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Survival Day Dawn Ceremony 2025

Cr Belinda Coates and Sarah Jane Hall at DAHOBIT Day Flag Raising event

Koorie Engagement Action Group (KEAG)

Picture of two platypus swimming created by Auntie Diana Nikkelson

Baarlinjaan directory

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National Reconciliation Week

NAIDOC WEEK 2024 Poster Art

NAIDOC Week

Painting by Darmon Holloway, a Yorta Yorta/Barkinja man from Victoria

Draft Reconciliation Action Plan

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Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country Guide

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The Phoenix

25 Armstrong Street South
Ballarat, Vic, Australia

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Mon - Fri 8:30am – 5:00pm

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The City of Ballarat acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land we live and work on, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past, prese​nt and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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