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DJAARA invites community to celebrate International Mountain Day MEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

DJAARA invites community to celebrate International Mountain Day

In an Australian first, DJAARA, the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, celebrated UNESCO’s International Mountain Day with a public event at Lalgambuk (Mount Franklin) on Wednesday 11 December.     The event followed DJAARA’s national recognition as Telstra’s Business of the Year in late November.   Dja Dja Wurrung Group CEO Rodney…
DJAARA Sharing Dja Dja Wurrung Culture with the World MEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

DJAARA Sharing Dja Dja Wurrung Culture with the World

The Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, trading as DJAARA, recently hosted an Australian-Chinese delegation at Larnangurrak, our new corporate and community centre. The cultural exchange was an enriching experience that led to a deeper mutual understanding. The organisers of this year’s Miss Australia Chinese Pageant brought participants to Bendigo…
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
Dja Dja Wurrung and conservationists celebrate plan to heal Country MEDIANEWSProject

Dja Dja Wurrung and conservationists celebrate plan to heal Country

DJAARA, the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, and national conservation not-for-profit Bush Heritage Australia yesterday launched a shared plan to guide landscape management across nearly 3,000 hectares of Bush Heritage-managed reserves in north-west Victoria. The two organisations, who have worked together for 17 years, celebrated their Wurreka Galkangu partnership…
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
MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

✨  Our Welcome Baby to Country event was a huge success today with a heartwarming ceremony for new babies aged 0-36 months born on Djandak. This annual event is a beautiful way to recognize the special connection that every infant shares with the land on which they are born. ✨  It…
14/11/2023
Agencies on board with Dja Dja Wurrung water vision MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

Agencies on board with Dja Dja Wurrung water vision

Water industry representatives joined Dja Dja Wurrung water knowledge holders, Elders, and Dja Dja Wurrung Group staff today to celebrate progress towards implementing the Djaara Gatjin (water) strategy, which was officially launched by the Campaspe River in Axedale. Since the Strategy, Dhelkunyangu Gatjin (‘Working together to heal water’) was released…
13/11/2023