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NRA Strategic Framework
Strategic Framework
Ngarrindjeri Cultural Framework - Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi 

The NRA has responsibility for assessing whether something is healthy, lawful and creates wellbeing – based on the concept of Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar. This assessment of projects, practices, partnerships, plans and other activities is conducted with the wellbeing of Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar (body, spirit, lands and waters and all living things) as its objective. Ngarrindjeri leaders have always worked this way, following the laws of the Creations Ancestors and guided by Elders.

Cultural Framework
Ngarrindjeri Knowledge and Rights

Among the goals for the NRA that support our Vision For Country are:

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  • For all our people to benefit from our equity in our lands and waters.

  • For our people to continue to occupy and benefit from our lands and waters.

  • To see all people respecting our laws and living in harmony with our lands and waters.

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These goals extend to our strong belief that Ngarrindjeri knowledge is valuable and merits appropriate acknowledgement and in some cases, remuneration. Please Contact Us for advice regarding any use of Ngarrindjeri knowledge including their distribution, collection, storage and reproduction.

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The following links support our rights and provide guidance regarding work on our land and with our community:

  1. Convention on Biological Diversity 1992

  2. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People 2007

  3. Free, Prior and Informed Consent 

Knowledge and Rights
Kungun Ngarrindjeri Yunnan
(Listen to what Ngarrindjeri people have to say)

KNY Agreements have fostered respect and enabled the development of close working relationships with both government and corporate Australia. These agreements utilise contract law to establish a structure for Ngarrindjeri engagement including a negotiation and consultation framework that creates a more equitable relationship between the parties to the agreement.

 

Features include:

  • Recognition of Ngarrindjeri rights and interests

  • Clarity on the definition of and importance of cultural knowledge

  • Leader to Leader meetings quarterly

  • Joint Ngarrindjeri/Government Taskforce/working groups.

 

Yarluwar Ruwe Program

The NRA Yarluwar Ruwe Program guides the direction of the NRA and our work. Involving fortnightly meetings, the program covers the project management function of the NRA and ensures the integration of both the cultural and the environmental aspects of our work. Collaboration with the NRA Heritage Team and the Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee ensures that Ngarrindjeri interest and values are upheld through each and every program and project delivered through the NRA.

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Projects and Activities include:

  • Speaking As Country - Murray Mouth Speaking As Country Deed

  • South East Flows Restoration Project - Yannarumi Contract

  • South East Flows Restoration Project - Heritage Assessment Contract

  • Indigenous Advancement Strategy

  • Aboriginal Learning on Country

  • The Living Murray

  • Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Program - Revegetation

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KNY
Yarluwar Ruwe
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