|
Hospital in the background.
Alan Madden
Metropolitan Local Aboriginal
Land Council Representative
welcomed us to his country.
Rick Le Pastrier wearing a hat.
Editor of Manly Daily in yellow shirt
Emma Lee (wearing orange)
Aboriginal Heritage Consultant
Pictures distributed amongst the crowd show the raising of the Aboriginal
flag on North Head on 25th Feb, 2001.
Tour Guide, Kathy Hart, shows rock where Cyclone Tracy is carved.
Jean Foley, historian gave a quick tour of some of the rock
engravings.
|
Lunch
- program
10:45 Board boats - travel to the
Quarantine Station.
Neville Burkett
National Parks and Wildlife Service
|
Welcome
on behalf of the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
|
Allen Madden
Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
|
Welcome to Country
on behalf of Aboriginal people. This is our land and we want you to
feel welcome here.
|
| Rick Le Pastrier,
Interim Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
|
The Quarantine Station is unique in having
important heritage for all people. It is also a place of healing.
If we fail to put these values above economic concerns then what sort
of society are we creating?
|
Tom Uren
former Member of Parliament.
|
The voices of the people MUST be heard. There
are good reasons for objecting to privatisation of this place.
|
| Tom Uren is pictured here in the boat as it
approached the Quarantine Station.
Tom spent some time at
the Quarantine Station during the second world war.
Click here to read
about it. |
|
Emma Lee
Aboriginal Heritage Consultant |
This was a special place for Aboriginal
people - it was the home of medicine men. There are human remains
of a mother and child just here by the wharf. They were buried
with ceremony.
On the other side of Quarantine Beach are human remains also but
these were never buried. These Aboriginal people died from
smallpox.
Two beaches away, is the site of the whale feast - it
was the first meeting of Aboriginal and English people where
Aboriginal women were present. It was the first formal contact
where Governor Phillip and his men were invited to be present. |
John Simpson
Master Builder |
John handed photos around showing the raising of the
Aboriginal flag on Old Man's Hat rock in honour of this occasion.
He quoted examples of where the Conservation Management Plan that
was endorsed by the Heritage Council on April 14th, 2000, had been
modified from the version which had been approved by the Reference
Working Group. |
Neville Burkett
National Parks and Wildlife Service, tried to answer the questions
coming from the crowd. |
People had the opportunity to ask questions about the process
of preparing the Conservation Management Plans and having them
modified or endorsed.
Questions were asked concerning Aboriginal involvement in the
preparation of the Plans and about whether NPWS or the Heritage
Council have statutory requirements to honour Aboriginal Heritage. |
NPWS provided lunch during which more informal discussions took place
between those concerned with the future of the Quarantine Station.
Thank you John Simpson for organising this day.
|
Manly Quarantine Station