History, Culture and Science Education of Victoria

Telling the facts that shaped the land, animals, the First Peoples, and Australia’s shared history.

Developed alongside the feature film Magic Lands – Purra and Buckley’s Chance, this educational program by Magic Lands Alliance (MLA) offers an in-depth exploration of the history and science of Victoria’s Country and First Peoples. Drawing from over 300 referenced articles and film research on Victoria, Wadawurrung Country and Australia (Vegter, 2025), it combines storytelling, archaeology, geology, ecology, and cultural knowledge to illuminate the evolution of land, life, and identity. Delivered online, the course promotes truth-telling and cultural understanding through collaboration with First Nations communities, inviting learners to explore the deep connections between people, Country, sky, and sea — before, during, and after colonisation.

What you’ll learn

    • AMPHIBIANS

    • ANCIENT ANIMALS of Victoria

    • ANTS

    • BATS

    • BEES

    • BETTONGS

    • BLACK AND WHITE COCKATOO

    • CROW – WAA

    • CRUSTACEANS

    • CURLEW

    • DINGOES

    • DOLPHINS

    • DRAGONFLIES

    • EAGLES – Hunting History

    • ECHIDNA

    • EELS

    • EMU

    • ENDANGERED SPECIES

    • FOSSILS in Victoria

    • HAWKS

    • INTRODUCED ANIMALS

    • KANGAROOS

    • KOALA

    • KOOKABURRAS

    • LIZARDS

    • MAGPIE

    • MOTHS

    • Native Animals of Country

    • NATIVE BIRDS of Victoria

    • NATIVE FISH

    • NATIVE FROGS

    • NATIVE INSECTS

    • NATIVE PARROTS

    • NATIVE POSSUMS

    • NATIVE REPTILES

    • NATIVE SEA CREATURES

    • NATIVE SPIDERS

    • OWL HISTORY

    • PADEMELONS

    • PELICANS

    • PENGUINS

    • PLATYPUS

    • ROCK WALLABIES

    • SEALS

    • SEAGULLS

    • SHARKS in Victoria

    • SHELLFISH

    • SWANS

    • TASMANIAN TIGER

    • TURTLES

    • WALLABIES

    • WEDGED-TAILED EAGLE

    • WHALES

    • WILLY WAGTAIL

    • WOMBAT

    • ALGAE in Victoria

    • BEARDED HEATH

    • BIRD FECES

    • CHERRY BALLART

    • COOKING

    • GRASSES

    • GUM TREES

    • KANGAROO APPLE

    • MEATS – FISH – COOKING

    • NARDOO

    • NATIVE PLANTS of Victoria

    • NATIVE BERRIES

    • NATIVE FLOWERS

    • NATIVE VEGGIES

    • PIG FACE

    • PLANT MEDICINES

    • SEAWEED

    • SHE OAK – BULL OAK

    • VEGETATION

    • WARRIGAL CABBAGE

    • WATTLE TREES

    • WEED INTRODUCED

    • YAM DAISY’S

    • BENEATH COUNTRY

    • FREQUENCIES OF COUNTRY

    • HEALING COUNTRY

    • INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY

    • IP EXPLAINED – ICIP

    • JURISPRUDENCE

    • PHYSICS OF RHYTHM

    • POLYMER CHEMISTRY

    • RACISM – HUMAN RIGHTS

    • STONE, CLAY, TIMBER – Early VIC

    • TRUTH

    • VOLCANO ERUPTIONS

    • WORD – ABORIGINAL

    • Anne Drysdale – Caroline Newcomb

    • BELL

    • BOARD OF PROTECTORS

    • BUCKLEY

    • BUILDING EARLY VIC

    • COLINISATION – WORD AND MEANING

    • COLONIAL COURTS

    • COLONIAL GEELONG MAKE UP

    • Colonial Men in Port Phillip

    • COLONIAL PRISONS

    • CORANDERRK MISSION

    • CROWN – Definition and CROWN Land

    • CUMMEROONJAH MISSION

    • EARLY ECONOMY OF VICTORIA

    • ELIZA BATMAN

    • FIRE – History in Victoria

    • FIRST COLONISERS on Wadawurrung Country

    • FIRST COLONISERS – Victoria

    • George Augustus Robinson

    • GOLD RUSH – History

    • GOVERNMENT POLICY HISTORY on Aboriginal Vic People

    • HALF CASTE ACT

    • HANGING LAW

    • HENTY BROTHERS

    • HESSE and GELLIBRAND

    • HUME HOVELL

    • Indigenous Men of the Frontier

    • JOHN BATMAN and TREATY

    • JOURNALS

    • LEADERSHIP & AUTHORITY – Early Geelong

    • LEADERSHIP & AUTHORITY – Early Melbourne (1835–1900s)

    • MAJOR MITCHELL’S EXPEDITION

    • MELBOURNE – History

    • MISSIONS

    • MOUNT MARTHA

    • PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

    • POLICING, PRISONS, PUNISHMENTS (1835–1860)

    • POPULATION – Early Victoria

    • PORT PHILLIP ASSOCIATION

    • SEALING HISTORY

    • SHEPHERDS and Colonial Victoria

    • SHEPHERDS, SERVANTS, STOCKMEN

    • SHIPS HISTORY

    • SILENT WAR – Massacres etc.

