Created with the intention of producing a farm providing a means for the local Koori community to live self sustainably, the station was founded in June 1888. Situated in Yorta Yorta country, on the Murray River (New South Wales, near the Victorian town of Barmah), Cummeragunja Mission Station https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cummeragunja-Reserve/437334843019162 is an Aboriginal reserve. In 1983, after several bad changes, the title deeds to Cummeragunja returned to the Yorta Yorta people, and a number of Yorta Yorta families live there today.
Here https://parkweb.vic.gov.au/, through their cultural traditions, Aboriginal people maintain their connection to their ancestral lands and waters. About 225 km north of Melbourne, Barmah National Park lies along the Murray River. It is a great spot for camping. Your days can be filled with fishing, swimming and canoeing. The complex ecology of the forest is linked to the Murray River and its flooding regime. Together with the adjoining Millewa forest (New South Wales), Barmah National Park forms the largest River Red Gum forest in the world.
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