Bataluk Cultural Trail, Central & East Gippsland

As you move through East Gippsland you are following routes that the local Koorie people have been travelling along for over 18,000 years. With the mountains a two or three day walk to the north and the lakes and ocean one or two days' walk to the south, the path which is now the Princes Highway formed the backbone of the network of trails and trading routes which spanned the region.

Site Access
There is a high concentration of Koori sites in Gippsland. For a variety of reasons some sites are not appropriate for unrestricted access by members of the general public. We ask that you treat all sites along the Trail with respect and care. Please remember it is an offence under the Heritage Act to tamper with or remove anything from any aboriginal site.

Koorie Organisations & Activities

Bataluk Cultural Trail: 2004 Youth Leadership Program - web site access here

Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation in collaboration with Athlete Development Australia, the Adventure Australia Foundation and the Bounce Back Foundation secured funding to undertake a Youth Leadership Program utilising the Bataluk Cultural Trail. The project, which commenced in February 2004, is the first of its kind and aims at bringing the youth from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds on a common platform to undertake a study of the Gunai and Kurnai cultures of Gippsland while undergoing Leadership training in the great outdoors from leading Australian Athletes.

Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation
117 Foster Street, Sale - open 9-5 Monday-Friday (03 5143 1644)

The Centre displays and sells locally produced art and craft, including paintings, artifacts and T-shirts. The Corporation offers medical facilities and also operates a farm on the outskirts of Sale and an outreach at Orbost.

Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative
37-53 Dalmahoy Street, Bairnsdale - open 9-5 Monday-Friday (03 5152 1922)

The Co-operative is a centre for the Koorie community in East Gippsland and houses an elders' hostel, a child care centre, a health centre, a Keeping Place and an administration block.

Moogji Aboriginal Council
18-26 Jemmeson Street, Lakes Entrance - (5155 3511)
52 Stanley Street, Orbost - (03 5154 2133)

The Council provides a health service, employs a community-based Cultural Officer to promote a range of cultural programs and undertakes a range of heritage maintenance works at significant sites along the coast and in the high country.

East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Aboriginal Corporation
455 Princes Highway, Bairnsdale - (5153 1002)

The Arts Committee supports an Aboriginal Arts Development officer whose role is to advocate the advancement of Aboriginal visual and performing arts and crafts within the East Gippsland region. For information relating to the purchase of artwork, accessing artists, performing artists or relevant community events phone 03 5153 1002 during normal business hours.

Development of the Bataluk Cultural trail is a joint initiative of the Far East Gippsland Aboriginal Corporation, Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative, Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust, Moogji Aboriginal Council, Ramahyuck Aboriginal Corporation, East Gippsland Shire Council and Wellington Shire Council

This site was prepared in good faith in 2001 by the Maffra Community Resource Centre from material supplied by East Gippsland Municipalities Human Services Committee Inc. It has subsequently been upgraded using publicly available information in 2006.

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A Maffra Community enterprise