NEWS FLASH ( something very different from a news update).
“Doing Housing” - kalkadoon.org’s report on Palm Island housing issues prepared for the Queensland Greens
NEWS UPDATE
Channel 9 “Sunday” program 26/2/06.
The story of 2 Aboriginal people killed by hit and run drivers in Townsville and the leniency and inaction of the authorities to investigate and prosecute the drivers.
Lawyers for the family of one of the victims have launched a public campaign to pursue the issue. Errol Wyles Campaign
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Peak hour in Boulia
Baganan and her entourage will be travelling a lot in the next six months. She is off to Palm Island at the beginning of March (which explains why this edition is a bit early) to discuss sustainability options with the council and community. Baganan will be spending the month of April in Boulia, the heartland of the Pitta Pitta, to paint and negotiate with the Boulia council the establishment of the Pitta Pitta Art Gallery and Education centre as well as do the necessary Aboriginal business of the whole project.
We have a letter requesting financial assistance that is posted on the support us. page. If you are able to distribute it, please do. We will update it when we get back from Palm Island so that it focuses only on Boulia.
*To those people who have deposited money into the bank account anonomously, and again to those we have/will thank personally - thank you. The Palm trip is definite because of you.
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Young Australian Eco Voice 2006 The Pitta Pitta Art Gallery and Education Centre is participating in the inaugural National Greenbuild & Eco Show Exhibition & Conference, in Sydney June 9-11 2006.
The Gallery is organising and sponsoring the Australian Young Eco Voice award as a highlight of the show. All the details
The Pitta Pitta Art Gallery and Education Centre will also be launching it’s on-line gallery and retail catalogue of sustainability products at the show. If you are in Sydney in June - drop in and say hello
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Baganan’s Message
“untitled” by Baganan charcoal on paper digitally tinted
Homeland movement is the movement of the people back to their forefathers and foremothers land . To walk in the footsteps of our people who have gone on before and who have looked after our lands since the beginning of time. Their remembrance will always go on in our hearts and to provide a way of looking after our people and our land for future generations of the Pitta Pitta and Kalakadoon children of these nations so they won’t have to suffer from disassociation of lands and identity crises themselves as the past two generations of stolen children and their children was because of forced removal from our lands.
To build new trading routes and maintain old trading routes
To dream new dances and maintain the old dances
To build new houses and maintain the Old house
To teach new ways and maintain the old ways
To plant new trees and maintain the old trees
To dance on new coroboree grounds a
And maintian the old corroboree grounds
To break the malnutrition cycle by eating our foods
To bury our people on their lands
To birth our children ’s childrens on our lands
Aboriginal women reclaiming culture and land
The Aboriginal women is back from desolation, isolation, domestication and colonisation and she is looking to take care of her business in a way that has always been taught to her from her Aboriginal mother the love and life of us all through times of starvations our mothers would cook up bush food thrown in to get us through the hard times, as the colonisation of our people and our lands eroded our economics and structures that took since the beginning of time to put into place. Within the 200 years there has been alien sets of values and foreign rules that have always left the Aboriginal women and her children her husband were the most at risks the Aboriginal women have seen the disintegration of her nation as she maintains the family structures for future generations.
Aborigininity in Sustainability is the operation of Aboriginal women’s life stories . As the earth is our mother there is no one better to understand then an Aboriginal women who had the privilege of having an Aboriginal mother as this is right, and a very fulfilled time of learning about her people , women’s being have brought life and have sustained life
The mothers have been exposed to western values and standard and have been able to get ride of the bullshit and replace it with sound enlightenment of who they are.
-Baganan Kurityityin Theresa Creed
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In this post you will find
*an article from “the Australian” newspaper on a Queensland government report about Palm Island today
*an article on the history of the Island since 1914 when it was gazetted as an Aboriginal reserve.
Check out the website of Bwgcolman Community School
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What is the Rainbow Power Company?
check out their website
by John Tracey
Nimbin, whatever it is in reality, is an icon of the old alternative movement in Australia. That icon has a series of sub-icons such as the annual mardi-grass and the street murals. However the most powerful (excuse the pun) Nimbinic icon is the Rainbow Power Company. I first heard of this mythical beast decades ago. Their experiments with car alternators and bicycle dynamos inspired many attempts to copy them. The copyists I knew were always given help and advice when they asked. R.P.C. has developed into a major retailer of sustainability products, not just but especially electricity generation.
The R.P.C. are not the only the only business to develop alternative technology. The major fossil-fuel companies have invested heavily in solar power and offer a wide range of products. However their motivation has been to supplement and evolve their own dominance of the energy market. R.P.C. have encouraged energy self sufficiency and self management - an altogether different agenda.
The energy systems for our future remote housing developments (including a totally independant kit home) will be supplied by the R.P.C. We will also market and sell their products through the Pitta Pitta Art Gallery and Education Centre.
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“Ram pumps”
The “ram pump” does not require electricity, wind or fossil fuels, just flowing water.
The power of the water flow presurises air which then forces small amounts of water with enough pressure to rise considerable heights above the water source. They wont fill anything quickly, but they chug along happily, 24 hours a day as long as the water flows.
They are ideal for a flowing creek or river with a gradual decline -where an intake pipe, upstream, will be higher than the pump, down stream. Same with an elevated dam wall with a constant overflow. However there are easy ways of adapting it to a flowing creek without a decline. There are even systems to connect it to closed dams and still water. - as the water flows from the dam to it’s lower destination the pump can send some of that water to a tank much higher than the dam.
Here is a simple animation from the Schou company website that explains how it works. (hint to working it out - where it says “feed pipe” and “water in” Imagine water gushing in really fast. When it forces the red ball to block the gap, the force of the water has nowhere to go except into the air chamber -where it pressurises the air. A (red) valve blocks the water into the pressurised tank and it has nowhere to go except through the “water out” pipe)
(you can buy ram pumps from the Rainbow Power Company)- checkout “pumps” in their products section
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by John Tracey
King Canute is a European dreamtime figure who was famous for commanding the tide not to come in. While he has often been charachterised as an egomaniac fool, the truth is he was challenging the notion of human dominanation over nature. Canute wanted to teach his people that despite the kings political and mythical power, he was powerless to influence the tide - and he proved it. The war against global warming could learn from Canute’s wisdom. Read the rest of this entry »
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