News edition for 18 September 2026. Added to Nungya on 22 October 2026 as part of our retrospective news archive. Reporting reflects information available by the edition date.

Beneath streets, buildings and familiar city views are water systems with much longer stories. A new exhibition at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre invites visitors to attend to those relationships through First Peoples’ knowledge.

Museums Victoria announced ngiyama mirrim baany yulendj | reawakening deep water knowledge on 18 September. Working through sound, film, visuals and artefacts, it explores a more sustainable and culturally grounded approach to water in cities.

At its centre is baany, water, understood as a living presence connected with memory, life and the ecological and cultural relationships of Naarm/Port Phillip Bay. The exhibition asks audiences to recognise water systems that continue to flow beneath the built city.

That invitation offers a different starting point for an urban museum visit. A drain, shore or waterway can become a reason to ask what the place was, how it is connected to other places and whose knowledge helps explain it. The city’s present surface does not contain its whole story.

The Museums Victoria announcement introduces the exhibition and its focus. For anyone interested in Country within urban life, the program offers an encounter with water that extends beyond infrastructure and into relationships with place.