Acknowledgments I
Abbreviations II
Contents III
1.0 SUMMARY 6
2.0 INTRODUCTION 12
2.1 Project Background 13
2.2 Aims 13
2.3 Recommendations for further work 14
2.4 Consultation 14
3.0 Background Information 16
3.1 Environmental Background 16
3.2 Post-Contact Land-use History 23
3.3 Aboriginal History 26
4.0 PREVIOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK 36
4.1 Introduction 36
4.2 Previously recorded Aboriginal archaeological sites in Melbourne’s west 36
4.3 Previously recorded Aboriginal archaeological sites in the City of Maribyrnong 39
4.4 Aboriginal archaeological site prediction model for City of Maribyrnong 43
4.5 Areas of minimal disturbance 46
4.6 Possible remnant native red gums 50
4.7 Summary 51
5.0 ABORIGINAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUND SURVEY METHODOLOGY 53
5.1 Introduction 53
5.2 Methodology 53
5.3 Aboriginal community consultation 53
6.0 ABORIGINAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUND SURVEY RESULTS 55
6.1 Introduction 55
6.2 Field methods 55
6.3 Survey Areas and Summary of Results 55
6.4 Location of Survey Areas, Ground Surface visibility and Disturbance 58
6.5 Survey Results 63
6.6 Identified areas of potential Aboriginal archaeological sensitivity 71
6.7 Summary and Discussion 75
7.0 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR PRE-CONTACT ABORIGINAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL VALUES 80
7.1 Criteria for Significance Assessment 80
7.2 City of Maribyrnong: Areas of High Significance for Pre-Contact Aboriginal archaeological values 80
8.0 ABORIGINAL POST-CONTACT HISTORY 83
8.1 Contact history from 1803 83
8.2 Settlement conflict after the 1830s- 83
8.3 Government sponsored ‘protection’ 1837-1860 85
8.4 Establishment of Coranderrk Mission Station 1860s-1920s 86
8.5 Traditional practices after the 1860s 87
8.6 Tracing the original occupants of Maribyrnong 89
8.7 Moving back to Maribyrnong (1920s to present) 92
8.8 Quotes from oral histories 98
8.9 Specific people of the Maribyrnong District who were researched 104
8.10 Places Identified by Aboriginal People as Being Significant 105
8.11 Places Associated with Aboriginal People within the City of Maribyrnong having Economic and/or Social Significance 107
8.12 Individuals who could be Researched or Further Consulted 108
9.0 PLANNING AND Heritage Legislation 109
9.1 Background to Heritage Planning Policy in Victoria 109
9.2 Statutory Requirements 113
10.0 Management issues and recommendations 117
10.1 Introduction 117
10.2 Report Lodgement 131
10.3 Independent Review of Reports 131
APPENDIX 1 149
A1. Project Brief 149
APPENDIX 2 150
A2. Notifications & Permits 150
APPENDIX 3 151
A3. Assessment of Heritage Significance 152
APPENDIX 4 156
A4. mARIBYRNONG eXPLOSIVES fACTORY sURVEY 156
APPENDIX 5 163
a5. Advice about the Discovery of Human Remains 164
Glossary 166
REFERENCES 173
