Thanks to the indefatigible Georgina Gartland for providing this.
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A concert to celebrate
Indigenous Culture & History
(26 January 2013)
The day will highlight the 150th anniversary of the Coranderrk Mission Station established in 1863. Information on the establishment of the Coranderrk Mission Healesville will be presented & the story of how Wurundjeri leader William Barak and other elders fought to gain and farm the land only to have the enterprise destroyed by the Aboriginal Protection Board - a hugely significant but often not well known piece of local history.
Uncle Bill Nicholson
Bill Nicholson (Wurundjeri elder) and Dot Peters whose grandmother was born on Coranderrk will speak.
Aunty Dot Peters
The sixth annual Belgrave Survival Day event will include adults , children & family activities such as storytelling and dancing, Indigenous music, talents & performances. There will be loads of other stalls, information and the Coranderrk plant/Christmas Bush (which the mission was named after) will be available.
Coranderrk
Christmas Bush
WHEN: 26TH January 2013
TIME: 12 noon – 4.30 PM
WHERE: Borthwick Park (next to Belgrave Pool) Benson St
BELGRAVE Melway reference 75/F11
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Hi Brigid
ReplyDeleteNice post.
I am confused by similarities (but inconsistencies) of names between this post, and the Wildflower reserve beyond Ferntree Gully.
Baluk Willam Nature Reserve.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~fobw/
Seems too close to be accidental, but the names have been reversed in order.
Any ideas?
Coranderrk is interesting. I lived in Reid, Canberra, close to Coranderrk St, which was apparently named after an Aboriginal Reserve (of bad reputation) on Flinders Island, Bass Strait, where the Tasmanians were moved to. Truganini died there, from memory.
I didn't know about the Coranderrk Mission at Healesville.
And I didn't know that it was named for Prostanthera lasianthos, the Victorian Christmas Bush.
It grows locally, here too, and I grow two types (one pink).
So, lots for me to ponder in your Post.
Denis