The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Aboriginal objects may include: | physical objects such as stone tools, Aboriginal-built fences and stockyards, scarred trees, the remains of fringe camps material deposited on the land, such as middens the ancestral remains of Aboriginal people art and artworks shells non-human bones and organic materials |
cultural landscapes may include: | places and areas made up of living stories that have connections to the past and can include natural resources, objects, customs and traditions (and their contexts) places of land, sea and air where cultural and natural elements are considered together |
Aboriginal beliefs may refer to: | connection to Country creation events structure of Community such as lore/law men and women, elders and custodians practicality and purpose appropriate behaviour, protocols and restrictions spiritual valueof knowledge and stories communal ownership of some knowledge and material intergenerational ownership of some knowledge and material oral tradition of passing on knowledge and responsibilities roles as custodians of specified knowledge, ceremony, designs, information kinship and relationships storytelling |
Aboriginal-sites may include: | shelters with deposits open camp site midden shelter with midden shelter with art isolated find undefined sites axe grinding grooves bora/ceremonial ring burial site rock engraving scarred tree carved tree natural mythological site restricted site quarry ochre quarry fish trap stone arrangement mound (oven) mia mia waterhole (well) contact/mission abraded grooves Aboriginal Place (declared under NPW Act) Aboriginal Area (declared under NPW Act) protected archaeological site conservation agreement massacre reserve |
Dreaming and Creation Period may be described as: | This is a Western term. According to Aboriginal belief, all life as it is today - Human, Animal, Bird and Fish is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships which can be traced to the Great Spirit Ancestors of the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world, of its creation, and it's great stories. The Dreamtime is the beginning of knowledge, from which came the laws of existence. For survival these laws must be observed. The Dreaming world was the old time of the Ancestor Beings. They emerged from the earth at the time of the creation. Time began in the world the moment these supernatural beings were "born out of their own Eternity". The Dreamtime continues as the "Dreaming" in the spiritual lives of aboriginal people today. The events of the ancient era of creation are enacted in ceremonies and danced in mime form. Song lines and song chant relates the story of events of those early times and brings the power of the dreaming to bear of life today. |
Aboriginal cultural protocols may include | gender roles in relation to knowledge and cultural practices information sensitivity and access appropriate information transfer negotiations with local Aboriginal Community about information transfer cultural diversity natural resources and their importance for economy, religion, spirituality, art, environment, values, beliefs and lore/law rights and responsibilities associated with cultural knowledge, story, song, Site, and ceremony interpersonal ways of relating the talking of Community politics repatriation of objects and human remains issues of ownership (clans/nations) ownership of intellectual property acknowledging participation and ownership communicating about cultural material displaying cultural material handling cultural material identifying appropriate people to be consulted occasions when consultation is required ways in which consultations should be conducted |
Cultural knowledge may include: | aboriginal land, landscape features, rivers, lakes and sea resources and their uses, and the relationships between plants, animals and individuals, clans and Community aboriginal beliefs, values, spirituality, language, lore/law, customs, gender roles, kinship networks, factions, moieties, and speaking rights ceremonies, rituals, stories, song, dance and art traditional and current land management practices aboriginal-sites, places, objects, material and landscapes names, locations and meanings aboriginal cultural protocols aboriginal cultural heritage the cultural significance of Aboriginal knowledge |
Cultural disintegration may include: | total loss of languages and/or cultural stories and ceremony for a specific area non-existence of Aboriginal people groups who formerly lived and/or accessed specific lands |
Cultural disconnection may include: | aboriginal people who have little or no cultural and/or language knowledge aboriginal people who may experience varying levels of a lack of knowing of their cultural, language and skin group and associated cultural practices |
Impacts of disintegration and disconnection may include: | social, cultural, religious, economic, spiritual, language factors and outcomes aboriginal perspectives |
Mainstream culture and heritage trends may be governed by: | all States and Territories a range of industry sectors including non-specific sites sectors such as museums. National Parks and Wildlife jurisdictions - state and federal Catchment Management and Authority contexts Office of Environment and Heritage contexts |