Hi Folks,
Sue Wesson's report can be found here: http://www.vaclang.org.au/ff.pdf
Cheers,
Dave Cameron
Hamilton
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Sent: Thursday, 28 April 2005 3:37 PM
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Subject: Mystery of the Kooroodook]
Hello Cheryl and others,
I used to live out at Griffith and am reasonably familiar with the
Carrathool Shire although I have to admit that I hadn't looked twice at
the logo.
David Egan, National Parks ranger from the Griffith office, had a bit of
a look around for me and found the following:
There's a report that was on the Vic DNRE website called: Wesson, S.
(2001) Aboriginal flora and fauna names of Victoria: As extracted from
earlysurveyors' reports. Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages,
Melbourne.
In the end of that report she provides a list of names and their origin.
In that list it refers to Carrathool as an anglicised version of
Cooradook, which is interpreted as the 'native companion' (ie. brolga)
in Wiradjuri. This seems to be a logical explanation for the name of the
shire and the emblem.
This seems logical to me also.
Cheers
Mick
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