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Open – Upgraded Argyle Spring Walk features Dja Dja Wurrung art MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

Open – Upgraded Argyle Spring Walk features Dja Dja Wurrung art

Djaara (Dja Dja Wurrung People) invite visitors to connect with Country and Dja Dja Wurrung Culture on the newly upgraded Argyle Spring Walk in Hepburn Regional Park, which now features a cultural art and interpretive trail. Called Nyerna Djayi Wurreka, which means ‘listening to Country speak’ in Dja Dja Wurrung…
11/08/2025
New partnership to provide First Nations leadership on Central Victorian environmental watering MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

New partnership to provide First Nations leadership on Central Victorian environmental watering

DJAARA is proud to announce a new 3-year partnership with the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH) that places Dja Dja Wurrung (Djaara) knowledge and leadership at the centre of environmental water planning across several Central Victorian rivers.  This agreement marks a significant step forward, supporting Dja Dja Wurrung self-determination and…
30/07/2025
Larni Yirrip ‘Home of the Ironbark’ Campground to open near Bendigo NEWS

Larni Yirrip ‘Home of the Ironbark’ Campground to open near Bendigo

A brand-new campground, Larni Yirrip, is opening soon in the Bendigo Regional Park on Djandak (Dja Dja Wurrung Country), designed and built by DJAARA, the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, and its enterprise DJANDAK, in partnership with Parks Victoria. Meaning ‘Home of the Ironbark’ in Dja Dja Wurrung language,…
10/07/2025
Interpretive signage brings Goldfields Track to life MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

Interpretive signage brings Goldfields Track to life

Stories of Aboriginal, European and Chinese heritage and more are bringing the Goldfields Track to life through a series of 58 interpretive signs, designed and installed by Dja Dja Wurrung enterprise DJANDAK for community organisation Goldfields Track Inc.     The Goldfields Track Visitor Ready Interpretation Project also features two new visitor…
14/04/2025
Lalgambuk & Djaara’s Connection to Country on the Path to World Heritage Listing MEDIAMEMBER NEWSYARNS

Lalgambuk & Djaara’s Connection to Country on the Path to World Heritage Listing

Lalgambuk (Mount Franklin) and Djaara’s deep connection to Country are being considered for World Heritage Listing, which will create greater protection for our special places and greater awareness of our Culture. DJAARA is at the table, working with the Federal and State government representatives and 15 local government area representatives…
27/02/2025
January 26 Statement NEWS

January 26 Statement

January 26 is a date that commemorates British colonisation, and a day that marks the beginning of profound mistreatment of Aboriginal communities across Australia.  In Victoria, the Yoorrook Justice Commission has shone a spotlight on the impact colonisation and successive government policies have had – and continue to have –…
20/01/2025
Coliban Water and DJAARA partner for Healthy Water, Country and Communities MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

Coliban Water and DJAARA partner for Healthy Water, Country and Communities

Coliban Water and DJAARA (the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation) signed a significant partnership agreement today, committing to work together in shared custodianship of gatjin (water) on Dja Dja Wurrung Country and deliver shared outcomes for both organisations. In a joint ceremony on Country at Upper Coliban Reservoir, Dja…
13/11/2024
DJAARA forged benefit-sharing agreement despite exclusionary system MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

DJAARA forged benefit-sharing agreement despite exclusionary system

Bakaru wayaparrangu, the voluntary benefit-sharing agreement between DJAARA and Canadian miner Agnico Eagle, operator of the Fosterville Gold Mine, is a significant step towards self-determination of DJAARA Dja Dja Wurrung People. The multi-million-dollar agreement was settled following seven years of negotiations within a legislative system that favours developers. DJAARA General…
20/05/2024
Victorian first: mining agreement between DJAARA and Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd Bakaru wayaparrangu – In the Middle, We All Meet NEWS

Victorian first: mining agreement between DJAARA and Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd Bakaru wayaparrangu – In the Middle, We All Meet

Central Victoria is set to benefit from a historic agreement between DJAARA (the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation) and Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (Agnico Eagle) operator of the Fosterville Gold Mine (FGM), which has been signed today in a ceremony at Rocky Crossing, Goornong. The agreement, Bakaru wayaparrangu, which…
13/05/2024
Celebrations highlight an extraordinary decade of progress MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

Celebrations highlight an extraordinary decade of progress

DJAARA, the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, has highlighted an extraordinary decade of progress towards self-determination in its week-long YAPENYA held this month, to celebrate 10 years since the Corporation signed a Recognition and Settlement Agreement (RSA) with the State of Victoria.   Award winning journalist and Dja Dja…
30/11/2023
Deep past could hold clues for a sustainable future MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

Deep past could hold clues for a sustainable future

Understanding more about how Aboriginal People sustained life over many millennia could benefit us today in terms of food certainty and food security. But simplistic labelling of Aboriginal People as ‘hunter-gatherers’ or ‘agriculturalists’ hides the diversity of food systems developed by Indigenous Australians prior to European colonisation, according to a…
28/11/2023