National Cultural Heritage Values Assessment & Conflicting Values Report –
The wild horse population Kosciuszko National Park
The Kiandra Greys – Short history of High Plains Wild Horses from Kiandra to Peppercorn
The Ngarigo, Djiringanj and the Brumby
The Burra Charter sets a standard of practice for those who provide advice, make decisions about, or undertake works to places of cultural significance, including owners, managers and custodians. The Charter can be applied to all types of places of cultural significance including natural, Indigenous and historic places with cultural values. Co-existence of cultural values should always be recognised, respected and encouraged. This is especially important in cases where they conflict. See Article 13. Co-existence of cultural values. Continue reading
University of Melbourne Masters Thesis: GRAZING OF THE HIGH COUNTRY VICTORIA. AN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF HIGH COUNTRY GRAZING IN VICTORIA, 1835 TO 1935. Peter Cabena, 1990. Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Geography University of Melbourne, 1980. This thesis considers aspects of the historical and political geography of high country grazing in Victoria, and includes how original settler horse breeding links directly to the Bogong High Plains and Eastern Alps Brumby populations today. Continue reading
Mountain Cattlemen are angry with the Government’s announcement to exterminate every Brumby from the Bogong High Plains. “The Bogong High Plains are vast and iconic. The small mob of Brumbies that run on the Plains (estimated less than 100) cause minimal impact to that vast area but are a significant part of the heritage that makes the Plains so special to visitors”, Graeme Stoney, President of the Mountain Cattlemen’s Association of Victoria (MCAV) said today. Continue reading
The Brumby Founding Stock of the Bogongs and Eastern Alps This document has been created with help from ABA supporters conducting interviews with people whose ancestors worked the Victorian Alps, information gleaned from literature on the history of the Victorian Alps and online archives. The key purpose of this document is to illustrate the heritage attributes of the Bogong High Plains and Victorian Eastern Alpine region Brumbies. This document is a living document, and will continue to grow as our knowledge expands and we learn more from relevant key sources with deeper local knowledge and heritage skills. The ABA encourages… Continue reading
