RESETTLEMENT | Wiradyuri Gawaymbanha-gu Mamalanha which means Wiradyuri Welcome to Visitors, is a podcast all about Wagga Wagga’s First Nations community.
Be drawn into the lives and experiences of Aboriginal people from Wagga Wagga, the meeting place, on The Marrambidya, or Murrumbidgee River. Join Luke Wighton, a Wiradyuri man from Condoblin and now Wagga Wagga as he talks to Elders who share their histories, memories and hard won reflections on living black.
These recordings were made in 2024, 50 years after the launch of the Aboriginal Family Resettlement Scheme, where families were urged to move from smaller, scattered and remote communities to larger rural centres like Wagga Wagga to be closer to essential health and education services.
The Scheme changed the lives of those who moved and those already here and changed the fabric of Wagga Wagga itself. Services and equal treatment were not a given and had to be fought for.
Each episode relates a different perspective but a shared and remarkable journey.
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RESETTLEMENT | Wiradyuri Gawaymbanha-gu Mamalanha which means Wiradyuri Welcome to Visitors, is a podcast all about Wagga Wagga’s First Nations community.
Be drawn into the lives and experiences of Aboriginal people from Wagga Wagga, the meeting place, on The Marrambidya, or Murrumbidgee River. Join Luke Wighton, a Wiradyuri man from Condoblin and now Wagga Wagga as he talks to Elders who share their histories, memories and hard won reflections on living black.
These recordings were made in 2024, 50 years after the launch of the Aboriginal Family Resettlement Scheme, where families were urged to move from smaller, scattered and remote communities to larger rural centres like Wagga Wagga to be closer to essential health and education services.
The Scheme changed the lives of those who moved and those already here and changed the fabric of Wagga Wagga itself. Services and equal treatment were not a given and had to be fought for.
Each episode relates a different perspective but a shared and remarkable journey.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aunty Dot and Uncle Hewitt Whyman join Luke Wighton to tell their stories of moving to Wagga Wagga, language being criminalised and brought back, the establishment of Aboriginal services, the pocketed but overt racism, standing together as one mob, bringing up children and playing sport. They talk of the struggle with Government departments and changing priorities, the joys of deb balls and Black Santa and the time to pass on Knowledge.
Complete episode transcripts can be found at https://museumriverina.com.au/explore/podcasts/resettlement
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