The Flora and Fauna Names Project is an initiative of the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages and the Victorian Biodiversity Strategy. The researcher has examined material from the archives of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), the State Library of Victoria, the Victorian Public Records Office and the Australian Archives Office. This first stage of the project focussed on the NRE archives, in particular the field notebooks of the earliest surveyors and their maps although other NRE resources, libraries and public records were accessed. A total of 3028 words were found of which a significant proportion have previously been unknown to linguists. It appears that the place names and word lists in early surveyors notebooks, the 1858 surveyors responses to the Surveyor General and an extensive Wiradjuri wordlist by James Baylis have not yet been widely used or published. Fifteen percent of these 3028 words describe flora and fauna and six percent describe habitat. Of particular interest is the evidence provided by these lists of the existence of fauna in the mid nineteenth century in regions where it is now extinct. For example, magpie geese, eastern quolls, bustards and pademelons were assigned names in the Jardwadjali language area of the upper Glenelg and Wimmera Rivers. The outcomes of this project may help to assist in ascertaining the distribution of flora and fauna assets in Victoria.maps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, illustrations, word listswiradjuri, jardwadjali, glenelg river, wimmera river

Shirley Morgan was the Manager of the Aboriginal Education Centre when this brochure was produced. A brochure for the Aboriginal Education Centre at the University of Ballarat. aboriginal education centre, aborigines, reconciliation

Mitchell Library Doors featuring Aboriginal designsaborigines, aboriginal, mitchell library doors

Digitised directly from 'The Native Races of the British Empire: Victoria' Black and white Image of Aboriginal club shields and spear sheildsaborigine, aboriginal, shields

Two Carved Aboriginal Birds made from a very light timber such as Balsa Woodaboriginal, sculpture, birds

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Features artwork by VACL Project Officer Mandy Nicholson.maps, photographswurundjeri, carlton gardens, alexandria gardens, maysar, batman treaty, oral histories

Response by Governments to the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody. Looks at likely causes, bail, Legal Services, links with family and community, language and heritage.criminal justice system, australian law enforcement, police, aboriginal prisoners, race relations, racism, racial stereotyping

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