A history of Lake Tyers as we know it now, would not be complete without recognising the people who were here for at least many hundreds, more likely tens of thousands, of years before European based culture impacted on the area.

The country has been changed radically since then and it is a powerful feeling to reflect back on the changes in the land and the lives of the aboriginal ancestors in this area.

In respect for the people who owned, and were the guardians of this land -
"I would like to show my respect and Acknowledge the Traditional
Here is a brand new site with heaps of quality information about the Missions in Victoria.

This website is about this land and all its community.

This ABC site on Lake Tyers is essential viewing.

Another recent essential is the book written by Eileen Harrison and Carolyn Landon, called Black Swan A Koorie Woman's Life.

This book centers around Eileen whose early days at the Lake Tyers Mission set her expectations of how families worked together, and later on how the bureaucracy failed in its attempts to address materialistic in-equality over and above the important considerations of family and place.

This places many things into perspective and gives us a good vantage point to consider our past and hopefully our future.

Reference Reading

Black Swan
Lake Tyers House
Casting the Net
The Glasshouse