Indigenous Communities
May 4, 2005
Objects never before seen by the public and a touch display are new features of the Western Australian Museum’s new Aboriginal Gallery: (1) a glass panel from Warburton reflecting the travels of the Seven Sisters, the most important ancestral beings […]
April 20, 2005
A conglomerate of indigenous rights groups from various universities – Monash, Melbourne, La Trobe and Ballarat are listed on the website http://www.alphalink.com.au/~rez/ccisn – held a camp on the weekend of April 16-17 to develop aims and objectives for the network […]
March 23, 2005
Kakadu’s new management plan aims to create job opportunities for young indigenous people wanting to work on their country, says the new Chairman of the Board, Jonathon Nadji. The traditional owners will look to Governments for help in gaining business […]
March 9, 2005
By January 2006, people strolling by the Musee du Quai Branly on the River Seine, not far from the Eiffel Tower, will be aware of a ‘canopy’ of Australian Indigenous art, ‘part of the architectural fabric’ of France’s major cultural […]
February 23, 2005
A new ‘Welcome to Country’ guide will highlight the strong cultural connection to the land and the stories of that land which is so characteristic of Australia’s indigenous people. Produced by Aboriginal Tourism Australia, the Guide will give every traveller […]
January 26, 2005
Australia’s first exclusive Indigenous resort has successfully opened 120 km south of Alice Springs within the Titjikala Aboriginal Community. Gunya Titjikala is the vision of Mark Provost, Managing Director of Gunya Tourism – an idea sparked by a round Australia […]
November 19, 2004
I once heard a NAIDOC organizer say it was hard to remember what the letters stand for so it is sensible of the National Gallery of Victoria to prompt readers with ‘National Aboriginal Islander Day Observance Committee’ in brackets in […]
November 19, 2004
Pigs Will Fly is about grassroots collaboration and getting results for grassroots effort – you’ve heard it all before! Back in Bulletin 6, I passed on what, to me, are 6 essential ingredients for collaboration and this last week success […]
November 19, 2004
Just how do we communicate with others in our community? and how, apart from the ballot box, do grassroots people actually communicate with government? Although journalists talk of their right to keep the public informed, grassroots info is rarely sufficiently […]
November 19, 2004
Here is a Conservation Partnership initiative I saw in the ATC Newsletter, May 13th – it may be of interest to some! You can check it out at www.atc.australia.com/eweekly.asp ‘Expressions of Interest for funding under the Tourism and Conservation Partnership […]
September 3, 2004
The Gunya Tourism resort, near Alice Springs, will be a desert safari camp charging a massive $900 a night. It will be run by the local Titjikala community and will be the first time non-indigenous people have been invited to […]