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Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather ArnoldCarlo Catani: An engineering star over Victoria
... to the state-wide development of infrastructure and amenity. He wed Catherine Hanley and together they were to raise a family of six and despite his professional successes his family life was one of tragedy and grief.... Checchi. From the late 1800’s, Carlo Catani in his capacity as the Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department of Victoria, was already envisioning a scenic Port Melbourne to Sorrento motorway, and took steps to ensure its development. Catani’s ...After more than forty-one years of public service that never ended with his retirement, through surveying and direct design, contracting, supervision, and collaborative approaches, perhaps more than any other single figure, Carlo Catani re-scaped not only parts of Melbourne, but extensive swathes of Victoria ‘from Portland to Mallacoota’, opening up swamplands to farming, bringing access to beauty spots, establishing new townships, and the roads to get us there.
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Nyernila - Listen Continuously: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria
... sourced in various ways via community language development workshops, community offerings and individual contributions.For many Aboriginal communities, the revival of their languages is a new and complex process that competes with community demands... letters are still used today to describe the sounds of Aboriginal Languages.Through the process of Aboriginal Language reclamation, many aspects of language including spelling are now undergoing long and complex development processes in Aboriginal ...This story is based on the unique publication Nyernila – Listen Continuously: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria.
The uniqueness is differentiated by two significant and distinguishing features. It is the first contemporary compilation of Victorian Aboriginal Creation Stories told by Victorian Aboriginal People, and it is the first to extensively use languages of origin to tell the stories.
‘Nyernila’ to listen continuously – a Wergaia/Wotjobaluk word recorded in the 20th century. To listen continuously. What is meant by this term. What meaning is being attempted to be communicated by the speaker to the recorder? What is implied in this term? What is the recorder trying to translate and communicate to the reader?
‘Nyernila’ means something along the lines of what is described in Miriam Rose Ungemerrs ‘dadirri’ – deep and respectful listening in quiet contemplation of Country and Old People. This is how our Old People, Elders and the Ancestors teach us and we invite the reader to take this with them as they journey into the spirit of Aboriginal Victoria through the reading of these stories.
Our stories are our Law. They are important learning and teaching for our People. They do not sit in isolation in a single telling. They are accompanied by song, dance and visual communications; in sand drawings, ceremonial objects and body adornment, rituals and performance. Our stories have come from ‘wanggatung waliyt’ – long, long ago – and remain ever-present through into the future.
You can browse the book online by clicking the items below, or you can download a PDF of the publication here.
nyernila
nye
ny like the ‘n’ in new
e like the ‘e’ in bed
rn
a special kind of ‘n’
i
i like the ‘i’ in pig
la
la
