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. The Victorian Aboriginal Protocols for Koorie Education in We highly recommend The Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. (VAEAI) was first Education Association Inc. Victorian Primary and Secondary consulting with Aboriginal established in 1976 as the Victorian Aboriginal Education Consultative (VAEAI) is the peak Koorie Schools has been produced by VAEAI people and Aboriginal Group (VAECG). The shared aim of the VAECG was to increase the community-controlled body for following requests for guidance on sources for information. presence and voice of Koorie people in education decision making at a Aboriginal Education and training appropriate protocols for schools to Where available, your local time when limited Aboriginal organisations existed. in . follow in providing a welcoming LAECG is a good first point of school environment for Koorie contact and VAEAI can assist Today VAEAI continues to represent the Victorian Koorie Community in Explore the VAEAI website , community members, and working with contacts. Try to work relation to education policy development and strategic programming at subscribe for newsletters and respectfully with the Koorie with local community local, state and national levels. follow us on Facebook. community to enrich school people and Elders, and curricula. always respect their VAEAI supports the provision of education and training that reinforces the VAEAI website: intellectual and cultural Koorie community’s cultural identity, and increases awareness in the wider http://www.vaeai.org.au/ Protocols for schools: property rights. community of Koorie cultures, histories and aspirations in education and CLICK HERE training.

26 Survival Day A day off, a barbecue and Did you know that the The 26th of January aka Day, Survival Day, Invasion Day, fireworks? A celebration of who we ONLINE RESOURCES celebrated Kurnai Sovereignty Day and National Day of Mourning marks an important time January are as a nation? A day of mourning world for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and for non-Indigenous and invasion? A celebration of in full champion boxer Lionel Rose Australians alike. For the the day essentially marks the survival? Australians hold many was the first Aboriginal survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their cultures. different views on what the 26th of 1st National Day of Mourning: person to be named For non- it marks the landing of the , a National Day of January means to them. https://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/day- back group of eleven ships from Britain that landed on the shores of Mourning, 1938 mourning-26th-january-1938 in 1968? where the clash of two cultures and the fight for one land began. In 2017 a number of councils controversially decided to no http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalcul The first Day of Mourning was a protest held by on longer celebrate Australia Day on ture/history/australia-day-invasion-day Aboriginal Tent 26 January 1938, the 150th anniversary of the British colonisation of this day, while ‘Change the Date’ is Embassy, est. 1972 https://www.naidoc.org.au/about/history Australia. From 1940 until 1955, the National Day of Mourning was held the slogan of a prominent annually on the Sunday before Australia Day and was known as Aborigines contemporary campaign and NACCHO communiqué & Change the Date dedicated website. Consider why campaign: Day. In 1955 Aborigines Day was shifted to the first Sunday in July after it there is continuing debate and http://nacchocommunique.com/2014/01/24/ was decided the day should become not simply a protest day but also a conflicting emotions about our naccho-aboriginal-health-and-january-26- celebration of Aboriginal culture and survival. debate-what-does-australia-day-mean-for- national day. For an Aboriginal our-mob/ perspective read the communiqué from the National Peak body of http://changethedate.org/ A weary eyed Lionel Rose clutches Aboriginal health organisations. his world title trophy after beating Lionel Rose: Alan Rudkin in 1969 Research the first Day of Mourning, https://www.smh.com.au/sport/boxing/from CREDIT: SMH, STAFF involving Victorian -the-archives-lionel-rose-is-named-1969- PHOTOGRAPHER australian-of-the-year-20190118-p50s6x.html leaders William Cooper and Sir Doug Nichols and its connection to https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/hon NAIDOC week held later in July. our-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=68

The Australian of the Year Awards https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/hon our-roll/?view=search&query=indigenous occur annually on this date. How

many Aboriginal Australians of the Year have there been? Who are they and where are they from?

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. FEBRUARY 4 Anniversary of the With older students watch the DVD Legacy of a People DVD Cummeragunja lies on the NSW side of Dhungala – the Murray River – on Cummeragunja The Legacy of a People about the http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/171001609?sel the traditional lands of the Bangerang and Yorta Yorta peoples. The river ectedversion=NBD50015642 February Walk-off of 1939 Shepparton Koorie community and is hugely important to the people and has sustained them for thousands

Cummeragunja Reserve, and Cummeragunja Mission: of years. investigate the reasons for the https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/co Cummeragunja Walk-off of 1939 llections-and-research/guides-and- On the 4th February 1939, over 200 residents of the Cummeragunja (VAEAI has a limited number of indexes/stories/cummeragunja-walk-off Mission walked off the mission station in protest against conditions at the

copies). station, and crossed the Murray River into Victoria, leaving the state of http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 123- . At the time, this was in contravention of rules set by the The now archived Mission Voices 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cumme New South Wales Aboriginal Protection Board restricting the movement of website developed by the Koorie ragunja/default.html Aboriginal people. Many settled in Barmah, Echuca, Shepparton, Heritage Trust is a great multimedia Image from The of Mooroopna and Melbourne’s Fitzroy. The Cummeragunja Walk Off has resource. Listen to the late http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 Berkeley's Creek Written by Jenny 123- been described as the first ever mass strike of Aboriginal people in Bangerang Elder Uncle Sandy Wagner and illustrated by Ron Atkinson and others from 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cumme Brooks First edition: Longman Australia and brought about changes to the Aborigines Protection Act of ragunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/default.h Cummeragunja discuss life in the Young Books, Melbourne, 1973. NSW. tml day, belonging and connection to

place. ‘Real Player’ free software http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061

may need to be downloaded’. 123- Did you know that the 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cumme legendary Bunyip is said to With younger students (years 5-8) ragunja/voices_of_cummerangunja/uncle_sa get its name from the ndy_atkinson/uncle_sandy_talks_of_conserv Wemba Wemba and explore the Voices of ation_practices_/default.html Cummerangunja links and read or languages of the Pecan Summer is listen to the late Uncle Sandy Pecan Summer opera: Murray River Region? Australia’s first Indigenous Atkinson talk about conservation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txDrTC opera, written by Yorta practices. What evidence is there uaaM Numerous tales of the bunyip

that people lived in harmony with in written literature appeared Yorta soprano, Deborah https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/8 Cheetham AO. The opera their land? Provide at least one 60269123626/Pecan-Summer-The-Opera in the 19th and early 20th specific example of their centuries. One of the earliest is based on the events conservation practices. (‘Real https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pecan known is a story in Andrew surrounding the walk-off Player free software may need to be +summer+youtube&dcr=0&source=lnms&tb Lang's ‘The Brown Fairy Book’ from Cummeragunja m=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD8pL14urYAhU downloaded’). (1904). mission in 1939. DU7wKHaQ7DG4Q_AUICigB&biw=1222&bih=

721 With students research the opera Pecan Summer brings Pecan Summer by Yorta Yorta http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/abo together the largest composer Deborah Cheetham AO – ut-town/first-aboriginal-opera--pecan- ensemble of Indigenous summer-20120815-248s4.html the first opera written by an Significantly in 2016, rock art performers of any featuring four was Indigenous Australian and involving http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/abo professional production in rediscovered in a sandstone an Indigenous caste – based on the ut-town/pecan-summers-ray-of-sunshine- Australia. through-song-20120907-25jtm.html shelter in Victoria’s Gariwerd Cummeragunja Walk-off. A filmed region - or the Grampians as Book online at version of Pecan Summer is now they have been called since melbournerecital.com.au available through SBS On Demand colonisation. for the 10th anniversary reported in 2019 that this find and a number of video clips and shines ‘new light on an age- gala performances of news reports have been uploaded old story – that of a cosmic Pecan Summer at the to Youtube. Explore the life of struggle between creator magnificent Melbourne Deborah Cheetham and her journey spirit and his monstrous Recital Centre on October to be an opera singer and author. enemy.’ 30 & 31, 2020.

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. Murray River focus: Murray River Resources: http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-the- Focus learning activities around murray/murray-river-aboriginals/

Koorie peoples, languages and http://www.booktopia.com.au/murray-river- stories of the Murray River region, shane- such as the Bangerang Dreaming strudwick/prod9780733330896.html?clickid= story * about the creation of zObUOfSm8Ta5x%3AhxMcV7hx3mUkQSqsU M%3ATXWTE0&bk_source_id=75030&bk_so Dungala (Tongala), aka the Murray River, and the famous Bunyip story. urce=DGM

Murray River Country and teacher notes:

*Depending on the region or the https://www.booktopia.com.au/murray-

language group, there are a river-country-jessica-k- number of Creation Stories about weir/book/9780855756789.html the Murray River – for good http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/ background material see: Ponde asp/education/mrc_final.pdf the Murray Cod – River Creator. Murray River Creation Stories:

Bangerang story:

Listen to: Behind the News (BTN) have https://youtu.be/TgjY27Sy48g produced a short documentary that looks at life along Australia's largest read: river system, the Murray River. https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/aboriginal- River Kids is narrated by Tyrone, a culture/meerreeng-an-here-is-my- young SA Ngarrindjeri boy, who country/snake-and-water-lilies/snake-and- water-lilies/ introduces us to people who depend on it. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22892111?sele ctedversion=NBD42424768

With secondary students, explore Ponde the Murray Cod – River Creator:

the ecological, spiritual, economic http://www.riverspace.com.au/item/ponde- the-murray-cod-river-creator/ and aesthetic significance of the

Murray- Darling basin and

approaches to custodial Murray River Bunyip responsibility, environmental http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-the- management and sustainability. murray/bunyips/ Murray River Country: An http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip ecological dialogue with traditional

owners by geographer Jessica Weir https://www.theage.com.au/national/victori Try to embed real life stories and comes with downloadable teaching a/rediscovered-rock-art-reveals-an-ancient- notes and discusses the water crisis monster-20190106-p50pu1.html perspectives from your local from a unique perspective – the intimate stories of love and loss Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander from the viewpoints of Aboriginal peoples who know the inland rivers community members across your as their traditional country. curriculum throughout the year.

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12 1965 Freedom Learn about the 1965 NSW Freedom Rides: Rides Anniversary Freedom Rides against prejudice February and racial discrimination headed http://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/stor One lesson we can all draw from the Freedom ies/2012/01/19/3414788.htm by Aboriginal students Charles Ride is the importance of speaking out against Perkins and Gary Williams. http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=6009 injustice, challenging oppression and View and download VAEAI’s https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryof discrimination, and doing it now. feature teaching resource The nsw/albums/72157654250887374

1965 Freedom rides for a host of https://indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagin curriculum-aligned activities, ation/charles_perkins Ann Curthoys, honorary professor, author, original freedom-rider online links and multimedia resources. http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collections- The 1965 Freedom Rides: online/digitised-collections/documenting- On February 12, 1965 a group of University students called freedom-ride AIATSIS’ site includes the diaries "Students for Aboriginal Rights" (SAFA), led by Aboriginal students Charles of freedom rider Ann Curthoys, a Perkins and Gary Williams, began a trip that would change Australian photographic exhibition and a history. Their journey was both an attempt to emulate the US Civil Rights great reading list which includes a Movement action in the early 1960s and designed to expose the racist

list of sources, news articles and underbelly of Australian society in rural NSW. external websites about the 1965 Freedom Ride including the Excerpt of Unidentified boys in wood The book Freedom Ride: a freedom rider remembers by Ann Curthoys, shack, February 1965 / from The curated online exhibition, The relives the experience of the Freedom Ride, drawing largely upon a diary Tribune archived collection, at: written during the journey and the recollections of Indigenous and non- 1965 Freedom Ride. This https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelib indigenous people who were involved. Contemporary media reports as exhibition brings together raryofnsw/albums/7215765425088737 primary sources from students 4 well as secondary accounts supplement the story, drawing attention to the who took part in this landmark impact of the ride and highlighting the ways in which the events have been event with newspaper coverage remembered. from the time. See: http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/images/history/1960s/freedom/frdx.html

Previously unpublished photographs of the 1965

Freedom rides discovered in the NSW State Library of NSW archives were first exhibited in 2015. Encourage students to explore these photographs, useful for discussions and presentations.

