PHOTO: Uranye Warraweena with her daughter Hazel [IMAGE: supplied]
Amongst the over 50 First Nations projects awarded funding from the Federal Government’s $20 million Cultural Flows Planning for Cultural Economies grant program is one dedicated to restoring and empowering the surviving remnant of Brewarrina’s Barranbinya tribe.
The Barranbinya Revival Project is being led on the tribe’s behalf by Uranye Warraweena, who has a background in community services and development, and experience working for the local land council.
‘Cultural flows’ is a term used internationally, that the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water defines as, “the Cultural, spiritual, social, economic or environmental values and interests that First Nations people’s place or have in relation to water.”
The grant program aims to support First Nations People to plan for and develop the skills needed to access, manage and own water in the Basin, as part of the development of the new Murray-Darling Basin Plan…