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Mandy Nicholson

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Urban Aboriginal identity: “I can’t see the durt (stars) in the city”


The contemporary Melbourne landscape is usually defined in a physical sense. The complex cultural landscape, however incorporates not only the physical, but also what’s beneath, on and above the surface, including the sky and the cosmos. These cultural landscapes form essential components of a Wurundjeri person’s identity and connection to ‘Country’, the Traditional Custodians of...
Conference paper

Being ‘in-there’ not ‘out-there’: urban planning and Aboriginal peoples


An Australian myth is that Aboriginals reside only in the far reaches of Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia. Such is far from the truth. 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics census data evidences an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population of approximately 649,171, or 2.8% of Australia’s total population, and projects that this population will...

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