Name: * Chris Thrum Email address: * [email protected] Contact phone number 0422066973 (optional): Please indicate which Future Melbourne Committee meeting meeting you would like to make a submission to by selecting the appropriate button: * Date of meeting: * Tuesday 7 February 2017 Agenda item title: * Agenda Item 6.1 Metro Tunnel Project and Management of Burke and Wills Memorial Please write your submission in the space provided below and submit by no later than noon on the day of the scheduled meeting. We encourage you to make your submission as early as possible. Dear City of Melbourne Committee Meeting Group Officers This is a written submisssion in regards to the Future Melbourne Committee Meeting no. 5 , 7th February 2017 5.30pm. It is in regard to Agenda Item 6.1 Metro Tunnel Project (MTP) and Management of Burke and Wills Memorial (Memorial). The Memorial will have to be moved from its present location to a secure site, whilst the Metro Tunnel Project works are undertaken. I support the recommendation from the Management Group, to remove the Memorial and to have restoration work applied to this important Memorial (Key Issue 11) . The City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection Program Advisory panel, support the Memorial being returned to the current site, after the Metro Tunnel Project work at the City Square site is complete (Key Issue 8). The cost for the removal and restorative works, storage and re-installation will be met by the MTP (Key Issue 9). In regards to (Key Issue 11.3) the request by the Royal Society to have the Memorial re-located to a new location has merit, and further discussion on this may be appropriate. The Royal Society have highlighted their concerns about the care and security of the Memorial whilst it is in storage and a restorative program is in activation. I support the Recommendation from Management Group that the Memorial be returned to its current location after the MTP works have been completed. Cultural Significance The Memorial has an important cultural significance. One aspect that Charles Summers acknowledges is the relationship that the Yandruwandha have with the Melbourne Expedition that was led by Robert O'Hara Burke, and included Wills and John King. The Yandruwandha have lived on and managed the country around Coopers Creek for 50,000 years. In 2016 The Age Newspaper reported on the Burke, Wills, King and Yanruwandha Heritage Places - "Five sites in a 70-kilometre radius along the banks of Cooper Creek in South Australia became the 104th addition to the list, including the famous Dig Tree where Burke and Wills arrived just hours after their comrades had given up a four-month wait for the men. The tree where Burke's remains were buried and the site where John King, the expedition's sole survivor, lived with the Yandruwandha people were also among the landmarks added to the heritage list. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt announced the latest addition in a ceremony at the Royal Society of Victoria, which organised the expedition in 1860." http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/burke-wills-king-and-yandruwandha-national-heritage-place- inscribed-onto-national-heritage-list-20160122-gmc0ne.html Burke, Wills, King and Yandruwandha National Heritage ... www.theage.com.au Burke, Wills, King and Yandruwandha National Heritage place inscribed onto National Heritage List In one of the bas-reliefs on the memorial ,there is a depiction of the relationship between John King and the Yandruwandha. One of the bas-reliefs shows the scene when John King showed the Yandruwandha Burke's body after he had passed away. On the 16th December 2015, ABC News reported on the Yandruwandha winning native title over their outback land, and it mentions their relationship with Burke and Wills. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-16/native-title-claim-acknowledged-at-sa-bush- hearing/7033858 Native title granted by Federal Court for Yandruwandha ... www.abc.net.au Descendants of Aboriginal families who helped Burke and Wills on their ill-fated expedition through central Australia have won native title over their outback land ... When John King returned to Melbourne as the sole survivor of the party of four that reached the Gulf of Carpentaria he spoke of the kindness shown to him by the Yandruwandha. Victorians were particularly taken by the respect they showed to Burke’s remains. King recalled, they [the Yandruwandha] were very anxious … to know where Mr Burke lay, and one day … I took them to the spot. On seeing his remains, the whole party wept bitterly, and covered them with bushes. King’s narrative, #255110, Box FB33, MS 13071, State Library of Victoria. http://burkeandwills.slv.vic.gov.au/ask-an-expert/yandruwandha-yawarrawarrka-cooper-creek Yandruwandha / Yawarrawarrka at Cooper Creek | Dig - The ... burkeandwills.slv.vic.gov.au Hi Dave, I am hoping you can assist me or at least point me in the right direction. My son (through his father’s mother) is a descendant of the Innamincka ... Finding Burke dead by Charles Summers, 1865. One of four bas-reliefs at the base of Summer's 1865 Melbourne statue to Burke and Wills. This description inspired Charles Summers to use it as the theme for one of the four bas-reliefs on his statue The Burke and Wills digital archive has detailed the assistance and care that the Yandruwandha showed towards the explorers. The Relief Expeditions that set out to assist the Melbourne Expedition Party are recorded here. http://www.burkeandwills.net.au/Memorials/grave_burke.htm Burke's Grave - Burke and Wills www.burkeandwills.net.au Burke and Wills Web: digital research archive of records from the Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861) from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. This ... The Australian Heritage Database states - The Burke and Wills Expedition Sites, which lie on Yandruwandha-Yawarrawarrka country and Wongkumara country, connect contemporary Australians with the expedition’s key figures: Robert Burke, William Wills, John King, Alfred Howitt and the assistance provided to them by the Yandruwandha Aboriginal people. Burke and Wills were the leaders of the expedition; it was their leadership and the decisions they made that had a major impact on the expedition, its aftermath and the transformation of the story into an iconic moment in Australia's cultural history. John King was the sole survivor of the party of four that made the historic journey to the Gulf of Carpentaria. He is remembered for his survival through connection with the Yandruwandha people who cared for him until he was rescued by Alfred Howitt. Alfred Howitt played a pivotal role in the story of the Burke and Wills Expedition through his rescue of John King. Howitt recorded the name of the Yandruwandha people who, in K ing's words, had treated him as one of their own over the months following the deaths of Burke and Wills. http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=106061 The Memorial is of great significance to Melbournians, Victorians and Australians.The Memorial is of great significance to the Yandruwandha and in particular the family of John King. The Memorial is significant for the Wurendjeri for it shows their brothers and sisters from the Yandruwandha caring for the whitefellas of the Melbourne Northern Expedition. This places in a positive light the relationship between Melbournians and the Yandruwandha and shows that the concept of Terra Nullis was a construction that did not acknowledge or understand that the Aboriginal Tribes and Nations around Australia have been caring for and managing the country for 50,000 years. It is appropriate that City of Melbourne removes the memorial from its current site, and have restorative work done on it whilst in storage and to have it returned to its current location. Further discussion with the Royal Society on this matter may be appropriate. Please indicate whether Yes you would like to address the Future Melbourne Committee in support of your submission: (No opportunity is provided for submitters to be heard at Council meetings.) * Privacy I have read and acknowledge how Council will use and disclose my personal acknowledgement: * information. Name: * Mike Flattley Email address: * [email protected] Contact phone number (optional): 0478403050 Please indicate which meeting you Future Melbourne Committee meeting would like to make a submission to by selecting the appropriate button: * Date of meeting: * Monday 7 August 2017 Agenda item title: * Metro Tunnel Project and Management off Burke and Wills Memorial Alternatively you may attach your written submission by uploading your w_birch_to_future_melbourne_committee_622017.pdf 483.33 file here: KB · PDF Please indicate whether you would like Yes to address the Future Melbourne Committee in support of your submission: (No opportunity is provided for submitters to be heard at Council meetings.) * Privacy acknowledgement: * I have read and acknowledge how Counciil will use and disclose my personal information. Promotion and Advancement of Science and Technology Patron President The Hon. Linda Dessau AM, Governor of Victoria Dr William D. 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