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PO Box 2478 Broome WA 6725 Dinosaurcmg@Gmail.Com Chief Executive Officer Shire of Broome PO Box 44 Broome WA 6725 Email: Shire@Broome.Wa.Gov.Au

Dear Sam,

Review of the Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places – Place No: 73 - Submission

The Dinosaur Coast Management Group Inc. strongly supports the listing of the Dampier Coast – Broome Sandstone Dinosaur Footprints in the Shire of Broome Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places as Place No: 73 with a Grading A: Exceptional Significance. However the place record needs to be amended as follows:

1. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE , - amend the text as follows:

…… entry for the place prepared in 2011 with additional information published by Salisbury et al (2017).

The Dampier Coast dinosaur tracks have………………….. • For the diversity and exceptional sizes of the sauropod prints • The highest diversity of dinosaur tracks anywhere in the world (21 different types); • The only definitive evidence of stegosaurs in Australia; • The first described sauropod tracks in Australia; • Some of the largest dinosaur tracks in the world; • Only evidence of dinosaurs from this time period in Australia (approximately 130 million years ago); • The tracks are linked to the creation Dreamtime stories of the Yawuru indigenous people along the Dampier Peninsula coastline, from Bunginygun (Swan Point, Cape Leveque) to Wabana (Cape Bossut, near Bidyadanga/La Grange) which have been re told over many generations.

2. GRADING A: Exceptional Significance – insert the following text:

A place of exceptional cultural and natural heritage significance……….

3. DESCRIPTION – amend the text as follows:

The Broome sandstone is exposed continuously for around 200 kilometres on the western coast of Dampier Peninsula, from the bird observatory at Roebuck Bay north to Cape Leveque over at least 100 km of coastline from Gulbunwilla on Roebuck Bay east of Broome north to Minarriny (Coloumb Point), and possibly as far north as Cape Leveque

At least 15 21 different types of footprints……….making this one of the most diverse collections of dinosaurian trace fossils in the world. At some sites, Over 70 discrete tracksites have been identified, many of which preserve short sections……….of one or more animals) can be detected.

4. HISTORICAL NOTES - amend text as follows:

Included into their stories of the land and its creation, depicting the story of Warragunna, Eagle Hawk. particularly those involving the Emu Man, Marala, who was the Law Giver. One of the first records of non-indigenous knowledge of the tracks was made by journalist and researcher, Daisy Bates is known to have sighted and recorded the track whilst tracks near Broome while she was working at the Beagle Bay Mission in around 1900………. Walter “Snowy’ Jones, who informed Ludwig Glauert, Curator of the WA Museum.

...... The tracks continue to be a rich source of research and analysis for scientists, a link to creation stories for the Yawuru people indigenous people of the Dampier Peninsula and a place of interest for the local community

5. SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY – amend text as follows:

Dinosaur Coast Management Group Inc.

Include the following reference: Salisbury, S.W., Romilio, A., Herne, M.C., Tucker, R.T. and Nair, J.P. 2017. The dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16 (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol. 36, supplement to 6, November 2016), i–viii + 152 pp. Open Access PDF + SI

6. PHOTOS

Place No 73 includes photos of a theropod trackway and sauropod undertracks.

Scientists have established at least 21 different types of dinosaurs left tracks along the Dampier Peninsula coastline. These 21 dinosaurs can be assigned to four main groups; sauropod, theropod, ornithopod and thyreophoran. An image of a track from each group would provide a better representation of the diversity and importance of the Broome dinosaurian trace fossils. See Figure 21, Figure 22, Figure 42 and Figure 49 which can be downloaded from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539.

Also attached are the four different groups showing the diversity of the trackmakers and tracks.

In all instances please reference: ‘Dinosaur tracks and potential trackmakers of the Broome Sandstone. From Salisbury et al. (2017)’ and ensure the full reference to Memoir 16 (see above) is listed as set out in dot point 5 above.

Yours sincerely

Michelle Teoh Secretary 20 May 2019

From: Ken Buchan To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places and Heritage List Review Date: Friday, 26 April 2019 8:30:31 AM Attachments: image001.jpg

Good Morning Kirsten

Your ref: KW:PLA10

I refer to your correspondence dated 8 April 2019 seeking comment on six proposals affecting crown land.

There are no comments with respect to proposals nominated as Wallal Downs Station, Kimberley De Grey Stock route and Wells, Talgarno Military Base (Former), Anna Plains Station and World war 2 crash Memorial, ALT estate, Reserve 22615. There may be impacts for the other two proposals as these are in close proximity to the prospective developments at James Price Point.

Regards

Ken Buchan | Assistant Manager | Case Assessment: Land Use Management Level 2, 140 William Street, Perth WA 6000 (08) 6552 4600 www.dplh.wa.gov.au

The department acknowledges the Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia as the traditional custodians of this land and we pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Volume 36, Supplement to Number 6: 1–152

THE DINOSAURIAN ICHNOFAUNA OF THE LOWER CRETACEOUS (VALANGINIAN–BARREMIAN) BROOME SANDSTONE OF THE WALMADANY AREA (JAMES PRICE POINT), DAMPIER PENINSULA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

y STEVEN W. SALISBURY,*,1 ANTHONY ROMILIO,1 MATTHEW C. HERNE,1 RYAN T. TUCKER,2, and JAY P. NAIR1 1School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia, [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 2School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia

ABSTRACT—Extensive and well-preserved tracksites in the coastally exposed Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula provide almost the entire fossil record of dinosaurs from the western half of the Australian continent. Tracks near the town of Broome were described in the late 1960s as Megalosauropus broomensis and attributed to a medium-sized theropod trackmaker. Brief reports in the early 1990s suggested the occurrence of at least another nine types of tracks, referable to theropod, sauropod, ornithopod, and thyreophoran trackmakers, at scattered tracksites spread over more than 80 km of coastline north of Broome, potentially representing one of the world’s most diverse dinosaurian ichnofaunas. More recently, it has been proposed that this number could be as high as 16 and that the sites are spread over more than 200 km. However, the only substantial research that has been published on these more recent discoveries is a preliminary study of the sauropod tracks and an account of the ways in which the heavy passage of sauropod trackmakers may have shaped the Dampier Peninsula’s Early Cretaceous landscape. With the other types of dinosaurian tracks in the Broome Sandstone remaining undescribed, and the full extent and nature of the Dampier Peninsula’s dinosaurian tracksites yet to be adequately addressed, the overall scientific significance of the ichnofauna has remained enigmatic. At the request of the area’s Goolarabooloo Traditional Custodians, 400C hours of ichnological survey work was undertaken from 2011 to 2016 on the 25 km stretch of coastline in the Yanijarri–Lurujarri section of the Dampier Peninsula, inclusive of the coastline at Walmadany (James Price Point). Forty-eight discrete dinosaurian tracksites were identified in this area, and thousands of tracks were examined and measured in situ and using three-dimensional photogrammetry. Tracksites were concentrated in three main areas along the coast: Yanijarri in the north, Walmadany in the middle, and Kardilakan– Jajal Buru in the south. Lithofacies analysis revealed 16 repeated facies types that occurred in three distinctive lithofacies associations, indicative of an environmental transgression between the distal fluvial to deltaic portions of a large braid plain, with migrating sand bodies and periodic sheet floods. The main dinosaurian track-bearing horizons seem to have been generated between periodic sheet floods that blanketed the preexisting sand bodies within the braid plain portion of a tidally influenced delta, with much of the original, gently undulating topography now preserved over large expanses of the present day intertidal reef system. Of the tracks examined, 150 could be identified and are assignable to a least eleven and possibly as many as 21 different track types: five different types of theropod tracks, at least six types of sauropod tracks, four types of ornithopod tracks, and six types of thyreophoran tracks. Eleven of these track types can formally be assigned or compared to existing or new ichnotaxa, whereas the remaining ten represent morphotypes that, although distinct, are currently too poorly represented to confidently assign to existing or new ichnotaxa. Among the ichnotaxa that we have recognized, only two (Megalosauropus broomensis and Wintonopus latomorum) belong to existing ichnotaxa, and two compare to existing ichnotaxa but display a suite of morphological features suggesting that they may be distinct in their own right and are therefore placed in open nomenclature. Six of the ichnotaxa that we have identified are new: one theropod ichnotaxon, Yangtzepus clarkei, ichnosp. nov.; one sauropod ichnotaxon, Oobardjidama foulkesi, ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov.; two ornithopod ichnotaxa, Wintonopus middletonae, ichnosp. nov., and Walmadanyichnus hunteri, ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov.; and two thyreophoran ichnotaxa, Garbina roeorum, ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov., and Luluichnus mueckei, ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov. The level of diversity of the main track types is comparable across areas where tracksites are concentrated: Kardilakan– Jajal Buru (12), Walmadany (11), and Yanijarri (10). The overall diversity of the dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Broome Sandstone in the Yanijarri–Lurujarri section of the Dampier Peninsula is unparalleled in Australia, and even globally. In addition to being the primary record of non-avian dinosaurs in the western half of Australia, this ichnofauna provides our only detailed glimpse of Australia’s dinosaurian fauna during the first half of the Early Cretaceous. It indicates that the general composition of Australia’s mid-Cretaceous dinosaurian fauna was already in place by the Valanginian–Barremian. Both sauropods and ornithopods were diverse and abundant, and thyreophorans were the only type of quadrupedal ornithischians. Important aspects of the fauna that are not seen in the Australian mid-Cretaceous body fossil record are the presence of stegosaurians, an overall higher diversity of thyreophorans and theropods, and the presence of large-bodied hadrosauroid-like ornithopods and very large-bodied sauropods. In many respects, these differences suggest a holdover from the Late Jurassic, when the majority of dinosaurian clades had a more cosmopolitan distribution prior to the fragmentation of Pangea. Although the record for the Lower Cretaceous of Gondwana is sparse, a similar mix of taxa occurs in the Barremian–lower Aptian La Amarga Formation of Argentina and the Berriasian–Hauterivian Kirkwood Formation of South Africa. The persistence of this fauna across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in South America, Africa, and Australia might be characteristic of Gondwanan dinosaurian faunas more broadly. It suggests that the extinction event that affected Laurasian dinosaurian faunas across the Jurassic-

y *Corresponding author. Current address: Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa, [email protected] Color versions of one or more of the ﬁgures in this article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/ujvp. Ó Steven W. Salisbury, Anthony Romilio, Matthew C. Herne, Ryan T. Tucker, and Jay P. Nair. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. 2 Salisbury et al.—Dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous Broome Sandstone, Australia

Cretaceous boundary may not have been as extreme in Gondwana, and this difference may have foreshadowed the onset of Laurasian-Eurogondwanan provincialism. The disappearance of stegosaurians and the apparent drop in diversity of theropods by the mid-Cretaceous suggests that, similar to South America, Australia passed through a period of faunal turnover between the Valanginian and Aptian.

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Citation for this article: Salisbury, S. W., A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2017. The dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, Supplement). DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539.

INTRODUCTION 1987; Benterrak et al., 1996). On the Dampier Peninsula, this Creation Time (also referred to as the ‘Dreamtime’ or ‘The The Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Dreaming’ by Stanner, 1979) is known as Bugarrigarra [bugari- Sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula, in the Kimberley region of gara]. Through song cycles, the creation stories, ceremonies, Western Australia (Fig. 1), contains potentially one the world’s laws, rituals, language, and codes of conduct fundamental to sus- most diverse dinosaurian ichnofaunas, preserved in discontinu- taining the well-being of the land and its people are passed from ous tracksites scattered over at least 100 km of coastline from one generation to the next (Roe, 1983; Chatwin, 1987; Bradshaw Roebuck Bay east of Broome north to Minarriny (Coloumb and Fry, 1989; Benterrak et al., 1996). Custodial care of song Point) and possibly as far north as Cape Leveque (Glauert, 1952; cycles and country is the job of men known as Maja (Law Colbert and Merrilees, 1967; Long, 1990, 1992a, 1993, 1998, Bosses), who are typically chosen on the basis of personal quali- 2002; Thulborn et al., 1994, 2002, 2009; Rich and Vickers-Rich, ties rather than bloodline. 2003a; Willis and Thomas, 2005; Commonwealth of Australia, The song cycle that extends along the Dampier Peninsula 2011; Thulborn, 2012). With the exception of a few fragments of coastline is referred to locally as Ululong [ululuE] (hereafter bone from other fossil localities in Western Australia (Long, referred to as the Song Cycle). Three other song cycles emanate 1992b, 1995; Long and Cruickshank, 1996; Long and Molnar, from Minyirr Djugun Buru (the greater Broome area): Dabber 1998; Agnolın et al., 2010), this ichnofauna constitutes the pri- dabber goon, which travels east, cutting through Uluru (Ayers mary record of dinosaurs for the western half of Australia, with Rock, Northern Territory) until it reaches the Paciﬁc Ocean; many of the tracks having no obvious counterpart among Billingun, which follows the same path as Dabber dabber goon described body fossils from other parts of the continent. The ich- until it reaches Uluru where it splits three ways (see Crane, 2013: nofauna therefore provides valuable insight into the composition pl. 27); and Nunnungurugoon, which travels along its own path and paleoecology of Early Cretaceous dinosaurian faunas in northeast, through the Kimberley. eastern Gondwana, at a key time during the fragmentation of Marala, The Emu Man—One of the important Bugarrigarra the supercontinent. In recognition of these and other outstanding beings within the Song Cycle is called Marala [marala] (Mount- heritage values, the intertidal zone along the Dampier Peninsula ford, 1973; Anonymous, 1999; Major and Sarjeant, 2001) coastline from Roebuck Bay to Cape Leveque (excluding the (Fig. 2A). Marala, also referred to as ‘Emu Man,’ was the area from Dampier Creek to Yinara [Entrance Point]) was ‘lawgiver,’ and instilled in country the codes of conduct for behav- recently included in the West Kimberley National Heritage List ior needed to help ensure its well-being, and there are numerous (Place ID 106063; Commonwealth of Australia, 2011). Bugarrigarra stories and parts of stories in which he features. In the process of moving through the Song Cycle from south to Indigenous Knowledge of Dinosaurian Tracks in the Broome north, as well as in and out of the sea, Marala left behind three- Sandstone toed tracks. He also left behind the grooved impressions of his tail feathers (his ‘ramu’ or ceremonial engravings) when he sat “The Country now comes from Bugarri-Garri [sic] (dream- down to rest and create his law ground. Today, three-toed dino- time). It was made by all the dreamtime ancestors, who left saur tracks (typically those assigned to Megalosauropus broomen- their tracks and statues behind and gave us our law, we still fol- sis) and impressions of cycad-like bennettitaleans (Marala’s tail low that law, which tells us how to look after this country and feather impressions and ramu) are seen as testimony to Marala’s how to keep it alive.” journey as narrated in the Song Cycle. A concentration of M. —Paddy Roe OAM (Parliament of the Commonwealth of broomensis tracks at a Song Cycle place on Cable Beach is also Australia, 1991) known as Maralagun [place of Marala]. Marala’s tracks at Minyirr (Gantheaume Point) and Reddell Beach are referred to in a num- Dinosaurian tracks in the Broome Sandstone form an impor- ber of Bugarrigarra stories, some of which are publicly known, tant part of the cultural heritage of the indigenous people of the others of which are known only to a restricted number of people. Dampier Peninsula and greater west Kimberley (Anonymous, The most notable of the publicly known stories involves Marala 1999; Major and Sarjeant, 2001) and have likely been known to and the Ngadjayi [ngajayi] (female sea spirits) (Fig. 2). In part of them for thousands of years. The tracks are integral to a song another story, Marala encounters Warragunna (or Warakarna), cycle that extends along the coast from Bunginygun (Swan Point, the ‘Eagle Man’ or ‘Eagle-hawk’ (see Bates, 1929), who spears Cape Leveque) to Wabana (Cape Bossut, near La Grange) and him (K. Akerman, pers. comm. 25 November 2015). When then inland to the southeast over a total distance of approxi- Walter ‘Snowy’ Jones relayed his discovery of tridactyl dinosau- mately 450 km (Anonymous, 1999; Major and Sarjeant, 2001). rian tracks at Minyirr in 1945 to Ludwig Glauert at the Western Across Australia, song cycles (also called ‘songlines’ or Australian Museum, he stated that “The tracks are known as ‘dreaming tracks’) delineate both a physical and a spiritual geog- Warragunna...” (Jones and Glauert, 1945–1946:6; Anonymous, raphy (together referred to as ‘country’), tracing, song by song, 1946; see below). Presumably Jones did not realize that in this the paths taken by supernatural beings who sang songs for every- particular story Warragunna was the Bugarrigarra hero who thing (places, animals, plants, stars, etc.) as they went, thereby found the tracks, not the one who made them (Marala). In Jones’ singing the world into existence and conferring the spiritual 1945 recount of the story, a ‘native’ tracks the giant footprints of essence of traditional law into the land (Stanner, 1979; Chatwin, a big bird who is traveling south, trying to cross the deep waters Salisbury et al.—Dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous Broome Sandstone, Australia 3

FIGURE 1. Yanijarri–Lurujarri section of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Dinosaur tracksites are scattered all along this stretch of coast, intermittently exposed at low tide on shore platforms and reefs of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone. The extent of intertidal shore platforms and associated exposures of the Broome Sandstone is based on beach conditions during 2011–2012. Place names correspond to ethnographic sites on the Lurujarri Heritage Trail and include mythological and ceremonial places relating to the Song Cycle and its associated traditional law and culture, camping areas of historical signiﬁcance, and numerous burials (modiﬁed and updated from those listed in Worms, 1944; Aker- man, 1975, 1976; Bradshaw and Fry, 1989). of Roebuck Bay. Turning back, the giant bird chases the man to well known to certain indigenous people of the Dampier Willie Creek. Elaboration of this story in 1946 indicates that the Peninsula. Knowledge of the Song Cycle and the dinosaurian footprints created by the giant bird (Marala) during the chase cre- tracks and associated fossils is thought to provide insight into ated Roebuck Bay (Durack, 1946; Gardello, 1946; see Frontis- Bugarrigarra. As such, much of this knowledge is considered

piece). Another Bugarrigarra story that involves a giant ‘monster sacred. Although some locations along the Song Cycle where bird’ or giant eagle is that of Djaringgalong [dja ir EgaluE](Nangan dinosaurian tracks and plant fossils occur are law grounds, and Edwards, 1976; Roe, 1983:29). more broadly it is the presence of these trace fossils in the Because of their signiﬁcance to the Song Cycle, many of the country through which the Song Cycle passes that is the most dinosaurian tracks and plant fossils described herein are important thing. The disappearance of some tracks through 4 Salisbury et al.—Dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous Broome Sandstone, Australia

FIGURE 2. The Bugarrigarra story of Marala and the Ngadjayi [ngajayi] (‘spirit women of the sea’). Marala, also known as ‘Emu Man,’ is one of the creator beings associated with the Song Cycle. A, Marala’s emu-like form persists today as a shadow of dark nebulae running virtually the length of the Milky Way, his head (the Coalsack) near Jina (eagle’s claw prints; the Southern Cross) and his neck along Gwuraarra (naala, or ‘hitting stick’; the Pointers). Marala is surrounded by his giant three-toed tracks, which are preserved in the rocks of the Broome Sandstone and trace his journey along the coast of the Dampier Peninsula as narrated in the Song Cycle. Typically it is tracks assigned to Megalosauropus broomensis (see Figs. 19 and 20) that are linked to Marala, along with the impressions of cycad-like bennettitaleans (Fig. 17F), which are regarded as the mark of his tail feathers or ramu (ceremonial engravings). South of Minyirr (Gantheaume Point), Marala encountered a group of Ngadjayi (depicted as partially circled dots at his feet)—spirit women from the sea who had come out of the water to harden their skin in the sun and delouse each other with jungkur (lice sticks). When Yinara [jinaɹa], the most senior woman in the group, sensed that Marala was coming, she told the younger women to turn towards the land and not look at him. Marala saw the women and walked over to them. Although Yinara positioned herself between Marala and the others, the Emu Man was still able to get very close. Curious to see him, some of the women turned to watch Marala as he walked past. Yinara was able to drive Marala away, but she was angry with the younger women and shamed them for disobeying her. The spirits of Yinara and the other Ngadjayi moved into the sky and can be seen today as the constellation known as Pleiades. B, stone pillars representing the Ngadjayi occur at Bungurunan, a small beach west of Entrance Point, south of the township of Broome. In this photo from August 1976, Paddy Roe points to Yinara, the tallest of the pillars. Artwork courtesy and copyright Jo Manjun; photo courtesy and copyright Kim Akerman. natural processes is seen as part of ongoing unfolding of Bugarri- Northern and Southern traditions of the Song Cycle became garra, as is the appearance of new ones. It is accepted that increasingly tenuous moving into the 20th century. tracks will come and go as knowledge of them is needed. For Paddy Roe (Figs. 2B, 3A) was born around 1912 on Roebuck these reasons, the removal or desecration of tracks from country Station, east of Broome (Benterrak et al., 1996). Although this for any reason is considered a great offence, in most instances meant that he was born in Yawuru country, Paddy Roe grew up to punishable by spearing (J. Roe, quoted in Anonymous, 1996). It become a fully initiated Njikina man (Benterrak et al., 1996). Nji- can also bring illness and misfortune, not only to the perpetrators kina country covers a large area that lies to the east of Yawuru but also to the Maja under whose custodianship the crime country (Tindale, 1974). When Paddy Roe and Pegallily, his occurred. (See Appendix 2 for further information on previous woman, entered Jabirrjabirr country in the early 1930s (Bradshaw instance of theft and removal of dinosaurian tracks from the and Fry, 1989; Benterrak et al., 1996; Roe and Shaw, 2008; Bots- Dampier Peninsula.) man, 2012), no young people remained and custodianship of not Custodianship of the Song Cycle and Dinosaurian only Jabirrjabirr but also Ngumbarl and Djugun countries sat with Tracks—The Song Cycle passes through the country (from north a powerful old Maja named Walmadany. Paddy and Pegalilly were to south) of the Bardi-Jawi, Nyulnyul, Jabirrjabirr, Ngumbarl, taken under the wing of the aging Jabirrjabirr clan. Before he Djukun, Yawuru, and Karajarri language groups (Tindale, 1974; became too old, Walmadany chose Paddy Roe to become the new McGregor, 1988; Bradshaw and Fry, 1989; Stokes and McGre- Maja for the Northern and Southern traditions of the Song Cycle, gor, 2003)—collectively referred to as the Nyulnyulan languages as well as the custodian of Jabirrjabirr, Ngumbarl, and Djugan (Stokes and McGregor, 2003)—and is divided into a Northern countries (Bradshaw and Fry, 1989; Roe and Shaw, 2008; Botsman, Tradition and a Southern Tradition (Roe and Shaw, 2008; Bots- 2012; Goolarabooloo Lawmen, pers. comm., 2014). Paddy Roe man, 2012). Custodianship of the Song Cycle and the land subsequently settled his family north of Broome, initially at Willie through which it passes originally lay with Maja from each Creek, then Buckley’s Plain, the Native Hospital, and ﬁnally at respective language area. But with dispossession of much of their Coconut Wells in 1979, where he established the Goolarabooloo traditional lands following the commencement of white settle- Millibinyarri Community, with the goal of fulﬁlling the responsibil- ment in 1865, and the displacement of many of the younger ity that had been entrusted to him by old Walmadany. When he Jabirrjabirr, Ngumbarl, Djugun, and Yawuru men and women to died, Paddy Roe buried Walmadany alongside the other elders in government-run missions, ongoing custodianship of both the the dunes above the point that bears his name. Salisbury et al.—Dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous Broome Sandstone, Australia 5

FIGURE 3. Goolarabooloo Traditional Custodians and Maja (Law Bosses) for Jabirrjabirr, Ngumbarl, and Djugun countries, and the Northern Tra- dition of the Song Cycle and the dinosaur tracks of the Broome Sandstone. A, The late Paddy Roe, also known as Lulu, who was chosen to be Maja for this area by Walmadany, the last great Jabirrjabirr Maja, sometime in the mid-20th century. Paddy Roe is shown here with the Order of Australia Medal that was awarded to him in 1990. The original caption to the photo says, “This is my Gulbinna [shield]. The government gave me this medal. This Gulbinna is asking the medal, you going to break up this country or keep it the same since Bugarre Garre [Dreamtime]” (source unknown). B, Paddy Roe’s grandsons, who continued as Goolarabooloo Maja after his death in 2001. From left to right: Phillip Roe, the late Joseph Roe, and Richard Hunter. Photograph courtesy and copyright Damian Kelly, 2012.

Paddy Roe passed away in 2001. Before he died he made three Irish-Australian immigrant, became enthralled by indigenous of his grandsons—Richard Hunter, Phillip Roe, and Joseph culture during a three-month visit to Beagle Bay Mission in Roe—Traditional Custodians and Maja for Jabirrjabirr, Ngum- 1900. Bates subsequently returned to Broome during 1901–02. barl, and Djugun countries, and the Northern Tradition of the Based at Roebuck Plains Station with her husband Jack and son Song Cycle (Roe and Shaw, 2008; Botsman, 2012) (Fig. 3B). Arthur, Bates immersed herself in the study of ‘the saltwater Joseph Roe passed away in February 2014, but Richard Hunter tribes’ in the area. In her personal memoir of Bates, writer and Phillip Roe are the Maja who currently have responsibility Ernestine Hill recalls Bates reaction to seeing a dinosaurian for maintaining, sharing and passing on the Song Cycle with track preserved in rocks at Willie Creek, approximately 22 km other Maja of the Northern Tradition. north of Broome (Hill, 1973:44). Hill ascribes no specific date to Because the land through which it passes has remained largely Bates’ sighting of the track. Some of the cultural material col- undisturbed and its custodianship maintained, the traditional law lected by Bates aligns closely with information gathered decades and culture encoded in the Song Cycle remains an important later by others. Bates’ recount of the story of Warruganna, col- part of the way of life for many indigenous people across the lected during her 1901–02 sojourn, and not published until 1929 Dampier Peninsula (e.g., Roe, 1983; Bradshaw and Fry, 1989; (Bates, 1929), appeared well before later versions of this story Benterrak et al., 1996; Botsman, 2012). Traditional ceremonial involving the dinosaurian tracks at Minyirr—shared with Glauert activities are still maintained, attended by people who travel via Walter Jones (see below)—emerged publicly (e.g., Anony- hundreds of kilometers to participate. mous 1946). At the time of publication, no dinosaurian tracks On account of their cultural significance, access to the dinosau- could be located at Willie Creek. rian tracksites of the Dampier Peninsula coastline for research Thirty-four years later, two young girls and their mother stum- and related purposes requires the consent of the Goolarabooloo bled across some of the three-toed theropod tracks at Minyirr Traditional Custodians, particularly in Jabirrjabirr and Ngum- that form part of the Marala and Warragunna stories (see barl countries (Tindale, 1974; McGregor, 1988; Bradshaw and above). Sheila Turnbull (nee Milner), her twin Flora Thyer (nee Fry, 1989; Stokes and McGregor, 2003). For tracksites in the Milner) and their mother, Catherine, spent several days explor- greater Broome area (Minyirr Djugun Buru) that sit within tradi- ing the rock platforms around Minyirr in 1935 as part of a Girl tional Djukun and Yawuru countries (Tindale, 1974; McGregor, Guides camp that was based at the abandoned lighthouse cottage 1988; Bradshaw and Fry, 1989; Stokes and McGregor, 2003), the (Anonymous, 1935) (Fig. 4A). Flora recounts the story as consent of the Yawuru Community and Yawuru Traditional follows: Owners is also appreciated. “The most exciting thing for Mother, Sheila and me was the Non-indigenous Knowledge of Dinosaurian Tracks in the morning we were all down on the sea bed ... very early at the Broome Sandstone and Previous Scientific Research time the tide was at its lowest, and we stumbled across the dino- The earliest account of dinosaurian tracks on the Dampier saur footprints. It was quite scary—it looked as if whatever had Peninsula by a non-indigenous person that we are aware of made them had just passed by, so clear and perfect they were” comes from around the turn of the 20th century. Daisy Bates, an (Norman and Norman, 2007:232). 6 Salisbury et al.—Dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous Broome Sandstone, Australia

FIGURE 4. Broome dinosaur trackers 1935–1964. A, girls from the 1935 Guides Camp at Minyirr (Gantheaume Point lighthouse in the background). Flora Milner (centre row, fourth from right), Sheila Milner (front row, first from right, holding the Milner’s dog, Dixie) (photo courtesy Broome His- torical Society); B, concrete replica (WAM G10328) of an in situ Megalosauropus broomensis track at Minyirr, created in 1945 by Walter Jones (adapted from Baird, 1989:fig. 7B); C, in situ M. broomensis tracks at Minyirr circa 1964, later described and figured by Colbert and Merrilees (1967) (courtesy and copyright M. Gower); D, Mervyn Hunter alongside in situ M. broomensis tracks at Minyirr in 1953 (the same tracks as in C) (from Ser- venty, 1964); E, Mo Gower with a replica and plaster cast of the holotype of M. broomensis (WAM 66.2.51) (courtesy and copyright M. Gower); F, members of the 1964 AMNH and WAM team led by Ned Colbert (center with bucket) casting an in situ M. broomensis track (RB 3–2; replica speci- men WAM 64.6.10) at Reddell Beach (from Colbert, 1968).