Why were students compelled to take this action?

What do these types of actions hope to achieve?

Are there parallels between these Image of The Daily Mirror, at: actions and current student http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/images/history/1960s/fre actions around Climate change edom/fr13.ht ml and global warming?

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. 13 National Apology Where were YOU when the VAEAI teaching resource: With sensitivity, honouring The National Apology to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anniversary Apology was made? http://www.vaeai.org.au/wp- the Apology Anniversary and Peoples was delivered by the then Prime Minister on February February content/uploads/2019/09/National-Apology- _10th-anniversary-resource.pdf builds 13, 2008, and acknowledged in particular the . Invite a Stolen Generations understanding and respect member or another Aboriginal or Learning About the Stolen Generations between school and Each year the National Sorry Day Committee encourages all schools, Torres Strait Islander parent, Resource: community, teachers and community groups, workplaces and individuals to commemorate the Elder or community member to http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=7086 students. anniversary of this important event in Australia's history.

speak with your students about The Apology speech: the Stolen Generations and the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLnsFyA Discuss with your guest importance of celebrating the VqE speaker prior to the lesson Apology Anniversary. what they are willing to talk

about, especially relating to Explore and download our Vic potentially sensitive issues. Curriculum-aligned National Remember that across Apology Anniversary teaching Victoria and the rest of the resource for background nation almost every, if not information, suggested activities, all Aboriginal families have online links and teaching been negatively affected by resources. the policies and practices that have led to Download the National Sorry Day dispossession and what we Committee’s excellent resource now call the Stolen Learning about the Stolen Generations. For some, this Generation: the NSDC’s school is still very difficult to resource for great classroom and reconcile and talk about. whole-of-school activities.

Some questions you might want to consider with your students as part of a lesson:

1. When might we apologise and say sorry for something, and how important is it? Any personal stories to share? How did you feel when someone apologised?

2. Why was it so important for Parliament to make an Apology?

3. How did your family members feel when Parliament said ‘sorry’ in 2008?

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. 21 International The student population in Victorian International Day of Mother Language: 2022‑2032 has been Mother Language government schools is diverse. In https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/mot proclaimed International "Indigenous languages February 2018, 32% of students were from herlanguageday/2018 Day Decade of Indigenous language backgrounds other than https://www.una.org.uk/get-involved/learn- Languages by the UN to matter for development, English and 12% of the student and-teach/international-days/mother- draw attention to the loss of population were English as an language-day indigenous languages peacebuilding, and Additional Language (EAL) learners. globally, and the urgent

need to preserve and Talk with students about their own Aboriginal Languages maps: http://www.vaclang.org.au/Resources/maps. promote them; inviting reconciliation.” language backgrounds using a html indigenous peoples — as IMDL 2020 theme range of maps where possible, and custodians — to initiate encourage children to use their https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/features ideas for preserving this heritage languages to introduce /gambay-languages-map/ International Mother Language Day - established over 20 years ago themselves and talk about their endangered facet of cultural Koorie Language apps on iTunes: celebrates language diversity and variety worldwide annually on February families and culture or sing a song. and social life. https://itunes.apple.com/au/developer/victo 21. Significantly it also remembers events such as the killing of four rian-aboriginal-corporation/id928978621 Did you know that there are students on February 21, 1952, because they campaigned to officially use Talk about the language situation in Australia, and explore Australian approximately 250 their mother language Bengali, in Bangladesh. Languages online with the Aboriginal languages magnifying glass on the language (around 500 including map link, making connections dialects) in Australia, and This is a day to celebrate languages spoken world-wide and to highlight the importance of preserving linguistic diversity, and the human right to use between language and place where around 40 Aboriginal students and teachers were born. languages in Victoria? these languages. Large printed maps can be purchased from AIATSIS and other outlets.

With your students identify the traditional language group or country associated with your school and research the language and its language community.

Download a range of Koorie interactive digital story apps made for iPads and iPhones featuring Koorie languages and English versions, by searching for VACL at the iTunes store.

Work with VAEAI, the Victorian Corporation for Aboriginal Languages (VACL) and local Koorie community members to introduce the local Koorie language to your school in a variety of ways, formal and informal. Aboriginal Languages of Victoria map reproduced with permission from the Victorian Corporation for Aboriginal Languages: http://www.vaclang.org.au/

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. MARCH 21 International Day Focus lessons around pride in Racial discrimination: Did you know that in 1938 The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is for the Elimination identity and celebration of http://www.racismnoway.com.au/ prior to WWII, an Aboriginal observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire March of Racial diversity. https://www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching- delegation headed by Yorta and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Discrimination resources/resources/ Yorta leader William Cooper, Africa, against the apartheid pass laws. Proclaiming the day in 1966, the Discuss the effects of prejudice protested against the United Nations General Assembly called on the international community to and racial discrimination with https://teentalk.ca/2018/03/13/international treatment of Jewish People redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. students through a range of -day-for-the-elimination-of-racial- in Germany and tried to discrimination-2/ st Harmony Day personal and anecdotal stories. hand a resolution to the Harmony Day also celebrated on the 21 March centres on the message William Cooper- led protest against Nazi German consul-general that “Everyone belongs”, reinforcing the importance of inclusiveness to all Explore the Racism No Way site treatment of Jewish peoples: condemning the Nazis' Australians. Since 1999, thousands of Harmony Day events have been held for Australian schools which http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3 persecution of Jewish in childcare centres, schools, community groups, churches, businesses and 649212.htm features a wide range of teaching people? federal, state and local government agencies across Australia. activities and resources. http://www.haaretz.com/jewish- world/jewish-world-features/an-aboriginal- At the time, the 1965 Freedom Rides: Teen Talk features some protest-against-the-nazis-finally- German consul-general In February 1965 a group of Sydney University students called "Students background information, tips for delivered.premium-1.483806 refused to see the for Aboriginal Rights" (SAFA), led by Aboriginal students Charles Perkins

dealing with discrimination and https://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpr Aboriginal delegation, which and Gary Williams began a trip that would change Australian history. Their who to talk to, and ways we can ess.com/2010/10/22/william- had walked into journey was both an attempt to emulate the US Civil Rights Movement encourage more diversity in our cooper/https://atributetoaustralianchristians town from William Cooper's action in the early 1960s, and designed to expose the racist underbelly of schools and community life. .wordpress.com/2010/10/22/william-cooper/ home in Australian society in rural NSW.

International Day for the Elimination of Melbourne's west. Learn about the 1965 NSW Racial Discrimination: Go to our February 12 activities and links for more detail about the Freedom Rides against prejudice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_D To learn more, read the Freedom Rides. and racial discrimination headed ay_for_the_Elimination_of_Racial_Discrimina transcript or listen to the

by Aboriginal students Charles tion ABC PM report from the

Perkins and Gary Williams. http://www.un.org/en/events/racialdiscrimin anniversary of this unique ationday/ protest against ethnic

Why were students compelled to discrimination and take this action? What do these 1965 Freedom Rides: persecution, over eighty http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collections- types of actions achieve? online/digitised-collections/documenting- years ago. freedom-ride

Go to February 12 activities and

links for more details about the 1967 freedom rides.

The Argus, 7 December 1938. p. 3

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. 30 Anniversary of With your students, research The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story: Lake in the Budj Bim On the 30th March 2007, Gunditjmara People in south-western Victoria Gunditjmara native Gunditjmara Country, people http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/_files/ntru/publicatio world heritage area is one of won an 11-year legal battle for native title rights over 140,000 hectares of ns/monographs/MonographGunditjmara.pdf March title recognition history and culture. If able, invite the world’s most ancient crown land. Celebrations were held on Gunditjmara country to celebrate and settlement Gunditjmara community members http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nati examples of traditional the native title consent determination – a determination that was reached to come to the class or school and ve-title-win-for-gunditjmara- , dating back at through the consent of all parties, rather than litigation. The celebrations speak about Gunditjmara matters. people/2007/03/30/1174761734730.html least 6600 years and were at the base of the volcanic mountain Budj Bim, also known as Mount http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/indi preceding Stonehenge or Eccles National Park, and followed a special hearing of the Federal Court of With older students research the genous-victorians-close-to-settlement-in- the Pyramids of Egypt, Australia on Country. On this day, the Gunditjmara people spoke about Gunditjmara struggle for Native southwest/2007/01/03/1167777154140.html consisting of complex how the native title determination was the end of a long struggle for Title recognition. systems of traps and ponds recognition of their status as the first peoples of their country. They also http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Gun ditjmara-win-native-title- engineered by the talked about their future work to protect their native title rights and , extremely significant battle/2007/03/30/1174761740241.html Gunditjmara people. interests, and how the business of land justice continues. to Gunditjmara People, is an See: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/_files/ntru/publications/monographs/MonographGunditjmara.pdf Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA): Regarded as the world’s first Indigenous . Visit or learn about Indigenous Protected https://www.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/file engineering project, the s/ia/IEB/ipa-national-map.pdf?q=20190107 extensive and elaborate Areas (IPAs) in Victoria, such as Kurtonitj or Lake Condah in the https://www.niaa.gov.au/indigenous- system of channels and dam South-west of Victoria. affairs/environment/indigenous-protected- walls were used over areas-ipas millennia predominately for catching short-finned eels In 2011, a Bush Blitz occurred on https://www.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/file Gunditjmara country with s/dept-indexed-files-jul-dec-2016.pdf for consumption and trade. Traditional Owners to survey biodiversity in the IPAs. Investigate Victorian IPAs: Go to our curriculum-aligned https://www.gunditjmirring.com/indigenouspro the program and some of the flora tectedareas STEM special feature for and fauna surveyed. Research and more details and online discuss management strategies, http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/p resources. and how to work collaboratively ages/5be01753-42b8-427e-914a- fa306515a5be/files/national-heritage-budj- with Traditional Owners, to bim.pdf preserve ecological biodiversity. Watch the video with Gunditjmara http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/p Woven eel trap ages/5be01753-42b8-427e-914a- Elder Ken Saunders about involving Traditional Owners to survey fa306515a5be/files/budj-bim-brochure.pdf

biodiversity in IPAs and investigate Bush Blitz: the program and some of the flora http://bushblitz.org.au/ The Federal Court convening at Budj Bim (formerly Mt Eccles national park), for the and fauna surveyed. Where else is http://bushblitz.org.au/kurtonitj-lake-condah- Gunditjmara Native title claim. Photo by Damian White. Bush Blitz Working? -indigenous-protected-areas-vic- 2011/ Bush Blitz on Gunditjmara country: In March 2011, a team of more than Research the lives of Gunditjmara Honour Roll inductees and others: 30 scientists gathered in SW Victoria, on Gunditjmara country, within the Elders and community members https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/edna- to undertake a Bush Blitz survey. Six reserves were who have been strong advocates brown investigated together comprising the IPAs of Lake Condah, Kurtonitj and for their communities like Edna https://www.standard.net.au/story/2592687/g Tyrendarra. Sites at the were also surveyed, situated Brown and William Rawlings, the unditjmara-pair-elevated-to-state-indigenous- 350 km from Melbourne. The survey team included experts from Museum Lovett Brothers, Laura Bell, Young honour-roll/ Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, University of NSW, SA Australian of the Year state finalist, https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/lovett Museum and the Australian Biological Resources Study. A highlight of the Benson Saulo, world famous singer -brothers survey was the close collaboration between the Gunditjmara traditional Archie Roach, playwright, author owners, the Working on Country Budj Bim Rangers and the visiting and musician Richard Frankland https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/laura- scientists. In total, 854 species new to the reserves were identified and and Australia’s first commissioned bell 18 are possibly new to science! Aboriginal officer, Reginald http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour- Saunders for starters. roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1072 Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 25 ANZAC Day on the 25th April is a VAEAI ANZAC Day Feature: Did you know that prime time to acknowledge http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=6010 Gunditjmara man Reg “When my uncle came back April Aboriginal and Torres Strait Saunders was the first Islander services to this nation. Exhibitions and memorial box: Aboriginal person to be http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/ex from serving in Korea he commissioned as an officer hibitions/iaaw/home.html Over 1000 Aboriginal and Torres in the Australian Army? couldn't even get a beer in a Strait Islanders fought for https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced- Australia in World War I despite search?query=aboriginal profound barriers to enlisting. pub let alone a pension, and https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/memori View and download VAEAI’s al-boxes he wasn't permitted to become curriculum-aligned interactive ANZAC Day feature with online https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/LIB a citizen until 1968.” multimedia resources and 100043517

