Drew Hutton, the leader of the Queensland greens being interviewed with Senator Andrew Bartlett of the Australian Democrats,(below) interviewed by elder of the Palm Island community and indigenous music and radio scene, Mr. Mick Thaiaday (right) on Palm Island radio. Drew Hutton and Andrew Bartletts recent visit to Palm Island was facilitated by kalkadoon.org
We encourage you to join up to our e-reminder list, telling you when a new newsletter is on on the site, and encouraging your friends to sign up to. We hope this newsletter will develop a network of information and support for eco-projects in Aboriginal communities, and the more who are involved in this the better. Supporters will be offered a range of products to buy from Aboriginal producers in the near future. In light of the Australian media’s sensationalism about issues such as domestic violence and child abuse, with no focus on solutions, we feel it is very important to “spread the word” in mainstream Australia about positive developments that are occuring. This is not to distract from the serious social problems, far from it. It is to develop realistic and long term solutions to these problems and allready the “kalkadoon.org” process is providing a focus for hope amongst many on Palm Island as well as the Kurityityin clan as it provides a working agenda, model and specific tasks to strive towards for such things as housing and community infrastructure developments.
From little things big things grow. That song was written by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly, but it seems to be relevent to kalkadoon.org right now.
All we had a few months ago was a donated website. thanks again to kalkadoon corporate solutions, our web host. They are not part of the Kalkadoon Aboriginal nation, “Kalkadoon” is also a region in the European homeland of our web-hosts and the co-incidence of our meeting through the name has assisted us to get this far.
We still haven’t got to Boulia this year , but that is within weeks away. In the meantime we have been to Palm Island again and asked by the Palm Island Men’s Business Group to assist with new and innovative ideas about housing, education, and economic development. We have also taken a step further in negotiations with the Palm Island Council to establish an experimental sustainable housing project on the Island in conjunction with a number of town planning acedemics and resource people in Brisbane.
Well the plans, options and alternatives are there on Palm Island, from our point of view, because it is exactly the same as on Baganan’s homeland at Boulia and Mt.Isa. which she has been working on for ten years. It has become obvious through our travels and conversations that the models of housing and infrastructure that we are exploring are very relevent to all regional communities, Aboriginal or otherwise, but particularly to the desperate needs for housing, community and economic development in remote Aboriginal communities.
Which brings us to the Greenbuild and Eco show and our catalogue of Sustainability products. The ecoshow will be a collection of the worlds best suppliers of appropriate housing and related products, all in one place at one time. kalkadoon.org will be inviting them all to present their goods and services, for free into our website initially, but this will evolve into a regular printed catalogue also. This catalogue will be made available to Aboriginal community councils, housing authorities, home owners and development groups as well as public sector housing agencies to create more choices in housing options, from light bulbs to mudbricks and everything else. As this catalogue will be on the website it will provide those same resources for whoever else wants to drop in to kalkadoon.org for a visit. So if you provide goods or services, anywhere in the world, put your free ad in the catalogue. You will get a good profile through this catalogue, not bad for free!. If you have a product but cannot organise delivery to “Anywhere in Australia” , then perhaps we can link you up with a transport company that can help, so don’t let that stop you.
As this catalogue develops we will be seeking sponsors for the whole process - the catalogue, the experimental centre on Palm Island and housing and eco-tourism projects at Boulia. However we do not want to charge any advertising for suppliers so that we can maximise the range and choices of goods and services available in the market place.
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