John Morieson's Website

John Morieson has worked with Aboriginal communities in Victoria for four decades, first in welfare, then in education and now in cultural heritage research.

Through wide reading in several disciplines, he attempts to place the sites in the landscape into their original context and to read the night sky as the people once did.

His main work in Indigenous astronomy is interpreting the night sky of the Boorong Clan of the Wergaia people of north-west Victoria.

John has described forty phenomena of the Boorong, recorded by their friend William Stanbridge, in a small manual titled Stars Over Tyrrell which has been passed on to Aboriginal families in Swan Hill, the nearest Indigenous community to Lake Tyrrell.

Otherwise, John's work appears in conference papers from Flagstaff, Arizona; Washington D.C; and Klaipeda, Lithuania.

John lives at Carlsruhe in central Victoria, Australia and can be contacted via email on starman@vtown.com.au