The project is a joint effort by the Batemans Bay campus and Eurobodalla Walbunja custodians, and is funded by a community engagement grant.

As part of the University's 40th anniversary and the Batemans Bay campus's 15th anniversary celebrations, a special workshop was held on Friday, to demonstrate the amazing cloak, made up of 40 possum pelts. 

Walbunja custodians used a hot iron to burn traditional indigenous stories into the cloak.

"This has been an exciting project, and to see our mob coming back here and keeping our heritage alive gives me goosebumps," Walbunja custodian Loretta Parsley said.

Burning the stories onto the underside of the cloak had great significance for Henry Stewart, who was born an bred in Batemans Bay.

"It is really special to bring back an old tradition," he said.

"My Pop used to to do it with fire sticks, and he showed me how."

Ms Parsley urged those gathered not to feel sorry for the possums which had provided the pelts for the cloak.

"Our (Australian) possums are protected, but these are from New Zealand, where they are a pest that they love to get rid of," she said.

"A lady who had heard about the project rang me to tell me she had a dead possum on her roof, and asked if I would like to come and get it.

"I said 'no thanks'."