Wilam Naling ...knowing who you are

Improving access to records of the Stolen Generations: a report to the Victorian Government from the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce

Download the Wilam Naling Report (Adobe PDF format, 1.2 MB)

This project is a partnership between PROV and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, to address the recommendations from Chapter 16 of Bringing Them Home relating to archives and records.

The project is also known as Wilam Naling, which comes from the Boon wurrung/Woi wurrung language of the traditional owners of the land where Melbourne is now situated. The word ‘wilam’ means ‘place/family/kin’ and ‘naling’ means ‘to know’. Wilam Naling expresses the objective of the Indigenous Access to Records Project: to effect change in Victoria so that every Indigenous person is able to access information that will help them to establish their family background and their place in the Koorie community. It acknowledges that records are an important way for people to find out and know who they are.

The report, released in June 2006, puts forward a new framework to improve access to records held by Victorian government and non-government agencies.

For more information contact the Koorie Records Unit.

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