Australia's Silk Road?...

I knew a little about the skills of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but this link provides so many more wonderful insights... https://t.co/gyoFqEuLA4

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) April 11, 2022

inspiration and respect...

What an amazing family journey...
O wow...
Somehow, my own struggles to find my identity seem so very small...
HUGE respect...🙏🙏🙏 https://t.co/bHKaF2ISnr

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 22, 2022

This article explains a little about that history. Heartbreaking and inspirational… I’m gonna need a minute, frankly. https://t.co/6cSR2hrfxB

— Spooky Bitch (@jen_2022) February 21, 2022

political flood of grizzles and gripes...

PASSING THOUGHT: I'm almost bursting. So tempted to join the political flood of grizzles and gripes.
But instead, I'll carefully make a wish...
May this Australian government never deck the halls of history with pomp and ceremony...
May it simply dissolve and melt...
And soon...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 11, 2022

Temora history detour...

If I will be moving to Temora early 2022, I thought I would soothe my stress and explore Temora history. I have learnt that the Chinese had a significant role in Temora.https://t.co/EXihYGPyAE pic.twitter.com/GRtDgJ7wBv

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) November 25, 2021

https://t.co/X0aYriLPES pic.twitter.com/c5FNArKKW2

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) November 25, 2021

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— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) November 25, 2021

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express 

Fri 11 Jun 1937 

Page 36 

COUNTRY NEWS

Montague Street Bridge story is Melbourne's iconic story...

I won’t believe lockdown is over until someone hits the Montague St Bridge. https://t.co/mjKwzXNRJO

— Mark “Shorthair” Newton (@NewtonMark) October 22, 2021

Truck stuck under the Montague St Bridge. We are officially back Melbourne. pic.twitter.com/bd1vhFunWW

— Chris (@chrismaheras_) October 25, 2021

Are we really back to normal if the Montague St Bridge hasn't claimed a truck's roof to appease the Bridge Gods?

— The Labourwave Initiative (@LabourwaveMELB) October 26, 2021

THE BINCH IS BACK. https://t.co/iICVT5hhg9

— PEDESTRIAN.TV (@pedestriandaily) October 25, 2021

The story behind the bridge https://t.co/OnkkVUAsSf

— Aya Tayla (@AyaTayla) October 26, 2021

A true Melbourne icon. Sydney has the Opera house and harbour bridge, we have the Montague St Bridge.

— Nick (@nicktrails) October 25, 2021

You know things are dire for @LiberalVictoria when a truck getting stuck under Montague St Bridge gets more coverage than their press conference.

— Toilet Paper Australia (@toiletpaperaus1) October 26, 2021

I love that true Melbournians celebrate the important stuff.
Like the Montague St Bridge claiming another scalp today. 🏆

— Meredyth 💉💉😷🧙‍♀️🫂 (@LoveMeredyth) October 26, 2021

The Montague St bridge has become a running Melbourne joke. https://t.co/jlIUqmnBjd

— C.Grant (just a damaged prole) (@MissCherieGrant) October 25, 2021

Montague st bridge hit by truck. Nature is healing 🙏

— mariana trench simp (@luddite_lite) October 26, 2021

The Montague St bridge ate a furniture van this morning. Nature is healing.

— DEDLEE (@NSDedlee) October 25, 2021

If everyone who hit the Montague st bridge had to give up their license we'd have a massive shortage of drivers.

— Puck Skellington 💀 (@picpuckphoto) October 26, 2021

Donnie, there's a whole Facebook page and website dedicated to the Montague St bridge https://t.co/OU9GIl7caP

— 💧Kat Oxley💧 (@kat_71) October 25, 2021

Our famous Montague St Bridge again.. Pls stop hitting it outsiders. We want to see the Bridge spread misery into next century too.😒😅 pic.twitter.com/v8xnJ5lSjj

— Cara Mia (@CaraMia200) October 26, 2021

PLEASE NOTE: Contest???? 

I think this might be number 4 for the Napier St Bridge for the year which means it's even-Steven with perennial champ Montague St Bridge at the top of the Melbourne Low Bridge Disasters League for this, the 2021 season. https://t.co/l3zVdZpCFy

— Diabolical Dikkii ☠️ (@dikkii) October 22, 2021

teaching history?...

