In 1835, a group of men led by a grazier from Tasmania, John Batman, met with Kulin leaders in an apparent attempt to lease – or purchase — an extraordinary area of land stretching from modern-day Melbourne to Geelong. The Kulin are an alliance of five distinct but strongly linked nations in the area of modern day Melbourne and surrounds, …
They come from the oldest families to have lived on the land now known as Victoria, and on Wednesday they took over Parliament House. Now, the fresh members at the First Peoples' Assembly have a weighty task from their communities — addressing the ongoing traumas of colonisation through a blanket treaty with the state of Victoria. Wednesday's meeting on Wurundjeri …
Emma Donovan takes us on a geographical music journey in the final J Files of Ausmusic Month. Follow her as she takes us from the Torres Strait islands, across all of Arnhem Land, through Murri Country in Queensland, down the mid north Coast across Bungalang and Gumbayggirr Country, right through to Yorta Yorta Country, Victoria's Arrette Country and finishing up …