"First Nations burned small areas with..control & precision..This produced low fire risk..colonisers used large fires to clear litter & promote pasture..a Gundungurra elder told Dame Mary Gilmore: "..lit them & let them run like a child that loved destruction""
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
In 1939, a Royal Commission found burning forests leads to more bushfires. But this cycle of destruction can be stopped
After devastating fires in 1939, authorities began burning forests to reduce fuel load. But we now know this creates conditions for even worse fires.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"First Nations burned small areas with..control & precision..This produced low fire risk..colonisers used large fires to clear litter & promote pasture..a Gundungurra elder told Dame Mary Gilmore: "..lit them & let them run like a child that loved destruction""
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
The spectacular Wentworth Falls is a significant ceremonial site for the Gundungurra, Darug and Wiradjuri people, with a history of gatherings spanning over 22,000 years.
Shot with @djiglobal.bsky.social
#landscapephotography #landscape #drone #nature #waterfall #australia #bluemountains
Shot with @djiglobal.bsky.social
#landscapephotography #landscape #drone #nature #waterfall #australia #bluemountains
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The spectacular Wentworth Falls is a significant ceremonial site for the Gundungurra, Darug and Wiradjuri people, with a history of gatherings spanning over 22,000 years.
Shot with @djiglobal.bsky.social
#landscapephotography #landscape #drone #nature #waterfall #australia #bluemountains
Shot with @djiglobal.bsky.social
#landscapephotography #landscape #drone #nature #waterfall #australia #bluemountains
We do. ("The original name for the Blue Mountains in the language of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples is Colomatta (more accurately pronounced Gulu-mada). The meaning of the name is 'koala place' from colo + matta.")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mo...
Blue Mountains (New South Wales) - Wikipedia
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October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We do. ("The original name for the Blue Mountains in the language of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples is Colomatta (more accurately pronounced Gulu-mada). The meaning of the name is 'koala place' from colo + matta.")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mo...
As always, so keen to tell more rural stories, and to see what's happening on Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri, Gundungurra, Tharawal, Ngarigo, and Yuin Country. So from Cowra to the capital, yiradhu marang and yuma. 👋
(Proud to say no AI was used in the making of this very terrible graphic.)
(Proud to say no AI was used in the making of this very terrible graphic.)
October 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
As always, so keen to tell more rural stories, and to see what's happening on Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri, Gundungurra, Tharawal, Ngarigo, and Yuin Country. So from Cowra to the capital, yiradhu marang and yuma. 👋
(Proud to say no AI was used in the making of this very terrible graphic.)
(Proud to say no AI was used in the making of this very terrible graphic.)
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October 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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August 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Day trip to the lands of the Gundungurra and Dharawal people.
July 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Day trip to the lands of the Gundungurra and Dharawal people.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if wombat-hate is important to whiteness - settler/farmer versus (I think) Gundungurra custodians.
The wombat shooters of Taralga NSW
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
The wombat killer whodunnit, where the motives are everywhere to see
Dianna Bisset finds a dead wombat on the side of the road, with a small bullet mark just behind its ear. In town, there's no mystery as to why this protected species is in the crosshairs.
www.abc.net.au
July 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It wouldn't surprise me at all if wombat-hate is important to whiteness - settler/farmer versus (I think) Gundungurra custodians.
On another note, how is Gundungurra Country this winter’s morning.
Used to live in Wentworth Falls.
#GoodTimes
Used to live in Wentworth Falls.
#GoodTimes
June 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On another note, how is Gundungurra Country this winter’s morning.
Used to live in Wentworth Falls.
#GoodTimes
Used to live in Wentworth Falls.
#GoodTimes
Crimson Rosella enjoys a bounty breakfast from all the flowering candle banksia in Gundungurra Country - upper Blue Mountains National Park. #birdlife #rosella #australia #birds #platycerus #crimson
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Crimson Rosella enjoys a bounty breakfast from all the flowering candle banksia in Gundungurra Country - upper Blue Mountains National Park. #birdlife #rosella #australia #birds #platycerus #crimson
The weir at Bong Bong Common on the Wingecarribee River in the Southern Highlands of NSW in Australia. A glorious autumn day in the land of the Gundungurra people.
April 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The weir at Bong Bong Common on the Wingecarribee River in the Southern Highlands of NSW in Australia. A glorious autumn day in the land of the Gundungurra people.
Sally Clarke, contemporary Indigenous Australian artist, living and working in Gundungurra Country south-eastern New South Wales #WomensArt
April 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Sally Clarke, contemporary Indigenous Australian artist, living and working in Gundungurra Country south-eastern New South Wales #WomensArt
Went and looked it up because I didn’t know either.
The name Megalong Valley is derived from a Gundungurra Aboriginal word believed to mean “valley under the rock”. When Europeans arrived around the 1830s, Indigenous people had lived in the area for an estimated 40,000 years.
The name Megalong Valley is derived from a Gundungurra Aboriginal word believed to mean “valley under the rock”. When Europeans arrived around the 1830s, Indigenous people had lived in the area for an estimated 40,000 years.
April 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Went and looked it up because I didn’t know either.
The name Megalong Valley is derived from a Gundungurra Aboriginal word believed to mean “valley under the rock”. When Europeans arrived around the 1830s, Indigenous people had lived in the area for an estimated 40,000 years.
The name Megalong Valley is derived from a Gundungurra Aboriginal word believed to mean “valley under the rock”. When Europeans arrived around the 1830s, Indigenous people had lived in the area for an estimated 40,000 years.
It was a stunningly beautiful early Autumn day up here this morning. I went for a walk with my daughter and we enjoyed being in nature.
