• Position Title: Research Associate
• Research Team: Associate Professor Jessica McLean (MQ), Professor Corrinne Sullivan (WSU), Professor Fiona Miller (MQ), Lisa Menke (NSWNPWS), Aleshia Lonsdale (MLALC)
• Funder: ARC Linkage Project

This collaborative project will centre Aboriginal knowledges to story, care for and repair Wiradjuri Country around the Mudgee area, central west NSW. Sharing information is a key goal of this project. Wiradjuri people are keen to see their cultural, economic, social and environmental knowledge about Country recorded and shared for people in the Mudgee area and beyond. At the heart of the project is on-Country Learning which will bring together collaborators, community members and local school students to learn from, and with, Country. 

The project is a collaboration between Mudgee Local Aboriginal Land Council, National Parks and Wildlife Service and researchers at Macquarie, Western Sydney and Wollongong Universities. Storytelling as a method and means of research and knowledge sharing drives this project, alongside artistic practices for cross-cultural collaboration. The on-Country Learning will provide opportunities for custodians to reflect on their ongoing connections with Country and to share representations of these as appropriate.