Indigenous Communities
November 19, 2007
Four months ago a Green Map for the Green Wedge Warrandyte region in Melbourne’s outer northeast was a germ of an idea. In two days’ time, in conjunction with Bendigo Bank’s launch of its Warrandyte Community Portal the Warrandyte Neighbourhood […]
November 15, 2007
Marni Cordell writing for New Matilda reports that last Wednesday in Alice Springs busloads of older Indigenous women, and some men, largely from remote communities across the Central Desert, rallied to ask the Government to listen to them, for once, […]
November 12, 2007
A mix of contemporary and traditional eel farming techniques is the basis of the Lake Condah Sustainable Development Project. The historic, as well as potential eel-harvests – from traditionally-constructed eel aquaculture systems – is being investigated in SW Vic. I […]
November 5, 2007
A year ago we wrote about the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation’s (BAC) involvement with replicable aquaculture in Aboriginal communities – community-initiated and operated mud crab farms at Maningrida and Darwin. Now we see that this entrepreneurial body – in only their […]
October 12, 2007
Rick Roser is an Aboriginal artist from Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. He runs ‘Aboriginal Events Management’, an Aboriginal Culture consultancy and has presented thousands of art and culture workshops to schools, TAFEs and universities. Rick is currently promoting his Aboriginal Art […]
September 26, 2007
Queensland’s Northern Gulf Resource Management Group’s (NGRMG) Carpentaria Ghost Net Program won the Indigenous ‘Caring for Country’ Banksia Award 2007. The Alert Sea Rangers had noted that turtles were being caught in ‘ghost nets’ – fishing nets that have been […]
September 15, 2007
PWF has received info about two Aboriginal consultants passing on their culture. Our first story is about Ron Murray who this week entertained kids at an inner Melbourne community childcare centre in a ‘fantastic one hour class’ that included Aboriginal […]
September 11, 2007
A reader has alerted us to a worrying aspect of the Commonwealth’s NT Indigenous intervention. In order that welfare payments are used to buy food and essentials, thousands of Indigenous people will have to spend quarantined payments at remote community […]
September 9, 2007
Last year PWF wrote about the new Dugong Beach Resort being built on Groote Eylandt. The resort and nearby Escape Sportfishing Lodge, will open up the spectacular scenery and fishing in this part of the Gulf. Who is behind the […]
August 12, 2007
Nick Minchin, Government leader in the Senate, has argued ‘strenuously’ behind the scenes for the Senate to perform its function as a house of review and look into the proposed NT Aboriginal intervention legislation, reports the National Indigenous Times (NIT). […]
July 24, 2007
There’s been quite a lot of talk about David Marr’s Quarterly Essay, His Master’s Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard. It is indeed a cracker of a read but is there anything he says that relate to the […]
July 17, 2007
Janet Ross Kelly of Advance Indigenous Business tells us that Yalari is expanding their scholarship program to include boarding schools in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania in 2008. Yalari Limited is a Gold Coast based, not […]