Here’s a quintessential photo that everyone takes when they come up here.
Here’s a quintessential photo that everyone takes when they come up here.
April 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It was a stunningly beautiful early Autumn day up here this morning. I went for a walk with my daughter and we enjoyed being in nature.
Here’s a quintessential photo that everyone takes when they come up here.
Here’s a quintessential photo that everyone takes when they come up here.
A few photos I snapped while in the Blue Mountains on Dharug and Gundungurra Land. Australia is generally considered the only wealthy/industrialized nation that is also a deforestation hotspot.
Experts have called for reform of its env. laws, which the current gov promised and shelved.
Experts have called for reform of its env. laws, which the current gov promised and shelved.
March 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
A few photos I snapped while in the Blue Mountains on Dharug and Gundungurra Land. Australia is generally considered the only wealthy/industrialized nation that is also a deforestation hotspot.
Experts have called for reform of its env. laws, which the current gov promised and shelved.
Experts have called for reform of its env. laws, which the current gov promised and shelved.
The Blue Mountains Tibetan community and supporters marked Tibetan National Uprising Day on Dharug and Gundungurra country. www.greenleft.org.au/content/tibe...
Tibetans mark national uprising day
The Blue Mountains Tibetan community and supporters marked Tibetan National Uprising Day on Dharug and Gundungurra country. Renee Lees reports.
www.greenleft.org.au
March 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The Blue Mountains Tibetan community and supporters marked Tibetan National Uprising Day on Dharug and Gundungurra country. www.greenleft.org.au/content/tibe...
My office yesterday!
I have the privilege this year of supporting @nswdphi to work with D’harawal, Darug and Gundungurra Traditional Custodians across the Cumberland Plain on Caring for Country like this.🖤💛❤️
I have the privilege this year of supporting @nswdphi to work with D’harawal, Darug and Gundungurra Traditional Custodians across the Cumberland Plain on Caring for Country like this.🖤💛❤️
March 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My office yesterday!
I have the privilege this year of supporting @nswdphi to work with D’harawal, Darug and Gundungurra Traditional Custodians across the Cumberland Plain on Caring for Country like this.🖤💛❤️
I have the privilege this year of supporting @nswdphi to work with D’harawal, Darug and Gundungurra Traditional Custodians across the Cumberland Plain on Caring for Country like this.🖤💛❤️
Connect with Gundungurra Country on a Buunyal Tour at Scenic World Blue Mountains! Tickets at buff.ly/AGt5yOa.
March 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Connect with Gundungurra Country on a Buunyal Tour at Scenic World Blue Mountains! Tickets at buff.ly/AGt5yOa.
Evening walkies through Katoomba.
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February 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Evening walkies through Katoomba.
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Forgot to mention: I stand on unceded Dharug/Gundungurra land. Always was, always will be.
January 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Forgot to mention: I stand on unceded Dharug/Gundungurra land. Always was, always will be.
Warami, budyari mullinawul. I acknowledge the Darug and Gundungurra people who are the Traditional Custodians of the Land I live on.
I also pay respect to all Elders, past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal people.
#ChangeTheDate
I also pay respect to all Elders, past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal people.
#ChangeTheDate
January 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Warami, budyari mullinawul. I acknowledge the Darug and Gundungurra people who are the Traditional Custodians of the Land I live on.
I also pay respect to all Elders, past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal people.
#ChangeTheDate
I also pay respect to all Elders, past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal people.
#ChangeTheDate
I grew up on the stolen land of the Ngunnawal & Ngambri people, and live and work on the stolen land of the Dharug & Gundungurra people.
This #InvasionDay I pay my respects to the elders and people of these lands, past and present; to their rich culture, strength and resilience.
paytherent.net.au
This #InvasionDay I pay my respects to the elders and people of these lands, past and present; to their rich culture, strength and resilience.
paytherent.net.au
Pay The Rent | Saying Sorry Isn't Enough
We live, work and play on land that was forcibly taken from Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people. On this stolen land, systems & institutions have been built that are structured to exclude and oppress.
paytherent.net.au
January 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I grew up on the stolen land of the Ngunnawal & Ngambri people, and live and work on the stolen land of the Dharug & Gundungurra people.
This #InvasionDay I pay my respects to the elders and people of these lands, past and present; to their rich culture, strength and resilience.
paytherent.net.au
This #InvasionDay I pay my respects to the elders and people of these lands, past and present; to their rich culture, strength and resilience.
paytherent.net.au
I was born, grew up on, live and work in the lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra people, and recognise their ongoing connection to land, water and community. I live on stolen land, sovereignty was never ceded. #alwayswasalwayswillbe
January 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I was born, grew up on, live and work in the lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra people, and recognise their ongoing connection to land, water and community. I live on stolen land, sovereignty was never ceded. #alwayswasalwayswillbe
I live and work on Gundungurra and Darug Countries. It is, always was, and always will be sovereign Aboriginal land.
January 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I live and work on Gundungurra and Darug Countries. It is, always was, and always will be sovereign Aboriginal land.
#JamiesonValley #BlueMountains 100km W of #Sydney forms part of the Coxs River canyon system. The traditional inhabitants of this land are the Aboriginal #Gundungurra ppl who are estimated to have lived in the region for 40,000 yrs, stretching south towards the Burragorang Valley, N of Goulburn.
January 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
#JamiesonValley #BlueMountains 100km W of #Sydney forms part of the Coxs River canyon system. The traditional inhabitants of this land are the Aboriginal #Gundungurra ppl who are estimated to have lived in the region for 40,000 yrs, stretching south towards the Burragorang Valley, N of Goulburn.