suggested activities to explore John Kinsella, nephew of Captain Reg Saunders MBE https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/educatio Indigenous Australians’ war n/resources service. You’ll find links to the Australian War Memorial multi- https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/schools/ Over 1000 Aboriginal and fought for Australia in media resources, old promotional resources/research-a-soldier World War I despite profound barriers to enlisting. In proportion to

population, no community in Australia contributed more to the war effort footage, video testimonies, plays, http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/sites/defa online exhibitions and more. “Unable to vote but eligible in the Second World War than the Torres Strait Islanders. By 1944 almost ult/files/publication- every able-bodied male Torres Strait Islander had enlisted. However, they attachments/Indig_primary.pdf to die” never received the same rates of pay or conditions as white soldiers, The Australian War Memorial site initially one-third that of regular soldiers, and after a two-day "mutiny" in http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/sites/defa Former Richard Wynne, State has a variety of online resources Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Victoria December 1943 this was raised to two-thirds. ult/files/publication- as well as the Department of attachments/Indig_secondary.pdf Source: Veteran Affairs. http://www.creativespirits.info/aborigi nalculture/history/anzac-day-coloured- Captain Reg Saunders: digger-march Australian War Museum Memorial Box: Each memorial box contains artefacts that students can handle, as well as Consider participating in the https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/multime photographs, case studies, uniforms, a video, oral histories, teacher’s Shrine of Remembrance Poster dia/publications/greece-and- notes, and more. Memorial boxes can be adapted for use across many Competition highlighting the crete/biographycaught-chickens-and- areas of study and are accessible to a wide range of students, from lower participation of Aboriginal service ate-them-raw primary to senior secondary.

men and women as a class or https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/c whole-school activity. onflicts/korean-war/events/china- intervenes-korean-war/captain-reg- Shrine of Remembrance Poster Competition: saunders The winning poster will become the official Remembrance Day 2020 poster for the Shrine of Remembrance and will appear on banners and posters around the City of Melbourne. Schools awarded prizes to the winning and highly commended artworks receive a selection of books from the Shrine of Remembrance Poster Comp: Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a personalised visit to the Shrine and are http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Po invited to place a flower in the Field of Poppies whilst attending the Official ster-Competition Remembrance Day Service on 11 November. Winning entries and highly

commended artworks will be displayed in an exhibition at the Shrine to

coincide with Remembrance Day 2020. (date TBC).

See more at: http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Poster-Competition.

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. National Sorry Day National Sorry Day was born out Stolen Generations resources and Did you know that a Lake Tyres, MAY 26 testimonies: of a key recommendation made Victorian Aboriginal team, Aboriginal Station, https://healingfoundation.org.au/app/upload May Aug. 14th, 1930. by the National Inquiry into the s/2017/04/BTH20-Fact-Sheet-1.pdf led by Wotjobaluk man and Separation of Aboriginal and all-rounder Unaarrimin Most Excellency Lord Stonehaven, Torres Strait Islander children http://www.vaeai.org.au/wp- aka Johnny Mullagh, was the State Governor, from their families in the Bringing content/uploads/2019/09/NSDCs-School- first sports team to House, N.S.W.

them Home Report that was Resource-Learning-about-the-Stolen- represent Australia Generations_compressed.pdf I'm a full - blooded Aboriginal by birth decent from Royal Blood. I used to write tabled in Federal Parliament on overseas and began a 6- letters to Queen Victoria in my young days. Your most Excellency, I beg to ask of 26 May 1997. http://www.stolengenerationstestimonies.co month tour of England in his Excellency a great favour - would his Excellency kindly grant me permission m/ May 1868? to get my three grand - children who were snatched suddenly from me by an View and download VAEAI’s Ordering Council under escort of Nurse Singleton from Lake Tyres Aboriginal http://indigenousrights.net.au/ National Sorry Day feature for Sporting Life reported that Reserve, transferred to the State Public Home, Melbourne. Three girls ages ranging from 13 years, 5¼ years, baby 2½ years Mary Darby, Sarah Darby and Nelly background information, https://indigenousrights.net.au/resources/te “No eleven in one season Darby. The three girls were my only comfort when their mother Lizzie Darby, my suggested activities, curriculum achers_resources ever played so many daughter, expired nine months ago at the Bairnsdalegate Hospital. When we came

links and a host of online matches so successfully.” down to the town Captain Newman made a covenant with me in the presence of resources. http://www.australianstogether.org.au/stori es/detail/the-stolen-generations Patrol Walter M'Cready, that I could have the three grand - daughters till such time I'd be married. On the eve of my marriage to Mrs. Edwards who looked after and http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cce/ never neglected the children, they were snatched away by an Ordering Council. I Well-worth exploring for deeper student_task_sheet_the_stolen_generations, wish to bring under your Excellency's consideration the matter. I was decoyed to understanding, the website Stolen 9737.html marry for the sake of the three grand - daughters, to keep them, and for them to be

Generations Testimonies allows snatched away by an Ordering Council. God is no respector of persons. We are in https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our- His sight equal to all His subjects. Before the white people came to Australia. God students to view and hear the work/track-history-us-taken-away-kids- gave us children to bring and train up for His service in our own disposition. Our personal stories of those taken commemorating-10th-anniversary-bringing- disposition is instilled in our children and I don't consider it fair the white people from their homes and them-home-report should deprive us of our children to bring them up in their disposition. It can never

communities, and information be done. http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=6011

about the subsequent Inquiry. Native XI and Unaarrimin aka Johnny I am, Yr. obedient Servant, Mullagh: (SGD.) Frederick Carmichael The illustrated children’s book https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/joh nny-mullagh-or-unaarrimin Down the Hole’ by Edna Tantjingu Source: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/track-history-us-taken-away-kids- Williams, tells a true and different http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/object/7 commemorating -10th-anniversary-bringing-them-home story about a group of children in 3391 Cooper Pedy, and how when the government came to take the

fair-skinned Aboriginal children issue shows Unaarimin (1845-1891), away, they didn't always find National Sorry Day is a day of commemoration and remembrance for the whose European name was Stolen Generations - the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children them … Mullagh, the star all-rounder of the first Australian team to tour forcibly removed from their families, communities and cultures between England, issued on 29 January the 1800s and the 1970s. 1988, first day of the Bicentenary Test Match. The first Sorry Day was held in Sydney on 26 May 1998 and has been commemorated nationally on 26 May each year since then, with The First Cricket Tour thousands of Australians from all walks of life participating in memorial commemorative stamp was services, commemorative meetings, survival celebrations and community released by Australia Post in gatherings, in honour of the Stolen Generations. th 2018 on the 150 anniversary of the historic tour.

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. 27 Anniversary of the On 1 January 1901, the Australian Digger J. Jones: On 27 May 1967, the Australian Government held a referendum. 1967 Referendum Constitution came into effect, https://resource.scholastic.com.au/reso This was a momentous turning point in Australian history. More than 90 May establishing the Commonwealth urceFiles/Teacher_Notes/7769162_3666 per cent of Australian voters chose ‘Yes’ to count Aboriginal and Torres of Australia. There were two 8.pdf Strait Islander peoples in the census and give the Australian Government references to Aboriginal people the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait http://www.macquariepenanthology.co contained in the Australian Islander peoples. m.au/files/unit_3.pdf Constitution of 1901. ’67 Referendum: The purpose of the 1967 Referendum was to make two changes to the Firstly, section 51 of the http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=6 Australian Constitution. These changes enabled the Commonwealth Constitution gave the 012 Government to: Commonwealth power to make laws with respect to ‘people of http://indigenousrights.net.au/civil_right (i)Make laws for all of the Australian people by amending s51 of the any race, other than the s/the_referendum,_1957-67 Constitution (previously people of the ‘Aboriginal race in any state' were Aboriginal race in any state, for excluded) and; whom it was deemed necessary http://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/referen dum-australia-had-have to make special laws.’ (ii)Take account of Aboriginal people in determining the population of

Australia by repealing s127 of the constitution (formerly, Aboriginal people http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/ Secondly, section 127 of the 29241/australia-s-1967-referendum had been haphazardly included in the census but not counted for the Constitution provided that ‘in purposes of Commonwealth funding grants to the states or territories) reckoning the numbers of people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw Did you know that from of the Commonwealth, or of a AHduSjzGI 1947 Torres Strait Islander From 1967, Aboriginal people were counted in the census and included in State or other part of the People were counted in the base figures for Commonwealth funding granted to the states and Vote yes for Aborigines: Commonwealth, aboriginal official Commonwealth territories on a per capita basis. http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/ natives shall not be counted’. census but were first 0/492.html?words=vote+yes Contrary to popular thinking the 1967 Referendum did NOT classified as Polynesians, State - not Federal - governments School referendum: then as Pacific Islanders? − give Aboriginal peoples the right to vote remained responsible for the http://geckos.ceo.wa.edu.au/primary/so Prior to this, Torres Strait − give Aboriginal peoples citizenship rights welfare of Aboriginal people until cial-political/Pages/1967- Islanders were regarded as − give Aboriginal peoples the right to be counted in the census. the 1967 referendum. referendum.aspx 'aboriginal natives’ and were excluded from population View and download VAEAI’s : figures if they were of more interactive online resource: The http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1568/ than 50 per cent Torres

1967 Referendum for suggested Strait Islander heritage. 50th anniversary: activities, background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xb information, links to teaching See: J5UfEaB4 resources and the Vic curriculum. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/myths- persist-about-the-1967-referendum and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzz http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/L 50 years on from the 1967 URvJGCw ookup/2071.0Feature+Article2July+201 1 referendum, WA Nhanhagardi Elder the late Clarrie Cameron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3 shared some of his memories of 4Y00HrkUU this historic event. For a strong contemporary Aboriginal perspective on being Aboriginal in this era, watch the short video and discuss points and issues raised.

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. 27 National Download the VAEAI National Reconciliation resources: Did you know that What is Reconciliation week? Reconciliation Reconciliation Week teaching Reconciliation week starts National Reconciliation Week celebrates the relationship between May- Week resource for a curriculum-linked http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=6013 with the anniversary of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and all other Australians. Every year, brief. 1967 Referendum and ends the week is held between the same dates, 27 May to 3 June. The dates 3 June www.reconciliation.org.au on the anniversary of the draw attention to significant historical events. The 27 May marks the day

If your school does not already https://www.reconciliation.org.au/reconciliat Mabo victory, which led to in 1967 when the referendum was passed for the Australian Government have one, consider developing a ion-action-plans-raps-creating- the Australian Government to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and to allow them Reconciliation Action Plan and transformative-social-change-reconciliation- recognising native title and to be recognised in the census. The 3rd of June marks the day in 1992 that include activities linking National australia/ acknowledging Indigenous led the Australian Government to recognise native title and acknowledge Sorry Day and Reconciliation Australians as the original Indigenous Australians as the original occupants of Australia. https://www.reconciliation.org.au/natio Action Week, so that colleagues nal-reconciliation-week/ occupants of Australia? and students see how these days are inter-connected. Include “Much has students, colleagues and your Two Mates: LAECG where possible in its http://www.magabala.com/two- happened since the development. mates.html early days of the To find out more about https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0092/ people’s movement Reconciliation Action Plans 5043/9268/files/Two_Mates_media_rele (RAPs), and about planning ase.pdf?66974 for reconciliation,

events to celebrate NRW, including greater contact and/or download their Teaching acknowledgement of and Learning Ideas resources for Aboriginal and National Reconciliation Week. Torres Strait Islander

With local Koorie community rights to land and members and colleagues organise a week of cultural activities such sea; understanding as performances, films, stories, of the impact of workshops. Focus on the contribution that Aboriginal government policies people have and continue to make to Australian society, and and frontier work with students to complete a conflicts; and an variety of tasks that explore what reconciliation means for young embracing of stories Australians. of Indigenous

With younger students read success and stories to encourage thinking about reconciliation such as the contribution.” Broome-set Two Mates by

Melanie Prewett (teaching Reconciliation Australia’s resources available). Chief Executive Officer, Karen Mundine, 2020.

