Welcome to Brewarrina - Murdi Paaki Aboriginal Young Leaders Project
What do you like about Brewarrina?
Young Leader: "I like how laid back Brewarrina is and how you know everyone in the town. All my people are from there"
Young Leader: "I like Bre because all of my family lives there and its my hometown, so obviously I like everything about it"
Orientation
Brewarrina is a remote rural community situated in Outback NSW, 800kms from Sydney, 136kms west of Walgett and 100kms east of Bourke on the Kamilaroi Highway. Although Brewarrina is relatively a small town (2006 population: 1,121) it is spread out over an area of 19,000 sq kms - the same size as Australia's largest National Park- Kakadu. Brewarrina was one of the great inter-tribal meeting places of eastern Australia with the fish traps, known in the Aboriginal language as Ngunnhu, sustaining thousands of Aboriginal people during tribal gatherings held prior to European settlement. The fisheries are estimated to be at least 40,000 years old and could be the oldest man-made structure on earth.
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