The Project will advance a new relational logic and a history that enhances the capacity of regional planning and development authorities in their future relationship with Indigenous people.
2021 – 2025
This project aims to clarify the impact of the development of the Western Australia railway on the Noongar people and Country. Rail infrastructure across south-western Western Australia exploited an older network of Noongar pathways; dislocated Noongar families found relocation through rail employment. Working in collaboration with Noongar knowledge custodians the project aims to reconstruct this hitherto overlooked history using a Noongar narrative framework – where storytelling actively maps Country and kinship relations – to plot the relationship with the emergent rail network. The Project will advance a new relational logic and a history that enhances the capacity of regional planning and development authorities in their future relationship with Indigenous people.
The project is funded by the ARC.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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