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Posted by kurityityin as HOME - current news at 8:21 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Well the new year ’s in full swing and we’re looking towards having a good year and wish every one the same.
I’m really excited about this newsletter and hope to keep you’s informed and updateded about Homeland movements of the stolen people back to their land . Boulia is still hot, and we will be moving there soon but we’ve been trying techniques to keep us cool and they’ll be put to the test. We’ve been having lots of fun looking at ways to enhance the lifestyle as we hope to encourage other murries who are looking in this direction of sustainability in aborigininity.
Humpy Gunya
We got ours and well feel fine
when it rains we go inside
and still not get wet
when it shines we go outside
and play in the sand
cause my Humpy Gunya’s the best
Baganan
Posted by kurityityin as Aborigininity at 8:18 PM Eastern Standard Time
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by John Tracey
Many years ago I found myself wandering around a paddock in North Queensland with an old farmer. He was showing me some of his rusty old machinery lying around the farm., “One day” he was going to restore it all. A small but heavy cast iron machine caught my attention. It was a water pump that was powered by dumping it on the top of a fire - any fire, anywhere. The farmer told me how it worked, but I forgot straight away and spent decades trying to find out again what it was and how it worked. Well now I know. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by kurityityin as HOME - current news, Sustainability at 8:16 PM Eastern Standard Time
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from ABC Online
Teens in court over shootings ‘targeting Aborigines’
Another three teenagers have appeared in court this morning charged over drive-by shootings in Rockhampton in central Queensland on Australia Day.
At least two children were shot in the back with air rifles in the streets of Rockhampton last Thursday.
Hayden John Nitz, 17, was refused bail on Friday on two counts of wounding, firearms offences and other charges.
The court was told that Nitz and a group of people were driving around Rockhampton on Australia Day with the intention of shooting Aborigines.
Another 17-year-old appeared in court late yesterday and three more this morning.
Timothy John Perry, Shane Matthew McPherson, Scott Henry Warwick-Day and Troy Keith Zornig are facing similar charges to Nitz.
They have been freed on bail.
All five teenagers have been ordered back to court in April.
Posted by kurityityin as HOME - current news, Aborigininity at 8:12 PM Eastern Standard Time
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From ABC Online
The Queensland Aboriginal Local Government Association (QALGA) says Indigenous councils will be closely monitoring a move to sack a Gulf of Carpentaria council for financial mismanagement.
Mornington Shire Council in the state’s far north has been given 60 days to show why an administrator should not be appointed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by kurityityin as HOME - current news, Aborigininity at 7:44 PM Eastern Standard Time
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from ABC Online Govt closes stolen wages fund
Queensland Cabinet will decide later this year what to do with more than $30 million in unclaimed Indigenous wages.
After extending the deadline by a month, the Government today is closing its stolen wages fund.
The $55 million scheme was set up almost three years ago to make payments of $2,000 or $4,000 to Indigenous Queenslanders whose wages were kept by the state.
However, only $17.3 million has been paid to 4,800 claimants.
The minister responsible, John Mickel, says while the scheme closes today, the payments will not be finalised until June.
Cabinet will then decide what to do with the unspent money.
Mr Mickel says it will be used to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders.
Some Indigenous leaders say the individual payments were too small and many people could not be bothered to claim.
For background info Stolen wages fact sheet prepared by Dr. Ros Kidd
Posted by kurityityin as HOME - current news, Aborigininity at 7:42 PM Eastern Standard Time
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The Inaugural National Greenbuild & Eco Show Exhibition & Conference Sydney Fri 9th - Sun 11th June 2006
A.W.R.C.A.L. will be attending the eco-show in Sydney. We will have a stall and will give a couple of presentations. At the show we will launch our full range of retail products which includes enrgy efficient kit homes and wind, solar and hydro power systems, education programs and the channel country art gallery.
For more details - the
inaugural National Greenbuild &
Eco Show Exhibition & Conference,
Posted by kurityityin as HOME - current news, Sustainability at 7:39 PM Eastern Standard Time
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By: John Tracey
The following was published in the Courier Mail ( Queensland’s major Newspaper) on SAT 07 JAN 2006, Page 7 B.A.M. section
(*Anna Bligh was not the arts minister at the time of writing, I knew that and did not say she was. The innacurate reference was inserted by the C.M. editor. - J.T.)
To shine on stage talented Queensland Aborigines must travel elsewhere, writes John Tracey
WHY hasn’t Queensland produced an international dance company like Sydney’s Bangarra? Why are there no famous Queensland Aboriginal art movements such as in the Northern Territory and Western Australia? Why does Queensland, the state with the largest Aboriginal population, lag behind in Aboriginal art and culture? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by kurityityin as HOME - current news, Education at 7:38 PM Eastern Standard Time
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