7th Geoff Craig Memorial Lecture
Stanley Memorial Hall
Spaces of Survival: Aboriginal Reserves and Ration Depots in North East Victoria.
This presentation uncovers the deeply personal and often painful history of Aboriginal reserves and ration depots in North East Victoria.
These places, created through policies of control and exclusion, disrupted lives, families, and connection to Country. Yet within these imposed boundaries, Aboriginal people found ways to endure, resist, and hold onto culture and identity.
This is a story of survival against the odds—a testament to strength, resilience, and the unbroken spirit of community in the face of injustice.
Speaker, Megan Carter, is a Waywurru researcher, historian and storyteller. She has been collecting stories, images, places and biographies of Indigenous people in the North East of Victoria for over 10 years. My ancestors were recorded regularly camping and holding ceremony in Baamutha well beyond the disruption of the gold rush. Pictorial and oral storytelling has long been a fundamental aspect of Indigenous culture. It serves as a potent tool for transmitting knowledge, history and philosophies to future generations and the community at large.
