Indigenous Communities
July 17, 2006
A giant grassroots whiteboard? The PWF concept has come from recognising the potential magnitude of the small business and community group sector, with its enormous creativity, energy and concern for passing on to the next generation all the good things […]
July 10, 2006
ARE there problems with Opal? The Weekend Australian reported that after an 11 month campaign by the federal Department of Health to make Opal the only fuel available in central Australia some large roadhouses – within 2 hours drive of […]
July 8, 2006
Govt to spend $4million supplying Opal fuel to petrol stations The National Indigenous Times reports lobby group The Opal Alliance welcomes Health Minister Tony Abbott’s July 6 announcement that the government would spend $4 million a year supplying Opal fuel […]
June 27, 2006
Fortnightly(!) fruit & veg part of a multi-layered problem Collaboration on delivery of perishable goods to remote Indigenous communities seems to have been a standout point at an Adelaide conference this week. Community leaders, store managers & freight companies looked […]
June 9, 2006
A local 20 year plan vs a federal ‘knee-jerk’ at Wadeye? Australia needs to commit to a long term plan if it?s to tackle the causes and symptoms of problems in Indigenous communities, says the NT Chief Minister. In a […]
June 1, 2006
Would a high commission to Aborigines mean money spent where it counts? The Australian newspaper continues to provide ‘food for thought’ re: improving the social health of our Indigenous communities. Reporter and author Rosemary Neill first spoke of Indigenous family […]
May 18, 2006
Ngarda Trading Floor – Roebourne, Western Australia, June 21-22, 2006 This Trading Floor will be the first to be sponsored by an Indigenous corporation, Ngarda Civil and Mining (NCM). Run by BAMA ISX, the proceedings will go to a national […]
April 5, 2006
If life wasn’t meant to be easy was it meant to be this hard? At Wadeye – formerly Port Keats in the Territory’s remote south west – a record seven Indigenous girls from the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart […]
March 30, 2006
PALS stands for Partnership, Acceptance, Learning & Sharing The PALS Schools Reconciliation Awards help students learn more about Australia’s Indigenous history and culture and encourage the younger generation to build new relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. These ‘PALS’ are […]
March 21, 2006
Four young people between 10-14 years of age left Darwin yesterday for a wonderful opportunity to experience the hoo-haa that will be Melbourne and the Commonwealth Games over the next few weeks. Two boys and two girls – Leroy Daly […]
February 22, 2006
More than 8000 illegal foreign fishing vessels were sighted in 2004-05 and only 280 were apprehended last year. An uncoordinated effort by a raft of Federal Government agencies – Customs, Australian Defence Force, Coastwatch, Fisheries, Immigration and Foreign Affairs – […]
February 21, 2006
I have obviously been living under a rock as only LAST week did I hear about the Australian Future Directions Forum where 90 “emerging young leaders” voted at a four day live-in forum to make “ending Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]