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Indigenous rights

Port Phillip's history is often told from the perspective of men like John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner. But the art and oral histories of Indigenous Victorians tell another side of the story.

Find out about Native Title and the struggle for land, the history of Reconciliation in Australia, and how European settlement affected the Indigenous communities of Victoria.


 
Simon Wonga, Chief of the Yarra Yarra Tribe
Front view of the Coranderrk Aboriginal village
Barak drawing a corroboree
Dancers with weapons; Hunting and fishing; European house and couple
'Disowned'
'How to Vote' cards
'Yorta people vow to fight on'
Edward Micklethwaite Curr
'Reconciliation: it's up to us' badge
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