In Wurundjeri Country sits the only Aboriginal School since the christian William Thomas established a school on the Merri Creek in the 1830's. Today the only Aboriginal school Ballerrt Mooroop College may have its cultural heritage desecrated for sewerage pipes, better views and car parks to be built for the new $20m disability school, a prospect not welcomed by the Public.
There are over sixteen thousand Aboriginal people living in Melbourne (32,000 statewide) most who would culturally and educationally benefit from a state of the art Aboriginal school as mainstream education has failed our students continually.
Both schools in mediation achieved in three meetings what the Victorian education department bureaucrats could not achieve in the last three years - an agreement to share the site without desecrating and destroying the Aboriginal school's cultural heritage and facilities. The Minister met with a delegation from ballerrt mooroop College last Thursday.
The choice is now stark, 400 police to remove the many good Protestors to enforce the department's spiritual and physical desecrations or the Minister's support for the two school's decision to share the site equitably into the future. The ball is now in the hands of another Minister, Martin Dixon.
See Yaalong the Rivers and Lakes, in the Mallee, Up the Mountain or in the Big Smoke,
Gary Murray, Victorian Traditional Owner
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