Geelong One Fire partnered with local Aboriginal community members to develop a website about our local history: Djillong (or djillang) means a tongue of land and is the name of the website: www.djillong.net.au

The initial website materials were created by the late Uncle David Tournier, and it was an honour to support his commitment to us all learning about our local history. Wadawurrung Traditional woman Corrina Eccles has since developed the materials further with One Fire.

A series of short videos telling some key local stories were added in May 2018 at http://djillong.net.au/our-stories-videos.html

The original Djillong timeline has been updated in 2018, and can be purchased as a pull up banner or wall mount timeline. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to place an order (at cost price, no profits are made).

The following podcast was produced in May 2013. It provides some history about the area we now call Johnstone Park, and the Wathaurong people.

It is 10 minutes long.

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Wurdi Youang Indigenous Protected Areas

Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-op is managing this land, revegetating it and educating younger community members about history and culture through a range of programs.

In January 2016, an 'Open Day' welcomed everyone to come and see dance and be part of a day celebrating being on Country, and One Fire members joined the activities.

Reg Abrahams is the program Manager, and has produced the following leaflet:
'Wurdi Youang Indigenous Protected Areas'

In February 2016, Reg with Alfie who also works at Wurdu Youang and Heather (a member of Geelong One Fire who is an Anthropologist) spoke with Greg McHenry at The Pusle FM 'Roads to Recovery' radio program about this land.

You can hear the 40 minute informative pod cast at:
http://947thepulse.com/index.php?option=com_programguide&task=viewprogram&cat=19

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Ron Milligan: local 'historian'.

Ron passed away on 17th July 2017 - he was a key member of Geelong One Fire since it's foundation. 

Over many years Ron Milligan gathered information and wrote as well as contributed talks to assist local people to know about and connect with the history of the Wathaurong people during early years of Settlement. This included reasearch about Willem Baa Ni ip and  William Buckley. The following are pieces of his writing, plus a song Ron wrote.

The Geelong Advertiser: November 2005 - 120th Anniversary of Willem Baa Ni ip death (note: he was not the last of the Traditional Owners, but the last still living on Country at that time)

Notes for a One Fire talk in March '16

What became of the Wathaurong People of the Geelong District

Catch the Spark, Whitefellas Lament - a song         

Ron Milligan - photo by Peter Jones

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Books to read:

The Wadawurrung People: Did You Know? Created by Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-op & Queenscliffe Reconciliation Group, updated with Wadawurrung Traditional woman Corrina Eccles

1835 by James Boyce

Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams by Anita Heiss

Black, White and Exempt, edited by Lucinda Aberdeen & Jennifer Jones

Campfires at the Cross by Heather Le Griffon

Convincing Ground by Bruce Pascoe

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles by Clare Land

Finding the Heart of the Nation by Thomas Mayors

Fire Country by Victor Steffensen

Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning

My Country All Gone, The White Men Have Stolen It: Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870 by Fred Cahir

Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe & Vicky Shukuroglou

The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can't Solve Black Problems by Sarah Maddison

Treaty: Let's Get it Right - ATSIC Treaty Think Tank Essays, commissioned by AIATSIS

Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty & The Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds

Welcome to Country by Marcia Langton

Why Weren't We Told by Henry Reynolds

Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe