Topics: Culture

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Central - view

They won two premierships and ten knockouts

West - view

Leanne Tobin explains how her Darug identity informs her relation to country

South Coastal - view

shell middens

South West - view

grandparents vying with each other to pass on their knowledge

South West - view

remembering people and events of the past and celebrating what is being brought forward. (Includes footage of the dancing and the march itself.)

Central - view

stories, knowledge, values and environmentally sustainable practices of Aboriginal people

West - view

Darug woman, Leanne Tobin , shows three of her paintings and describes their meaning and purpose

South Coastal - view

Uncle Dennis Foley , Gai-Mariagal elder, describes how to cook mangrove snails.

South West - view

the story of Mirragan, the hunter who chased Gurangatch, the big eel thus creating much the landscape around Sydney. Gurangatch was finally caught at Gulguer, Bents Basin .

North West - view

Sharon Hodgetts , project officer at Darkinjung Land Council, shares her experiences of growing up on an isolated property at Gulgong, and the stone axes she and her father found that connect her to her Aboriginality

South Coastal - view

Aboriginal names used to be used for the fish and octopus

Central - view

the importance of educating non-Aboriginal (and young Aboriginal people) on the significance of Aboriginal cultural sites

South Coastal - view

under the water are Aboriginal rock paintings and carvings. Uncle Greg feels that “this land is a powerful spiritual place” and wrong-doers will be punished eventually

South West - view

the many Aboriginal art sites around the Southern Sydney area , many of which she grew up knowing about.

North West - view

Gavi Duncan , youth worker at Youth Connections and a director on Darkinjung Land Council, describes the young people who are born in this area as New Darkinjung Mob

Central - view

young people know the importance of the land, but they don’t practise it much

South Coastal - view

many Aboriginal sites around the Bardens Creek area were not being well cared for by National Parks and Wildlife – trail bikes had destroyed bush and some sites, houses built too near – so in 1985 she mapped all the sites and put in a blanket land claim for them.

South West - view

heritage preservation work through NSW National Parks and with miners

North West - view

One of her roles is to take Jawun secondees out bush and introduce them to culture and country

Central - view

The Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs was established to give opportunities to Sydney Aboriginal people: housing and employment, but also a place to meet and develop their own ideas. This led to the purchase of a building on George St in 1964 where they had an art shop, ran dances and concerts and acted as an action planning centre.