Melbourne's Fitzroy hides a past as a hub for the Aboriginal civil rights movement
ABCWhen Aunty Denise McGuinness looks up and down Gertrude Street in Fitzroy, she sees her community's history everywhere. "Fitzroy's so significant to Aboriginal people … if you come from Perth, anywhere, you come straight to Fitzroy," she says. Named Yalinguth, after the Woi Wurrung word for "yesterday", the app follows your GPS location, producing rich audio stories that reveal the recent history of the land you're walking on. "They came into Melbourne to achieve a lot of things, and one of those things was to ensure that Aboriginal people had equal rights," he says. Yorta Yorta man Jason Tamiru, who helped formally launch the Yalinguth app this week, says the trove of elders' stories collected on the app represents a chance to become better informed.
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