Resettlement

Podcast: Resettlement | Wiradyuri Gawaymbanha-gu Mamalanha
Host: Luke Wighton
Category: Society & Culture
Sub-Category: Culture & Identity, History, Universities & GLAM
First Episode: 2025

Resettlement | Wiradyuri Gawaymbanha-gu Mamalanha which means Wiradyuri Welcome to Visitors, is a podcast all about Wagga Wagga’s First Nations community. Be drawn into the lives and experiences of Aboriginal people from Wagga Wagga, the meeting place, on The Marrambidya, or Murrumbidgee River. Join Luke Wighton, a Wiradyuri man from Condoblin and now Wagga Wagga as he talks to Elders who share their histories, memories and hard won reflections on living black. These recordings were made in 2024, 50 years after the launch of the Aboriginal Family Resettlement Scheme, where families were urged to move from smaller, scattered and remote communities to larger rural centres like Wagga Wagga to be closer to essential health and education services. The Scheme changed the lives of those who moved and those already here and changed the fabric of Wagga Wagga itself. Services and equal treatment were not a given and had to be fought for. Each episode relates a different perspective but a shared and remarkable journey.

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