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 Pam and Uncle Craig Honeysett, brother and sister, join Luke Wighton and tell stories of their early life in Euabalong, swimming, fishing, walking to school, hot scones on a tree trunk and hiding from the Welfare. They move to Wagga Wagga as the second resettlement family and encounter racism for the first time. They find a way to fit in through sport and education and Balls. Their mother, Aunty Violet Honeysett, becomes a community leader and is so honoured when she cuts the ribbon at the opening of The Wiradjuri Bridge. Pam weaves her way to greatness and Craig learns “it’s hard to be boss to a brother.”
Complete episode transcripts can be found at https://museumriverina.com.au/explore/podcasts/resettlement
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