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. 31 Shrine of Consider attending the annual Shrine of Remembrance Victorian The Shrine of Remembrance Victorian Aboriginal Commemorative Remembrance Victorian Aboriginal Aboriginal commemorative service: Service is a commemoration and wreath laying ceremony for Indigenous May Annual Victorian commemorative service at the https://www.shrine.org.au/Remembranc service men and women, held annually at 11am on the 31st May. Aboriginal Shrine of Remembrance, 11am e/Services/Victorian-Aboriginal- Commemorative with your students. Remembrance-Service-2020 Each year, Victorian Primary School students and classes are invited to

Service enter the Remembrance Day Poster Competition. The winning poster in Indigenous Service Publication:

Download DVA’s Indigenous https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/c the Shrine of Remembrance Poster Competition, will become the official Service publications for primary onflicts/australia-and-second-world- Remembrance Day 2020 poster for the Shrine of Remembrance, and will and secondary schools for war/resources/all-australian-homefront- appear on banners and posters around the City of Melbourne. background and suggested 19391945-0 inquiry activities. Search Schools awarded prizes to the winning and highly commended artworks ‘Indigenous Service’). Poster Competition: will receive a selection of books from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Po a personalised visit to the Shrine and will be invited to place a flower in the Enter the Shrine of Remembrance ster-Competition Field of Poppies whilst attending the Official Remembrance Day Service on

Poster Competition and design 2015 Shrine of Remembrance 11 November, 2020. Winning entries and highly commended artworks will

posters highlighting the Poster Competition, winning be displayed in an exhibition at the Shrine to coincide with Remembrance entry by Emily Hall, Grade 5, participation of Aboriginal service Genazzano FCJ College, Kew Day 2020 (date and theme for 2020 competition TBC). men and women relative to this See more at: http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Poster-Competition year’s theme as a class or whole- school activity (date and theme for 2020 competition TBC).

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. JUNE 3 Mabo Day Held on June 3rd each year, Eddie Koiki Mabo: Did you know that when feasts, dance and celebrations https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/eddie- Europeans first settled the June koiki-mabo can be found not only in the region it was Torres Strait but all over the https://www.aboriginalheritage.org/news/20 already occupied by five Australian mainland to honour an 13/mabo-day/ Aboriginal language groups? amazing man. These groups spoke a Behind the News report: related language and were http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3765672. View and explore VAEAI’s htm part of what is commonly multimedia resource Mabo Day called the KULIN (koo-lin) with background information, Vic ABC Mabo Classroom: nation of peoples. The five curriculum links, suggested https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/mab language groups are: o-day/10530494 activities, BTN reports, and links , , to podcasts, videos and other https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06- Taungerong, Dja Dja online resources. 03/mabo-a-timeline/4047186 Wurrung and . Yorta Yorta land justice struggle: https://waynera.wordpress.com/yorta-yorta- With students listen to the ABC struggle-for-land-justice/ National podcast Don’t Fence Me In - a deeply personal account about Edie Mabo presented by family spokesperson Gail Mabo and filmmaker Trevor Graham, as they remember what life was like while the court case consumed their lives - full of stories we've not heard before about Eddie Map source: Koiki Mabo. http://lrd.kangan.edu.au/indigenous %20sporting%20heros/images/kulinma p.jpg

Significant in Victoria is the Mabo Day Celebrations in Townsville, QLD 2011 see: rejection of the Yorta Yorta http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2011/06/03/3235188.htm Native Title case in 1998 in the High Court - a decision upheld again in 2002. With senior secondary students discuss: to what extent does the concept of justice correlate with courts upholding laws; and to what extent is the law adequate in addressing issues of justice, under current Native Title legislation?

Comprehensive information about the Yorta Yorta Struggle for Land Justice can be found on the On country Learning Course Image source: https://waynera.wordpress.com/yorta-yorta-struggle-for-land-justice/ Wordpress site. Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 5 World Environment Visit or learn about Victorian World Environment Day Did you know that the World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 to raise global Day Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA) http://www.un.org/en/events/environmentd Gunditjmara in the South awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the ay/ June in Victoria, such as Kurtonitj or West of Victoria established .

Lake Condah in the South-west of IPAs: intricate kuuyang (kooyang) Indigenous Australians have managed their country for tens of thousands of years. Victoria. IPAs across the country http://www.environment.gov.au/system/file or eel trapping and farming An Indigenous Protected Area is an area of Indigenous-owned land or sea where can be found by selecting the s/resources/3d6816a9-70f1-46eb-aad0- systems, and developed traditional owners have entered into an agreement with the Australian online map. 1b4e77aa9d95/files/fs-about-ipas.pdf smoking techniques to Government to promote biodiversity and cultural resource conservation. https://www.environment.gov.au/system/fil preserve and trade their Indigenous Protected Areas make a significant contribution to Australian Watch the video with es/resources/540438c6-7102-4b08-8bef- harvest - possibly one of the biodiversity conservation - making up over a third of Australia's National Reserve Gunditjmara Elder Ken Saunders f22643262921/files/kurtonitj.pdf first cultures in the world to System. about Museum Victoria’s Bush do so. http://www.environment.gov.au/system/file Bush Blitz Blitz Program, working with s/pages/c4a2d7e0-87f8-48de-b0b7- The overall thrust of the Bush Blitz activities provides opportunities for students to Traditional Owners in Indigenous d8ab55d41ca1/files/winda-mara.pdf Protected Areas, and investigate develop their knowledge and understanding about: the program and some of the Bush Blitz and Lake Condah: • the meaning of biodiversity in the context of Australian ecosystems •the classification processes used in describing organisms and how these flora and fauna surveyed. Where https://youtu.be/H9cnyd6QgCI processes may lead to the identification of previously unknown species else is Bush Blitz working? http://asta.edu.au/resources/bushblitz "Gunditjmara will •species that are threatened within Australian ecosystems.

conserve Lake Download the Bush Blitz teaching http://bushblitz.teachlive.org.au/index.php/r TeachLive is an educational program developed by Earthwatch Australia in 2003. resource produced by the esources/resources Condah. It is an Since its inception, the program has seen Primary and Secondary teachers teach

Australian Science Teachers 'live' back to their classrooms from some of the most rich and diverse ecosystems http://bushblitz.teachlive.org.au/ important Association (ASTA), and work around the world. From calling classrooms via satellite phone in the dark with local community members http://bushblitz.org.au/ Gunditjmara place rainforests of Brazil's Pantanal, to skype sessions from Australia's Outback, and Koorie educators to include and we have fought teachers who take part in the program not only experience scientific research at some of the activities, such as : its best, but are given the opportunity to bring a unique learning experience to hard over many their students and schools. It is through education that we gain the understanding inviting local Koorie Community Koorie plants, Koorie people: traditional necessary to enact change and continue to strive for innovative and effective members to talk to your students Aboriginal food, fibre and healing plants generations to see it of Victoria by Nelly Zola and Beth Gott strategies for conserving our environment. and tell them what they know returned to us so about the movement and Note that this book is out of print that we can heal this IPA Map: http://155.187.2.69/indigenous/ipa/map.html interactions among animals in the currently, but available in many lending local area. libraries – click on link below for holding land. Gunditjmara libraries: will restore the Do you have a ‘Bush Tucker’ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22736054? expert in your region? q&versionId=44604945 natural abundance Learning about bush tucker is a of the lake and its great introduction to native plants and Australian plant species. animals for us today Teachers might want to and our future investigate the pilot educational generations" program- Bush Blitz Teachlive.

Ken Saunders, Gunditjmara Elder See: http://www.environment.gov.au/system/file s/pages/c4a2d7e0-87f8-48de-b0b7- . d8ab55d41ca1/files/winda-mara.pdf Woven eel trap Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 6 Anniversary of With students explore the Batman’s Treaty: Batman's Treaty: Today we acknowledge the anniversary of the signing of Batman’s Treaty, National Museum Australia’s http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- Batman's Treaty in 1835 by a group of 8 Kulin Elders - including June history/colonial- signed in 1835 educational resources focused on melbourne/pioneers/batmans-treaty Ngurungaetas (most senior leaders) Bebejan (Babajen) and three brothers Batman’s treaty. with the same name, Jika Jika (Jaga Jaga) or Billibellary – and John Batman, http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/teachers/source- an Australian born grazier, businessman and explorer, for the purchase of Visit State Library Victoria’s analysis-john-batmans-treaty land around Port Phillip, near the present site of the city of Melbourne. teachers page which examines, https://aboriginalhistoryofyarra.com.au/4- through primary source analysis treaty/ John Batman believed he was trading for 600,000 acres of land, with 40 and stimulating discussion pairs of blankets, 42 tomahawks, 130 knives, 62 pairs of scissors, 40 questions , some of the problems http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbour looking glasses, 250 handkerchiefs, 18 shirts, 4 flannel jackets, 4 suits of historians have with John ne_details.php?id=5579 clothes and 150 lb. of flour. The Kulin would not have been trading their

Batman's 'treaty' . http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135926506/view land rights in this exchange.

View a graphic of Batman's Batman's Treaty is significant, as it was the first and only documented time Treaty including a transcript of First People: when Europeans attempted to negotiate their presence and occupation of the Batman Land Deed. https://museumsvictoria.com.au/books/indig Aboriginal lands directly with the traditional owners, in accordance with enous-cultures/ English Common Law. However, the treaty was declared void by the After researching Batman’s Kulin: Governor of New South Wales , on the basis that the Kulin Treaty, discuss mutual (mis) http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/kuli people did not have a right to deal with the land, which ‘belonged’ to the understandings, alternate world n-nation/index_wide.cfm?loadref=32 Crown.

views and the terms of this

original transaction. Click on the image to see enlarged details.

With your students learn as much as you can about the Kulin Nations. This Yarra Healing webpage is a good starter for schools.

For a great description of the Kulin including the signing of the treaty and daily life in days gone by, purchase copies of or borrow First People: The Eastern Kulin of

Melbourne, Port Phillip & Central

Victoria (Presland G. MV). Map source: http://lrd.kangan.edu.au/indigenous %20sporting%20heros/images/kulinmap.jpg

John Batman’s famous treaty, Merri Creek, Northcote 1835. By George Rossi Ashton. National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an9025854.

