Learning Gundangara country: Janny Ely

Aunty Janny Ely could see that the many Aboriginal sites around the Bardens Creek area were not being well cared for by National Parks and Wildlife – trail bikes had destroyed bush and some sites, houses built too near – so in 1985 she mapped all the sites and put in a blanket land claim for them. The claim got up.

Keywords: Identity; values; land rights; land councils; material culture; heritage; political activism; change, city

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