    • ABORIGINAL PROTECTORATE

    • BOTANICAL GARDENS MISSION

    • FRAMLINGHAM AND WESTERN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

    • FRAMLINGHAM MISSION

    • INDIGENOUS CHILDREN

    • INDIGENOUS WOMEN

    • LAKE CONDAH

    • LAKE TYERS MISSION

    • NATIVE POLICE

    • PATH TO TREATY

    • PURRANMURNIN

    • RAP  HISTORY

    • REFERENDUM 1967

    • RESISTANCE  WARFARE

    • SELF DETERMINATION (1970 – Present)

    • STOLEN GENERATIONS

    • TRAUMA of COLONISATION

    • ANAKIE

    • BACCHUS MARSH

    • BALLARAT

    • BALL-WEIN – Bellarine Peninsula

    • BALLAN

    • BARWON RIVER

    • BREAMLEA

    • BARWON – BARWON COAST

    • BUNINYONG

    • DJILANG

    • DJILANG – KARINIA – MEETING

    • GEELONG – HISTORY

    • KARINIA – History

    • LAKE CONNEWARRE

    • LAKE MODEWARRE

    • LARA

    • LORNE

    • MOORABOOL RIVER

    • MOUNT MORIAC

    • NAMING OF TASMANIA

    • NARRM – MELBOURNE

    • SURF COAST – HISTORY

    • TORQUAY

    • VICTORIA NAMING

    • VICTORIA – TASMANIA – NAMING

    • WADAWURRUNG and MEANING

    • WADAWURRUNG WATERWAYS

    • WERRIBEE

    • YARRA FALLS

    • YOU YANGS and RDI YOUANG

    • ANCIENT DINOSAURS

    • ANTHROPOLOGY

    • ARCHAEOLOGY

    • BASAN PLAIN – TAS

    • Cenozoic Era

    • CREATION CONCEPT and STORIES

    • GEOLOGY

    • GONDWANA

    • HYDROLOGY

    • ICE AGE

    • MESOZOIC

    • MIOCENE ERA

    • NEOGENE ERA

    • OLIGOCENE EPOCH

    • PALEOGENE ERA

    • PILOCENE ERA

    • PRECAMBRIAN ERA

    • QUATERNARY

    • VICTORIAN FLORA and FAUNA

    • WADAWURRUNG – STORIES of LAND

    • ABORIGINAL KID TOYS

    • ARNHEM LAND

    • ARTIFACTS – BONES – MUSEUMS

    • BIRTH TREES

    • BUNYIP – Story

    • BURIAL GROUNDS

    • CEREMONY

    • CHILDREN STORIES – HISTORY

    • CLANS and COUNTRY

    • CLOTHING – VIC ABORIGINALS

    • COMMUNITY GROUP – STRUCTURES

    • DANCING

    • DREAMTIME and COSMOLOGY

    • ELDERS – LAWMEN – LAWWOMEN

    • HEALERS – DOCTORS – IMPACTS of COLONISATION

    • KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

    • MATRIARCHAL – PATRIARCHAL

    • MENS BUSINESS

    • MENS and WOMENS BUSINESS

    • OCHRE – PAINTING

    • POSSUM SKIN CLOAKS

    • PURRA STORY

    • SEASONS

    • SHAPE-SHIFTING

    • STORIES of the LAND – VICTORIA

    • THREE SISTERS STORY

    • TRADE MEETS

    • TRIBAL MARKINGS

    • ULURU – HISTORY

    • VIC ABORIGINAL STORIES

    • YOWIES

  • INDIGENOUS LAW AND LORE

    • KULIN NATION HISTORY

    • LANGUAGES and CLANS

    • LINGUISTICS

    • LORE of the LAND

    • MOIETIES

    • OLD PEOPLE of VICTORIA

    • TENDERRUM

    • TOTEMS

    • WELCOME TO COUNTRY

    • AGRICULTURE

    • AQUACULTURE HISTORY

    • ASTROLOGY

    • BIODIVERSITY and AQUACULTURE

    • BOTANY

    • CLOUDS

    • COLOURS OF COUNTRY

    • CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

    • ECOLOGY HISTORY

    • ENGINEERING

    • FOSSILS

    • FULL MOONS

    • FUNGI

    • LEY LINES

    • LIGHTNING and THUNDER

    • LIME CAVES

    • MATHS

    • METEOROLOGY

    • OCEANOGRAPHY

    • PSYCHOLOGY

    • RAINBOWS

    • SKIES

    • SOCIOLOGY

    • STARS

    • SUN

    • SUSTAINABILITY

    • VOLCANOES

    • WATER SYSTEMS

    • WATER WELLS – USE

    • WATERFALLS

    • WATERS

    • WIND

    • ZOOLOGY