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. 30 Explore the Vic Curriculum-aligned Coranderrk and Minutes of Evidence: Did you know that Gazetting of Coranderrk Reserve: Coranderrk Teacher Resource http://www.minutesofevidence.com.au/ Coranderrk gets its name June Package on FUSE, targeted to Years th officially gazetted http://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/?8X2S9B from the Woiwurrung name On the 30 June 1863, the Victorian Government Gazette reported that in 1863 9 and 10: History & Civics and of the plant known in 2,300 acres of land around Badger’s Creek in what is now Healesville, had Citizenship, and easily adapted for https://www.nma.gov.au/defining- English as the Victorian been temporarily reserved “For the use of Aborigines (in lieu of the land at other year levels. moments/resources/coranderrk Xmas Mint Bush? Watt’s Creek) by Order of the 22nd June 1863,” following a deputation to Queen Victoria during her visit in the same year by 15 Wurundjeri http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/vufind/Re Visit also the Minutes of Evidence (Woiwurrung), Boon Wurrung and Taungurung people. website and learn more about cord/46211

Coranderrk and its significance. http://www.minutesofevidence.com.au/the- http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1863&class=general&page_num=1447&state=V&classNum coranderrk-story/ =G68 If able to, visit Coranderrk itself, in Healesville. Mission Voices – Coranderrk: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 Explore the excellent Mission 123- 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/corand Voices website and teacher errk/default.html resources around the Coranderrk reserve. This site is dedicated to all Barrak: the Aboriginal missions and http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/sto reserves in Victoria, previously ries-voices/index.cfm?loadref=91 used to control the movements Wandoon: and activities of Victorian Koories. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 123- Purchase or borrow the excellent 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/conten Coranderrk: We Will Show the t/download/256/812/file/Aunty%20Joy%20 Country (2013) about Coranderrk Murphy%20Interview.pdf and the 1881 Parliamentary Bansfield: Enquiry. http://www.minutesofevidence.com.au/stati c/media/uploads/Book%20Excerpts/excerpt_ Coranderrk in flower Listen to the 2013 ABC Radio -_thomas_bamfield.pdf

interview podcast Leave Us Here: 150 years of Coranderrk with Dunolly: senior descendants of Coranderrk https://www.djadjawurrung.com.au/jaara- people/ Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin,

Murrundindi, Aunty Carolyn Briggs, Wurundjeri Stories at Pound Bend: Uncle Wayne Atkinson and others. http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q =&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CDsQFj There are many heroes AF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manningham. surrounding Coranderrk and many vic.gov.au%2Ffile%2F5526%2Fdownload&ei= 3YGNVKLdHsPtmgWruoL4Dw&usg=AFQjCNE stories of success, resilience, EAMz53VDfffzFNG4_YsIYNn663A&bvm=bv.8 survival and injustice. With your 1828268,d.dGY students explore the lives of Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country Wurundjeri, Taungurung and Dja (2013) William Barak and the Aboriginal Dja Wurrung heroes: William http://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/products/c oranderrk-we-will-show-country/ebook community of Coranderrk. State Library Barak, John Green, Thomas of Victoria Awaye Podcast - Leave Us Here: 150 years of Bamfield, Robert Wandoon, Coranderrk: Thomas Dunolly and Caroline Coranderrk petition - Activist William Barak and others sent this petition on behalf of the Aboriginal http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/progra people of Coranderrk to the Victorian Government in 1886, see: Morgan and their involvement in ms/awaye/27leave-us-here273a-150-years- https://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whatson/current- the Coranderrk Parliamentary of-coranderrk/5144226 exhibitions/melbournestory/favourite-objects/coranderrk-petition/ Inquiry of 1888. Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 5-12 NAIDOC week NAIDOC week can be recognised Aboriginal Flag: Did you know that the NAIDOC celebrations are held around Australia each July to celebrate the in schools at any time of the year, https://www.naidoc.org.au/about/indigenou Australian Aboriginal Flag history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander July s-australian-flags but holding events close to the was designed by artist peoples. The week is celebrated not just in the Indigenous communities actual official week makes it http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nat Harold Thomas and first but also in increasing numbers of government agencies, schools, local more relevant. With local Koorie ional/designer-of-aboriginal-flag-harold- flown at Victoria Square in councils and workplaces. community members and thomas-wants-help-to-find-the-original- , , on colleagues organise a range of one/news- National Aborigines Day, 12 The NAIDOC 2020 theme - Always Was, Always Will Be. - recognises that story/499a9bc382192fc76df8852ae260af29 cultural activities such as July 1971? First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over performances, films, stories, and 65,000 years. NAIDOC Week 2020 will be held from Sunday 5 July to workshops. NAIDOC: Sunday 12 July and is an opportunity for all Australians to come together https://www.naidoc.org.au/about/history to celebrate the rich history, diverse cultures and achievements of

The NAIDOC 2020 theme - http://www.naidoc.org.au/ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the oldest continuing Always Was, Always Will Be - cultures on the planet. recognises that First Nations http://vicnaidoc.com/ people have occupied and cared Always Was, Always Will Be acknowledges this nation’s story began at the for this continent for over 65,000 dawn of time and didn’t begin with documented European contact. Victorian Koorie Art and history: years. Keeler, Couzins: Meerreeng-an Here Is My Dedicate a week to whole-of- Country: The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told

school and class activities Through Art (2010, KHT)

celebrating our Aboriginal and http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37177835?q&v Torres Strait communities and ersionId=48292062 heritage. http://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/collection

Contact the NAIDOC Committee s/publications-resources/

for posters and local events as well as the Victorian NAIDOC Committee.

Learn more about the history of the Koorie Flag here.

Immerse your students in Meerreeng-an Here Is My Country: The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told Through Art.

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“For generations, Meerreeng-an - Here Is My Country: The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told Aboriginal and Torres Through Art, portrays the richness and diversity of Victorian Aboriginal culture through artworks and stories from the early 19th century to the Strait Islander peoples have present day. Over 340 artworks and artefacts are featured, from shields, looked for significant and baskets and possum skin cloaks to contemporary artworks dealing with the lasting change. We need Stolen Generations, land rights and reconciliation. Old and new are woven our fellow Australians to together, demonstrating the continuation of culture, and words and join us on this journey – to phrases from Victorian Aboriginal languages are used throughout. finish the unfinished Artists describe their own artworks, and stories and quotes from Elders and other community members provide cultural and historical context, business of this country. telling of the importance of Country, of life before Europeans arrival, of invasion and dramatic change, of dislocation and missions, and of the The history of our First survival and strength of the living culture. Peoples is the history of all

of us, of all of Australia, and we need to own it - hearing this history is necessary before we can come to some true reconciliation, some genuine healing for both sides. Then we can move forward together.”

National NAIDOC Co Chairs, 2019

NAIDOC Day concert at Thornbury Primary School (2015) with Robert Bundle; photo: Vaso Elefsiniotis

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NAIDOC WEEK

BRAINSTORMING &

PLANNING PAGE

NAIDOC Day Melbourne, 2011- Photo: Vaso Elefsiniotis

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. 24 Anniversary of July 24 marks the anniversary of Struggle for land rights: When researching the life, Framlingham was an Aboriginal reserve established by the Board for the Framlingham the handover to community of https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ethno-cultural background Protection of Aborigines in Victoria, in 1861. It is located beside the July 300&dat=19800902&id=qu5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid Mission handover two significant mission reserves, =npIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5150,295288&hl=en and works of prominent Hopkins River in the territory of the Kirrae wurrung near the boundary with (1971) Framlingham and Lake Tyers. Koories, try and source the Gunditjmara, not too far from on the south-west coast These handovers also mark the Mission Voices – Framlingham: interviews, articles etc. from of the state. The reserve operated until it was closed in 1916, with first Aboriginal land rights victory http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 descendants and Koorie Aboriginal community members continuing to reside there today. in Australia. 123- community members for 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/framlin gham/default.html authentic Aboriginal The people of Framlingham have fought hard for their country, from the In the 1800s, the Victorian perspectives. sustained guerrilla warfare waged by the Gunditjmara. Kerrupjmara and Colonial Government decided to http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 Kirrae wurrung to the activism of residents in the later part of the allocate reserves of land variously 123- twentieth century. Since invasion times Framlingham has been a place of 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/framlin known as stations, missions or gham/voices_of_framlingham/default.html struggle. reserves on which Aboriginal people were to live. While the Land Transfer: In the early days of its existence control of the station continuously shifted Government ran some Aboriginal http://www.atns.net.au/agreement.asp?Entit between the Board and the missionaries. The Board attempted to shut stations, others were in the yID=3461 Framlingham down a number of times but were met with great resistance

control of missionaries such as Our land till we die: A history of the by the people of the mission and non-Aboriginal people in nearby those of the Anglican or Moravian Framlingham Aborigines townships. The people of Framlingham eventually won ownership of the Churches. Regardless of their http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24994790?sele place that had become home. In 1970, 586 acres were handed over by the secular or religious management, ctedversion=NBD22225128 government in what was, along with Lake Tyers, the first Aboriginal land

life on Aboriginal stations Banjo Clarke: rights victory in Australia. The handover was formalised on the 24th July revolved around efforts to http://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/clarke-banjo- 1971. control and ‘civilise’ Aboriginal 17786 See http://www.atns.net.au/agreement.asp?EntityID=3461 people. https://www.abccommercial.com/librarysale s/program/message-stick-banjo-clarke Read more about the history of the Framlingham community and https://www.standard.net.au/story/5245199 the history of the reserve at the /aboriginal-elder-banjo-clarke-gets-naming- very comprehensive archived honour/ Mission Voices. https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/he nry-banjo-clarke Listen to interviews with Framlingham residents Uncle Lenny Clarke and Uncle Bill Edwards on the Mission Voices site, here, and discuss aspects of life on Framlingham with students.

Prominent Gunditjmara Elder Banjo Clarke, also known as Rainbow man and Wisdom Man was born on Framlingham. Research Banjo Clarke’s life and views. Photo: Henry ‘Banjo’ Clarke

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. 24 Anniversary of Lake Read more about the history of Lake Tyers and Mission Voices: Featured in the photo to the ‘Bung Yarnda’ is the true name of the mission known as Lake Tyers in Tyers (1971) the Lake Tyers community and http://indigenousrights.net.au/land_rights/la right are prominent Victorian Victoria‘s region. Originally the land of the Gunai/Kurnai people, July ke_tyers,_1962-70 handover the history of the mission here Aboriginal leaders Bill Onus, it became home to Aboriginal people from all over the state who were and here and explore each http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 Pastor Doug Nicholls, Joe forcibly removed from their homelands. Many years later, some of these dedicated site. 123- McGuinness and Laurie same families were forced to leave the mission and ‘assimilate’ into 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/lake_ty Moffatt. Research their lives townships. The people of Lake Tyers have been strong and vocal in their Listen to the ‘Voices of Lake ers/default.html and efforts for land rights struggle to retain their land. In 1971 this fight was rewarded with the

Tyers’, and experiences of http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 and recognition. handing back of Bung Yarnda to the people. The mission is surrounded by several who were part of the 123- beautiful waterways and coastal bushland that has been a magnet for . 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/lake_ty tourists since the 1870s ers/mission_history/default.html

Watch the Culture Victoria Lake Tyers for the Aborigines march, Melbourne 1963. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 Left to right: Clive Stoneham, Labor Leader of the Opposition, Bill Onus, Pastor Doug Nicholls, Joe video Life on the Mission 123- McGinness and Laurie Moffatt lead 40 Aboriginal men and women protesting at the government's featuring Gunai/Kurnai 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/lake_ty plans to close Lake Tyers. elders Murray Bull, and Elvie ers/voices_of_lake_tyers/default.html Source: http://indigenousrights.net.au/land_rights/lake_tyers,_1962-70/campaign_to_save_lake_tyers and Elaine Mullett about Lake Tyers video: growing up at Lake Tyers and http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/aboriginal- discuss life on the mission and culture/black-post-white/life-on-the-mission/ in the bush and the significance of the handover Lake Tyers in the news: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/6 with students. Students can 0449327/5733014 prepare a presentation using a range of media (drawings, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12- animation, IT, narrative, oral 21/lake-tyers-history-piece/5170896 history recordings, drama etc) The Black Swan: depicting aspects of life at http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/07/ Lake Tyers. 05/3261160.htm

With your secondary students

read The Black Swan: A Koorie Woman’s Life by Gunai/Kurnai author and artist Eileen Harrison. The Black Swan charts the way the policy of assimilation impacted on Eileen's family at Lake Tyers and her emerging talent as a painter.

