The KRU promotes awareness about Aboriginal records within the Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) collection and aims to improve the accesssibility of these records to the Aboriginal community. The KRU also builds links between PROV and a range of Indigenous community organisations, such as Stolen Generations Victoria, through outreach, education and training activities.

The KRU can provide advice and assistance for researchers wishing to access records about Aboriginal people in PROV's collection.

Koorie Records Unit Newsletter
Published twice yearly, providing updates on activities and projects the KRU have conducted or are developing.

Accessing Koorie records

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Improving access to records of the Stolen Generations: the following links outline the implementation of recommendations to the Victorian Government from the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce.

• 'Know Your History, Preserve Your Culture' Workshops (2007)
• Small Grants Scheme (2007-2008)
• Koorie Index of Names (KIN) Project
• Common Access Guidelines (CAG) Project

Finding Your Story
A resource manual for finding records of the Stolen Generations in Victoria.

Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce
Established in 2001 by the Victorian Government in response to the 1997 Bringing Them Home report.

Exploring Koorie stories

Research resources
A starting point for those looking for records created by Government organisations that relate to Victorian Aboriginal people.

Footprints: the journey of Lucy and Percy Pepper
The story of an Aboriginal family's struggle for survival in Gippsland, Victoria.

'My Heart is Breaking'
A joint guide to records about Aboriginal people held by PROV and the National Archives of Australia (NAA).

Tracking the Native Police
Telling the story of the Victorian Native Police Corps from 1837 to 1852 through some of the earliest official records held by PROV.

Who to contact

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