Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Study

As part of its ongoing commitment to the local Aboriginal community, Lachlan Shire Council has engaged a specialised heritage consultancy firm to conduct an Aboriginal Heritage Study.

Dubbo-based OzArk Environment and Heritage will identify, assess and record items and places of Aboriginal cultural significance in the Lachlan Shire.  OzArk have successfully collaborated with the Wiradjuri Nation, in a number of similar studies within other local government areas.

The study will enable recommendations to be made for the management and conservation of significant Aboriginal cultural heritage property and guide Council in developing sound management guidelines and legislative policy, such as Lachlan Local Environmental Plan 2013. 

As part of the study, Council is asking the local Aboriginal community to identify sites and places within the Lachlan Shire that are important to them. This is to provide participants with a chance to suggest locations, places or features which are important to them, and that they would like to be considered for listing. 

Such locations, places or features, could potentially include archaeological sites or areas, natural features, post-contact sites/areas, and many more.

From your experience of living in the Lachlan Shire, we invite you to nominate places that are important to you and your family. 

You can do this by answering the questions below and returning to the following by October 23, 2020:

• Email – council@lachlan.nsw.gov.au

• Mail: PO Box 216, Condobolin, NSW 2877

• Or you can drop your response off at Council’s Condobolin office at 58-64 Molong Street or the Lake Cargelligo office at 35a Foster Street.

For any enquiries please contact David Lornie at 6895 1900 during office hours.

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Study questions