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Gunyang on the Merri at Christmas

As the busyness of nearby shops increase to a Christmas-time fever, we at Merri Creek Management Committee encourage you to find reprieve in a walk on the Merri in Gunyang season. Gunyang is a time during which Wurundjeri people bring attention to the grass seed ripening, the characteristic flutter of male Golden Sun Moths, and skinks and lizards basking in the sun.

‍Thank you: 2024–2025 MCMC Annual Report

As 2025 reaches its close, MCMC thanks you for your wonderful support this year. We can only do the important work we do for the Merri Creek – and its lifegiving landscapes – thanks to your support. We invite you to celebrate our shared achievements by reading our 2024–2025 Annual Report.

Read about our 2023–24 National Landcare Award, our achievements and vision for the wallan wallan Regional Parklands, our Growling Grass Frog Strategy and our Sorry Day Walk on Country at Granite Hills, among many other stories.

‍Celebrating Treaty: a milestone for First Peoples in Victoria 

On 13 November 2025, as Buath Gurru (grass-flowering season) brought warm rains to the Merri, Victoria marked an historic first.

The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, members of the Victorian Cabinet and the Governor of Victoria gathered at Government House to sign Australia’s first Treaty between First Peoples and a state government. Merri Creek Management Committee (MCMC) acknowledges the significance of this moment in the very season when Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country is flourishing.

‍Knowing your Chickweed from your Sticky weed

As founder of the Friends of Bracken Creek, Melanie del Monaco dreams of creating a bird and wildlife corridor along a stretch of Bracken Creek, a small tributary which flows through parts of Thornbury and Northcote and into the Merri.

“The creek is such a special place – when I walk along it, I’m struck by the meandering water over the rocks, the birdlife, and the quiet moments of connection with nature – it’s a hidden sanctuary in the middle of the city. But it needs our care after many years of neglect.”

Strengthening skills through rail corridor restoration

For most Melburnians, the view from a Metro train window rushes past in a blur – an unremarkable stretch of grass, perhaps a small patch of scrub. Few realise that these seemingly ordinary rail corridors are home to some of Victoria’s most threatened grassland species and ecological communities.

Since 2018, MCMC has played a central role in helping Metro Trains protect and restore these vitally important ‘biosites’. When the current Metro franchise began, there were 30 sites identified as having significant ecological values, many of them neglected or poorly documented. Metro engaged specialist contractors to restore and monitor the sites, with MCMC taking responsibility for the majority – particularly the most sensitive or complex grassland reserves.

‍WaterWatch volunteers connect, learn and lead

Waterproof waders might not be your typical weekend wardrobe, but for a group of 20 WaterWatch volunteers gathered in the inner-north of the Merri Creek catchment in late November, these garments are simply the trademark of a passion for waterway health.

For once, however, these WaterWatch volunteers kept their socks dry, while attending MCMC’s first-ever Citizen Science networking workshop: although WaterWatch volunteers routinely head out to collect samples, record observations and monitor the health of local creeks, they rarely have the chance to meet one another.

Merri Creek Management Committee. 2 Lee St, East Brunswick, Victoria, Australia 3057 
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