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This publication acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung Language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands I live and work on. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders past, present and emerging.

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BEFORE THE RIVER THE RIVER TODAY

Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West is a community Museum which actively involves the people of Melbourne’s West and others in documenting, preserving and interpreting the richness and depth of the region’s social, industrial and environmental history.

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