Yoorrook Justice Commission invites you to be part of the Walk for Truth from Portland to Parliament.

Everyone is invited to join when Yoorrook Deputy Chair Commissioner Travis Lovett, Kerrupmara Gunditjmara, walks from Portland, where colonisation began, to Parliament, where we can transform the future.

Starting on Sunday 25 May on GunditjmaraGunditjmara Country at Portland, the Walk will finish at Parliament House on Wednesday 18 June.

This powerful journey aims to bring everyone together to walk toward truth, celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people, and be proud to have the oldest living culture in the world as ours.

For more information:

https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/events/walkfortruth/

#Australia
#Naarm
#Yoorook
#Gunditjmara
#AboriginalLand
#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBeAboriginalLand
#colonisation
#WalkForTruth
#TruthTelling
#aboriginalheritage

Lake Bolac farmer found guilty of destroying Aboriginal rock formation

"In 2021, the 65-year-old used an excavator to remove rocks from a 1,500-year-old, 300-metre-long stone arrangement resembling an eel on his Lake Bolac property."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/farmer-guilty-of-destroying-aboriginal-cultural-heritage/105237474
#heritage #destruction #farming #SettlerCulture #AboriginalHeritage #vandalism

This man is another Pauline Hanson. White people doing everything they can to erase #Aboriginal history & heritage.

#AboriginalLand #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #AboriginalHeritage https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114414012643228734

Aboriginal cultural heritage site: The kuyang - A giant 300 metre eel arrangement

"All it is is rocks in a paddock," Mr McMaster (farmer)

"Adrian McMaster allegedly used an excavator to remove rocks from an ancient stone arrangement resembling an eel on his Lake Bolac property, between Ballarat and Dunkeld, in 2021. I was moving the stones so I could get the [weed sprayer] in there," the 65-year-old told Ballarat Magistrates Court."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adrian-mcmaster-in-court-heritage-damage-lake-bolac-eel-rocks/105116232
#AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

Saving earth and rock rings from ubiquitous bulldozers
Cultural landscapes and braided knowledge
Building a more holistic understanding of people, place and Country

"Aboriginal rings are circular, earth (or rock) features that are preserved at increasingly fewer locations across eastern Australia today."

"Braided knowledge approaches build authentic, respectful and reciprocal partnerships with Indigenous community that involve their participation in all aspects."

"...Braided knowledge approaches are lacking from studies of large, circular features known as Aboriginal earth (or rock) rings in Australia. These rings are only known to occur in Queensland, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria. It is estimated that over 400 rings once existed in NSW and Queensland, but only a quarter remain today (Bowdler Citation2001). Many rings were destroyed following European colonisation, and land development, and those that do remain are vulnerable and fragile (Marks Citation1968; Ponosov Citation1965:69–70; Strong Citation2016; see also Bashta Citation2016). The word bora has been adopted broadly from the language of the Gamilaroi people of NSW and southern Queensland to describe both rings and associated ceremonies across eastern Australia (Fuller et al. Citation2013:30)."
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Spry, C., Freedman, D. L., Hayes, E., Hitchcock, G., Morrison, W., … Mullins, B. (2025). New braided knowledge understandings of an Aboriginal earth ring and biik wurrdha (Jacksons Creek, Sunbury) on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia. Australian Archaeology, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2024.2428019
#CulturalLandscape #AboriginalHeritage #CaringForCountry #biodiversity #ecology #grasslands #landscape #artefacts #EarthRings #boras #NSW #IndigenousePeoples #CulturalPractices #LandManagement #BraidedKnowledge #SunburyRings

Investigation finds that Sandfire Resources damaged Aboriginal cultural heritage of Yugunga-Nya peoples at a Monty copper mine in Western Australia due to “ignorance and process failings”.

#AboriginalHeritage

https://www.mining.com/web/sandfire-says-external-probe-finds-damages-at-western-australia-mine-due-to-process-failures/

"The Pastoralists and Graziers Association WA want to see the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act officially withdrawn. The laws require some WA landowners to check for the presence of cultural heritage before conducting any activities that may compromise such sites. Where a risk exists, landowners may need to seek permits or prepare management plans depending on the type of activity and the extent to which the land will be cleared or disturbed."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/wa-government-scrap-aboriginal-cultural-heritage-act-/102692282
#Destruction #JuukanGorge #Landclearing #Pastoralists #Graziers #AboriginalHeritage #law

England doesn't have #StateGovts. Yes they have issues but so do #Australia.

When one thinks it over, a lot would fix itself organically if we removed #StateGovt and replaced them with #LocalGovernment.

One thing that would fix itself is the need for a real voice for local #aboriginalCommunities - such a voice would come into effect by default as a result of not only recognising the land's #AboriginalHeritage, but importantly by transitioning some powers to Local Government.

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