Monash Bulletin - 3 July 2007

Monash Celebrates Naidoc Week July 8 - 16

The City of Monash will support the NAIDOC Week 2007 celebration by presenting an exhibition at the Highway Gallery from July 8.

Woolum Bellum campus in Morwell was founded as a Koorie Open Door Education School in 1995. Together with campuses at Swan Hill, Mildura and Glenroy, it is part of the newly created Victorian College of Koorie Education and specialises in the education of Aboriginal students from prep to year 12.

The traditional owners of the land on which the campus is located are the Gunnai-Kurnai people. This land extends from Cape Everard in the east to Cape Liptrap in the west, and from the Great Dividing Range in the north to the shores of Bass Strait in the south.

At Woolum Bellum, students study as a core component of their curriculum the Bataluk Cultural Trail. Bataluk Gallamda, in the local indigenous language means Bataluk (a lizard) learning.

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Published: 29 June 2007

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