The image of Lake Tyers Mission Station from a photograph by C. Walter in the next column provides students the opportunity to search newspaper

archives through TROVE, read an Lake Tyers Mission Station, Gippsland from a article published in 1869 and photograph by C. Walter published in ‘The Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers’ on edit/correct the digitised archive. the 14th August 1869. Click on image for TROVE Click on the image to go directly newspaper archive. to the digital archive. Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 31 National Schools Schools Tree Day is a great way Planet Ark: Did you know that Yorta While every day can be Tree Day, each year, around 3000 preschools, Tree Day to inspire your students to learn https://treeday.planetark.org/schools/index. Yorta/Yuin musician Jimmy kinders, primary and high schools across Australia take part in Schools Tree July cfm about the local environment Little is said to be the first Day. while playing an active role in Preschool guide: Aboriginal pop-star with the their community. http://treeday.planetark.org/documents/doc gospel song Royal Telephone Schools Tree Day 2020 is on Friday 31 July, although events can be held at -1029-preschools-guide.pdf' rising to the top of the any time during the year. Students nation-wide have learnt how to plant Consider holding a whole-of- charts in 1963, selling and care for the seedlings they grow. Milarri Garden, Bunjilaka school event, planting local https://museumsvictoria.com.au/longform/t 75,000 copies? indigenous plants. Investigate the he-plants-of-milarri-garden/ was also the first Indigenous local Koorie language names and Australian to have a number uses for the plants – cultivate one record, or reach the Top species that have known uses and 10. initiate a school signage project incorporating names from the local Koorie language and uses.

Learn about uses and names of many plants indigenous to Victoria through Bunjilaka’s Milarri Garden at the Melbourne Museum.

Visit the Planet Ark website for

more suggestions and resources See: https://www.jlf.org.au/jimmy- about holding events at school. little and https://www.smh.com.au/national/a- Planting of Indigenous Wurundjeri garden at Thornbury PS (2015) – Photo: Vaso Elefsiniotis gentle-man-with-a-voice-like-honey- 20120404-1wcy1.html

AUGUST 4 National Aboriginal National Aboriginal and Torres SNAICC: National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day has been celebrated on & Torres Strait Strait Islander Children's Day http://aboriginalchildrensday.com.au/ the 4th of August for more than 30 years. It’s a special time for Aboriginal August Islander Children’s (NAICD) is a celebration of http://www.snaicc.org.au/ and Torres Strait Islander communities to celebrate our children, and for Day Aboriginal and Torres Strait all Australians to learn about our cultures. Islander children. Around the 4th of August, schools, kinders and communities run Children’s Each year SNAICC produces and Day events. On this website you can get ideas for how to run a Children’s sends out resources to help you Day event, and register your event so we can see Children’s Day growing celebrate NAICD. each year across the nation.

Visit the dedicated Aboriginal The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) Children’s Day website for who first initiated Children’s Day in 1988 sell Children’s Day bags with fun suggested activities and toys and activities for kids to play with at your event. SNAICC can provide resources to help celebrate the posters and a host of other resources to promote Children’s Day. day at your early childhoo service or school with the support of Koorie parents and local Koorie community members where possible Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 9 International Day Consider a whole-of-school event IDWIP: Did you know that the The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People is observed on of the World’s that could include an educational http://www.un.org/en/events/indigenousday largest Aboriginal August 9 each year to recognise the first United Nations Working Group on August / Indigenous People. forum, performances by populations are in the cities? Indigenous Populations meeting in Geneva in 1982. The International Day Aboriginal and Torres Strait http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/i of the World's Indigenous People aims to promote and protect the rights Islander artists, a panel discussion nternational-day-indigenous-people Of the total Aboriginal of the world’s indigenous population. on reconciliation or other population, 31% live in classroom activities. Aboriginal Population map: major cities, 22% in inner There are an estimated 370 million indigenous people in the world, living http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/factss heets/2011/fs201103_fig1_large.png regional Australia, 23% in across 90 countries. They make up less than 5 per cent of the world's outer regional, 8% in remote population, but account for 15 per cent of the poorest. They speak an and 16% in very remote. overwhelming majority of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages and represent 5,000 different cultures.

In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represented 2.8% Click on map to enlarge: of the population in the 2016 Census – up from 2.5% in 2011, and 2.3% in 2006. Of the 649,200 people who identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin, 90.9% were of Aboriginal origin, 5.0% were of Why Do We Mark Torres Strait Islander origin and 4.1% identified as being of both Aboriginal International Days? and Torres Strait Islander origin.

International days are As Indigenous people we ‘are inheritors and practitioners of unique occasions to educate the cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. We have public on issues of concern, retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are to mobilize political will and distinct from those of the dominant societies in which we live.’ resources to address global http://www.un.org/en/events/indigenousday/

problems, and to celebrate Indigenous languages in particular are a significant factor in a wide range and reinforce achievements of humanity. The existence of other indigenous issues, notably education, scientific and technological of international days development, biosphere and the environment, freedom of expression, predates the establishment employment and social inclusion. of the United Nations, but the UN has embraced them In response to these threats, the United Nations General Assembly as a powerful advocacy tool. adopted a Resolution on ‘Rights of Indigenous Peoples’, proclaiming 2019 More information available as the International Year of Indigenous Languages, and 2023-2033 as the

here. International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

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. 15 – 23 National Science For National Science Week 2018, In education-speak STEM is National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and Week VAEAI published a Special about focusing on specific technology and thousands of individuals – from students, to scientists to August Feature: Koorie Perspectives in knowledge across the four chefs and musicians – get involved, taking part in more than 1000 science STEM, where you can learn about learning areas of Science, events across the nation. Gunditjmara scientist Dr. Misty Technology, Engineering and Jenkins' aim to cure brain cancer, Mathematics; and the National Science Week provides an opportunity to acknowledge the eel traps and award-winning interrelationship between contributions of Australian scientists to the world of knowledge. It also bridges, ancient engineering feats them. aims to encourage an interest in science pursuits among the general and much more. Our Koorie Integrating Koorie public, and to encourage younger people to become fascinated by the Seasons and Astral Calendars perspectives into these four world we live in. feature also relates to National learning areas, supports a Science Week and STEM learning. range of alternative Deep Blue: innovations for the future of our oceans is the school theme viewpoints and can foster a for National Science Week in 2020. This theme and features the deeper engagement in these establishment of the Blue Economy CRC. With this in mind, it will embrace 20-year-old tour guide and four learning areas. the innovative technologies, capabilities and skills needed to achieve educator at the economic, environmental and social sustainability of our oceans. It will Kirsten feature insights and inquiries into workable solutions that generate Banks, a young Wiradjuri Did you know that The healthy oceans, healthy economies and healthy communities. Aboriginal woman from NSW is Boorong people of the currently working towards a Mityan the quoll of the Boorong / Wergaia Wergaia language group future in the field of science people. near Lake Tyrell in NW communication and archeo- Victoria, described in the astronomy — the study of the 1840s more than 40 star and astronomical knowledge of planet names and their ancient cultures. Once she associated stories to the graduates, Ms Kirsten Banks Englishman William plans to pursue a PhD in Stanbridge, which he and do research with elders all published in 1857? across Australia to learn about their use of astronomy. Read this In Boorong astronomy, the ABC news article for more. is called Mityan, the quoll. Mityan fell in love And Krystal De Napoli is a with one of the wives of the Kamilaroi woman undertaking an ancestral figure Unurgunite undergraduate degree in and tried to lure her away. at Monash Unurgunite discovered University. In 2018 she will be Mityan’s trickery and commencing a cadetship with the attacked him, leading to a CSIRO's Data61 team and is great fight in which Mityan working closely with Astronomer was defeated. The Moon has Dr Duane Hamacher and been wandering the heavens Indigenous Elders in their ever since, the scars of the Kirsten Banks, Wiradjuri science communication and archeo-astronomy student, NSW research into Indigenous battle still visible on his face. astronomical traditions. Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 15 Anniversary of Learn about Wurundjeri hero William Barrack: William Barak’s activist and leader William William Barrack: King of the Yarra: August http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- (Beruk Barak) Barak’s life, political involvement, barak/5588/william-barak--king-of-the-yarra/ death in 1903 art, homeland language and mob (people). https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/aboriginal- culture/william-barak/remembering-barak/ Explore the many unique artworks and artefacts created by http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/aboriginal- culture/william-barak/ William Barak, available through FUSE. https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/Resource/L andingPage?ObjectId=930c7016-09c4-46e8- William Barak is one of a select 9be4-5edd3cdecce3 “That painting there

group of nineteenth-century http://aboriginalhistoryofyarra.com.au/teach showed you how we Aboriginal artists who used new ersresource.pdf painted ourselves, it materials, to produce work on showed you the clothes http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barak- paper or cardboard for Europeans we wore, it showed that communicated important william-2930 possum skin drums. aspects of Aboriginal culture. The NGV resources: How many people knew NGV’s illustrated resource http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/school_resource/ our women played explores Barak’s life and work, remembering-barak/ possum skin drums? It and includes a detailed discussion https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/wp- of his subject matter and was so important the content/uploads/2014/10/ngv_edu_edres_b stories there. It’s just technique, and his life at arak.pdf Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. A another little bit of my series of questions help students http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/sto culture, another little bit examine Barak’s imagery. ries-voices/index.cfm?loadref=91 of my people that

http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- someone has taken from Download the interview of barak/5729/auntie-joy-wandin-murphy- me.” Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy speaks-about-william-barak/ Wurundjeri Elder Annette Xiberras Wandin-Murphy by Yorta Yorta http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- /Jaara artist Lou Bennet and barak/5726/the-william-barak-collection-at- Did you know that in June study with your students. the-koorie-heritage-trust/ 2016, a painting entitled Ceremony by William Barak http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- Consider how interviews of was auctioned in London? Aboriginal people by Aboriginal barak/5731/when-the-wattles-bloom/ Descendants of Barak and the

people, draw out particular http://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william- Wurundjeri Council Ceremony, with wallaby and emu: This painting features a ceremony which personal reflections and cultural barak/7609/remembering-barak/ attempted to raise funds depicts hunting, with wallaby and emu. William Barak was ngurunggaeta - information. through crowd-funding to a clan leader - of the Wurundjeri Peoples. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 purchase the painting and 123- return it home. The painting See: http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william-barak/5565/ceremony-with-wallaby-and-emu/ 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/conten was sold to a private collector t/download/256/812/file/Aunty%20Joy%20 Murphy%20Interview.pdf for over half a million dollars, double the estimated amount!

See https://theconversation.com/explainer -the-importance-of-william-baraks- ceremony-60846 Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. SEPT- 4 Indigenous Literacy There are many ways to get Indigenous Literacy Day: Did you know that Indigenous Literacy Day is a national celebration of Indigenous culture, Day involved in 2020 but when it comes http://www.indigenousliteracyfoundatio Aboriginal people generally stories, language and literacy. Celebrated during Literacy Week on the 1st EMBER Sept. to Indigenous Literacy, we n.org.au/ prefer to tell their traditional Wednesday in September, Indigenous Literacy Day also aims to raise funds believe that EVERY DAY should be stories their own way? Work to raise literacy levels and improve the lives and opportunities of about Indigenous literacy. There’s a http://www.indigenousliteracyfoundatio with Aboriginal educators Indigenous Australians living in remote and isolated regions. n.org.au/indigenous-literacy-day.html host of fantastic books written and and Koorie community

illustrated by Aboriginal members to bring authentic The Black Swan by Kurnai / Gunai author and artist Eileen Harrison charts people across the nation. The Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre: storytelling to your students. the way the policy of assimilation impacted on Eileen's family at Lake Tyers and her emerging talent as a painter. Check out the Indigenous Literacy https://www.education.vic.gov.au/schoo

Foundation website for events and l/teachers/teachingresources/multicultu Told in diary form, Digger J. Jones tells the story of Digger - an Aboriginal boy activity suggestions to support ral/Pages/lmerc.aspx?Redirect=1 caught up in the events of the 1960s and the lead up the 1967 Referendum Indigenous Literacy Day. The Black Swan: which officially counted Aboriginal people in Australia as citizens in the eyes of

http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/ the Federal Government. Consider running a fundraiser 07/05/3261160.htm leading up to or following Indigenous Literacy Day and make http://www.allenandunwin.com/default. a donation to the Indigenous aspx?page=94&book=9781742375533 Literacy Foundation – some inspiring examples can be found on http://www.creativespirits.info/resource their website. s/books/black-swan-a-koorie-womans-

life Explore a range of Aboriginal literature with your students, from Deadly Books: children’s stories like TomTom, to http://www.vaclang.org.au/Search.html fiction, plays, poetry essays, and ?searchphrase=all&searchword=books autobiographies such as The Black Swan: A Koorie Woman’s Life by Tom Tom: Gunai/Kurnai author and artist http://www.lemonadesprings.com.au/ht Eileen Harrison. ml/teacher_resources.html

Little Black Trackas: The Melbourne-based Languages http://awchblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/ and Multicultural Education adventures-of-the-little-black- Resource Centre (LMERC) has put trackas.html together a list of picture books, poetry, essays and novels by VACL children’s books: Aboriginal authors to assist http://www.vaclang.org.au/category/chi teachers and librarians to ldren-s.html incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across Digger J. Jones: the curriculum. All resources on https://www.creativespirits.info/resourc the list are available for loan from es/books/digger-j-jones LMERC for up 12 weeks. Books can be posted to government schools https://resource.scholastic.com.au/reso in regional areas for free if urceFiles/Teacher_Notes/7769162_3666 requested. Schools just need to 8.pdf organise return postage. Check out the LMERC online catalogue.

