(, List of Indigenous Australian group names, Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip, Geelong Australia - Wathaurong People 2007, "Statues are toppling globally but what does this mean for Ballarat? The Deakin design team was made up of alumni, students and academic researchers. The case in the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip, R v Bonjon, later become notable for the legal question of whether the colonial courts had jurisdiction over offences committed by Aboriginal people inter se, that is, by one Aboriginal person against another, and the legal situation as to the British acquisition of sovereignty over Australia, and its consequences for the Aboriginal people. It is located about 60km south-west of Melbourne and is now known as the You Yangs. The name Wathaurong (Wadda-Warrung) is a recognised tribe (community) which consisted of some 25 clans (family groups) that forms part of the Kulin Nation of Aboriginal people. As with most other Kulin territories, penalties such as spearings were enforced upon trespassers. Update for Surf Coast Shire landholders based in Melbourne. This page provides enrolment forms for different eligibility options for the 2020 Council Elections. According to police magistrate Foster Fyans, Bonjon was with the Native Police for seven months, tracking runaway horses and generally assisting the other members. Writing on 9 December 1839, Niel Black, a squatter in western Victoria, describes the prevailing attitude of many settlers: The best way [to procure a run] is to go outside and take up a new run, provided the conscience of the party is sufficiently seared to enable him without remorse to slaughter natives right and left. Its northwestern boundaries lay at Mount Emu and Mount Misery, and extended to Lake Burrumbeet Beaufort and the Ballarat goldfields.[4]. It is universally and distinctly understood that the chances are very small indeed of a person taking up a new run being able to maintain possession of his place and property without having recourse to such means – sometimes by wholesale....[14].

The prosecution alleged that on or about 14 July 1841, Bonjon shot Yammowing in the head with a carbine at Geelong, killing him. This short video explores the cultural heritage of the Bells Beach Surfing Recreational Reserve. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders past and present and recognise them for their stewardship and continuing connection to Country.

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Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung language, even though there are no equivalent sounds in English. Matthew Flinders met several Wathaurong when he camped at Indented Head and climbed the You Yangs in May 1802. Buckley claimed enemies slain in combat were roasted and eaten. FREE EVENT.

After a detailed conversation Corrina agreed to work with Amy McKay to produce, what turned out to be an effective solution involving the contemporary interpretation of traditional culture. We acknowledge their ancestors who cared for the land, rivers and sea - and all of its creatures - for thousands of generations. If you'd like a response from us, please give us your email address. [11], "They have a belief, that when they die, they go to some place or other, and are there made white men, and that they then return to this world again for another existence.

[18], There is oral history that local Aboriginal people may have looked after some of the children of the Eureka miners after the military storming of the Eureka Stockade and subsequent massacre of miners. Buckley had taken a spear used to mark a grave for use as a walking stick. Working in collaboration Amy and Corrina were able to maintain the cultural integrity of the meeting place narrative in a design that communicated on multiple levels. Surfing came to Bells in the 1940s, but surfers were few until the access track was widened in 1960. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung language, even though there are no equivalent sounds in English.We had no written language so early settlers wrote down what they heard using their own language trying to reproduce the sounds.In this series of short films we correct some of the language spelling of the places we all know and explain the meaning behind our stories.Language needs a place to live, and this is a chance for us to tell our stories and our language.Our language is sleeping, but will soon reawaken.This video is set in Wurdi Youang, which means big hill in the middle of a plain.

They were sometimes referred to by Europeans as the Barrabool people. Wathaurong, also called the Wathaurung, Wadawurrung and Wadda Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria.They are part of the Kulin alliance. The Bells Beach Committee helps Council manage the Bells Beach Surfing Reserve and is made up of an impartial chair, representatives of the Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation, representatives of Surfing Victoria, and five community nominees. According to William Buckley, the Wathaurong practiced ritual cannibalism, moderately compared to what he reported of the practices of a neighbouring tribe, the Pallidurgbarran, whose putative cannibalism is itself dubious.

It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria. They are part of the Kulin alliance. Designer: Todd Murphy.

Bells Beach is in Wadawurrung country. When Lieutenant David Collins founded the colony at Sullivan Bay, Victoria in October 1803, he sent Lieutenant J. Tuckey to survey and explore Corio Bay which resulted in several Aboriginal people being shot and wounded. In 1841, Wathaurong man Bonjon (or "Bon Jon") was charged with murder for killing Yammowing of the Gulidjan people whose territory bordered that of the Wathaurong. Contact details and registration history for the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation. The Recognition and Settlement Agreement between the Dja Dja Wurrung people and the State of Victoria was celebrated at Yepenya on 15 November 2013.