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Gujiragun - This Place

19 August 2020
Culture and Capability
An Aboriginal woman in dress and dark cardigan sits next to an Aboriginal man in hat and blue shirt. In the background is a wall with posters and paintings on it.

Jimmy Edgar and Martha Lee talk about the ancient jila (waterhole) underneath the world’s oldest picture garden in Broome, Western Australia.

Underneath the world’s oldest picture garden in Broome, Western Australia, sits something far more ancient – a jila or waterhole. Yawuru man Jimmy Edgar remembers the dreamtime stories of this area and how it has remained an important meeting place for people from many cultures over thousands of years.

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