in Victoria, such as Kurtonitj or ntday/ important Gunditjmara Earth.
Lake Condah in the South-west of place and we have fought
Indigenous Australians have managed their country for tens of thousands of years.
Victoria. IPAs across the country hard over many
IPAs: An Indigenous Protected Area is an area of Indigenous-owned land or sea where
can be found by selecting the https://www.environment.gov.au/indigen
generations to see it traditional owners have entered into an agreement with the Australian
online map. ous/ipa/declared/vic.html returned to us so that we Government to promote biodiversity and cultural resource conservation.
can heal this land. Indigenous Protected Areas make a significant contribution to Australian
Watch the video with https://www.environment.gov.au/indigen Gunditjmara will restore biodiversity conservation - making up over a third of Australia's National Reserve
Gunditjmara Elder Ken Saunders ous/ipa/declared/kurtonitj.html the natural abundance of System.
about Museum Victoria’s Bush the lake and its native
Blitz Program, working with http://www.environment.gov.au/indigeno plants and animals for us Bush Blitz
Traditional Owners in Indigenous us/ipa/declared/lake-condah.html today and our future The overall thrust of the Bush Blitz activities provides opportunities for students to
Protected Areas, and investigate generations" develop their knowledge and understanding about:
• the meaning of biodiversity in the context of Australian ecosystems
the program and some of the
Bush Blitz and Lake Condah: •the classification processes used in describing organisms and how these
flora and fauna surveyed. Where https://youtu.be/H9cnyd6QgCI
Ken Saunders, Gunditjmara processes may lead to the identification of previously unknown species
else is Bush Blitz working? Elder •species that are threatened within Australian ecosystems.
See:
http://asta.edu.au/resources/bushblitz http://www.environment.gov.au/indi
Download the Bush Blitz teaching genous/ipa/declared/lake- TeachLive is an educational program developed by Earthwatch Australia in 2003.
resource produced by the http://bushblitz.teachlive.org.au/index.ph condah.html Since its inception, the program has seen Primary and Secondary teachers teach
Australian Science Teachers p/resources/resources 'live' back to their classrooms from some of the most rich and diverse ecosystems
Association (ASTA), and work Did you know that the around the world. From calling classrooms via satellite phone in the dark
with local community members http://bushblitz.teachlive.org.au/ Gunditjmara in the South rainforests of Brazil's Pantanal, to skype sessions from Australia's Outback,
and Koorie educators to include West of Victoria teachers who take part in the program not only experience scientific research at
http://bushblitz.org.au/ established intricate its best, but are given the opportunity to bring a unique learning experience to
some of the activities, such as
their students and schools. It is through education that we gain the understanding
inviting local Koorie Community kuuyang (kooyang) or eel
Bush Tucker: necessary to enact change and continue to strive for innovative and effective
members to talk to your students Koorie plants, Koorie people : traditional
trapping and farming strategies for conserving our environment.
and tell them what they know Aboriginal food, fibre and healing plants of systems, and developed
about the movement and Victoria by Nelly Zola and Beth Gott smoking techniques to IPA Map: http://155.187.2.69/indigenous/ipa/map.html
interactions among animals in the preserve and trade their
local area. Note that this book is out of print harvest - possibly one of
currently, but available in many lending the first cultures in the
Do you have a ‘Bush Tucker’ libraries – click on link below for holding world to do so.
expert in your region? libraries:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22736054?q
Learning about bush tucker is a
&versionId=44604945
great introduction to
Australian plant species.
Teachers might want to
investigate the pilot educational
program- Bush Blitz Teachlive.
. Woven eel trapKoorie Education Calendar 2019
.
Anniversary of With students explore the http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- Batman's Treaty: Today we acknowledge the anniversary of the signing of
6 history/colonial-
Batman’s Treaty, National Museum Australia’s Batman's Treaty in 1835 by a group of 8 Kulin Elders - including Wurundjeri
June signed in 1835 educational resources focused on melbourne/pioneers/batmans-treaty Ngurungaetas (most senior leaders) Bebejan (Babajen) and three brothers
Batman’s treaty. with the same name, Jika Jika (Jaga Jaga) or Billibellary – and John Batman,
http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/teachers/source
an Australian born grazier, businessman and explorer, for the purchase of
-analysis-john-batmans-treaty
Visit State Library Victoria’s land around Port Phillip, near the present site of the city of Melbourne.
teachers page which examines, http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melb
through primary source analysis ourne_details.php?id=5579 John Batman believed he was trading for 600,000 acres of land, with 40
and stimulating discussion pairs of blankets, 42 tomahawks, 130 knives, 62 pairs of scissors, 40
questions , some of the problems http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135926506/view looking glasses, 250 handkerchiefs, 18 shirts, 4 flannel jackets, 4 suits of
historians have with John clothes and 150 lb. of flour. The Kulin would not have been trading their
Batman's 'treaty' . land rights in this exchange.
