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A healing place at the water - This Place

22 August 2019
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Middle aged Indigenous man with beard wearing a pale shirt and hat with sunglasses on his head leans against a small tree. In the background is foliage.

Learn the story of the healing place (Broadwater) and its importance to the Warrgamay people.

For thousands of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been naming places that were sacred or important to them.

This video is part of an ABC produced series named This Place. It tells the story behind one of these special places:

Clarence Wyles Jnr is a Ranger and a proud Warrgamay man. He shares his knowledge of the healing place (Broadwater) where his old people made camp and washed away negativity by swimming in the water.

Find out more

For more information, visit This Place.