Ballardong Noongar Budjar

Healthy Country Healthy People

Click here to download the Ballardong Noongar Budjar

The Ballardong Noongar Budjar is a document written by the Ballardong Working Group to encompass the values and aspirations of the Aboriginal community in the Avon Region. It is a supporting document to the Avon NRM Strategy.

Ballardong Noongar Budjar clearly outlines how the Aboriginal community of the Avon region will work in partnership with the Avon Catchment Council to take part in projects and activities that will lead to an improvement in the condition of the natural environment in the Avon region reflecting the common goal of seeing our land returned to its former beauty.

The Aboriginal community of the Avon region are celebrating a significant step towards healing the land and their people through the development of the Ballardong Noongar Budjar: Healthy Country – Healthy People released this morning.

The development of the Ballardong Noongar Budgar has been possible due to investment from the Australian and Western Australian Government, through the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the Natural Heritage Trust programs.

Recording of Traditional Knowledge (RTK)

The recording of traditional knowledge project arose from the Noongar Budjar document which was the idea of the Ballardong working group and the Avon Catchment Council.  This is the link to the recoding of tradtional knowledge project (RTK) funded by the Avon Catchment Council during 2007/08. Murdoch University created the website below as part of this project http://avon.spoon5.com/.

Still to come is the NRM Noongar Budjar dictionary which will have a list of flora and fauna with Noongar names attached.  This work will be completed by Gundi Corporation.