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- 14 Augyust 2008 2008
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- 24 July 2008 2008
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- 17 July 2008 2008
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- 11 July 2008 2008
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- 30 May 2008
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- 27 May 2008
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- 9 May 2008
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- 18 February 2008
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- 15 February 2008
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- 22 January 2008
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- 26 November 2007
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- 21 November 2007
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19-21 April 2005
Ross River
Cultural mapping in the centre
Veronica Dobson is an Arrernte woman closely involved in new joint management arrangements for the East MacDonnells National Park . She also took conference goers on bush tucker tours around her traditional country
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- Veronica Dobson
"We all went for a bit of a walk and we talked about the stuff that's gone maybe for good - like the bush onions which we used to collect when we were young children when our family worked on the cattle station," she said.
Ms Dobson has been involved with a cultural mapping project with the Central Land Council in preparation for joint management of the East MacDonnell Range National Park.
"We're mapping all the plants which are significant to the Arrernte people in this area - bush medicines, bush foods and the animals too. We map, record and photograph them. I normally know where to go, where the stuffs growing, because my grandmothers and grandfathers showed me when I was a kid. It wasn't a national park then and we used to just walk around and hunt and camp.
"Joint management is a good idea. We need both Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people to work together and look after the plants and animals and the country," Ms Dobson said.