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. With older students study the Nyernila: Listen Continuously – Aboriginal The Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre supports highly readable novel Digger J. Creation Stories of Victoria: teachers and new graduate teachers with resource provision and advice about Jones by prominent Gunditjmara https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/aboriginal- resources in a number of areas including EAL resources, advice and strategies; culture/nyernila/ author Richard Franklin. Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, language teaching notes offer a range of class Macquarie Anthology: resources, games, puppet kits and classroom decorations. discussion points. http://www.macquariepenanthology.com.au /files/unit_3.pdf With younger students, focus on stories such as those suggested on https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/bo oks/general-books/literature-literary- the Better Beginnings site: Deadly studies/Macquarie-PEN-Anthology-of- books for little kids, the range of Aboriginal-Literature-Anita-Heiss-and-Peter- Victorian children’s stories Minter-9781741754384 published by the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL) or The Adventures of the Little Black Trackas by Bangerang educator and author Esme Bamblett.

Source or download a copy of Nyernila: Listen Continuously – Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria for a range of Victorian creation stories as told by Traditional Owners.

The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, edited by Wiradjuri (NSW) writer Anita Heiss and Peter Minter is worth exploring with older students. The anthology includes journalism, petitions and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as major works that reflect the blossoming of Aboriginal poetry, prose and drama from the mid- twentieth century onwards. Authors include Bennelong, William Barak, David Unaipon, Pearl Gibbs, Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, Charles Perkins, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Bob Randall, Jimmy Chi, Patrick Dodson, Marcia

Langton, , Lisa Bellear, Alexis Wright, Kim Scott, Noel Pearson, Larissa Behrendt, Tony Birch, and Tara June Winch. Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. OCTOBER True spring: With the weather warming up Koorie Seasons and Astral Calendars: Did you know that in late “Aboriginal ancestral narratives aren’t Poorneet or after a long cold in many parts of http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=6017 2017, the International tadpole Victoria, explore Koorie seasons Astronomical Union (IAU) just about the land – they’re also about season by in your region, like the 6-7 approved 86 new names for

the seasons of the Wurundjeri and drawn from those used the Sun, the Moon and the stars.

Wurundjeri. learn about how seasonal change by other cultures, namely Indigenous people have a very holistic is signalled through plants, Australian Aboriginal, animals and other signs such as Chinese, Coptic, Hindu, understanding of the universe. It the night sky. Where possible, Mayan, Polynesian, and invite knowledgeable Koorie South African? doesn’t just stop at the horizon.” cultural educators into the classroom to discuss further. Four Aboriginal Australian Stephen Gilchrist, Indigenous art curator at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Vic. star names were added to View and download VAEAI’s the IAU stellar name Koorie Seasons and Astral catalogue, including the Calendars feature - an interactive Wardaman names Larawag, teaching resource exploring Ginan, and Wurren for the seasons and traditional activities, stars designated ε (Epsilon)

with a host of online resources, Scorpii, ε (Epsilon) Crucis, suggested activities and links to and ζ (Zeta) Phoenicis, the Vic Curriculum. respectively, and significantly from Victoria, Learn about significant foods and the Boorong name plants for Koories in Victoria such Unurgunite for the star as the staple (yam (Sigma) Canis Majoris (an daisy) for the Wurundjeri and ancestral figure who fights other Kulin. the Moon), representing some of the most ancient star names in the IAU Focus some learnings around the catalogue. night sky. The sky was and See: remains a stellar calendar https://www.iau.org/news/pressre indicating when the seasons are leases/detail/iau1707/

shifting and when certain foods

are available. For example within the spread of the Milky Way an emu is visible – not a constellation as such but a clear emu shape formed in the blend of star and black matter. At different times of the year this Emu in the Sky is oriented, so it appears to be either running or sitting down. When the emu is ‘sitting’, it’s time to collect their eggs.

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. NOV- 11 Remembrance Day Remember and acknowledge Did you know that on this Remembrance Day on the 11th November marks the anniversary of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait day in 1869, the Victorian armistice which ended the First World War (1914-18). Each year EMBER Nov. Islander men and women who colonial government passed Australians observe one-minute silence at 11 am on 11 November, in fought and died in the Australian an act ''To Provide for the memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts, Services without citizenship Protection and Management especially soldiers with 'no known grave'. rights, proper wages and due of the Aboriginal Natives of recognition. Victoria'', more commonly known as the Aborigines Protection Act 1869. This View and download VAEAI’s gave the Victorian curriculum-aligned interactive government control of ANZAC Day feature with online where Aboriginal people multimedia resources and could live, of how they suggested activities to explore would relate to Europeans, Indigenous Australians’ war of their labour and earnings service. and of the ''care, custody and education'' of all Aboriginal children.

Anniversary of the With older students read the Lest we forget a cruel act of passing of the article Lest we forget a cruel act dispossession: Aborigines of dispossession, by Gunditjmara http://ht120tasks.blogspot.com.au/2009 Protection Act activist, singer/songwriter, author /11/ht125-blog-1-indigenous- 1869 and film director, Richard Franklin history.html and Peter Lewis and discuss. Note the original article printed in The Age on November 11, 2009 can no longer be easily accessed and therefore a reproduction is provided via this link to an Indigenous History unit blog.

On this day in 1869, the Victorian colonial government passed an act ''To Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria'', commonly known as the Aborigines Protection Act 1869. This gave the Victorian government control of where Aboriginal people could live, of how they would relate to Europeans, of their labour and earnings and of the ''care, custody and education'' of all Aboriginal children.

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. 21 Anniversary of the If you haven’t done so already, Walk the Talk: On 21 November 2004, Michael Long embarked an historic trek, walking Long Walk to register your school with The http://www.walkthetalk.org.au/ from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne all the way to Parliament Nov. Canberra Walk the Talk Education Program http://www.walkthetalk.org.au/activity- House in Canberra – more than 650 kilometres away. for free resources or a school visit zone/ and explore the interactive After returning home from yet another Aboriginal funeral, Michael decided activity zone with students. Walkers letter to Australian PM: that something needed to be done about the plight of his people. He took http://www.walkthetalk.org.au/wp- it upon himself to get Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues back on content/uploads/2013/06/Long_Lettter_to_P With middle years or older rime_Minister_December_2004.pdf the national agenda and resolved to meet with Prime Minister John students read the letter Howard to discuss his concerns… even if he had to walk all the way to presented to the then PM John The Long Walk media reports: Canberra to do it. Howard, and media reports about http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/H oward-joins-the-Long- the Long Walk and discuss the journey/2004/12/03/1101923335406.html Michael was joined on the road by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal reasons behind it. Discuss with supporters from all over Australia. Some walked in support for an hour, your students the powerful http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/The some for a day and some took the journey all the way to Canberra. As the -journey-is-just-beginning-Michael- impact and effect of mass walkers passed through the Victorian countryside, local people came out Long/2004/12/03/1101923306889.html marches and walks. Photo: Sir Douglas Nicolls in to meet them, offering encouragement, support and assistance.

Shepparton, Victoria Marches and Walks http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cce/l Walk the Talk tells the story of Michael Long’s walk to Canberra to ong_michael,15305.html introduce Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies into schools and encourage students to create change; while assisting in meeting the http://www.deadlyvibe.com.au/2014/05/lon g-walk-equality/ Photo: Sir Douglas Nicolls playing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and cultures cross curriculum Victoria Football Club priority of the Australian National Curriculum. http://www.bunburymail.com.au/story/2129 602/journey-for-aboriginal-recognition-on- the-way-to-bunbury/

http://www.smh.com.au/national/marching- for-a-fresh-beginning-20100527-whuu.html

Michael Long on his way to Canberra on the very first Long Walk to get Indigenous Affairs back on the agenda

Michel Long (centre) with walkers 10 years after the original Long Walk. See: http://www.deadlyvibe.com.au/2014/05/long-walk-equality/

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. DEC- The end of the school year is VCAA Learning about Aboriginal and The Apology Anniversary on For a summary of key Learning Areas and Content Descriptions directly fast approaching with teachers Torres Strait Islander histories and 13th February, generally falls related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures within EMBER and students looking forward cultures summary guide: within the first fortnight of the Victorian Curriculum F-10, select the link for a copy of the VCAA’s: http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.a to holidays. Use this time to school term, so plan early Learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. u/overview/cross-curriculum-priorities for next year involving local plan a stimulating new year of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Koorie studies for all. The Little Red, Yellow, Black Book with a dedicated website including Learning About the Stolen Generations Islander community members. comprehensive teaching resources provides an introduction to Indigenous Download the VCAA guide Resource: culture and history for everyone: adults who want to learn what they http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=7 Learning about Aboriginal and weren’t taught at school, as well as migrants, tourists, trainers, institutions 086 Torres Strait Islander histories and schools. and cultures for a summary of

key Learning Areas and Content LRYBB: When used as a teaching resource, the book introduces almost all the Descriptions directly related to http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/lryb/ areas required for study in secondary Indigenous Studies curricula Aboriginal and Torres Strait throughout Australia, as well as large parts of Australian History and SOSE. Islander histories and cultures. While The Little Red, Yellow, Black Book has been made for use in NSW schools predominantly, there is a lot of content relevant to Victoria and Explore VAEAI’s growing suite of activities can be suitably modified. Resources for schools and families including our regular Online you’ll find comprehensive teaching resources for secondary or adult Koorie Perspectives in educators that includes: Curriculum Bulletins, features • links to curriculum and briefs. • guidelines for ethical research • interpretation of subject matter for both teachers and students th Plan for Apology Anniversary 13 • ideas for further reading February. The Apology • discussion questions and Anniversary generally falls • a range of activities. within the first fortnight of school term so plan early for next year involving local Koorie and Torres Strait Islander community members.