The theropod tracks at Minyirr that were first noticed by the discovery, and the material that he shared with Glauert, later Milner girls—or some similar tracks nearby—were rediscov- formed the basis of the first scientific account of the Minyirr ered on 23 September 1945 by Broome resident Walter tracks (Glauert, 1952; see below). ‘Snowy’ Jones, who was collecting shells on the reefs (Jones Not long after their rediscovery by Jones, the theropod tracks and Glauert, 1945–1946; Anonymous, 1946). Jones was at Minyirr came to the attention of Elizabeth Durack, who unaware that the 13 tracks he found had been noticed previ- arrived in Broome in October 1945 and spent time at the light- ously and notified Ludwig Glauert from the Western Austra- house keeper’s cottage. Over the next 8 months, Durack painted lian Museum. Jones later sent a map, drawings, and some a series of 93 artworks for her first solo exhibition, entitled Time measurements of the tracks to Glauert (Jones and Glauert, and Tide—The Story in Pictures of Roebuck Bay N. W. Australia 1945–1946; Glauert, 1952:83) and in December 1945 provided (Durack, 1946). The first painting in this series was Legend, him with a concrete replica (i.e., concave/negative epirelief) of which depicted the dinosaur tracks at Minyirr and the story of one of them (WAM G10328; Fig. 4B) (Baird, 1989). A photo- Warragunna (see Frontispiece). The paintings were exhibited in graph of the tracks, taken by a US serviceman who happened 1946 at the Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia and to be at the scene during one of Jones’ visits, was also for- the Athenaeum in Melbourne, and in 1947 at the David Jones warded to Glauert. Jones’ replica was displayed in the Fossil Gallery in Sydney. Elizabeth’s sister, Mary, was equally inspired Room at the Western Australian Museum in January 1946 by the tracks made by these ‘prehistoric wanderers’ and penned (Anonymous, 1946). In acquiring information for Glauert, the verse Down there my Dinosaur for the Bulletin in 1958 Jones discovered that local indigenous people were very famil- (Olsen, 1984). iar with these tracks, and one of the publicly known stories of The scientific and broader community gained greater aware- Warragunna (see above) was shared with him. Jones’ ness of the Dampier Peninsula’s dinosaurian tracks in 1953 when From: Kirsten Wood To: Kirsten Wood Subject: FW: I190521-155294 - Municipal Inventory Of Heritage Places Review - Place No 69 - Submission Date: Tuesday, 28 May 2019 11:44:27 AM

Regards

Kirsten Wood Manager Planning and Building Services Shire of Broome

PO Box 44 Broome WA 6725 T: (08) 9191 3456 F: (08) 9191 3455 Email: [email protected] Web: www.broome.wa.gov.au

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From: Dinosaur Coast Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 6:04 AM To: Shire Subject: I190521-155294 - Municipal Inventory Of Heritage Places Review - Place No 69 - Submission

Attention Kirsten Wood

Dear Kirsten, The Dinosaur Coast Management Group strongly supports the inclusion of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail in the Shire of Broome Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places – Place No 69. Over the length and duration of the Trail participants learn about the natural, social and cultural significance of the country through which they are walking. Included in this are the dinosaur tracks located all the way along the Trail in the intertidal area. Trail participants have both the scientific and cultural significance of the tracks explained.

Details of the connection of the dinosaur tracks to the Dreamtime stories of the indigenous people along the Dampier Peninsula coastline, is explained in detail in Salisbury, S.W., Romilio, A., Herne, M.C., Tucker, R.T. and Nair, J.P. 2017. The dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16 (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol. 36, supplement to 6, November 2016), i–viii + 152 pp. Michelle Teoh Secretary From: Josephine Searle To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Support for the Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 8:25:33 AM

Hi,

I understand that the Shire is looking into whether to list the Lurujarri Heritage Trail on Broome Heritage Inventory, and I would like to show my support. The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation undertook a 4 year, $3 million investigation on the Dampier Peninsula, with one of the major focusses being on groundwater dependent ecosystems. We sent our ecologist Robyn Loomes on the heritage trail at the beginning of the investigation, which proved to be invaluable to the project.

From the trail we were introduced to many of the unique ecosystems, including an explanation of the plant associations of hydraulic regimes which support them. The ecological knowledge that the Goolarabooloo people shared with us helped shape our investigation, enabling us to target the right locations to study and hypotheses to test. It also introduced us the cultural and spiritual importance of certain locations which is of paramount importance to our Department, in our mission To lead and excel in the sustainable management and protection of Western Australia’s water and environment. We could have not achieved the outcomes of this project without the comprehensive induction to the area which this trail gave us, and the ongoing relationship we developed with the Goolarbooloo People from this trail. The Goolarabooloo People continued to support our project and were employed to help with all our field work, providing expert local knowledge and competent assistance in our ecological work.

Our final project synthesis is published here: http://www.water.wa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/9430/111500.pdf

And our comprehensive report on the groundwater dependent ecosystems is published here: http://www.water.wa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/9431/111501.pdf

If you have any questions at all I can be contacted at the details below. I hope to see this trail listed on the inventory! Thanks, Jo

Josephine Searle Manager Groundwater Assessment North Water Resource Assessment

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Dear Sam

Municipal Inventory and Heritage List Review

We fully support the inclusion of the LURUJARRI HERITAGE TRAIL Place No: 69 (Category B) and DAMPIER COAST – BROOME SANDSTONE Dinosaur Footprints Place No: 73 (Category A) on the Shire’s Municipal Inventory.

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail is of tremendous historical and contemporary cultural heritage significance. We regard the trail as one of the World’s great walks which traverses diverse ecosystems, numerous archaeological and ethnographic sites, and dinosaur footprints and plant fossils dating to 130 million years ago. It is one of the few experiences in Australia where you can spend time with Aboriginal people who are cultural and knowledge custodians of the Country. The Trail is an important cultural tourism venture that thousands of people have experienced and is worthy of the highest level protection.

The Dampier Coast dinosaur tracks are of exceptional global significance particularly when it is considered that they also form part of the mythology of local Aboriginal people. They are recognised as being of national heritage significance and have been listed by the Commonwealth government on the National Heritage list. In our view, they deserve the highest level of protection.

Martin Pritchard Environs Kimberley From: Dan Sherrell To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujuarri Heritage Trail Date: Thursday, 2 May 2019 7:28:11 AM

Dear Ms. Wood,

I am writing to ask that you include the Lurujarri Heritage Trail in the Shire of Broome's Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places. I am a Fulbright Scholar from the United States and will be travelling to Broome this July explicitly to walk the trail with the elders of the Goolarabooloo Community. As part of my scholarship I am hoping to learn more about how Aboriginal dreamtime narratives can connect a community affectively to landscape and aid in that landscape's preservation. The Heritage Trail will provide an unparalleled opportunity to connect with country, learn from its indigenous custodians, and experience an essential part of Broome Shire's cultural heritage, one that stretches back literal millenia.

I can also tell you honestly that, as a foreigner, I've heard that the Lurujarri Trail is the thing to do in Broome, a cultural resource who's reputation very much precedes it. Even if just from a tourism angle, it would make abundant sense to enshrine the Trail's importance in your Municipal Inventory, doubling down on a truly unique experience that only Broome has to offer, while simultaneously preserving an incredibly important piece of Aboriginal community history from which we can all learn a lot.

Yours Sincerely,

Daniel Sherrell Fulbright Scholar Brown University '14 Elaine Laraia

3 Lugger Outlook

Glenfield WA 6532

To the Chief Executive Officer

Broome Shire

Post Office Box 44

Broome WA 6725

Dear Sir or Madam

RE: LURUJARRI HERITAGE TRAIL LISTING ON BROOME HERITAGE INVENTORY

I have worked previously as a Public Servant of the state Justice System for approximately 25 years. During that time I witnessed many First Nations/Aboriginal people who are alienated and who are struggling to find their cultural origins and identities. What this has meant for our community is that many of our incarcerated first nation’s people/Aboriginal people do not know who they are, and where they belong (dispossession and dislocation). Their sense of exclusion and marginalisation in society is compounded further by their contact with the criminal justice system. Hence, there is a great need for all people including those who are dispossessed and dislocated to have an experience like the Lurujarri Trail to remind them that there is another life which offers some answers through participating and reconnecting with their roots as demonstrated by the Lurujarri Trail, which offers a fantastic cultural experience that can assist people on their own cultural journeys. We have much to learn from such an experience.

Broome Shire and the Kimberley must become more inclusive of First Nations/Aboriginal culture by empowering first nations/Aboriginal businesses and culturally appropriate practises that enhance knowledge and understanding of the local first nation people/Aboriginal people and their fantastic culture through witnessing first hand some of the local cultural practises. The Lurujarri Trail brings great benefit to Broome by offering a totally authentic cultural experience to the world. This experience is first class and should not be duplicated or removed. It should be listed as a Heritage Trail.

Different surveys in the tourism industry have identified that many people from overseas would value an authentic first nations/Aboriginal cultural experience. The Lurujarri Trail offers this and more. It is the ultimate experience through a “walking on the land” of the first nation people, experiencing the dance and song, participating in traditional ways of gathering and hunting for food, and listening to stories about times gone.

I totally support that the Lurujarri Trail be listed as the Lurujarri Heritage Trail on the Broome Heritage Inventory. My grandchildren have embraced this unique experience by participating on the Trail.

Yours sincerely

Elaine Laraia

7th May 2019.

From: Robert Monahan To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 8:36:32 PM

Hi Kirsten,

The Lurujarri is so very important to the Heritage of Broome with a high degree of Integrity and Authenticity.

Regards,

Bob Monahan. From: Jay Ho To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Thursday, 2 May 2019 7:24:38 PM

Hi Kirsten and the Broome Shire,

I write this email to you asking for considering The Lurujarri Heritage Trail and it's importance on the heritage of the Broome Shire. You have the power to decide whether you want to sell out or protect a heritage that sets Australia apart. Many of us foreigners come to work in the cities so that we can one day visit places like Uluru and the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. If you start removing this then Australia will be no different then any other place in the world.

Keep it open as other people like myself will fly out there just to do the trail and bring our hard earned money with us to the communities around it.

Yours truly,

-- Jay Ho Co-Founder

M: 0426 535 642 | W: The Bot Marketing Agency

Chief Executive Officer PO Box 44 Broome WA 6725.

Re: Lurujarri Heritage Trail

Dear Shire Councillors I am writing to encourage you to be impartial in your assessment about listing the Lurujarri Heritage Trail on your Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places. I expect you follow a standard definition of cultural heritage, something like an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values.

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail has precisely this definition, as articulated by Paddy Roe OAM when he set it up in 1987. It is non-partisan and inclusive; lurujarri just means ‘long sandhills’; this heritage belongs to everyone, as he used to say:

English, Japanese, Chinese, we all friend— we all living together now— we can't say where they come from— and now people just the same, Garadjeri, Nyangumarda, Mangala, Bardi, ALL these people, Nyigina, ALL these people— no matter where they come from all these language— but we should be all one— like in early days people used to live— old people used to bring them in— because they know— they not going to claim the country— these old people—1

Roe was explicit that that he wanted to use the Trail to communicate public aspects of the Dreaming, the bugarrigarra, so that white people could see its value, and his own people could protect it for generations to come.

This heritage has become a core part of my own heritage, such is the esteem I hold the originator of the trail. As an academic, I have lectured about it for thirty years in Australia and internationally. It is a part of the two books I have published with Paddy Roe: Gularabulu (1983, 2016); Reading the Country (1985, 1996, 2014). I am preparing a third, The Children’s Country, which is specifically about the Trail.

1 S. Muecke, Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies, University of NSW Press, 1992, p. 104.

Department of English and Creative Writing Napier Building, Room 506, The University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 8 8313 4563 Email: [email protected] www.adelaide.edu.au CRICOS provider number 00123M The Lurujarri Trail is one of the first, and one of the best, of the Indigenous Heritage Trails that are burgeoning in Australia today. They are valuable tourism products; they maintain intergenerational knowledge for the Aboriginal families involved, and they are a great learning experience for the general public and students doing their projects.

Please be proud of this achievement that has brought the world to Broome!

Professor Stephen Muecke Jury Chair of English Language and Literature

From: Stuart Cooke To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Heritage Listing for the Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Monday, 6 May 2019 3:36:14 PM Attachments: Lurujarri a poem by foot.pdf

Dear Kirsten,

I am writing to support the petition for the heritage listing of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail.

The Lurujarri Trail is locally, nationally and internationally significant. As an academic in the areas of literary studies, cultural studies and creative writing, I know that it has attracted the attention of scholars from around the world.

I have written about the Trail and Goolarabooloo in a number of widely-read publications. In particular, I wrote a long poem about the Trail, 'Lurujarri: a poem by foot'', which formed the centrepiece of my last poetry collection, Opera. The poem was also shortlisted for the 2016 Newcastle Poetry Prize, Australia's most prestigious poetry competition. I've attached the poem here for your records as well.

Part of the remarkable legacy of Paddy Roe, the Lurujarri Trail is a pioneering example of reconciliation in practice, and an astonishing, ongoing act of diplomacy and generosity.

Kind regards, Stuart Cooke

--- Dr Stuart Cooke | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literary Studies School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science

Griffith University | G30_4.34 Gold Coast Campus | QLD 4215 | AUSTRALIA

T: +61 7 5552 8453

Griffith University acknowledges the people who are the traditional custodians of the land, pays respect to the Elders, past and present, and extends that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Lurujarri a poem by foot

(first) it begins as stumbling into that point of distant tinder * distance slides into darkness

we drag our winters over a thick scrub of palpitating nerves and moths

[star/light whispers calcite and silicate evening’s fat as ant]

[thunder along a cable’s salt]

( it bulges into blister: the structure of sweat

someone’s geology trapped in the gunk beneath a nail

(second) then a dim day we walked so far we missed the dance across the flood plains the creation site / the broad banks beside a river’s hidden crocodile

rays squeezing out like the neg ative hairs from a pale leg

cirrus breath and murky country and rhythm slippery as mud we kept following, the horde of us the whole horde of us kept following it was a dance [a fire (a cave) ]

by the time we arrived it was the story of it

we set up for rest edges grumbling with storm ------)

a swim’s fresh glove } an evening’s wet rattle } bugs whirling around in the beam } from my head }

(third)

later on, well after lunch it’s hard to sit down: floor’s ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ a hardened reef spotted with succulents || in the east the soupy storm

storm barrels towards the sea, squashing me into the scrub, the storm’s a grey-navy mind{mediating{infinite{

that group, I saw them between bleeding land blue brain between the bleeding land and the blue brain their spires heading north... || leaving without me painting their lives into the shore: cusp of tyre… without mine… that moving fibre through dusk’s crusted grime

and the coral flutes OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |pushing songs from the reef— of day clearing and shining soprano / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / refrains of tinge and green smear

I am the softest and the youngest time slowly melting older on a pock-marked clump

O O O O O

(fourth)

beach the of a hermit crab breast scuttle

the to steal their wood! scaling

dig a pit / start a fire smoke ourselves out to the country went flat in ocean knifed horizon by back south dyubardyubbagun ignites the clouds sprung crystalline | *the odd drop* (pressure’s seething plume) *thock *that *thock

hermit crabs insist on the pit tumble into it U the young ones grab them up {chuck them in a basket crackling {and clinking with the rest: smash

/the shells, catch bream octopus, dive/

with a knife/ stab a turtle strip the curve from its back and cook up good tucker, crisp and smokey...~

our sore toes hug powdery pindan our tail’s a road furry with scrub and palm / swim and warm we chuckle your naked coals, snatch and scratching at cliff, skeleton, relic scatter or dune-ish skeletal dunes scattered angry cork spirits sleeping / we’ll sleep here and call to noon and be gone by noon

(fifth) this time arrived in a cesspit: low beneath dunes weeping smoke and stinking with still heat sat and waiting a while: flies drop on my face like a rain of dried, crumbled shit stick it out sun stalked by cloud / catch the breeze up top swim and breeze and sear foot cut on coral my blood’s billowing like worn silk blood’s like lace kisses fish crap, clam puss or a bottle contaminated by its own chemical smoke’s silent flies munch on my wound we walked to reach this, to move on from this / our vines embering and going dirt / jelly sweet human giving, patter and mauve red rock skewers fossil and ocean

(sixth)

/ listen \ marks are ribs [what hot solar] \ / \ phirl/phirl/phirl teeek \ / phooloo... phooloo... / | \ O — phooloo: in the supple jack / / | here in mine \ / \ &... &... / prell/prell / irruption \ / / cool as slate — thumping — scratchy wattle / \ \ / sand / \ / / \ / for clapping sticks — / calls the rain / | we’re scattered by accident / / \ / \ tent < > (sight) / \ / \ cushing — hot totem — tell me / / / \ / granular — bloodwood hum do you say \ / \ * cycle — rusted hub cap — prell/prell \ \ / / composting tombs spike & shade | / \ \ thousands of incredible termites / \ \ O — we \ do \ / \ you say / \ the brain of a thing its capacity to burrow \

