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After 160 years, Aboriginal cultural burning returns to Coranderrk Station
When Wurundjeri people were last freely conducting cultural burns across their country in the 1850s, historical records show Gold Rush settlers interpreted it as a threat.
Key points:
- Nearly a century after being ejected from Coranderrk, Wurundjeri people have returned cultural burning to the land
- The ancient land management practice has been credited with helping restore native habitats
- It’s part of a program giving cultural burning knowledge to a new generation of traditional owners
“The colonists thought we were actually at war with them and we were using fire as a tool to get them off the land,” Wurundjeri elder Uncle Dave Wandin said.
“All Aboriginal people knew when a fire was happening … where to go to get out of the way, or to…
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