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Our work healing the Wombat State Forest

“As Djaara, both our responsibilities to keep Country healthy and the knowledge to do this work are profound and inherited from our Ancestors’ managing Country for over 60,000 years.” Rodney Carter, Dja Dja Wurrung Group CEO The community is still experiencing the effects of the extraordinary storms of June and…
23/11/2022
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Boorp Boorp Boondyil Exhibition

Boorp Boorp Boondyil invites people to share in Djaara stories and teachings, one of the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. This permanent cultural exhibition will take you on a journey of learning about Djaara culture and connection with Country. Boorp Boorp Boondyil (passing knowledge to our children) is a name…
21/10/2022
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Talking Treaty

More than 2000 people attended Treaty Day Out on Saturday – it was a great event for community to come together on Country.   DJAARA chair and Dja Dja Wurrung Reserved seat holder Trent Nelson performed the smoking ceremony, while Dja Dja Wurrung Group CEO Rodney Carter welcomed everybody to Country.  …
03/10/2022
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Our Country Needs to be Healed

“We can’t keep doing the same things anymore. You take a look at our Country at the moment and you think, it’s not well, there’s something we’ve got to do. Let us be what our Ancestors expected us to be. They expected their children, their descendants, to be back at…
09/09/2022
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Our Culture lives in us

MEDIA STATEMENT: Barramul (the emu) has a really significant connection to the Dja Dja Wurrung and the Milky Way. As Djaara, Dja Dja Wurrung People, when we look at the night sky we can see our relationship with our Ancestors through story and Country. We feel this profound connection to…
09/09/2022