2019 Victorian Landcare Winners
Woka Walla 2019 Victorian Landcare Awards Winners Winners of the 2019 Victorian Landcare Awards were announced on Friday 30 August at the awards ceremony at Government House. At the invitation of Her Excellency the Honourable Linda Dessau AC Governor of Victoria, Landcarers from across the state gathered at the awards ceremony on Friday morning (30 […]
Barmah National Park Joint Management Plan
Open House community consultations are starting next week! We’d love to see you there. Come down and learn more about the Joint Management Plan for Barmah National Park, and contribute your ideas for its strong healthy future. ?Shepparton: 26/8/19 || 4:30-7:30pm || Park Lake Hotel (481 Wyndham St) ? Barmah: 30/8/19 || 2:30-5:30pm || Dharnya Centre […]
GOTAFE celebrates NAIDOC Week
https://www.sheppnews.com.au/@news/2019/07/19/689508/voice-treaty-truth Yesterday, Shepparton’s Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE campus was a hive of activity as it celebrated NAIDOC Week. The large indigenous presence at the campus was recognised and celebrated with an interactive ceremony and morning tea. Aunty Faye Lynam, indigenous artist Eric Brown and Rumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative deputy chairman Greg James spoke at the […]
NAIDOC Week celebration at CVGT Shepparton
https://www.cvgt.com.au/celebrating-naidoc-week-at-cvgt-shepparton/ Jul 17, 2019 | Media ReleaseFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusLinkedInA celebration of the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will take place at a NAIDOC Week morning tea at CVGT Australia’s Shepparton office. The event, which forms part of the NAIDOC Week, will include a Welcome to Country by Aunty Faye Lynam and a traditional […]
Press Release: Trick or Treaty?
We the Yorta Yorta Council of Elders representing the Family Clan Groups of the Sovereign Yorta Yorta Nation, rejects the “Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018”. We view this Treaty process as a trip wire and only a pathway to assimilation as we are not “ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS” but “YORTA YORTA”, and as […]
National Indigenous Fire Workshop 2019
http://www.firesticks.org.au/thank-you-to-the-yorta-yorta-people-the-hosts-of-the-national-indigenous-fire-workshop-2019/ Thank you to the Yorta Yorta people, the hosts of the National Indigenous Fire Workshop 2019 Gulpa Gaka Anganya Gaka Yawal Ngulla Yenbena Yorta Yorta Woka Welcome friend – Come walk with us the people on Yorta Yorta Country The Firesticks Alliance wish to thank the Yorta Yorta people, the Traditional Owners, for hosting […]
Yorta Yorta Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorta_Yorta Map of Victorian Aborigines‘ language territories The Yorta Yorta, also known as Jotijota,[a] are an indigenous Australian people who have traditionally inhabited the area surrounding the junction of the Goulburn and Murray Rivers in present-day north-eastern Victoria and southern New South Wales. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorta_Yorta
Historic Cummeragunja Walk-Off Remembered
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/historic-cummeragunja-walk-remembered A march commemorating the Cummeragunja Walk-Off in Barmah on February 4. February 4 marked the 80th anniversary of the little-known 1939 Cummeragunja Walk-Off, when 200 Yorta Yorta people left the Cummera mission in southern New South Wales in protest against their mistreatment by mission bosses and the theft of their land. Dr Wayne Atkinson, an elder […]
Shepp News: Cummeragunja Walk-Off Celebrated
https://www.sheppnews.com.au/@news/2019/02/03/427380/news-people1111-cummeragunja-walk-off-anniversary-celebrated by ASHLEA WITOSLAWSKI There was an overwhelming sense of pride and prosperity at Cummeragunja Aboriginal Reserve on Saturday as hundreds gathered to commemorate and celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Cummeragunja Walk-off. On across three days, the event was organised by Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation chairman Uncle Lance James and chief executive Monica Morgan. […]
ABC News: 80th Anniversary of Cummeragunja Walk-Off
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-04/cummeragunja-80th-anniversary/10771824 Yorta Yorta people return to Cummeragunja 80 years after historical ‘walk-off’ ABC Goulburn Murray By Mahalia Dobson Posted 4 Feb 2019, 1:18pm PHOTO: Yorta Yorta people will today walk back on to Cummeragunja to commemorate the walk-off. (Supplied: Simone Andy) Australian soprano and Yorta Yorta woman Deborah Cheetham AO is a member of the Stolen Generations. At a young […]