Mastodawn

quackademic Nov 9, 2025

This land has been home to my family for five generations. It has been home to the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people for tens of thousands of years.

My ancestors came here as part of a colonial project. Our enjoyment of this land rests on the forcible dispossession of its traditional owners. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Native title for the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people? Yes please!

It’s way past time to acknowledge our histories. Let us care for this living land together.

#NativeTitle #Wurundjeri #KulinNation #Naarm #colonialism #disposession #justice

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/09/traditional-owners-indigenous-people-file-native-title-claim-over-melbourne-australia-first-nations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Traditional owners file native title claim over Melbourne and surrounding areas

Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder says First Nations people want to work with government to ‘look after that country’

The Guardian

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Peter Riley Nov 24, 2024

Note: #FirstNations Traditional Owners /Custodians of the unceded lands #Naarm “so-called Melbourne”
#DjaDjaWurrung - #Taungurung - #Wurundjeri - #BoonWurrung and #Wathaurung peoples of the #KulinNation

The Streets of Melbourne Jan 3, 2023

This stand-alone building in #collingwood #Australia is wrapped entirely of #Australian #Indigenous art.

Painted by Ky-ya Nicholson-Ward, from the #Wurundjeri people.

The Wurundjeri people are Australian Aboriginal peoples from the #KulinNation. They are the Traditional Owners of the Birrarung (Yarra River) Valley, covering much of the present location of Narrm (Melbourne).

The messages are clear, and are supported wholeheartedly by the vast majority of #Australians; #AboriginalLivesMatter, #NoMoreDeathsInCustody and #truth, #justice and #healing.

I stand in solidarity with our traditional owners of the land; #Australias #Indigenous peoples past, present and emerging.