A journey through Fitzroy with Yalinguth

In the Woi Wurrung language Yalinguth means ‘yesterday’. The Yalinguth app is an audio experience reflecting the oral tradition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Yalinguth uses geo-located stories and sounds to take you on a journey through time. Elders guide you along the journey, and tell us that “we need to go back, to go forwards”.

The Ngár-go/Fitzroy Yalinguth journey begins in and around Gertrude Street, a place of great significance for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights movement in Australia. Ngár-go/Fitzroy was a safe gathering place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people moving to Melbourne from the 1920s onwards, and a place where many of the Stolen Generations came to find family and reconnect with their community.

The Yalinguth walk includes significant places in the area such as the Fig Tree in Exhibition Gardens, the Koori Club, the Builder’s Arms Hotel, the meeting place in Atherton Gardens, Sir Pastor Doug Nicholl’s Church, and stories about the many community-controlled organisations that were born and established in Ngár-go/Fitzroy.

We can’t encourage you enough to download the Yalinguth app and begin exploring - it’s a wonderful and immersive experience that allows you to uncover the wisdom and stories of our Elders and ancestors.