Abstract
The site I chose to reflect on is Murramarang beach. This is an important place when thinking about Aboriginal political history, as it depicts life prior to colonisation but was also significant during colonisation. Murramarang would have been the carinya (‘happy home’) to either a single tribe or a meeting place between surrounding tribes, but my connection to this land lies in it being my second place of home.
Highlights
What I found to be most interesting is the weaving together of time and interpretations of place
Murramarang received a specific mention in Cook’s diary, with him noting that on the 22nd of April he made the first sighting of Indigenous Australians both on the beach and in wooden canoes
What makes me question the effects of colonisation the most was the massacre on Murramarang which killed large numbers of local Aboriginal people (Australian National University 2015)
Summary
What I found to be most interesting is the weaving together of time and interpretations of place. I would often spend extended periods of time at Murramarang during my childhood years and was gifted in being able to see what the land had to provide. Your imagination wanders and the headland becomes a place where you can hide from threats such as your boring parents.
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