(seventh) frigates flocking to fresh bilara | rain clamped down to force our fester \ stringent as fish gut \ apathetic and muck \ O — I want | | frigates flocking to fresh bilara \ O \ I make bilara with my sweaty footprints but knock a hole in me and I become billabul I rip gills from dead bodies \ \ O wear them as skirts \ I want | | | movement but all the roads speak RIVER a spiky branch gouges out my scalp: this country is sick of me \ O fire sticks \ / carving more claps — and digging sticks \ spears

our images swim north spurting and dugong against road 8

(eighth) feet on a clean floor too soon The rain’s persistence X drove us back | the line shredded by torrents O barely tied to its last thought | O and now, fading country | and now, juicy fillets and capsules of linen O | can we sing back a coast that ends in the sign O of the first and the always line | ( O of the wind’s unrelenting hakea | of survival as an obdurate succulent O | : mine is a skin without flesh O my footsteps grow anxious | I walk the globe without a sign of I O

(ninth)

I washed the dirt from my chest : pindan rust in moon dish ( • ) they called I wandered to the sunset O – – – – – the sun dragged the o cean down with it

I walked across cimmerian sea beds [feet] stomach damp, soaring way I walked an instant X \ O but their stars pulled at me their floating stars L E D or: some kind of coda we populated the country together we left together we together are a lantern huddled before the throat | we broke up a chunk of elegy and ate it in rolls and photographs

we are an eddy and we

(tenth)

I have the eyes and the nose of the houses cars drive over me / push me deeper into the earth  a slip of bay slithers over the mangroves  a sky riddled with roots and with hope  a tracing of the many through the one

further on down to low tide’s magnet those kite flooding after prey I stop and kneel and ask myself I cuddle up beside the chest of a boab you hauled the evening up over your bodies like a blanket left strands of rope and empty tins on the shore your symbols scurried in their shells across my dream’s cooling bank

what I can’t see is what I must never see the rest is light searching for campgrounds a sail on the trail’s pink dust ) dancing ) dancing the poems are waterholes or they are the thinnest creeks skin-thin, moist bead and nervous wire and they are or

we gathered by the embers and waited for the stories for the history of O while it slumped and spat and cooked up the night but you are coal and its capacity for ember you are you or O | the angle invented by a king brown lush and poison between granules

 I awoke inside the boab  it was full of sea-weedy fumes  we packed up and moved on without me

Mrs Patricia Juboy

Chairperson

6 Benning Street PO Box 84 Derby, WA 6728 ABN 67 8797 482 38 IBN 1987 [email protected]

To the Chief Executive Officer Broome Shire Post Office Box 44 Broome WA 6725

Dear Sir or Madam

RE: LURUJARRI HERITAGE TRAIL LISTING ON BROOME

As an Aboriginal organisation and as one that is part of the Kimberley community , we see first hand the effects of the continuing breakdown of our society, our people, our community as a living entity and our health and social welfare. Our people have daily contact and live with the state Justice System looming overhead. We witness on a daily basis, many Kimberley First Nations/Aboriginal people who are alienated and who are struggling to find their cultural origins and identities. What this has meant for our community is that many of our incarcerated first nation’s people/Aboriginal people do not know who they are, and where they belong (dispossession and dislocation). Their sense of exclusion and marginalisation in society is compounded further by their contact with the criminal justice system. Hence, there is a great need for all people including those who are dispossessed and dislocated to have an experience like the Lurujarri Trail to remind them that there is another life which offers some answers through participating and reconnecting with their roots as demonstrated by the Lurujarri Trail, which offers a fantastic cultural experience that can assist people on their own cultural journeys. We have much to learn from such an experience. It is an essential tool developed by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people and the Australian community benefits from this experience.

I totally support that the Lurujarri Trail be listed as the Lurujarri Heritage Trail on the Broome Heritage Inventory. Warrwa embraces this unique experience as our very kin have delivered the trail and continue to participate on the Trail.

Yours sincerely Ms Patricia Juboy

7th May 2019.

T From: Gabrielle Norden To: Kirsten Wood Cc: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 5:15:23 AM

Dear Kirsten Wood,

I have walked and been involved with the Lurrujarri Trail for the past 27 years (1992). Walking and continuing to learn about country with the Goolarabooloo family is a very powerful and life changing experience for me, and for 100’s if not 1000's of travellers and University students that I have shared the experience with. I have walked and been on the Lurrujarri Trail at least 15 times and I return most years with my son whom is 10 years old now, but has been coming on Trail since he was 9 months old. It is my gift to him.

I am an educator and a filmmaker – please watch my 12 minute short film with headphones on or a good stereo. My film captures the Lurrujarri Trail and has university students describing their experience and feelings of the trail.

The film link on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/145012214

(Gabrielle Norden Goolarabooloo. - Vimeo)

Some extra information:

The trail is every bit the embodiment of living reconciliation - black and white walking and camping together, to learn from one another, look after country and to share some of the 60,000 years of knowledge. It is undertaken by two Universities – La Trobe ‘ Outdoor Education’ and RMIT – Landscape Architecture.

I began my work in 1992 with (the late) Law Boss Paddy Roe, who had a dream of bringing Black and white people together to learn from one another and look after country. I studied under the guidance of the (late) Goolarabooloo Aboriginal Law Boss - Paddy Roe: (OAM, Law Boss, Author, Teacher, multi-linguist), Richard Hunter and Franz Hoogland.

Under Paddy Roes’s guidance we collated Cultural knowledge - language names for places, stories for country, flora and fauna surveys, documented knowledge for six seasonal calendar, and drafted a tree family map within their Country – the Lurrujarri Songline (80 km stretch of coastline North of Broome).

Our documentation of Cultural knowledge informed the ‘Lurrujarri Coastal Management Plan 93’.

Walking and learning about country has profoundly changed and altered my life’s direction. The Lurrujarri coastline and Paddy Roes teaching made me realise that I have so much to learn about country, the need to connect with and look after country.

As a direct response to this new understanding - I stayed living in Broome and undertook National Park Management and Horticulture studies ( at the then Broome Tafe next to the airport).

With my passion for looking after country continuing I worked as a Bush Regenerator for the National Trust of Australia in the Mornington Peninsular for many years. I have set up Indigenous Plant nurseries and undertaken extensive Flora and Fauna surveys and indigenous plant seed collections.

My family have been active member of my local Land care group for years – once a month working bees in our local bush.

I am a film maker and another documentary I worked on is the ‘Lurrujarri Dreaming’, winner of Indigenous film award.

I am an educator and continue to teach children the importance of connecting too and looking after country, as well as respecting and understanding our First Nations peoples culture and heritage.

Yours sincerely

Gabrielle Norden [email protected] 75 Bull St, Castlemaine. Ph: 0408 129 408 From: Frances Crawford To: Kirsten Wood Subject: New Place Listing 69 – Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Monday, 20 May 2019 10:56:14 AM

Dear Kirsten

I have today spoken to your colleague Andrew and just wanted to register my support of the proposal to register the Lurujarri Heritage trail. In the seventies and early eighties in Broome my husband, Mike Dwyer and I worked for the then Community Welfare Department in Broome. In that capacity we came to work closely with Paddy Roe over a number of years on a number of fronts. In particular at a time the sealed road came through to Broome there was an upsurge in juvenile crime as more tourists arrived in town. Paddy Roe was instrumental in providing an effective response to this by working with us to take young offenders out to Coconut Wells and work on the beginnings of what later became the Lurujarri Trail. The young men learned traditional knowledge in the process and the offending rate fell in time.

In terms of heritage Paddy Roe is to be remembered for many things but particularly for the way he was able to work with government services to create and provide effective responses to social issues that did not depend on buildings and capital works. Instead he was highly skilled at integrating Indigenous and Mainstream cultural understandings. Much of the valuing of Indigenous culture now taken-for-granted was the outcome of the committed practice of people such as Paddy. The Lurujarri Trail is a potent symbol of this.

I am happy to be contacted for further information,

Frances Crawford Adjunct Professor of Rural and Regional Social Work School of Health University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia

Mobile +614 29194879 Email: [email protected]

University of New England CRICOS Provider Number: 00003G

Jeanne Browne 21.05.2019

I would like to share something of my perception of the unique significance of Lurujarri Trail, as an exception engendering of grassroots sharing of culture, and reconciliation in action.

Paddy Roe he knew his role as a traditional custodian was to look after the country, the law and culture, and to make sure people, his mob, stayed engaged with that. It was his responsibility to ensure that the country and the cultural body of traditional knowledge he had been entrusted with, got passed on in good shape to whoever took over from him. He was a very canny old man, he could perceive that the world, in particular, the Broome context, was a changing place and that his family were living on an interface with the Western culture that was English-speaking and without any fundamental concept of stewardship or, caring for country. He was keen to try and engender some sort of empathy for that looking after place in the people who were now living in here and born here. The Lurujarri Trail walking experience was initiated with a concept of sharing culture and fostering understanding, in a bid to show people traditional, sustainable ways of living and hunting and utilising the bush tucker, along with the timbers and available foods in the best proper way. It was important to stay in relationship with the country; traditionally speaking, country that is without human relationship, when there is nobody present to look after it or burn it regularly to ‘keep it quiet’, or to sing the songs to it, that becomes wild, scary country. This is quite at odds with our aspirations in the West, where our most highly regarded areas are those conceived of as ‘pristine’ – where there’s no human footprint. Country that had no people managing it, or in relationship with it, would be a place that local countrymen here would be scared to enter. There’s the conviction that you need to be introduced into country that is not your own by someone who is from there, who can be the intermediary for you between the country and you – to introduce you - not just showing you things but so that the country itself will come to know you, almost as a reciprocal thing: recognise your smell and , treat you well - offer you the nurturing and the providing that it offers its people - whether it’s water that isn’t brackish, or the bounty of fruits – of fish or mudcrab that are seasonally available. That is a pretty fundamental idea: that the Trail is a way of visitors to the place travelling with people who are connected and familiar, being taught directly by them, or observing how the locals go about hunting and fishing and what they look for or, tuning into the seasons of different food sources available or, the places to avoid that may be dangerous – being initiated into some of the stories of what’s gone on here in the past, as a kind of cultural bridge. When I first came to Broome, I remember smaller versions of the Trail had been hosted previously, but in 1993 we were putting together a brochure for all of the RMIT students who were to do an annual walk in July: it would be 9 days, and they would potentially be joined by other non-student participants. The brochure aimed to help to prepare them for what to expect of the Trail experience: • It wasn’t a race, it wasn’t a trek, it was more experience in situ and trying to tune into the seasonality; to perhaps engage in different traditional fishing/hunting/gathering practices – eg. crabbing and spearing, or carving tools; • We would be travelling as a group, in community, keeping tabs on each others’ safety and comfort. ( I have volunteered as a cook on perhaps 30 Lurujarri Trails, over 26 years. ) When you’re out there out bush, you’re all one mob and you’ve all got to look after each other and keep each other safe. This gradual shift in your awareness is something that I think is the most special thing about the whole phenomenon: You start out with a whole group of disparate people, some of them know each other, some-others don’t, and most people are coming from a quite a hectic city context and they’ve got lots of busy stuff going on in their heads. Many may be thinking about what’s on Facebook and their mobile phones ( a more recent phenomenon) or concerned about not getting dirty... . Early in the piece, people have come to Broome not quite knowing what to expect, and as they start the walk they usually do lots of talking about home issues, usually on subjects outside the immediate context. It takes a while for people to stop living in their previous head and start just tuning into where they are right now - in the moment and ‘in their skin ‘, becoming more alert, mindful and tuned into the present. You find over, over the first few days people become a bit more quieter as they’re walking, because there’s just so much to take in, it’s such spectacularly beautiful country and, walking through middens, having stories shared with you, say by Richard Hunter, gives you insight into a whole other layer of tangible recent history – be it recent or ancient. The palpable cultural heritage of the place by degrees transforms your whole frame of looking upon things that you probably wouldn’t ever have picked up on had you just been there alone. To be hosted by people who have that subtlety of reading, you start being able to identify where the water courses lie, or what trees occur where there’s water, or, where to look for the fruits, aware of presence of different birds or insects... It takes a while - the longer you spend anywhere and the more familiar you become with anything, the more subtle your awareness of it becomes: You start to see what’s common, what’s characteristic and familiar, and then what’s unusual or what sticks out that’s not very common. You start tuning in more to cooling wind and breeze, and notice where the shade is, listen for the sounds around you. I think you become a more sensory person in the bush. You have to be much more alert, in terms of watching the ground and where you’re walking; however, you don’t have to look out for cars as you cross a street, or wait for the red light, or do things by the watch. You can get away from all those phenomena that are town-based that keep you in your logic brain, and listen more to your intuitive awareness. I find that when I’m walking I seem to ‘merge’ more with the place I am in; I lose sense of my own edges. Over time, you sort of become part of the whole thrum of everything that’s in there interacting together and you just become one more element of that. I think that these changes really evolve over the course of the nine days of the Trail, the whole sense of the i group as one community evolves as well; people lose the sense of their separateness and are much more engaged in the things they share together, whether it’s meals or, what they witness together en route when they’re walking, or the conversations they have. I think they become more integrated, sharing things in common - being aware of everyone, not just, not just your own. Y ou’re not around mirrors, you’re mobile phone’s gone flat, you’re away from all those, sort of accoutrements that claw for your attention. It’s liberating. There is nothing really to hide behind or distracted from the immediate by, and you’re just present. And you’re in amongst everything else and everyone else and you’re not more important that anyone else there; everyone’s important and everyone’s focused on trying to keep each other safe and fed and make sure everyone gets to eat. There also arises a much greater respect I think, for just how smart the locals are for being in the country - you gradually realise, oh my God! How clever are they at fishing or not throwing their shadow on the rock pool so the octopus they’re trying to collect won’t shrink away, or, or how did they know they would find water there, or how did they know you could eat that? That was the thing that really struck me when I first came to Broome was that these people have this incredible knowledge and understanding of the place that’s derived from being here very long-term, and it’s been handed down in the oral tradition, an inherited age-old body of knowledge and culture that old Paddy was entrusted as custodian of, all about how to live in the country safely and in an on-going fashion. But this expertise is seldom acknowledged by the West. That is, until you are one of maybe 50 whitefellas who’ve never been in the country before and wouldn’t know, where to start finding food, or water or what to avoid...But, I like, I like that way the community consciousness gathers over time and I like how the visitors’ perception of… or their respect for the people that are here and just how canny they are, that also grows the longer that you live around them. I think those two things are probably for me the most important things that happen on Trail. And – vice-versa too, I think the Goolarabooloo Aboriginal community here who have visitors traveling with them frequently, learn a lot from their guests. It’s not just a one way street, it’s an exchange and that’s the beauty of it. I think they’re a lot more worldly-wise too as a result of spending time with Westerners and… and they probably perceive the bigger picture on an international level. Many of the family don’t have a lot of access to media, or internet, or radio, … they appear to live in a relatively small microcosm world, according to our global media standards, but once you get engage with the Trail experience, you realise just how huge this particular microcosm is. It’s bigger on the inside than on the outside – way more complex and rooted in traditional knowledge than what you first perceive.

11 Saint Street Castlemaine 3450 14 May 2019

Dear Broome Shire Council

I am writing to urge you to place the Lurujarri Trail, developed and presented by the Goolarabooloo People, on the Shire’s Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places.

