Victoria’s truth-telling commission has held a ceremonial hearing on Gunditjmara Country as it begins inquiries into historic injustices related to land, skies, and waters.
The Yoorrook Justice Commission travelled to the site where colonisation in the state began, hearing evidence of theft and massacres from local Elders and Traditional Owners.The sounds of a Gunditjmara smoking ceremony - one sign of a culture that is still strong and thriving in the face of colonisation.
The ceremonial hearing in Tae Rak begins three weeks of evidence into issues relating to land, skies and waters. Elders took commissioners to nearby Kurtonitj - showing them ancient eel traps and a smoking tree, where Gunditjmara people cured eels. "It is there that the European whalers used their guns to fend off the Kilcarer Gundidj people from accessing their own resources which they had done for thousands of years prior."
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