----- Original Message ----- From: Trudy Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: news-clip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: -[Tino Rangatiratanga]- AAP: Road for the first people > Road for the first people > > AAP > Thursday 8 June 2000 > > A new road at the Docklands development has been officially named Wurundjeri > Way, after the city's original landowners. > > The Wurundjeri (pronounced Wuh-RUN-Juh-Ree) people lived in the Melbourne > region for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. > > Victorian Major Projects Minister John Pandazopoulos said using the Wurundjeri > name for the road was fitting. "It is appropriate as we celebrate Corroboree 2000, > that Victorians can recognise the traditional indigenous landowners of the city," he > said. > > The name was chosen from a short-list taken from more than 1200 suggestions from > the public. > > Tomorrow, Victoria's magistrates will issue a formal apology to a senior Wurundjeri > elder, Joy Murphy Wandin, for past injustices. > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without > permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, > scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal > copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of > the copyright owner, except for "fair use." > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Old school buds here: > http://click.egroups.com/1/4057/3/_/20596/_/960436735/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________ > Subscribe to the Tino Rangatiratanga eGroup > http://aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/subsc/ > _________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