In fact I am shocked to find that it is not already on this list, as the Trail has been well known throughout Australia for many years. As an academic at La Trobe University I have some expertise in the field of Cultural Heritage and consider that the Trail offers a powerful, detailed experience of the relationship between people and land.

I walked it in 2017, having heard about it from colleagues at work. I consider it to be a remarkable and unique experience of the Broome area offering an authentic sense of the history and natural history of the area.

It is rare in Australia to be able to access Aboriginal culture and society directly, and the Trail should be recognized and supported for this. It offers one of the best and most unusual tourism experiences available anywhere, one that not only brings people like myself to visit Broome but enhances their education about traditional life in the region and its continuing achievements and struggles today.

Yours sincerely

Deirdre Slattery Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Outdoor and Environmental Education La Trobe University

From: Jodie Bell To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Municipal Inventory and Heritage List Revivew Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 3:38:56 PM

Good Afternoon

I wish to provide support to the listing of the Lurrujarri Heritage Trail on the Broome Municipal Inventory. I am an Aboriginal woman who has lived and worked in Broome and the Kimberley region for 26 years. The Lurrujarri Heritage Trail has enormous cultural heritage, as well as being an environmentally significant area. The trail walks that are run along the Lurrujarri Trail provide an important reconciliation service that allows non-Indigenous people to experience Indigenous culture in a first-hand, authentic way with the local Traditional owners, who have been walking the trail for millennia. Experiencing the Trail provides cross-cultural education and learning to non-Indigenous people and many people have returned again and again to re-experience the Trail.

Protecting our heritage sites is important and I would strongly urge the Shire of Broome to approve the Lurrujarri Trail into the Broome Municipal Inventory.

Kind regards

Jodie Bell PO Box 8287 Broome, WA, 6725 From: James Walkley To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Comment on Municipal Inventory and Heritage List Review Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 10:14:31 AM

Dear Kirsten

I am writing to support the inclusion of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail (Item 69) and the Dinosaur Footprints (Item 73) on the Shire of Broome's MI.

I have been a frequent visitor to Broome since 2010 and have worked with members of the Aboriginal community extensively during that time. It has been my privilege to get to know members of the Goolarabooloo family particularly well.

In my experience the Lurujarri Heritage Trail is unique in Australia in terms of its accessibility, widespread support and its basis in principles of reconcilation and education. It is a grassroots example of reconciliation and cultural resilience in practice. It fully deserves the proposed recognition of its significance under the LPS.

The dinosaur footprints, both in scientific terms and because of their cultural heritage significance, are an outstanding feature of the area, are of global significance and deserve recognition and protection under the LPS.

James

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From: Jim To: Kirsten Wood Subject: trail Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2019 10:01:51 AM

Dear Kirsten. I am writing supporting the inclusion of the Lurujarri trail on your heritage listing.I am a member of a bush walking club and found this walk on your listing.I did the walk 4 years ago and found it very rewarding,great culture experience and great value for money. i have recomended the walk to many of my walking friends.I hope it receives your support into the future.Kind regards JimMiller From: Monica Tan To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujurri Trail: Inclusion in the Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places Date: Saturday, 4 May 2019 7:19:17 PM

Hi Kirsten,

I am writing to you in strong support of the Lurujarri Trail's inclusion in the Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places.

I am a writer that has gone on the 9-day guided trail walk. In fact, I wrote about is in my published book Stranger Country, an extract of which featured in The Australian. You can read the entire extract here.

The trail played a vital role in my understanding, not only of indigenous Australia, but what it means to be Australian and truly connect to country. It more than qualifies as a wonderful heritage place that deserves protection, respect and commonwealth support.

I have included a section of The Australian piece below: The Dreaming track We were here to experience ‘living country’, not conquer a trek. But not everyone had been able to resist bringing their Fitbits along. By MONICA TAN

Roger, one of many baby boomers on our walk, pointed at our Goolarabooloo guide and whispered to me, “He looks like he’s walking slowly, but I can barely keep up!” It was day two on the Lurujarri Heritage Trail north of Broome, and our guide, Edward, was leading our line of walkers on a narrow track. He was dressed in a baseball cap, white singlet and shorts; on his feet he wore thongs with a single thick band around the forefoot that reminded me of what my cousins in rural Malaysia shuffled around in. Kind of hilarious considering how this morning, among the walkers, a subject of much consternation had been optimal footwear for today’s 22km walk through changing terrain.

The Goolarabooloo guides deliberately refrained from giving us too much information, encouraging us to “be present” — with mixed success. We’d been told to shut off our brains and lead with our hearts: no easy task for a party of about 30 urban professionals. We were here to experience “living country”, not conquer a trek. That said, not everyone had been able to resist bringing their Fitbits along.

Edward’s insouciant choice of shoe and the way he almost slouched along with a natural gait, straight-backed yet relaxed, made a mockery of us all and our top-of-the-line, abrasion-resistant, antimicrobial sandals (and the spare top-end sneakers in our packs). An old cordial container filled with water swung from one shoulder on a rope, a walkie-talkie and first-aid kit from the other. A packet of smokes stuck out of his back pocket.

“I’m practically running,” panted Roger. Later I asked another walker, a physio, about whether the Goolarabooloo guides used a particular movement we should be emulating. She didn’t think so; she just thought they were comfortable in the environs. They weren’t working hard like we were having to — in uncertain territory, alert, anxious, taking note of everything, with information overload. The guides were acclimatised to the heat, to walking the soft, undulating sand that with every step seemed to disappear underfoot with a sigh.

It was August, and mornings on the Lurujarri were cool as south-easterlies swept over the landscape. Temperatures would climb as high as 30 degrees in the afternoons before quickly cooling off in the evenings as sea mist came prowling on dry land. Our 72km hike over nine days was along the bottom third of a 450km Dreaming track that follows the Ululong Law cycle. It begins at Ardiyaloon (One Arm Point) on the coast of the Kimberley, then traces the coastline south to Wabona, about 200km south of Broome. The Ululong links the lands of the Bardi-Djawi, Nyulnyul, Jabirr Jabirr, Ngumbarl, Djungun, Yawuru and Karajarri peoples.

On the Ululong, the Dreaming is known as Bugarregarre. The ancestors in these stories were powerful beings that lived when the land was unformed — half-dream, half-reality, a thick primordial soup. As they lived and journeyed, their actions and interactions with one another gave the land its shape — the very mountains, rivers, rocks, waterholes, stars, trees, animals and birds we could see today — and through their wisdom and follies laid down the patterns of life and Law, showing all subsequent generations how to live.

In a story shared on the SBS series Songlines, Goolarabooloo man Richard Hunter spoke of his people’s Naji spirit beings. “These first people come out from Dabberdabbergun, the birthplace. They used to walk up on to the beach. It was a silent world. The first sound was created and wake everything up. Now they have to drink. So Bugarregarre they dreamt that there is water, but it’s inland. So they made their journey.”

All over Australia, Dreaming stories coalesce around physical tracks — songlines, songcycles or Dreaming tracks. Each has a birthplace and an end place, and in between many, many sites that are the settings for these stories. Over the millennia the sites have remained spiritually charged thanks to countless ceremonies conducted by human caretakers. Because the stories describe the land in immense detail, they can be used as oral maps and allow story keepers to navigate tremendous distances.

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail was first opened to the general public in 1987 by Paddy Roe, the former head of the Goolarabooloo people, in an effort to “wake up” a relationship between non- Goolarabooloo Australians and the land. The trail is unique in the way it welcomes non-Goolarabooloo Australians to directly experience healthy Goolarabooloo Country. This coastline was mostly left untouched by pastoralists, industrialists and urban developers, and throughout colonisation had been kept in good spiritual condition via song and ceremony. As one of the non- Goolarabooloo members of their community said, “whether black, white or brindle” they were bound by one simple, guiding principle: “maintain Law, culture and the buru [land]”.

-- MONICA TAN

Mob: 0425 243 750 WeChat: monicatanAUS Find me on: Facebook, Instagram & on the web From: Sacha .Guggenheimer To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:11:40 PM

Dear Kristen Wood,

I am writing to ask that the Lurujarri Heritage Trail be listed in the Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places.

I walked the 9 day trail with the Goolarabooloo mob 2 years ago and think of this experience as one of the deepest culturally rich and enlightening experiences I have ever had the pleasure to receive.

I had been told about the trail as I was growing up by aunties who had walked it in their 20s and then with their families, returning almost every year to join the song line. I also took my english partner, who beforehand had little interest in indigenous culture, but afterwards was captivated by the depth of their understanding of nature and affection to country. It was an enlightening journey for both of us and one we recommend to all our friends and family.

We believe the trail adds a heritage significance that can not only be seen and read on signs, but felt and experienced. This is unique and should be treasured, fostered and conserved for future generations. I hope to take my children and grand children on this walk.

Thank you for your consideration and I hope that council sees the unique education and reconciliation values in this cross cultural trail. It's the jewel in Broome's crown.

Please do not hesitate to call me if you have further questions about my experience and why I believe the Lurujarri Trail should be listed as a Heritage Place.

Best wishes,

Sacha Guggenheimer Marine Biologist | Photographer Cofounder of SunButter Oceans Natural Sun Care |

Shoreham, Victoria Tel: (+ 61) 421 497 919 Instagram: @sunbutteroceans | @sunflowerfishh

2018 Winner |

Women in Environmental Protection & Litter Prevention

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. From: Maggie Travers To: Kirsten Wood; Andrew Close; Goolarabooloo Community; Maggie Subject: Lurujarri Trail heritage Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 6:39:14 AM

To whom it may concern: I did the Lurujarri trail last year and it was one of the most eye opening and informative treks I have ever done (and I've done a few) To see and walk a part of our coastline that I didn't know existed was mind blowing and breathtaking. And to learn that in the future it could come under threat weighs heavy on my heart. Listening to Daniel Roe and his passion for the dreamtime stories is something I will always remember... And their commitment to protecting this land is something that has taken my respect to another level. The massive mistakes that were made with the "Stolen Generation" is something Australia has to live with and it could almost be an atonement to make the Lurujarri trail Heritage Listed so these committed people could breathe easy and relax after years of commitment tirelessly working to save their stories and our coastline. Regards Maggie Travers

Reply Forward From: Nic Hughes To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri heritage trail Date: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 3:15:12 PM

Dear Kirsten, I am writing to you to let you know that the Lurujarri heritage trail needs to be on the heritage list. I am not sure if you have personally participated in this walk, but i can tell you that it was one of the most interesting cultural holidays i have ever experienced. I have travelled all over the world to many places and the Lurujarri heritage trail is by far the most special in my memory. Amazing special place! kind regards

Nic Hughes From: michael and catherine hansen To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Trail listing- attn Chief Executive Officer Date: Friday, 10 May 2019 3:20:01 PM

Catherine and myself ( Mike ) would really like to see the Lurujarri trail included on your Municipal inventory of herirage places. Our reasons We come from SA and in the past our information on indigenous people was of a very narrow basis. We have had a keen desire to learn first hand from people who are indigenous themselves.Last year we arrived in Broome keen to learn, several so called real experiences we dismissed because of being too commercial, then we discovered the Lurujarri trail which seemed to tick all the boxes that allowed us to learn and better understand. We joined a trail group led by Daniel and some of his mob, what happened in succeding days was the most fascinating and informative learning experience which made me respect this mob for their dedication to bringing black and white closer. A few of the things we learnt about included the first, second and third peoples, the stars, humbug, the spirits , customs and a very deep reverence of long gone ancestors. This was only learnt because of the Lurujarri trail which was shown generously by the Goolarabooloo community Thank you to all we appreciated the opportunity Regards Mike andCatherine From: Heron Lee To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Trail Date: Saturday, 4 May 2019 4:55:08 AM

Dear Kristen, I would like to share with you the regard I now hold for the Kimberley and the spectacular sundown side. I had the most amazing privilege to have my first visit to your gorgeous area last year. I came specifically to have a cultural experience as a white immigrant, coming to walk the wonderful wilderness of the Lurujarri Trail and to be with my generous hearted hosts, the Goolarabooloo family group. I ended up having one of the most life changing and humbling experience, finally having the opportunity to walk the Songlines, with the people who know them best. I was taught so much, knowledge which is not so readily available, though so valuable for reconiliation and respectful understanding. This experience has profoundly helped me further fathom the relationship and connection to land and country through the deep connections this and other tribal group holds. While again encouraging some friends to go up your way and walk with these wise and kind people, I notice this trial is not advertised by local tourism or other businesses. I encourage you to list this as the rich and invaluable experience us white folks need to help with our reconciliation and deepen our understanding and respect for the true custodians of this land (the whole lot!) The Goolarabooloo are offering a unique and invaluable gift , taking time out from other work commitments and using their own resources to make this experience happen. I implore you to give this walk and the experience the credence it deserves for the cultural value, let alone hte environmental aspect of the area. I firmly believe this kind of experience is exactly what most white people in this country need to raise awareness, empathy and support for the continuing campaign for the recognition of guardianship and recover from the ongoing effects of colonialism on the Indigenous nation of Australian -- Kind Regards Heron Lee

0266 191 585 / 0410 250 583 The StoneyLee Art Farm, 94 Cross Road Numulgi NSW 2480 Australia

On the ancestral land of the Widjabil Wyabul People of the Bundjalung Nation From: Elizabeth Makin To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Municipal Inventory - Lurujarri Trail Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 11:05:19 AM

Dear Kirsten,

I understand that the Shire of Broome is currently considering registration of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail in its municipal inventory, due to its outstanding cultural heritage significance.

Although I live on the east coast of Australia, I have visited the West Kimberley several times and walked the Trail in September 2015. It was a truly special experience for me, which gave me insight into this very special part of the Kimberley coastline and the local culture.

I am deeply grateful to the openness and warmness of the Goolarabooloo community, and their willingness to share their culture with me and my fellow walkers on the Trail.

The Trail provides a great opportunity for reconciliation and for cross-cultural learning - there are limited experiences of this kind in Australia and it is important that the Trail is supported and protected into the future not only for Broome's tourism industry, but also for promotion of Australian Indigenous culture and heritage to overseas visitors.

I was also deeply impressed by the leadership, knowledge and openness of the Goolarabooloo community, including its younger members.

I wholeheartedly endorse the Trail's registration on the Shire of Broome's municipal inventory and will continue to recommend it to friends and family. -- Kind regards, Lyb Makin Director - Kieran and Matt's Place 0414 600 582 From: Deanna Devers To: Goolarabooloo Community Cc: Kirsten Wood Subject: Re: Let"s get the Lurujarri Heritage Trail the protection it deserves! Date: Thursday, 2 May 2019 8:24:06 PM

Hello Kirsten,

I am writing to support listing the Lurrajarri Trail in your MI of Heritage places.

Today, travellers can pick and choose from all sorts of exotic and luxurious holidays anywhere in the world, yet despite this smorgasboard many, including myself, seek authenticity, and no greater have I found that what you have on your doorstep in Broome.I walked this trail last year, selecting it because it was a led by locals on their own home patch, introducing outsiders to their culture and heritage. I have walked other iconic commercial walks - eg. Cradle Mountain etc, but in comparison, they just seem to have been passing time traversing attractive landscape with strangers.

In contrast, Lurujarri was a truly transforming experience. If the basis for reconciliation is understanding, then this trail prised opened a barely visible door for me. I felt for the first time that I had seen a chink of the ‘real Australia’, simultaneously rooted in pre-history but living in the present. Aboriginal law, custom and mythology arose from and with locations and sites along this trail - visual cues and reasons for what the indigenous people believed and how their life was lived. We walked in the footsteps of Morella, the great emu man who’s feathers and footprints are visible along the trail, who was mythologised as giving kinship laws to the Aboriginals and who is immortalised riding high in the Milkyway, a nightly visual warning for the tribe not to break the ancient intermarrying laws. (As someone interested in studying the night sky, I was amazed that without light spill, the Milkyway was diminished and the ‘dark spaces’ which form Morella morph into his prominent silhouette.)

On the last night we had a corrboree on a site where such things have happened for thousands of years - dancing with the tribe as an elder sang in an ancient language which evolved right here and was handed down via his ancestors in this very spot. We watched the youngsters dance a pelican dance which generations of their forefathers have dressed for and danced right here - where else in the world has such ancient culture survived into the present?

Heritage recognition of the trail itself, the aesthetic quality of the sites, and the cultural community that has maintained it are all well worth preserving in a world where the global population is increasingly becoming culturally homogenised.

Please act now to ensure this walk and its associated indigenous culture can be preserved,

Sincerely,

Deanna Devers

On 1 May 2019, at 5:15 pm, Goolarabooloo Community wrote:

Hi everyone!

We need your support!

This year, Goolarabooloo is celebrating 31 years of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. This authentic experience to bring black and white together through greater understanding and awareness was created by Law Boss Mr Paddy Roe OAM. This was his Dreaming, to encourage his people to continue to walk country and to be able to include other people from all over the world to introduce them to how important Aboriginal culture is to the land and to the community. Originally the trail was called the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail.

Initially created as a not-for-profit endeavour and aimed squarely at students from a small number of universities in Australia and overseas, it has expanded over the years to invite non-students so that the message of reconciliation, respect and understanding reaches an even wider audience. Thousands of people from all over the world have now walked the Lurujarri Heritage Trail.

So, how can you help?

The Shire of Broome is currently considering whether or not to list the trail in their Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places, a list of places/things that, in their opinion, are of cultural heritage significance. We believe, as I’m sure many would agree, that the Lurujarri Heritage Trail has and continues to be a transformative experience for all those who have participated over the years, with an endless learning experience, the reason why so many come back year after year. As this matter is currently open for public comment, Goolarabooloo would genuinely appreciate if you could write to the Shire of Broome to ask that the Trail be listed. To those of you who have walked the Trail over the last three decades, maybe you could briefly describe how this 9-day walk with the local Indigenous mob of this coastline affected you and changed your understanding and attitude. It does not have to be long winded it can be short and to the point.

Write to the Shire of Broome

Please send an email to the Shire of Broome: [email protected] Letters can be addressed to: Chief Executive Officer, PO Box 44, Broome, WA 6725. Your responses will be accepted until close of business on Tuesday 21 May 2019.

Please bcc [email protected] into your email to the Shire so we have a copy of your letter, thanks!

Points you may want to write about The value it has towards the history of Broome. The trail has a high degree of integrity and authenticity. Let them know about your most valued experience. How important the trail is for reconciliation, education and cross culture. How many times have you done the trail? The ongoing value towards tourism. That you would recommend it to others. And anything else that you would like to say in support.

Thank you!

Goolarabooloo Community From: Jessie McLean To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Thursday, 2 May 2019 1:58:10 AM

Dear Kirsten and Members of Broome Shire Council,

I am writing to express the importance of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. Not only to the Broome Shire but for anyone who may be afforded the opportunity to walk it and learn directly from the people. I walked the trail only last year and it was a unique and authentic experience. There is also great deal of integrity from the organisation and community behind the Trail as well. In order to protect the Trail for the local people and to allow others to experience it in the future it must be placed on the Broome Heritage Inventory.

Yours Faithfully,

Jessie McLean (Former La Trobe University student, visited the Lurujarri Trail in July 2018) From: Ian Finlay To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Thursday, 9 May 2019 1:49:42 PM

Hi Kirsten, it has come to my attention that you are considering listing the Lurujarri Heritage Trail on your Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places. I fully support that proposal because when I walked the trail (in August 2015) I thought that it was fantastic and I learn a great deal about aboriginal custodians of the area, the aboriginal history of the area and their uses of the natural resources - and I made some tapping sticks! After coming home to Melbourne, I have raved about how great a time I had on the trail and recommended it to many of my friends.

I think the trail is:

of enormous benefit to the history of Broome and surrounding area has a very high degree or authenticity and integrity very important in terms of reconciliation, education and cross-cultural relationships of very great value to tourism in your part of the world - I wish we had something similar here in Victoria

In summing up, I think you shouldn't hesitate in listing the trail on your inventory.

All the best, Ian From: David Hornett To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail -- Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places Date: Thursday, 2 May 2019 9:14:55 AM

Dear President of the Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places Committee ,

it has been brought to my attention that the Broome Council is considering listing the Lurujarri Heritage Trail on the "Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places". Please consider the following submission in support of this proposal.

Last year my wife an I, with 27 other quests, walked the Lurujarri Heritage Trail with the Goolarabooloo Community under the guidance of Daniel. The experience was transformative, Daniel’s interpretation of Goolarabooloo community lore, the immersion within the Goolarabooloo community pride of place, and the sense of a continuous living indigenous culture was absolutely ever-present. My new understanding and appreciation of indigenous culture was for me transformative. I thought I was not a racist before i went on this walk, when I finished it I knew i had been, my mindset had been completely transformed..

My wife and I have, among other walks, walked: the Coleridge Way and Acorn Way in Southern England, undertaken, the Overland Track, The Waukalina Heritage Trail in Tasmania, and Rafted the Length of the Franklin River, but of these iconic activities the Lurujarri Heritage Trail is the most memorable because of:

1, The Guide’s absolute immersion in the lore and history of the area, and his pride in passing it on,

2, The insight and respect that was engendered for the aboriginal community,

3, The seamless organisation required of the community to support all the walking community, including 29 visitors, for 9 days, (packing and unpacking, and setting up camp, providing food, telling the lore and heritage of the area.)

4, And the emphasis of the primacy of country in all things and the quintessential essence to the core of aboriginal being in belonging to that country.

For me three things stand out:

1, The respect engendered for the Goolarabooloo community after walking and camping with them and hearing their stories for 10 days. This, when coupled with the Communitie’s sense of fun and mirth when on country, was infectious and overwhelming.

2, The discovering of a carved spear point in the dunes (amongst dozens of other tools, this one stands out.) The small point, carved from a quartzite type of material, was so finely shaped that the reverse hooks running down its sides were perfectly even and appeared to have been cut by a computer guided tungsten carbide tool, rather than chipped and ground by hand. It was the finest point I have seen anywhere, and I have seen many aboriginal collections and done some reading in the area. I do intricate work, hand making in their entirety, musical instruments, concertinas, and all manner of stringed instruments, yet there is no way I could have crafted such an object, even using modern tooling, let alone the primitive tools that would have been at hand when this object was made.I stared at it in complete wonderment, before our guide returned it to the sand.

3, The lore and then sites associated with Emu Man, (Morella, Dark Emu). Before I walked the trail i was aware of the Emu Man Lore from other areas of Australia, and not surprised to hear of it from our guide, but the sites associated with the lore, and the being on country when told the story around a fire at night, brought it alive. What i am about to relate was the most mindset shifting experience I have had.

Daniel told the Morello story around the campfire, and then pointed up to Emu Man in the dark area within the Milky Way which at this time of the year was directly above: appearing to be an elongated emu. He then said he would show Emu man’s footprint the next day. I was bemused at this claim.

The afternoon of the next day the vast array of dinosaur footprints at Tom Price Point were shown to us, it was stunning and unexpected. Then we were asked to turn around. There was the perfectly preserved 120 million year old footprint dinosaur, in fact a number of them, exactly in the shape of a giant emu’s, and there alongside was the depression where the huge beast had sat down! The impression of its interlaced giant feathers (some suggest they are flattened fern imprints, but they certainly look like feathers) absolutely perfectly preserved, in the finest detail inning its nest. That night at the camp our indigenous community cook said: “Isn’t it wonderful, David, I work all year, and then I come out here, I look to the sky and see Morella, our law giver, I walk the shore and see his footprints, and then I see his feathered nest.. it is wonderful. I know who I am!” It was very moving, and ! was a little bit jealous.

This walk should be listed, it is important to community, Absolutely important for respect between the races, an intricate component of connectiveness to Country and to aboriginal dreamtime lore (for Whites and Indigenous alike), and with its southern vine forest and the colours of the desert / sea interface exquisite in the extreme. The community, and especially Daniels depth of love for his country an culture moved me greatly.

PS: The committee may be interested to know that on a flat rock just outside of Sydney, there is a chipped carving, which for many years, i am told, intrigued. But it has recently been realised that at set times of the year if the observer stands back form the rock ant looks from the rock to the sky, the engraving directly corresponds to Emu Man. The Morella dreaming is from coast to coast in Aboriginal Australia, beginning at Broome on the West Coast , and concluding at Sydney on the east.

David Hornett 21 Pottey Rd Lenah Valley Tasmania

0362287676 From: Meredith Martin To: Kirsten Wood Cc: Goolarabooloo Community Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 4:09:11 PM

To the Chief Executive Officer,

Last year I visited Broome for the first time and during this visit I had the privilege of walking the Lurujarri Trail with the Goolarabooloo Community. This was one of the most informative, educative and unique (not to mention fun and challenging) experiences I have had as an Australian who had little knowledge of this part of the world or the people who lived there for ever and a day. It completely opened my eyes to the culture, history and stories of the communities in the area. It was life changing and I have done nothing but rave about the experience since returning to Sydney. It also meant that after the trip I and the friends I was with focused our exploration of Broome on the museums and history of Broome beyond the pearling stories, which although interesting, are only a brief part of Broome’s history.

This is a most unique experience and definitely one that should be preserved by the Broome community and the whole of Australia. The cultural significance of this trail far outweighed the other experiences in the Broome area for me. I will treasure this for life and keep recommending it to others.

Please preserve this historical trail and the wonderful community to which it belongs.

Sincerely Meredith Martin 0412668459 From: Gabrielle Powell To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 4:37:42 PM

I am writing to express my support of the heritage listing for the Lurujarri Trail. I did the trail walk in 2013 with the support of the Goolarabooloo Millibinyarri Indigenous Corporation.

This was the most amazing life experience and a truly significant cultural tourism activity that I would recommend to all people. The trail is very important and needs to be protected and supported and cared for. There is such significantly amazing ancient cultural heritage of the local aboriginal people but also of the ancient dinosaurs. This needs to be preserved for the local aboriginal children and all people as well as for the future.

I would like this proposal to be fully supported and gaining heritage listing is a very important for the Lurujarri Heritage Trail.

Please let me know the outcome of the listing Gabrielle Powell 240 Tyrrells Road Cobargo NSW 2550

-- Gabrielle Powell W: www.gabriellepowell.net E: [email protected] M: 0427806033 I: gabriellepowell7685 From: Julie VanDore To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 8:21:02 PM

Ms Wood,

My name is Julie Van Dore. I am US Citizen and New Yorker who had the opportunity to live and work for four years in Brisbane, Australia. I returned to the US in November, and I find myself missing Australia every day.

Last August, I was able to join the Lurujarri Heritage Trail walk. I will remember this as one of the best experiences of my life.

Our walk was led by Paddy Roe's grandson, Daniel, and we were well looked after by the members of the family. Because of their care and attention, we were able to fully experience the Trail.

We learned about the history of the people who lived there for generations, and their connection to the land. We saw where their family members were buried. We saw where they made tools and cooked their meals. We learned how they collected nourishment from the bush.

We were also able to see the dinosaur footprints.

We experienced the untouched beauty of the region, the beaches, the dunes, the ocean the plant life, the fresh and salt water.

I have recommended this trip to my friends in Australia and elsewhere, and several have expressed interest.

I highly recommend that the Shire of Broome list the Lurujarri trail on its Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places.

Thank You,

Julie Van Dore I am one who has walked the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, on several occasions, since it started in 1987. Paddy Roe initiated the Lurujarri Heritage Trail for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to walk and camp at different sites where they cooked meals and left the country clean, teaching bush hygiene. The Trail continued along the Coast line where aboriginal people walked for centuries. Having been brought up in a desert tribe, I learned much more about another part of aboriginal life and culture along the seashore of the country.

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail caters for many university students and students from local schools in and around Broome. The Trail has done this for many years.

Professor Jim Sinatra permanently arranged for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) university students to walk with the Goolarabooloo people every year as part of their course to become familiar with aboriginal culture and education in bush survival. The students have recorded and photographed the activities during the Trail from start to finish. This forms part of their educational activities while in Broome.

Initially for indigenous people, the Trail was opened to the whole of tourism to walk the Trail and experience the beautiful beaches and significant land marks while visiting Broome. There are many historical and cultural locations along the Trail.

When the tourists complete the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, many of them stay on in Broome and book on other excursions in and around Broome boosting the Tourism industry.

After returning from the time spent in Broome and experiencing the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, many write and are deeply appreciative and thankful for the integrity and authenticity connected with their Trail excursion and associated activities in Broome.

As a relative of the Trail founder, I now help with catering for the many tourists that come on the walk. I would like to see more of the local people come on the walk to learn about local heritage and experience the beautiful beaches and shoreline along the Trail walk and help preserve a portion of significant country.

Janice Roe Petersen 8th May 2019 From: catherine jerome To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Broome Shire MI Heritage Places Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2019 7:08:55 PM

To the CEO Broome Shire Council,

I believe the Shire of Broome is currently considering their Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places. I would urge you to include the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. The Goolarabalo people have proved their commitment and success in operating this trail by continuing for over 30 years with new and returning walkers. The Goolarabaloo people have been major contributors to the history of Broome, that being an understatement as they are the first nation people. I walked the trail in 2018. It was on recommendation from my local contacts. We walked the trail for 9 days with proud local people who generously shared their stories with us. It was a totally unique experience; a meaningful and personal education in aboriginal connection to their land. The Lurujarri trail is recognised internationally by walkers wanting a significant and authentic experience; to the benefit of the Goolarabaloo in the process of reconciliation and to the Broome Shire to show off its diverse attractions through all stages of its history. On the walk participants could immerse themselves in the history, culture and environment of the beautiful Kimberley coastline. They were very well catered for by the Goolarabaloo along the way. A powerful reflection on completing the walk was the feeling of a meditative journey imagining the joys and hardships of the first people’s lifestyle. I had a real taste of what connection to land really means for the Australian aboriginal people. For me this was a deeper experience than the Camino in Spain, which is heavily advertised and attracting thousands of walkers every year. Broome can offer the rest of the world a smaller scale, genuine, authentic Australian experience. I hope your committee see it fit and fair to include the Lurujarri Trail in your MI of Heritage Places.

