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Djaara: the essential ingredient

Rodney Carter

Winter 2024

The Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation has a recipe for health and success. It’s a recipe perfected by the Dja Dja Wurrung Ancestors over millennia. But there’s something missing.

In any recipe, you need the right ingredients. If you’re baking a cake, you need your flour, eggs, sugar, butter… Leave one of those ingredients out and your cake isn’t quite so delicious. For human health, we need clean water, shelter, a healthy diet, enough sleep, exercise, social relationships, stimulating work, downtime. Take out one of those ingredients and our health suffers.

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