This is the second episode of a special two-part episode with Torres Strait Islander Leader, Uncle Charles Passi. Uncle has deep insight into sharing his ideas around Healing, Country, Freedom and Truth Telling. We touch on so many topics, covering National Reconciliation, National Sorry Day, Mabo, Native Title, Referendum and so much more. We touched…
This is the first episode of a special two-part episode with Torres Strait Islander Leader, Uncle Charles Passi. Uncle has deep insight into sharing his ideas around Healing, Country, Freedom and Truth Telling.
Since the early 20th century archaeologists could show that Australia was criss-crossed by Aboriginal trade routes. For Isabel McBryde – ‘the mother of Australian archaeology’ – these Aboriginal trade networks were ‘among the world’s most extensive systems of human communication recorded in ‘hunter-gatherer’* societies’. Goods and people travelled vast distances: the Dieri people, east of…
Songify Your Day This singing and song-writing pilot project provided an exciting opportunity for 2 local musicians,Greg Dodge and Mira Chorik, to support and collaborate with Council’s Community Developmentteam, The University of Queensland School of Music, and the Community Action for a MulticulturalSociety (CAMS) program. Delivered in April, the project aims to better understand the…
By Jack Latimore – In this SMH article If you followed the last year’s Black Lives Matter uprisings, you will have noticed the word Blak being used by writers and commentators in Australia. Perhaps you dismissed it as a spelling error, or just considered it a bit of a head-scratcher until the next curio snagged…
A POWERFUL new podcast is exploring what it means to be Australian.
Born and bred in Shepparton, Victoria, Uncle Shane Charles, a proud Yorta Yorta, Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung man, has worked in the education, justice and cultural heritage sectors, an academic, government advisor and most recently with the City of Melbourne. He also Co-Chairs the Aboriginal Studies and Indigenous Strategies Committee at La Trobe University and…
Watch for eight minutes and get a deeper sense of what occurred to First Nations people of this country. Is Australia really an intercultural safe haven of equal opportunity? Or is racism more prevalent than ever before? Stan Grant took to the stage for the last IQ2 debate of 2015. His speech is widely acknowledged…
We would love if you can share your stories with us about meeting Australians (from a different world) who now share this country. They say countries are just many stories being shared – be a part of this here. Bring us together through these shared stories. Being a descendant from a sixth generation convict, Charlotte…