Kind regards Catherine Jerome

From: rona wade To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Heritage and the Lurujarri trail Date: Friday, 3 May 2019 9:26:00 AM

Dear Ms Wood I wish to support the heritage listing of the Lurujarri trail. My husband and I walked this trail 7 years ago with the Goolarabooloo mob. We loved spending 9 days out of our busy lives, connecting with the beautiful landscape and the stories about it from ages past, as told by our hosts. We were pleasantly surprised to find we were walking with people from all over the world who had heard about the walk and wanted to connect with the oldest culture on the planet. We live in Sydney and made the trip to Broome specifically to do the walk. My association with the trail goes back 40 years when I was visiting friends in Broome and met Paddie Roe. He took me to his place by the ocean and told me his dream of developing a cultural experience whereby aboriginal people could explain their world to non aboriginal people and facilitate reconciliation. He also saw this as a means of helping his mob maintain their connection to country and their stories, whilst at the same time living in today’s world. I went back to Sydney and 20 years later saw a program on the ABC about the walk. I was so happy. He was such a remarkable presence - such a force for good, I knew he would realise his dream. Sadly I was not able to walk with Paddie but nevertheless I felt I was walking with him when we did the trail. We intend doing it again in 2020. The trail represents so much of the history of Broome and one of its most notable residents, Paddie, and the eons of aboriginal history. It has a high degree of integrity and authenticity involving as it does the whole community - the men and women story tellers , dancers and teachers; the women who cook the delicious camp food and the children who serve the food and provide endless entertainment. It has a unique role in promoting reconciliation, education, cross cultural appreciation and of course tourism. We have told many of our friends in Sydney, France and Canada about it and they have travelled to Broome specifically for the walk. Thank you for this opportunity to provide input. Yours sincerely Rona Wade AM From: Alison Chiam To: Kirsten Wood Cc: goolarabooloo community (walk) Subject: Heritage item - Lurajarri Trail Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 1:31:03 PM Attachments: Outlook-3x3wr4fx.png

To the Chief Executive Officer,

Chief Executive Officer, Broome Shire, PO Box 44, Broome, WA 6725.

As a participant on the 2018 Lurajarri Trail organised by the Goolarabooloo Community I forward endorsement to include the trail as a culturally significant heritage item.

The trail has a high degree of integrity and authenticity and educational and tourism value. I believe every Australian ought to learn something of our First Peoples history and this trail has extraordinary experiences of educational, historical and cultural significance.

Kind Regards Alison Chiam Principal www.jervisbayhearingcentre.com.au

Winners of the Shoalhaven Business Awards 2017 – Excellence in Retail & Personal Services Winners of the Shoalhaven Business Awards 2015 – Excellence in Professional & Commercial Services From: Isabelle To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Fwd: Broome Heritage Listing - Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Friday, 3 May 2019 4:33:35 PM

Hi Kirsten, This is for the Shire of Broome

I wanted to express my support for the heritage listing of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. I walk the trail a few years ago , it was a wonderful experience of learning culture,of discovering the beauty of the place.

My visit to WA and specially Broome came because of my wish to walk the Lurujarri trail with the Goolarabooloo poeple. I had heard a fantastic interview on the ABC radio. It was my first time and I am planning to go again soon.

I learned so many things and understood so much more about aboriginal culture and it's poeple. It was so authentic and a real discovery. The stories, the sharing of information about the local plants, the making of local jewellery, the barbecue dinners sitting together and this immense beauty surrounding us with so much appreciation.

A trail like this one with them is an unique experience on so many levels. The best group tour I have ever done!

I have recommended it to many of my friends. Thank you for going ahead with the proposal. Cheers, Isabelle

Boreham Creative Director / La Source Australia W: +61 2 9398 4106 / M: +61 403 158 262 LaSource.com.au From: Jenny Bryce To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Goolarabooloo heritage trail Date: Thursday, 2 May 2019 2:42:04 PM

Dear Kirsten,

I am writing to support the proposal for the trail being added to the Broome heritage list.

I walked for the first time on the trail last year, I found to be a profoundly moving and connecting experience to spend days moving slowly across the land by foot with the indigenous mob who have been working so hard to care for the land and also to continue what Paddy Roe started in bringing cross cultural understanding and connection, they are dedicated and very real people.

The trail is unique in its history and the opportunity to take part is a great privilege. I live in the south west of Australia and there is no such opportunity down here. I believe this is just the sort of activity that is so desperately needed at this time to bring connection to country and also to the first people of this land, so we can all work together for what is best for this beautiful country. Broome is lucky to have these families working so hard to do this and I think it should be actively supported in every way possible. It is a great asset to Broome tourism and on a far wider and more profound level.

I would highly recommend the walk to anyone.

Best regards,

Jennifer Bryce

Sent from my iPhone From: Mary Ellen To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Heritage listing of Lurujarri Walk Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2019 3:43:37 PM

I am writing in support of listing this walk on your Heritage listing. I did the walk in June 2018 and was deeply impressed with it. The walk was very professionally organised and conducted. The opportunity to walk with indigenous people and see the land through their eyes was a privilege and was fascinating as well as enjoyable. This is such a special place and the chance to talk with indigenous people about the place the stories and the current history was educational and a very positive process of reconciliation that should be available to everyone and should be protected for people in the future.

I was deeply moved by the chance to walk on this ancient trail and to camp in the beautiful camping spots along the way.

I have recommended the walk to many friends and acquaintances since being there.

I was struck by the fact that in Broome there was very limited acknowledgement and celebration of the indigenous history that is fundamental to this place. The abscense of acknowledgements in the labelling of places and street names etc is obviously intentional but it misses the point of why many people come to this special place. This walk is a gateway into the indigenous history and current time that must be recognised and protected.

Mary Ellen Burke 0414694723

From: Brenda and Malcolm Macdonald To: Kirsten Wood Cc: Community Goolarabooloo Subject: Lurajarri Dreaming Trail Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2019 6:52:16 AM

The CEO Broome Shire,

I would like to impress you with the need to support Heritage listing of this trail.

The Goolarabooloo people have been successfully supporting this cultural treasure for over 30 years. I and my wife have been privileged to have experienced this culture in an exceptionally run trip with great care for the week being of the participants.

This is such a great way to support reconciliation, by enabling interaction and discussion of cultural matters between black and white people.

The Broome economy benefits both directly and indirectly from this interaction, and gains good word of mouth recommendations and positive reports.

I and my wife empire you to include the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail in your Heritage List.

Yours Sincerely,

Malcolm and Brenda Macdonald From: Nicholas Mortimer To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Broome Heritage Listing - Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 5:23:50 PM

Dear Kirsten

I would like to offer my strong support for the inclusion of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail in the Broome region’s heritage listing. I walked the trail in 2013 with Goolarabooloo community members and was extremely impressed by the natural and cultural heritage along the trail. The trail is of obvious historical, economic, environmental and cultural significance to the Goolarabooloo community. For those outside of the Goolarabooloo community, the trail offers a unique opportunity to experience Indigenous culture and to learn about the history of the region.

I believe that heritage recognition of the trail is important in preserving the knowledge embodied by the Goolarabooloo community and for ensuring appropriate use and protection of the trail.

Kind regards

Nicholas Mortimer Canberra, Australia From: Tricia Graham To: Kirsten Wood Cc: "Goolarabooloo Community" Subject: walking the Lurujarri Trail Date: Saturday, 18 May 2019 1:20:13 PM

Good afternoon Kirsten, I am writing to support the listing of the Lurujarri Songline Trail in the Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places. I was fortunate to hear of and then to walk the Lurrujarri Trail with Daniel Roe and his community in 2017. For me it was a long wished for opportunity to try and begin to understand what it means to relate to country from an Aboriginal perspective. I am a 3rd generation settler person of British descent and consider myself an Australian who values and loves this land. However my understanding of this pales to insignificance when faced with the deep connection of the First Nation People with their genetic and cultural experience that goes back 60 thousand years. As a student of understanding cultural and ‘place’ connection (particularly the Celtic tradition currently), I read a quote recently from a Celtic writer who said “it is hard to care for something you do not know.” Paddy Roe and now Daniel and his mob understand this deeply and have developed a superb opportunity to help we settler or second nation people who come from many other cultures and traditions to ‘know’ this land in order that we can begin to truly care for it. I have read much about Aboriginal care for country and have come to appreciate deeply the way in which these people have cared for and protected this land for thousands of years. We must learn something of this to preserve this ancient and precious continent for future generations, both black and white. Unless we do the heritage of the Aboriginal people and of we settler people will be lost forever. I passionately want this wild and beautiful country preserved for generations to come. So I deeply and fervently support this listing. I have spoken to many people about the opportunity for walking this trail and connecting with these people and I so hope this will be an opportunity that these many interested people can take up in the future. I urge the Broome Council to support Daniel Roe and the Goolarabooloo Community in their endeavours to continue their valuable offering to us and am very grateful to have had the opportunity to spend time and to experience their wisdom and hospitality in 2017. I am grateful also for this opportunity to make known my appreciation to the community and I look forward to hearing that their efforts at recognition will be fruitful and their Songline Trail will become an even more popular destination in the future. With thanks and with hope Trish Graham. From: Will Egan Griffiths To: Kirsten Wood Date: Monday, 13 May 2019 12:30:02 PM

Hi Kirsten,

This is a formal expression of support for the continued running of the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail.

I was lucky enough to participate on the trail in 2018 and the demonstration of cultural strength, agency, and learning was beyond comprehension. This trail is important, not only for the Goolarabooloo community, but for the shire of Broome. For Broome it is a demonstration of support for Indigenous self-determination and ongoing cultural practises. This needs your support.

Regards,

From: Doreen Lovegrove To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Heritage place listing of Lurajarri trail Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2019 1:42:27 PM

Dear Kirsten.

Re Broome Inventory of Heritage places

I wish to strongly recommend the Lurajarri Heritage Trail be considered for listing on the inventory of Heritage places for the Shire of Broome.

This trail beginning in Broome and finishing, the year I walked it, at Yellow River is an amazing experience.

The most important aspect is the interaction between indigenous and non indigenous participants. Each learns from the other but perhaps the non indigenous learn the most whether it be about plants, culture, geomorphology, fossils, birds. The list can go on and on. Walking the trail is a practical example of reconciliation. A discovery of what country really means to an Aboriginal person.

Whilst walking the trail occurs without listing on the Municipal inventory and points mentioned above can and will still occur, giving the Lurajurri trail a listing ensures its continued use and respect for the land it crosses and access to the campsites it requires and respect and understanding of indigenous culture.

With kind regards Doreen H Lovegrove Flinders Island Tasmania 7255 From: Robena Binks To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places. Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Thursday, 16 May 2019 5:28:13 AM

Hello Kirsten,

I walked the Lurujarri Heritage Trail with my daughter after I placed our names on a two-year waiting list. I heard about this unique walk from a friend in Victoria who spoke so highly of her experience. My daughter heard from a university friend who was able to undertake the walk as part of her studies.

It was very well organised, both prior to our arrival in Broome and throughout the walk, but with unique subtly not experienced in regular ‘white person’ organised walks.

It was an honour to walk with the Goolarabooloo mob and hear their ‘dreaming’ first hand and on site. It contributed to our deeper understanding and appreciation of indigenous Australians and their rich culture, care for and love of their lands, plants, animals, birds and all that make up Australia, a unique island continent.

We highly endorse that the trail be place on Broome Shires Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places.

Robena Binks 0423 926 020

Violet Town From: Andy Reid To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Submission for the Municipal Inventory and Heritage List Review Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 3:57:41 PM

To whom it may concern, I have had the unique pleasure of walking the Lurujarri Heritage Trail on 8 occasions, over a period of 20 years. This very valuable experience has raised the awareness of around two thousand participants into the Indigenous cultural connections to that 80-kilometre stretch of coastline. Most ‘trails’ have been a mix of around 50 Indigenous community and 50 visitors (mostly classes of tertiary students, academics and interested groups). Travelling along the trail, guided by ‘elders’, participants are inducted into; the culturally sensitive dreaming stories for each place; what food and nourishment can be found in each location; the plants and their uses (medicinal and practical); cooperating and sharing through developed attention to the needs of the community one is travelling with.

For most trail walkers it will be the first opportunity to witness the dancing and singing (Coroboree) of the culture holders for that country. Language is taught, questions are answered, as is tool making and their uses.

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail is a rich cultural experience that should be acknowledged and protected. Yours sincerely, Andrew Reid 0450436360 From: lee curran To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places Date: Sunday, 19 May 2019 6:25:05 AM

Dear Ms Wood, My name is Lee Curran, and I live in New South Wales on the Central Coast. I would like to offer my support to the Goolarabooloo Community to have the Lurujarri Heritage Trail listed on your Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places. I walked the trail in 2016 as a 60th Birthday Present to myself, and praise the experience enough and the value it has brought to my life. In my experience the blend of age groups, and cross cultures very important, everyone learning from each other. I have taken a lot of knowledge back to my personal and professional life, I am a preschool teacher and am able to apply things that I learnt to hopefully help young children in understanding indigenous culture, and encourage empathy and motivation towards reconciliation, as well as caring for the environment , this is is also reflected in my personal life. I found the walk to be well organised, an extremely valuable experience with integrity,and authenticity from our guides teaching us their ways ,they were great and I’m sure Paddy Roe would be proud. I think that it would be a shame if the walk was not included as it is known world wide and can only benefit everyone .

Yours Sincerely Lee Curran

Sent from my iPad From: Laura Fernández To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Trail heritage listing Date: Thursday, 16 May 2019 3:17:27 PM

Broome Shire To the Attention to the Chief Executive Officer

Laura Fernández Warrandyte, Victoria

9thof May 2019

Dear Kirsten:

I am writing to you regarding the potential heritage listing of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. The Lurujarri trail is one of the most beautiful and magical places I have ever seen in my life. I have travelled around the world, and I can tell you how important this area of the planet is.

What is heritage? The dictionary says: “Valued objects and qualities such as historic buildings and cultural traditions that have been passed down from previous generations.” “Denoting or relating to things of special architectural, historical, or natural value that are preserved for the nation.”

Heritage is the ability of humans to preserve what is special, unique and essential for the future generations. The trail is full of diversity, history, storylines, magic and it is a unique wild place essential for the planet and humans.

The walk taught me of the rich history of Broome. I remember how it gave me a great sense of what reconciliation, respect and mutual understanding is through valuing the vision and care of the land expressed by the Goolarabooloo community and how they are trying to connect this vision with the world.

At that time, I was travelling in Australia and it was essential for me to feel welcome to a new environment, culture and nature in such a wonderful experiential way. I have always recommended this walk to other people coming to Australia as a way to connect with the power of the land from a cultural, spiritual and environmental perspective. I believe that walking the trail is a valuable teaching experience for me as someone visiting, and for the Goolarabooloo community.

I highly appreciate the Broome Shire Council’s serious consideration for including the Lurujarri Heritage Trail in its heritage listing.

Here is a poem for you:

And I would travel with you to the places of our shame The hills stripped of trees, the marshes grasses oil-slicked, steeped in sewage; The blackened shoreline, the chemical-poisoned water;

I would stand with you in the desolate places, the charred places, soil where nothing will ever grow, pitted desert; fields that burn slowly for months; roots of cholla & chaparrala writhing with underground explosions

I would put my hand there with yours, I would take your hand, I would walk with you through carefully planted fields, rows of leafy vegetables drifting with radioactive dust; through the dark of uranium mines hidden in the sacred gold-red mountains;

I would listen with you in drafty hospital corridors as the miner cried out in the first language of pain; as he cried out the forgotten names of his mother I would stand next to you in the forest’s final hour, in the wind of helicopter blades, police sirens shrieking, the delicate tremor of light between leaves for the last time Oh I would touch with this love each wounded place

By Anita Barrows

Thank you for your attention

Sincerely,

Laura Fernandez From: Meagan Bliss To: Kirsten Wood Cc: [email protected] Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019 5:14:53 PM

Hi Kirsten,

I am writing to you in response to the Goolarabooloo community’s songline being considered for inclusion to the Broome Council’s Municiple Inventory of Heritage Places.

Last August I walked and camped with the Goolarabooloo people along the Lurujarri trail and it has been not only the best travel experience I have ever had but completely changed the way I feel as an Australian.

