Over the time of isolation, I have spent some time near the River and become preoccupied with our relationship to our Yarra River, known to the the Woi Wurrung (Wurundjeri) and the Boon wurrung as the Birrarung, the river of mists and shadows. So I have prepared a series of walking explorations …
Yarra & Bay
Yarra River-Birrarung
The 50 year community vision What is good for the Yarra is good for all Twenty four Victorians from all parts of the Yarra came together with representatives from the Wurundjeri Tribe Council to consider input from the community and draft the formal vision. Here it is: Our Yarra …
‘Living Water’
The Yarra River downstream of the Westgate Bridge flows between neatly constructed boulder banks before opening out into Port Phillip Bay. The River's course has been massively changed since first settlement. The River banks were once diffuse, blurring into the wetlands of the estuary. From time …
Stony Creek
Will the herons return? Just one week after the fire in Montague, a thick black smoke plume visible across the Bay signalled a fire in the west. Shortly after 5 am on Thursday 30 August, MFB fire crews arrived at an out of control blaze at a warehouse on Somerville Road in West Footscray. The …
Waste Artists
Now we are all warriors - in the war against waste. The waste warriors take to their boats and become ocean crusaders. There are also the waste transformers who create visual poetry from the discarded and abandoned to speak to us. Carolyn Cardinet is a French born, local and international …
Excluded
There is a snag in the Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017. Snags - sticks, logs, trunks, trees and roots - were once a feature of the Yarra River. Snags made the River difficult to navigate and were part of the rationale for digging the Coode Canal. To facilitate and …