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Importance of Fitzroy
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Living in Fitzroy
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Off the Mission
Organisations in Fitzroy
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Public art in yarra
Pubs around Fitzroy
Reconciliation week
Speakers corner
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Timeline
Wurundjeri stories
Snapshots of Aboriginal Fitzroy
The Importance of Fitzroy
Iris Lovett Gardiner, recalls that "Fitzroy has always been the place where our people came to. There has always been an Aboriginal community within that suburb, although people's roots were elsewhere in the country".
Fitzroy means to me the central pivot point...people don't say I'm going down to Melbourne to go to Preston, the drawing card is Fitzroy, it always has been and probably always will be. People say where do you go when you go to Sydney of course they say Redfern and it's the same as what has happened in Melbourne with Fitzroy. A lot of people are moving out of Fitzroy to the burbs, to Preston, Reservoir, Thomastown, Lalor and even Epping and then you have large pockets of the community have moved to Broady. Why would you have the health service in Fitzroy its because its where at the start a lot of the people were congregating. You get all different areas but Fitzroy's it.
Kutcha Edwards, 23 July 2001We didn't call Fitzroy Fitzroy, like if we were coming into Fitzroy, we'd say we're going into town and we weren't going into Melbourne, we were going into town and it was Fitzroy.
Ronald Johnson, 14 September 2001Because were open until eight o'clock at night a lot of people from interstate or down from the bush people come down catching a train they come to gym, do you know where there is a hostel I can stay or some welfare kind of work, but because we were open that little bit later than the other organisations.
Thelma Austin, 29 May 2001.
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External sites (Yarra City Council accepts no responsibility for the information or opinions contained within external sites)
Dictionary of Aboriginal place names of Victoria
Gary Foley's Koori History Website
Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria
Aboriginal Health Service
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