2015-11-10 - P&O Agenda - Item 7, Attach 1 - Historical Ecology of the Noosa Estuary Fisheries

aspirations and on the legacy of millennia of Kabi Kabi Traditional Owners of the
Noosa River area and the wider Sunshine Coast cannot be overstated.


As Aboriginal Traditional Owners we are obligated by custom to recognise and
safeguard our history and continued connection to Country through the
maintenance of our past, present and future. We acknowledge and pay respect to
our Ancestors who continue to be present in our Country and who guide us as
the contemporary custodians and decision-makers for the wellbeing of our land,
waters and culture. We pay respect to our Elders who are guiding and helping us.


Our aspirations, vision and the actions of our daily life is to unite and address the
issues of degradation to our traditional Country and the ongoing erosion of the
values of our cultural heritage sites, landscapes and waterways. Our vision is to
restore shellfish reefs and fisheries of the Noosa, Maroochy and Mooloolah
Rivers. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with our non-Indigenous
brothers and sisters who are making a valuable contribution to Caring for
Country. Our chief priority, as our goals are implemented, is to reach out to all
people within the Sunshine Coast and surrounds and to engage with all who are
interested in our country and our culture to play a more active role in caring for
our part of the Earth. The Earth is our Mother. As she is healed we will also be
healed.”


Kerry Jones, Arnold Jones and Bridgette Davis


Kabi Kabi Traditional Owners, Sunshine Coast
(& lease holders of the historical Maroochy River Oyster Lease)




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