Protecting Aboriginal Cultural values in NSW Marine Estate
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Protecting Aboriginal Cultural values in NSW Marine Estate - YouTube clip transcript
HI I'm Kylie Jackie and a Bungalong
woman and I have the privilege of
leading initiatives for protecting the
aboriginal cultural values of the marine
estate.
The Marine estate management
10-year strategy is a really
important initiative to our
people because it's to uphold and
strengthen and promote Aboriginal
cultural values of Sea country which has
been identified at real high risk from
the threats and risk assessment.
Some of the activities that will come from
initiative include getting more
of our people on sea country to do work
that helps the environment but also to
promote that local cultures and to
engage Aboriginal people more
meaningfully around planning and
decision-making for the Marine estate.
Introduced species that are invasive
they take over all native vegetation.
Once the native vegetation is gone then
the native animals and birds and
wildlife actually start disappearing as
well with harvesting their food and that
from the oceans and their shorelines and
stuff like that.
We'd like to have a
nice clean area and also there's a lot
of significant cultural areas along
these shorelines a lot of young people
they love the water .
Part of the water is you know their life so
if we can create something around in the
water you know something that they love
it's not a hard job to come to work.
There's also a healthy lifestyle.
They make these tickets to operate.
Like I said there's not a lot of employment
down here but we're looking at creating some
employment around the tourism industry
and working with marine parks stuff.
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How are long have they been here for ?
Could be five thousand yours, but they could be a lot longer than that.
There’s a story beyond that that's about
your identity and it's about law and
it's about who you are as young men.
I never had those opportunities at all and
most the men here wouldn't have had
these opportunities growing up
so we've taught the boys some things
that they probably didn't know before.
We want to know a little bit more about and what have more
understanding and that that knowledge is
there now and they can't get rid of it.
We're currently undertaking a re - veg
here. It's one of the most polluted lakes
within the state which is pretty sad
considering it is an area that as a young
child I remember going prawning with my
father and uncles and stuff like that.
We are under taking vessel training with local
Aboriginal community with the idea of
upskilling them so they can obtain a
boat license.
Green to green when going
upstream. So it's good to see you know
the other side of the law.
That's always
been a goal of mine to work for the
fisheries or National Park just so that
I can also protect my sites and culture
in that as well and hand that over on to
my community and my family as well.
We're taking the kids around showing
them the significant cultural values of
the Aboriginal people that occupied this
area for roughly over 60,000 years.
They are pig faces, so if you are
thirsty or you've been running and
training.
Aboriginal culture is so hands-on.
We touch, we see, we taste, we smell and
We hear, so we're using all those
parts of our body - our listening, looking,
smelling and being able to keep quiet
and being able to retell a story that's
been handed down. So it's really
important because they get to feel those
senses and learn about life and the reality of it in nature.