Koorie Organisations & Activities Bataluk Cultural Trail: 2004 Youth Leadership Program - web site access hereRamahyuck 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 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 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 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 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 These pages were prepared in good faith in 2001 by the former Maffra Community Resource Centre from material supplied by East Gippsland Municipalities Human Services Committee Inc. They have subsequently been upgraded using publicly available information in 2006 and are currently placed on this site as a community service. Enquiries about these pages should be directed to the webmaster (see Maffra's home page for details).
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