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Elements and Performance Criteria
- Investigate cultural knowledge
- Acquire information
- Manage movement through Country/park/reserve to minimise disturbance and degradation to the park/reserve and surrounding environments
- Determine the relationships between Aboriginal beliefs, Aboriginal sites, land features, seasons, artefacts, objects and spirituality
- Identify landscape features and sites on Country in accordance with their place and role in Dreaming, Aboriginal spirituality and local cultural practices and ceremony
- Make the association of connection to Country through language, stories, song, dance and art
- Determine the role of lore and customs in matters of land, family, marriage, kinship, totem, clan and obligation
- Use Aboriginal and common names to identify fauna and flora used for food and medicine
- Investigate knowledge of relationships between plants and animals from Aboriginal beliefs, land management and cultural perspectives
- Define simple bush tucker food chains relevant to Country and determine relationships to the cultural landscape
- Carry out investigations in accordance with work health and safety and environmental sustainability policies and procedures
- Document investigation in accordance with Community protocols and permissions, to enterprise standards
- Relate information on cultural knowledge to others
Range Statement
Performance Evidence
Knowledge Evidence
The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:
Aboriginal history, cultural values and interpersonal and Community protocols associated with areaAboriginal cultural customs and heritage related to areaauthentic and authoritative sources for Aboriginal cultural information, material and expression able to be accessed and shareddesignated cultural areas and features of Country, boundaries and extent of Countrykey principles, values and practices of Aboriginal cultural knowledgeconnection to Country through stories, song, dance and art role of Community lore and customs in matters of land, family, marriage, kinship, totem, clan and obligationprotocols and customs relating to disclosure of knowledge about Country when and how to relate and document information and when it is not appropriate according to cultural protocolsAboriginal names for plants, animals and landscape featurescultural knowledge about plant and animals relating to a particular Community, group or regionrole and rights of Indigenous people in maintaining and controlling cultural knowledgeindividuals who are authorised to possess cultural knowledge.