Η οικογένεια Πανηγυράκη αναγνωρίζει τους ανθρώπους των λαών Boonwurrung και Wurundjeri του έθνους Kulin, τους Παραδοσιακούς θεμοτοφύλακες της γης στην οποία βρίσκεται το Moorabbin. Υποβάλλουμε τα σέβη μας στους Πρεσβυτέρους, απο τo παρελθόν, τo παρόν και το μέλλον.
Αντώνης Πανηγυράκης, Δημήτρα Πανηγυράκη, Σοφία Πανηγυράκη, Σπύρος Πανηγυράκης
In the two decades growing up in Moorabbin, I missed the understanding of Country underpinning the suburb. In the current cultural and political context, this might seem surprising. From the late 1970s through to the 1990s my family engaged the challenges and opportunities of the migrant experience; the dislocation from my parents’ homeland in Chania, Crete; and the intimate making of place in Australia. We like many families residing in Moorabbin did not connect these conversations regarding home and family, to a long and enduring Indigenous tradition. There are slight differences over the meaning of Moorabbin between the two intersecting Kulin groups. A Wurundjeri perspective defines it as “a resting place” whilst the Boonwurrung regard it as “mother’s milk.” This place of home, rest and family was interrupted by colonial violence and we did not acknowledge the complicit role that our migrant experience had on the Indigenous dispossession of land and the ongoing challenges to Aboriginal sovereignty. This project engages the heritage values of home and the way municipal bureaucracy, real-estate and administration of art frames and represents this home. But the heritage of this home and garden is a very recent one, dwarfed by a connection to land that is 65, 000 years old. The Panigirakis family acknowledges the Boonwurrung and the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional custodians of the land that Moorabbin is located on. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
