Excerpt
"Long before the city, an ancestor being dragged her digging stick across the plain and water followed."
Narrated by Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin
Narration · Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin
How the Birrarung Was Made
0:00Chapter 1 of 3 · Before the river12:00
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01Before the river
3 min02The digging stick
4 min03Waterways and clans
5 minHow did this land?
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