It’s hard to imagine what the irrigated farmland of northern Victoria looked like before colonisation. The land is lasered flat and cut into squares, divided by long, straight roads and the brown ribbons of open irrigation channels.
It’s here, about 70km north of Bendigo, that the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation (Djaara) aims to make their mark on the Australian agricultural industry. On Friday, at an old dairy farm where everything looks run-down except the modern milking shed, Djaara chief executive Rodney Carter unveiled their plans.
