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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
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
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
2023 Referendum: Ensuring safety of our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community MEDIAMEMBER NEWSNEWSYARNS

2023 Referendum: Ensuring safety of our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community

Four local First Nations organisations are calling for respect towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the lead up to the 2023 referendum on the Voice to Parliament. In recent weeks, members of our local community have been subject to verbal racist attacks. Disrespectful public commentary and abuse have…
20/07/2023