Download the National Sorry Day Committee’s excellent resource Learning about the Stolen Generation: the NSDC’s school resource for great classroom and whole-of-school activities

Purchase copies of the Little Red Yellow Black Book : An introduction to Indigenous Australia, and explore the portal website , teaching resources and range of suggested activities and modify for use in Victorian schools if needed. Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 3 Eureka Day The Eureka Stockade of 1854, Koorie involvement on the goldfields: Did you know that “On Saturday morning”, says the Maryborough which is celebrated on this day http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2004/1 Aboriginal people played Dec. 1/08/1244930.htm Advertiser, “a party of aborigines commenced a took place on Wathaurung an important role in the Country, in the District. http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- daily life of the Victorian search for gold on the pipeclay at the White Hills, history/golden-victoria/life-fields/aborigines- goldfields, heavily involved gold-rush near Mark Drewin’s store, and in a very short time Research the largely in trade, as labourers, unacknowledged involvement http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?stor occasional miners and they discovered pieces which they sold for 12 of Koories on the Victorian yid=53 according to oral history shillings, 15 shillings, and 10 pounds odd. They goldfields. carers of non-Koorie Black Gold: Aboriginal People on the say the same party were successful some time since Goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870: children? Were Aboriginal people involved http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/aboriginal- in the neighbourhood of Amherst and Talbot. They in the Eureka Stockade? Read history-monographs/black-gold/pdf- historian Ian Clark’s opinion by download/ say, " White fellow dig for gold, and black fellow

checking out VAEAI’s Aboriginal http://press.anu.edu.au/wp- pick it up.” Their eyes seem more serviceable than Perspectives from the Victorian content/uploads/2012/09/whole-web1.pdf Goldfields feature - an many men’s pick and shovels.” interactive curriculum-linked Another Side of Eureka - the Aboriginal Melbourne Argus, October 3rd 1866 teaching resource with a great presence on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854 - Were Aboriginal people involved in the collection of online links to ? resources: photographic http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Histor collections of the era, impacts of y/Bentley/2005-07.pdf the goldrush, involvement of the - Hidden Histories site: Native Police in the early gold http://sovereignhillhiddenhistories.com.au rush period and possum skin cloaks. http://education.sovereignhill.com.au/teache rs/teaching-kits/hidden-histories-primary- teaching-kit/

Possum Skin: https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore- collection/provenance-journal/provenance- 2005/dallong-possum-skin-rugs (as trade item)

Eugene von Guerard: https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/creative- life/eugene-von-gu%C3%A9rard/ Aborigines met

on the road to Photo: Eugene Von Guerard the diggings by

Eugene von

Guerard (1854) - NLA ref 1874055 used with permission of the National Library, Australia

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. 5 Anniversary of Locate and learn about the : Did you know that in 1872, On Thursday 5th December 2013, the National Trust handed over their Ebenezer mission Ebenezer reserve on the mission http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061 the State School in freehold interests in the Ebenezer Mission, Antwerp to the Barengi Gadjin Dec. 123- reserve handover voices website. When the 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/ebenez Gippsland’s Ramahyuck Aboriginal Corporation - Traditional Owners, Registered mission was closed down in 1905 er/default.html Mission gained the highest Aboriginal Party and Native Title Holders. many residents were forced to marks possible in a State- relocate to Lake Tyers in https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/wp- wide examination? The Ebenezer Mission was first gazetted in 1861 as the Lake Hindmarsh Gippsland. content/uploads/2014/01/Fact-Sheet- Aboriginal Reserve and was later closed in 1904. From 1968 until 1991, the Ebenezer-Mission.pdf Mr Charles Topp, Inspector National Trust managed the whole site of 0.8Ha, assuming Committee of Management status for the Crown Land reserve and freehold ownership of Using maps locate all Victorian http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/is of School for the Education reserves and missions and discuss sue/latrobe-76/t1-g-t3.html Department, reported that: the balance of the site. The Crown Land reservation was revoked in 1991 what it may have been like for “This school has again and the Crown allotment was sold as freehold land to Goolum Goolum Handover: Aboriginal Co-op Ltd., a health and welfare cooperative. In recent years the those who had settled at passed an excellent https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/news/eben Barengi Gadjin Land Council have managed the site on the behalf of Goolum Ebenezer to be forced to live ezer-mission-handed-back-to-traditional- examination. This is the first Goolum and the National Trust. outside of their Country, on land owners/ case since the present result where they had no spiritual and system has been enforced cultural connections. http://www.mailtimes.com.au/story/195578 that 100% of marks was 6/ebenezer-mission-returns-to-traditional- owner/ gained by any school in the Read about an ambitious project Colony. The children, connecting faces in 19th Century Ramahyuck Mission: moreover, show not only photographs to their https://www.ramahyuck.org/about/ramahyu accuracy in their work, but ck-a-history/ contemporary Aboriginal also exhibit much descendants to tell a new history https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vi intelligence – excellent - in effect injecting Victorian c/E000927 progress is shown…”. Aboriginal voices and perspectives into history - taken Aboriginal voices in the afterlife of Significantly, the pupils’ photographs: at Ramahyuck Mission. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/abori teacher was perhaps the ginal-voices-in-the-afterlife-of-photographs first Aboriginal state-school Related to this project is the teacher, Bessie Flower,

multimedia story ‘No Longer a No Longer a Wandering Spirit: originally from Albany WA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCar1ea Wandering Spirit: the story of f6Gc Bessy Flowers’ on YouTube, who was sent away from her ancestral home in Albany Southern Western Australia at the age of 18 sent to live and teach at Ramahyuck Mission where she married a skilled Victorian Aboriginal station worker Donald Cameron, from Ebenezer Mission, in NW Victoria.

Photo: Victorian Aboriginal Missions Location Ebenezer Mission Station, 1892. Unknown photographer Photo: Betsy Flowers as a young girl See: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44035/20061123- 0000/www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/ebenezer/art_photos_videos/default.html

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. 10 World Human Explore VAEAI’s interactive Rights and Freedoms: In 1950, The UN General Assembly proclaimed December 10 as Human Rights Day teaching resource Rights and http://www.vaeai.org.au/?ddownload=6016 Rights Day, to bring to the attention ‘of the peoples of the world’ the Dec. Freedoms: World Human Rights http://www.htav.asn.au/shop/middle- Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the common standard of Day. years/rights-and-freedoms achievement for all peoples and all nations.

Vote Yes for Aborigines: Rights and Freedoms: Published in 2018 in recognition http://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/0/49 Produced by the MTAV in consultation with Koorie community members, th 2.html?words=vote+yes of the 70 anniversary of the this teacher resource examines Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights Universal Declaration of Human About the making of Vote Yes for Aborigines and freedoms in Australia in the context of international declarations and Rights, VAEAI’s interactive (2007): movements. Written for the Australian Curriculum: History at Year 10, it feature is linked to the Vic http://press.anu.edu.au/node/342/download includes summaries, curriculum links, sources, varied activities and an accompanying CD, relevant to both national and Victorian examples. Curriculum and contains a great Talk about Rights: range of suggested activities, http://e4ac.edu.au/units/year-6/index.html background information about Vote Yes for Aborigines: the struggle for human rights in SLV: http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- Human Rights are inherent Vote Yes for Aborigines gives you the Aboriginal perspective on the 1967 Australia and links to resources history/fight-rights/indigenous-rights rights that belong to every Referendum.

including the Victorian-based person, without teacher resource - Rights and discrimination of any kind. “Such a good resource for teaching kids (and adults!) about the incredible Freedoms particularly relevant for struggle which is still very relevant and ongoing today for Indigenous and upper secondary students; the In 2018 the UN celebrated Non-Indigenous people of Australia.” —Primary school teacher Indigenous Rights SLV website , the 70th anniversary of the Vote Yes for Aborigines (2007) Universal Declaration of Talk about Rights Unit: directed by Yorta Yorta woman Human Rights (UDHR), a This unit explores the changes to democratic and citizenship rights of Frances Peters-Little about the milestone document in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since 1900. Students are led 1967 referendum and the history of human rights. into issues through famous Australian speeches. They will explore how campaign for Aboriginal authors use language in creative ways to persuade and describe, and how citizenship rights that led up to it; people use written and spoken language to suit social purposes and the Talk about Rights unit website address particular audiences. and teaching resources where students are introduced to issues through famous Australian speeches; and The Kids World Citizens site helping young minds ‘go global’.

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. 13 Anniversary of the With students locate Wotjobaluk, Aboriginal Languages of Victoria map: First successful Native Title settlement in Victoria: first successful Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and http://www.vaclang.org.au/item/aboriginal- On the 13th December 2005, the Federal Court of Australia ruled in favour Dec. languages-of-victoria.html Native Title Country in the Wimmera of Native Title claimants the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and settlement in region of western Victoria and Blak Inside: Jupagulk Peoples of Western Victoria. This determination was particularly Victoria - found in learn as much as you can about https://australianplays.org/script/CP-117 significant for the and Wergaia peoples as it was the first favour of the their connection to Country, their successful native title claim in south-eastern Australia. 2015 marks the 10th Wotjobaluk, language and culture. Native Title article: anniversary of this historic settlement. Justice Merkel said the success of the http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/p Jaadwa, ast-gives-aborigines- Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagalk peoples' native title Jadawadjali, Read the age article about the strength/2005/12/13/1134236064303.html claims was testimony to their acknowledgement of traditional laws and Wergaia and native title recognition of the observance of customs. He said the case was "a living example" that Jupagalk Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, William John Kennedy Snr: traditional laws were not fixed and unchanging. Rather, they evolved over http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx Traditional Owners Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples. ?aeid=1355#.VCOeZfmSwrV time in response to changing social and economic needs to which all Discuss with students why this societies adapted. determination is so important. Tracey Rigney play - Belonging http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue48/ Read about the life of Watjobaluk 6380

Elder Uncle William John Kennedy https://australianplays.org/script/CP-117 Snr acknowledged by the NT court, who sadly passed away http://wheelercentre.com/events/presenter/ before Native Title settlement tracey-rigney/

was reached. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guidelines for Drama/Theatre Education: Discuss the commonality http://www.dramaaustralia.org.au/assets/fil between the first successful es/ATSIguidelinesFinalSept07.pdf Native Title determination in Australia (aka Mabo decision) and

the first successful determination

in Victoria. What might it might be like to fight for years for Native Title recognition and to not live to see victory. How can Photo source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/past-gives-aborigines- we honour those activists? strength/2005/12/13/1134236064303.html

Learn about the works of Tracey Rigney - Wotjabaluk /Ngarrindjeri storyteller, actor and playwright - and study the play Belonging Blak Inside: Six Indigenous from Blak Inside: Six Indigenous Plays from Victoria: Plays from Victoria which follows the taunts and temptations of a A collection of six plays school girl, and her personal from Victoria by Aboriginal struggle to remain true to her writers encompassing a culture and herself. For advice myriad of issues about the and protocols around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aboriginal experience. drama/theatre education, see the

excellent guidelines published by

Drama Australia. Koorie Education Calendar 2020

. 24 Koorie children all The Extraordinary Tale of The Wathaurong and William Buckley: Did you know that on over our lands William Buckley (2010) http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- Eve 1803, convict Dec. history/colonial-melbourne/convicts/buckley- visited by Santa presented by Michael Cathcart, myth William Buckley escaped overnight! tells the story. Adapted from from Sullivan Bay settlement journalist John Morgan's 1852 http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- near Sorrento, travelled by book, and based on William history/colonial-melbourne/convicts/buckley- foot along Port Phillip Bay Buckley's own personal accounts, and-aborigines and then lived with the

The Extraordinary Tale of William http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore- Wathaurong People for 32 Buckley tells the remarkable true history/colonial-melbourne/convicts/buckley- years before returning to story of the escaped convict who and-aborigines colonial settlements? lived with the Wathaurong long http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/extraor

before white colonisation. On a dinary-tale-of-william-buckley/ stifling hot Christmas night in 1803, William Buckley, a young ATOM study guide: English convict, escaped from the https://theeducationshop.com.au/downloads doomed first settlement of Port /atom-study-guides/the-extraordinary-tale- of-william-buckley-atom-study-guide/ Phillip Bay in South Eastern Australia, and joined the Wathaurong people for 32 years.

An accompanying study guide is Photo: Convict William Buckley

available through ATOM. Image from The Extraordinary Tale of William Buckley. See The SLV Ergo site has some great http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/extraordinary-tale-of-william-buckley/

background information and resources about William Buckley.

Photo: Ingetjetje Tadros ; https://www.mediastorehouse.com/australian-views/special- events/christmas/little-aboriginal-girl-wearing-santa-hat-10387564.htm