Victorian Traditional Owner Cultural Landscapes Strategy

The Victorian Traditional Owner Cultural Landscapes Strategy is a landmark document with a progressive vision for restoring Traditional Owner approaches to land management. It sets out a framework to systematically enable and empower Victorian Traditional Owners to activate cultural knowledge and practices to effectively restore and manage Country.

The strategy was developed by Traditional Owners in a process facilitated by the Federation and funded by the Victorian Government’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and Parks Victoria, and launched in 2020.

The Strategy provides a pathway for Traditional Owners to repatriate management practices and begin the complex task of redressing harm to Country, and allows government land managers to embrace systemic changes in policy, planning, governance and management practices. It represents an important step towards reconciliation.