First People:
View a graphic of Batman's https://museumsvictoria.com.au/books/in Batman's Treaty is significant, as it was the first and only documented time
digenous-cultures/
Treaty including a transcript of when Europeans attempted to negotiate their presence and occupation of
the Batman Land Deed. Kulin:
Aboriginal lands directly with the traditional owners, in accordance with
http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/ English Common Law. However, the treaty was declared void by the
After researching Batman’s kulin-nation/index_wide.cfm?loadref=32 Governor of New South Wales Richard Bourke, on the basis that the Kulin
Treaty, discuss mutual (mis) people did not have a right to deal with the land, which ‘belonged’ to the
understandings, alternate world https://museumvictoria.com.au/about/bo Crown.
views and the terms of this oks-and-journals/books/indigenous-
original transaction. cultures/back-list/first-people-the-
eastern-kulin-of-melbourne-port-phillip-- Click on the image to see enlarged details.
With your students learn as much central-victoria/
as you can about the Kulin
Nations. This Yarra Healing
webpage is a good starter for
schools.
For a great description of the
Kulin including the signing of the
treaty and daily life in days gone
by, purchase copies of or borrow
First People: The Eastern Kulin of
Melbourne, Port Phillip & Central
Victoria (Presland G. MV)
Map source: http://lrd.kangan.edu.au/indigenous
%20sporting%20heros/images/kulinmap.jpg
John Batman’s famous treaty, Merri Creek, Northcote 1835. By George Rossi Ashton. National Library of
Australia, nla.pic-an9025854.Koorie Education Calendar 2019
.
Coranderrk Explore the Vic Curriculum-aligned Coranderrk and Minutes of Evidence: Did you know that Gazetting of Coranderrk Reserve:
30 Coranderrk Teacher Resource http://www.minutesofevidence.com.au/
Aboriginal reserve Coranderrk gets its name
June officially gazetted Package on FUSE, targeted to Years
http://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/?8X2S9B from the Woiwurrung On the 30th June 1863, the Victorian Government Gazette reported that
in 1863 9 and 10: History & Civics and name of the plant known 2,300 acres of land around Badger’s Creek in what is now Healesville, had
Citizenship, and easily adapted for http://www.troublemag.com/coranderrk-we- in English as the Victorian been temporarily reserved “For the use of Aborigines (in lieu of the land at
other year levels. will-show-the-country/ Xmas Mint Bush? Watt’s Creek) by Order of the 22nd June 1863,” following a deputation to
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/vufind/Reco
Queen Victoria during her visit in the same year by 15 Wurundjeri
Visit also the Minutes of Evidence (Woiwurrung), Boon Wurrung and Taungurung people.
rd/46211
website and learn more about
Coranderrk and its significance. Mission Voices – Coranderrk: http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1863&class=general&page_num=1447&state=V&classNum
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006112 =G68
If able to, visit Coranderrk itself, in 3-
Healesville. 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/corander
rk/default.html
Explore the excellent Mission
Barrak:
Voices website and teacher http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/stori
resources around the Coranderrk es-voices/index.cfm?loadref=91
reserve. This site is dedicated to all
the Aboriginal missions and Wandoon:
reserves in Victoria, previously http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/2006112
3-
used to control the movements
0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/content/
and activities of Victorian Koories. download/256/812/file/Aunty%20Joy%20Murp
hy%20Interview.pdf
Purchase or borrow the excellent
Coranderrk: We Will Show the Bansfield:
Country (2013) about Coranderrk http://www.minutesofevidence.com.au/static/
media/uploads/Book%20Excerpts/excerpt_-
and the 1881 Parliamentary
_thomas_bamfield.pdf
Enquiry.
Coranderrk in flower
Dunolly:
Listen to the 2013 ABC Radio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dunolly
interview podcast Leave Us Here:
150 years of Coranderrk with Wurundjeri Stories at Pound Bend:
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=
senior descendants of Coranderrk
&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CDsQFjAF&
Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin, url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manningham.vic.gov
Murrundindi, Aunty Carolyn Briggs, .au%2Ffile%2F5526%2Fdownload&ei=3YGNVKL
Uncle Wayne Atkinson and others. dHsPtmgWruoL4Dw&usg=AFQjCNEEAMz53VDf
ffzFNG4_YsIYNn663A&bvm=bv.81828268,d.dG
There are many heroes Y
surrounding Coranderrk and many
Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country (2013)
stories of success, resilience, http://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/products/cor
survival and injustice. With your anderrk-we-will-show-country/ebook
students explore the lives of
Wurundjeri, Taungurung and Dja Awaye Podcast - Leave Us Here: 150 years of
Dja Wurrung heroes: William Coranderrk:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/program
Barak, John Green, Thomas
s/awaye/27leave-us-here273a-150-years-of-
Bamfield, Robert Wandoon, coranderrk/5144226
Thomas Dunolly and Caroline Coranderrk petition - Activist William Barak and others sent this petition on behalf of the Aboriginal
people of Coranderrk to the Victorian Government in 1886, see:
Morgan and their involvement in https://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whatson/current-
the Coranderrk Parliamentary exhibitions/melbournestory/favourite-objects/coranderrk-petition/
Inquiry of 1888.You can also read
