Jason Wood (La Trobe, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have the great pleasure of officially opening Bullen Bullen bush tucker tours in La Trobe at Grants Picnic Ground at Kallista. This is one of my election commitments—$150,000. The local primary school at Kallista brought this proposal to me. We worked very closely with the Port Phillip catchment authority and Steve Thuan and Rhys Collins. Very importantly, we had the Wurundjeri tribe elders involved. We had Uncle Bill Nicholson, Uncle Perry Wandin and Uncle Colin Hunter from the three families now behind this project.

There is no need to visit Central Australian and go to Uluru to learn about our Australian Indigenous culture. You can go to Grants Picnic Ground, where Aboriginal leaders will take you into the forest and show you precisely what they know and understand about the land and water use, and a deeper understanding of the local environment. We believe these tours will commence early next year. This gets all of the ticks. It looks after and respects our Aboriginal heritage. It is good for our environment. It is good for business. It is good for tourism. It is fantastic for all those living in La Trobe and in Victoria. I say to everyone, get behind this project. It is a really important project.