'The curriculum draft acknowledges that other knowledges+civilisations (e.g. Eastern+Indigenous) have worldviews+cultures worth knowing. It asks students to think about their own place in time+in the world, + asking them to think about what is unique about being Australian.' ⏳⏳ https://t.co/yUqP4th3mm

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) October 26, 2021

The term ‘history’ refers to how someone has tried to reconstruct ‘the past’ in a way that we can understand. Most of the time, ‘history’ is when a professional historian writes a book to explain what a society, culture, person, or event might have been like, based upon the evidence that remains.

Point 1 made by @annahopeclark:https://t.co/DeXROJyLXN

— History Skills (@HistorySkills) October 26, 2021

12 Africans in the First Fleet...

Did you know there were 12 Africans on the First Fleet? Many of the Africans on the First Fleet, defected to the British forces during the American Revolution. Most of the marines placed in Sydney+many convicts were in the AR together.https://t.co/5sLNDJC2KO via @TheFeedSBS

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) October 13, 2021

communication breakdown...

communication
breakdown
curious
rings from
the past#tanka https://t.co/cYv5W7nQ64 pic.twitter.com/S2SRsoo541

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) October 4, 2021

words and songs for tomorrows...

This image speaks to the soul...
Though the world may seem to have imploded, there is a way to find the words and the song for tomorrows... https://t.co/n5Tw1FVY18

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) September 25, 2021

plane in distress at midnight...

An incredible story...
To think that Albury people, at short notice, rallied 70 cars, headlights on, literally in the middle of the night, to help a plane in distress...
This is worth a permanent memorial of some kind in Albury...https://t.co/JB8sUe0kpv https://t.co/EW3BdYqKyY

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) September 15, 2021

rock art discoveries...

More and more I am believing that Australian history has many many secrets still to be found...
Exciting times... https://t.co/gqc5cfiDxV pic.twitter.com/a9Bv9R7H3Q

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 19, 2021

Australian history still emerging...

I still firmly believe that there is so much Australian history we know nothing about...For too long, we chose not to know...the white person superiority syndrome + stereotypical beliefs...It's time to honour+respect that there may be so much more to the Australian story... https://t.co/98p0iQhwQj pic.twitter.com/ZuoGE5lDdc

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 17, 2021

fix the problem with a handbag...

I know this is history...and holding a gun on hostages is hardly something to smile about...But the Mum intrusion in the story is simply hysterical... https://t.co/HZr2mn7CCX

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 9, 2021

Barlow Street Forest...

Love this presentation of precious pre-colonisation plants...
Barlow Street Forest-30 species-is a poetic reminder of the 5,300 hectares of scrub that once stretched between Botany Bay and North Head.
Barlow Street links George and Pitt Street in the Haymarket area of Sydney... https://t.co/thsGMPd3ib

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 6, 2021

'Csardas' rocked my world...

'Csardas' by Diane Pearson rocked my world when I was in my early 20's. The novel explores the life of a fictional bourgeois Hungarian Jewish family during WWI and WWII.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 3, 2021

Sahul...

Sahul = Australia + New Guinea + Tasmania + neighbouring islands...
Australian history is still really in the infant stages... https://t.co/UOPrJdf47k pic.twitter.com/2K9edEC0OP

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) May 2, 2021

Australia as it was...

Early 19th C map of Australia is certainly interesting - finding no issue with a Van Diemen's land in the northwest of today's Northern Territory + New Holland, once Australia's name, is now 'squished' to a chunk of today's Western Australia + a portion of South Australia and NT. https://t.co/DOEzut8U6f

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 20, 2021

Flinders history in the park...

In the park alongside Flinders main street are signs detailing the history of Flinders... pic.twitter.com/I8PuBRXF6F

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 9, 2021

resources for aboriginal perspectives...

An invaluable 'kick-start' for high school curriculums beginning the long journey of overhauling the traditional, narrow and 'skimpy' views of aboriginal history and perspectives... https://t.co/jbhrwkWfJU

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) November 20, 2020

jack o' lanterns...

Why do we carve and display the jack o' lantern at Halloween?

It's an Irish story of an endless journey between two worlds...https://t.co/TMbxe3XNxp via @IcySedgwick

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) October 31, 2020

Inreresting from the above source - Vegetable and fruit carving is an old tradition and exists across the world. Gourds were the first plant that was domesticated for its carving potential some 10,000 years ago, and among other things, they were also carved to serve as lanterns. The Maori were the first people to carve gourds into lanterns 700 years ago.