Brophy Family and Youth Services
Education
A collaborative response to youth disengagement in regional Victoria
ProjectResting Places - Healing Country Together
Amount$450,000 over 2 years
Date2019
ProgramPast Programs | Environment
TRUST OBJECTIVES | PROJECT OBJECTIVES |
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Rural and regional Victoria | Strengthening the capacity of Traditional Owners in north-west Victoria to work collaboratively with community, promoting healing, building resilience and unlocking potential |
Reducing inequality | Enabling Traditional Owners to fulfill their responsibility to respect their Ancestors and protect their Ancestral Remains |
Enabling financial sustainability | Building capacity to understand, plan and seek funding for the larger program of works covering 120km of burial dunes |
Building organisational capacity | Developing the skills and expertise of First Peoples of Millewa Mallee to lead the program while developing their capabilities as a newly formed Registered Aboriginal Party (RAP) |
Collaboration and partnership | First Peoples of Millewa Mallee, Parks Victoria, land managers including Mallee Catchment Management Authority and Mildura City Council, and the Vizard Foundation |
Restoring the Ancestors' Resting Places heals Country and culture
In north-west Victoria lies one of the most extensive, concentrated areas of Aboriginal burial dunes in Australia. These ancient burial sites are thousands of years old and of global significance, however, they are deteriorating as the land becomes increasingly dry and eroded. Ancestral Remains, once protected by indigenous grasses, lie exposed to the elements, degraded by cattle grazing, pests and vehicles. People and Parks Foundation, along with Parks Victoria, is working in close partnership with the First Peoples of the Millewa Mallee to rebury their Ancestral Remains and restore the landscape that protects their Resting Places.
North-west Victoria has been home to thousands of generations of Aboriginal people through millenia. Hundreds of burial grounds span the region between Barmah National Park in the east to Murray Sunset National Park in the west, many in layers well over 10,000 years old. The Indigenous community, land managers, and philanthropy are working in partnership to ensure the complex series of burial dunes in north-west Victoria are restored, protected and cared for by Traditional Owners.
Snapshot:
“Traditional Owners have always known that ‘when we care for Country, Country cares for us’. We now have an opportunity to come together and apply this wisdom, to heal Country and people together. And we need to resource this together to make it happen.” Alison Hill, Managing Director, People and Parks Foundation.
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