The Monash Country Lines Archive on R@CMon
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The Monash Country Lines Archive (MCLA) is a collaborative project between the Monash Indigenous Centre (MIC), Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Information Technology with a team of researchers, digital animators and students. The MCLA aims to support the indigenous Australian communities in the preservation of stories that combine their history, knowledge, poetry, songs, performance and language. MCLA began working with the Yanyuwa people of Borroloola, NT, creating a number of animations between 2007 and 2010. It was these animations that caught the attention of Dr Alan Finkel, the then Chancellor of Monash University. In 2011, the Alan and Elizabeth Finkel Foundation supported the project for a further five years.