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Loving the environment By Dongyun Kwon Healesville Primary School Grade 3 and 4 students gathered at Coronation Park on Tuesday 17 June, to revegetate the area. Healesville Environment Watch Inc (HEWI) and Healesville Primary School have been planting at Coronation Park and Queens Park for 25 years thanks to the support from Yarra Ranges Council and Melbourne Water. The rainy weather was not an issue for students to learn how to love the local environment. Students were divided into two groups for a planting exercise and a nature walk. This was the second time Grade 4 students Zoe R, Zoe C, and Toby participated in the program. “I found it really nice because I feel like I’m participating in helping the local environment, especially our land and animals,” Zoe R said. Turn to page 12 for more
Big smiles from Zoe C (left) and Toby. (Dongyun Kwon: 485012)
Walking for Truth By Dongyun Kwon Yarra Ranges community members, both nonFirst Nations and First Nations people, showed their advocacy in the meaningful event to tell the truth. The Walk for Truth was part of the final events of the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria’s formal truth-telling process and the first of its kind in Australia. Over the past 23 days, Yoorrook deputy chair and commissioner Travis Lovett led the walk across more than 480km, starting in Portland,
where colonisation began in Victoria in 1834. More than five members of the Yarra Valley Reconciliation Group participated in the walk across different days. Healesville-Yarra Glen Uniting Church’s Dale Prentice also attended the event on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Local First Nations people were central in this walk. Healesville-based Wurundjeri man Thane Garvey represented Wurundjeri people at the walk.
Mr Garvey said truth telling isn’t divisive but is to bring Australians together. “Truth-telling has been presented as one of the main aspects of healing when it comes to us moving forward,” he said. “We can’t move forward without the truth being told because you can’t have recognition or a proper understanding without the real stories being told, and we’ve had a big issue with getting the real history across to the wider community. “Hopefully, this allows us to not just heal but educate people more on why it’s been such a hard time for the Indigenous communities since colo-
nisation started here in Victoria in 1834 .” Wurundjeri elder, uncle Perry Wandin welcomed Mr Lovett through a smoking ceremony and a welcome speech at the Parliament House steps. “The reason why we do that is because he’s come on Country, as I said to him the day before, he’s walked from many places, and when anybody walks, they do carry spirits with them, and any bad spirits they’ve bought with them, the smoke will move them on to a better place,” he said. Turn to page 4 to read the full article
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