As a well-travelled, university educated, deep reading and nature loving individual I had believed I was reasonably well informed about place, the landscape and a sense of history but was well aware that like most white Australians my knowledge and experience of the indigenous culture of our country was fairly limited and I wanted to learn more. So when a friend mentioned the Lurujarri trail it sounded like just the thing I was looking for, I emailed the Goolarabooloo and booked my place on the walk.

It blew my mind!

The generosity and warmth with which Daniel, Phillip, Janine, Errol, Nathan, Lakita, Damien, Jimmy, Brian, William, Terry, Madeleine, little Laurie and the mob shared their culture, the land and their Grandfather’s vision was humbling and inspiring.

I’ve been to Brooke before, have spent time at Cable Beach, Roebuck Bay, Middle Lagoon, Jack’s Creek and even Tappers Inlet so I’d anticipated the landscape would be stunning wilderness as only the Kimberley can deliver but to walk the land, the country I was born in, and be shown artefacts and burial sites by the descendants of the ancient aborigines made me see my homeland through a different lens.

My perception of time and awareness of human activity on this continent has altered forever and I feel connected to both country and it’s first peoples in a new and genuine way.

The work of Paddy Roe and his family does more for building a bridge between cultures than the work of any government. Walking together and taking the time to listen is a profound and healing thing, and I hope the Lurujarri Heritage trail can be recognised and applauded for this amazing work. Long may they continue!

Warm regards,

Meagan Bliss

Sent from my iPhone From: Lester Robinson To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Sunday, 19 May 2019 12:48:34 PM

I support the listing of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail in the Shire of Broome Municipal Inventory of Heritage Places 100%. To meet these wonderful people on this nine day walk and be privileged to experience and appreciate their knowledge of the land and to be able to share this with them is one that all people should endeavor to complete. I had the pleasure of completing this walk and did so in August 2017 and it was and still is one of the most rewarding experience I have had. To be able to actually witness and share this beautiful piece of country with those people that love it, live it, look after it and share it with the world is an absolute treat. I have intentions of returning to celebrate my 70th birthday next year with my son as the place still remains firmly in my memory

Lester Robinson

Virus-free. www.avg.com From: Terry Brine To: Kirsten Wood Cc: Andrew Close Subject: Lurujarri trail heritage listed Date: Monday, 20 May 2019 4:57:52 PM

"To whom it may concern"

We did the Lurujarri trail last year and it was an awesome and rewarding experience. Learning about the communities dreaming and their passion for the most stunning and beautiful coastline is to be highly recommended to any Australian and should become a compulsory part of the high school curriculum.... where children who are taking their first steps out as an adult would have a new and different vision to take with them to a world that needs the dreamtime stories and commitment to protecting our land at a time where real passion and traditions have lost their value. Therefore I feel it is almost imperative that this trail is heritage listed so that in years to come its stories and dreaming can live long without threat and their ancestors can rest confidently. Terry Brine From: beppi sharpe To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri trail heritage listed Date: Monday, 20 May 2019 4:28:35 PM

To whom it may concern: Last year we did the trek on the Lurujarri trail with Daniel Roe and his mob. It was an amazing and enriching experience. The knowledge and commitment that Daniel and the goolarabooloo people have is an absolute credit to them. A few years prior we had done the Kokoda track and even though Lurujarri was different it was just as highly rated. The education and protection of land, along with values and maintaining traditions is something that needs to filter into many other communities in Australia... Especially governments who don't show a lot of respect for land and and their dreaming. I would highly recommend that the trail be heritage listed to ensure its protection from money hungry politicians and foreigners who don't respect this pristine coastline that has been looked after so zealously From: [email protected] To: Kirsten Wood Subject: The Lurujarri Trail Date: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 8:16:15 PM

Hello Kirsten,

Walking country on the Lurujarri trail is a precious and cherished privilege I’ll carry in my heart always.

My son Reuben (who was 12 at the time) walked the trail as well. It was a rite of passage into his teenage years of so much more significance than any we have in our own community back in Melbourne.

For ten expansive days, Reuben was free to walk, run, talk and fall silent with all of our fellow travelers and to share in spear fishing, swimming with turtles, washing in the salt water and eating by campfires.

No internet. No entertainment. No rubbish. No hot showers. No electricity No rush. No shops. No banks.

The absence of these things was joyful. The simplicity was a respite. We got to just be. To breathe. To really see and be in beauty - not just pass it by.

Each person has their own experience of walking country. The Lurujarri Trail is definitely not a tourist activity and never should be. It’s personal. Nobody tells you how to do it. You just walk out of Broome into those beautiful long stretches of sand, sea and vast skies and you meet yourself along the way.

It is a grounding, spiritual, transformative journey and all those words sound pathetic and pale for something that can’t really be captured in words.

Seeing the traditional custodians of this land on their land made me both proud to live in a country with such a rich ancient culture and deeply saddened at what has been done to separate people from country, culture and each other.

After all that has been eroded and destroyed, all that has been disregarded and trampled, the tradition of walking country with community stands proud and strong and it absolutely must be preserved.

In these times of superficial materialism, compulsive busy-ness and global unrest there is something wondrous in the freedom of bare feet in red sand and sitting under star scattered skies with good people sharing their stories and nothing more or less than what you need.

The Lurujarri Trail must be preserved for the ancient culture that it represents and the people of this land who remain, graciously, generously offering us a view back through time and a chance for all of us to tune into the heart of this earth.

There is nothing else to be done there that could ever be of more significance than walking country.

One day I hope Reuben can walk the trail with his children and that he will not be doing so in the shadow of shitty resorts, McDonald’s wrappers and big fat tourist buses. Can we please keep it safe?

Thank you.

Andrea Travers 0400 579 612 From: Jolieske Lips To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujari Heritage Trail Date: Monday, 20 May 2019 7:37:40 AM

Dear Kirsten I am writing to support the inclusion of the Lurujari Trail in Broome’s Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places.

I walked the trail last June and know it will be one of the enduring memories in my life. I have worked in tourism all over Australia for over thirty years and so know how rare it is to experience a genuine indigenous cultural exchange. Walking the Lurujari Trail provides just such an experience.

Being an authentic trail, not just set up for tourists, is what gives its value. Our country needs such opportunities for cross cultural exchange which lead to understanding and thus reconciliation.

The trail is part of Broome’s history as well as being part of the Goolarabooloo community’s cultural heritage. It is essential they are able to continue to walk the country and by sharing the trail they not only preserve their own culture but allow others to participate and thus enrich their own culture.

Please include the Lurujari Heritage Trail in Broome’s Municipal Inventory (MI) of Heritage Places.

Yours sincerely Jolieske Lips 687 Flatlands Rd Clandulla NSW 2848 attached as pdf copy of my submission From: Anthony McCormick To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Letter in support of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Sunday, 19 May 2019 2:37:21 PM Attachments: Lurujarri Heritage Trail.doc

To Whom it is Concerned,

Please find attached my letter in support of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. This trail is so very important to the heritage not only of Broome but of Australia. I travelled from Indonesia to Broome with the express intent of walking the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. This experience changed my life - I gained a deep sense of connection with country and experienced first hand the cultural importance of this piece of land.

Sincerely, Anthony McCormick Solo - Indonesia To the Chief Executive Officer, Shire of Broome

I am writing in support of the listing and preservation of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, which I first walked in 2013 and then returned to walk with my 11-year- old son in 2016 with the Goolarabooloo community.

My name is Anthony McCormick and I live with my wife and two children in Indonesia. In 2013, I began searching for an authentic trail that was connected to an Aboriginal song cycle. During this search, I came across the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. This is a truly special trail and what makes it even more special is the fact that it still retains an important role in the culture of the indigenous community.

Walking the Lurujarri Heritage Trail with the Goolarabooloo community was a life changing experience. Walking during the day and camping around the fire at night, local elders would tell us the dreaming and cultural significance of the landscape upon which we were walking. We learned about the song cycle and bush tucker, we saw breathtaking landscapes and experienced the beauty of the Kimberleys. We saw whales, turtles, dingoes, bush turkeys and snakes and we learned the names of trees and ate bush honey.

This is a truly beautiful part of the world and its status as the ancestral homeland of the local indigenous community makes it even more special. I have travelled the world but nothing comes close to walking the Lurujarri Heritage Trail with the Goolarabooloo community, whose willingness to share their knowledge and welcome us to walk their country is a truly precious gift. This is a one-of-a-kind experience, to be found nowhere else in Australia.

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail is so very important to the heritage of Broome and its authenticity and connection with the local indigenous culture certainly makes it one of the best heritage trails in the world.

Sincerely, Anthony McCormick Director Interactive English Language Centre Solo – Indonesia

From: [email protected] To: Kirsten Wood Cc: [email protected] Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:57:24 AM

Good evening

I'm Sergio Biraga and I'm writing from Italy. Three years ago I came to Broome for a holiday, and I spent nine days with the Goolarabooloo Community walking through the Lurujarri Heritage Trail. it was a very good experience for me, and, I think it's a very good way to meet and to konw the Aboriginal Culture, so, please, I ask to the Shire of Broome, in your person, to list the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, in your Municipal Inventory of Heritage places.

Thank you for the attention

Best regards

Sergio Biraga From: Deborah Wall To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Lurujarri Heritage Trail Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 6:02:44 PM

I have had the fortune of having experienced walking on the Lurrujarri Heritage Trail with some university students nine years ago.

I believe that the Shire should continue the inclusion of the Lurrujarri Heritage Trail on the Broome Heritage Listing.

It would be a pity to lose the opportunity to showcase the Aboriginal cultural history that is made available by walking on the heritage trail. Indeed Paddy Roe received his Order of Australia Medal for his effort at making the trail a available to a broader audience in the spirit of Reconciliation.

Dr Deborah R. Wall OAM From: Kirsten Wood To: Tony Rogers Subject: O190417-78879 - Shire of Broome Municipal Inventory - Sisters of St John of God Retreat Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2019 2:35:00 PM Attachments: 68 Sisters of St John of God Retreat.docx

Hi Tony,

Thanks for coming into the Shire to discuss.

Please see attached the updated place listing, showing the following changes:

Deletion of the original photos which are not representative of the site; Delete the reference under the Historical Notes section that the retreat continues to be used by the Sisters as a place for relaxation and retreat; and Remove reference under ‘associations’ section that Sisters are owner occupiers.

If you confirm that you are supportive of the abovementioned changes, when the items is presented to Council for adoption the above changes will be incorporated.

If you need anything further please let me know.

Regards

Kirsten Wood Manager Planning and Building Services Shire of Broome

PO Box 44 Broome WA 6725 T: (08) 9191 3456 F: (08) 9191 3455 Email: [email protected] Web: www.broome.wa.gov.au

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NEW PLACE LISTING SISTERS OF ST JOHN OF GOD RETREAT Place No: 68 Other Name: Bethlehem Retreat C: Some significance Deleted: ¶ Interpretation Formatted: Left

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Address 281 Kavite Road, Reddell Beach Suburb/Town Minyirr Reserve No: Lot 700 Plan 209491 C.T. Vol 1403 Fol 371

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE • The site has historic value for its association with the Sisters of St John of God who operated an orphanage in Broome from the early 1940s to 1962. • The site has social value for the members of the community who attended the place as a holiday cottage in the 1950s and 1960s, predominantly the girls who attended the Holy Child Orphanage and Sisters of the St John of God. The extant buildings on the site have no cultural heritage significance.

GRADING C: Deleted: A place of some cultural significance to the Shire of Broome. Formatted Table No Constraints Deleted: Recommend: Encourage Interpretation of the place.

CONSTRUCTION DATE c1953; demolished c1970 Original Use Religious: Housing or Quarters Present Use Religious: Housing or Quarters Other Use CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Walls N/A Roof N/A Other ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: N/A DESCRIPTION A group of several detached single storey houses within a fenced setting on the coastline. All evidence of the original buildings on the site has been removed.

CONDITION N/A

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HISTORICAL NOTES The lot on which these buildings are located was first leased to the Sisters of St John of God in 1955 by the State Government. The Sisters of St John of God established the Holy Child Orphanage for girls in the Broome townsite during the early 1940s. The majority of the girls were from the local aboriginal population. The purpose of the acquisition of the lot at Reddell Beach was to provide a summer cottage for the girls. The Sisters named the block Bethlehem after the birthplace of Jesus. Mother Margaret engaged local builder, Jacob Sesar to construct a simple dormitory block and a pit toilet. All the materials for the building were recycled from other sites. For many years after World War Two building materials were in short supply therefore recycling was an economic necessity. The dormitory could only accommodate half of the population of girls from the orphanage, therefore during holidays each girl would have the opportunity to spend half of the holidays at the beach with one of two sisters accompanying them. Conditions at Bethlehem Retreat were basic with no running water or electricity but recollections from some of the girls who went on these holidays recall it as a positive experience with simple pleasures such as fishing and bush walks, and time away from studies. It is understood that on occasion girls from Broome who did not live at the orphanage also went to Bethlehem Retreat. Travelling to the retreat was challenging as the car the Sisters owned was not big enough for all of the girls so a scheme was devised to take one group half way and then drop them off to walk the remainder of the distance whilst the truck returned to pick up the other group. Alternatively the smaller children would get a ride while the larger children walked. Later the Sisters acquired a larger truck to transport all the girls. The Holy Child Orphanage in Broome was closed in 1962. The lease for the site was transferred to the Diocese of Broome in 1963. Aerial photographs indicate that the original buildings on the site were removed after this transfer and new buildings have been subsequently constructed on the site. Deleted: ¶ Bethlehem Retreat continues to be used by the Sisters HISTORIC THEME of St John as a place for relaxation and reflection. Social and civic activities: Religion Social and civic activities: Community services and utilities Social and civic activities: Sport, recreation and entertainment People: Local heroes and battlers People: Aboriginal People ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION TYPE Former Residents of Holy Child Orphanage Occupiers Deleted: Sisters of St John of God ... Jacob Sesar Builder

LISTINGS HCWA Database No. Other Ref No. GIS Property Number:

SUPPORTING INFORMATION/BIBLIOGRAPHY DOCUMENT TYPE Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre, ‘Bethlehem: We Loved It’, Kimberley Document from website Community Profile October 2017. https://heritage.ssjg.org.au/assets/historical-articles/KCP-2017-October- Bethlehem.pdf The West Australian, 13 January 1940, p. 19. Newspaper article The Sunday Times, 22 August 1954, p. 8. Newspaper article Shire of Broome aerial photographs 1947-2018, intramaps photographs

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Dormitory at Reddell Beach, n.d. Image Courtesy Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre

Sisters, girls and town children arrive at Reddell Beach n.d. Image Courtesy Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre

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Girls at Reddell Beach, n.d. Image Courtesy Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre

Signage for Bethlehem Retreat, n.d. Image Courtesy Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre

From: Maxine Chi To: Kirsten Wood Subject: Place No:11 - Broome Municipal Inventory Heritage Places 2018-19.pdf Date: Friday, 3 May 2019 3:26:03 PM Attachments: Broome Municipal Inventory Heritage Places 2018-19.pdf

Hi Kirsten, you sent us a letter about the review on 8 April 2019. The photo you have of the Chi house is incorrect, this is the house next door, the Yu house. Please see attached with my notes on the attachments. I am not sure of the correct numbering of the Chi house, but the Yu house has a sign Lot 26 on it. It is really confusing. I have copies of our title deeds which is even more confusing and says that block is Broome Town Lot 27

I went to the Shire office yesterday but they said you were away for two weeks and to email you.

Maxine Chi

Maxine and Richard Chi PO Box 141 Broome WA 6725