Fw: [antar-announce] ANTaR Queensland announcements October 2010.doc
Lyn Jones
ANTaR
Queensland
announcements and news
for October 2010
*** In the news ***
6 October | Girudala wins 2010 Close the Gap health award
Girudala Community Health Cooperative has won ANTaR Queensland’s Close the Gap Health Award for 2010. ANTaR Queensland extends congratulations to everyone involved at Girudala for their success in providing holistic community health care to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in and around Bowen. The Premier, Anna Bligh, presented the cooperative with the award at a special ceremony held in the Parliamentary Annex of the Queensland Parliament on 6 October. Girudala CEO Michelle Hook said the coop had been “striving to deliver services at the grassroots” for three decades. She outlined plans for future ventures, including one to secure training and jobs for Bowen’s young people.
Find out more about Girudala’s work, including its Tucker Box Program, Mums and Bubs Program, and Homework Program at <www.girudala.com.au>.
This is the fourth year the Close the Gap Health Award has been run.
The previous winners are Dr Noel Hayman (2007), the Charleville and Western Areas Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation for Health (2008) and Goori House Men’s Support Service (2009).
29 September | The first Aboriginal lower house MP in the federal parliament, Ken Wyatt, gives his maiden speech
In a very moving maiden speech in the first session of the 43rd parliament, Mr Wyatt referred to the experience of his mother and other family members as stolen children and the impact this had on them and on his extended family.
He said: ‘I hope that all governments continue to embrace new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed, where enduring approaches need to change and where the future we all influence is based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the agencies of government need to jettison the old mindsets that embody Indigenous Australians as passive recipients of government programs and services, and to instead truly regard people as equals and allow them to be equal partners in developing their solutions. Governments must allow information to be shared so that an informed consent decision-making process is enabled. If change is to occur and become embedded and sustained then all must be equal and active partners in all facets of planning, implementation and accountability, and I would equally apply this to all Australians that we represent.”
To read the whole speech, go to the Hansard record at <http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F2010-09-29%2F0178%22>. You can listen to it (in two parts) on You Tube at < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQ7n44j6dM> and <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK33ffjLIHY>.
*** What’s on ***
13 October, 2pm–4pm | Inside Out: The mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody
at Room 113, Level 1, Public Health Building, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston
This seminar is open to anyone. It will be presented by Dr Ed Heffernan, the director of Queensland Forensic Mental Health Services, and Kimina Andersen and Coralie Ober of the Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education Centre (QADRAC).
Cost: free
To book your place and for more information contact QADRAC on (07) 3365 5189 or by email on <y.fla...@uq.edu.au>.
13 October, from 6pm | Trivia night with Amnesty International
at the Irish Club, Elizabeth St, Brisbane city
Are you a trivia buff? It doesn’t matter whether you are or not! These nights are a lot of fun, so come and pit your knowledge against others in this Amnesty International fundraiser. Everyone is in a team of 8 to 10 so if you come on your own, a group will be found for you. Raffle and lucky door prize. Meals and drinks sold at the venue. RSVP by 9 October.
Cost: $15 a person, $10 concession
For more information contact Andrew McMicking on (07) 3856 5449 or <amcmi...@bigpond.com> or Geoffrey Grantham on (07) 3223 5300 or <geof...@xyris.com.au>.
15 October, 4pm–5pm | Voices United for Harmony
in the Queen St Mall, Brisbane (at the George St end)
Come and hear the people sing! Roger Knox, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands singers from Brisbane, Ipswich, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba and Warwick perform to mark Mental Health Week.
Cost: free.
For more information, contact Lindsay, Lennart or Robert at the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council on 07 3328 8500.
28 October, from 5.45pm | An evening with Dr Mick Adams
at QUT Kelvin Grove Campus, Room F509, F Block, Boundary Rd, Kelvin Grove
QUT’s School of Public Health is hosting this evening with Dr Mick Adams, the winner of the university’s 2010 Outstanding Alumni Award and the holder of the Chancellor’s Outstanding Alumnus Award. Dr Adams has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples over 30 years.
Cost: free; refreshments served.
For more information and to reserve your seat, contact Debra McCallum on (07) 3138 3926
30 October, 3pm–6pm | Balaangala open day
in the garden at 98 Yoorala St, The Gap
A gentle afternoon activity, wandering through the garden, which is planted with Aboriginal food, arts and medicine plants, enjoying some bush tucker; and listening to music. Children’s activities will also be provided. Balaangala is a reconciliation group that formed at The Gap in 2008.
*** Learn more ***
17 October, from 2.30pm | Australia: Whose Land? DVD screening
at West End Uniting Church, cnr Sussex and Vulture streets, West End
Come and watch this DVD lecture by Dr Peter Adam, the principal of Ridley College, Melbourne. Theologian Grant Paulson, who works for Reconciliation Australia, will lead a discussion in response to the lecture. Afternoon tea follows the talk.
Cost: free, with donations encouraged to support Indigenous ministry
For more information, contact Andrew Johnson, the community justice minister at the West End Uniting Church, on 0417 783 495 or <westendcomm...@gmail.com>.
4 November, 8.30am–3.30pm | Engagement Blackfella Way
at the Volunteers Marine Rescue, Allpass Parade, Shorncliffe
The Kurbingui Youth Development Association is running this workshop. As well as Indigenous workers talking about cultural issues and engagement strategies, community people will speak from the heart about issues in today’s society. As numbers are limited, please book early.
Cost: $70.
For more information, contact Tyron Day on (07) 3865 1462 or <cultura...@kurbingui.org.au>.
19–21 November | My People’s
Dreaming: Exploring traditional
Aboriginal
spirituality
at Narooma, on the NSW south coast
Join Yuin Elder, Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, to learn more about Aboriginal spirituality. Uncle Max grew up in a close-knit community where some of the boys and young men were still selected for initiation into the old ways. His life’s work is to provide a way for others to understand Aboriginal culture.
Cost: $300 for twin share and $356 for single room; this price includes 2 breakfast and dinner on the Saturday night. Full payment is due by 5 November.
For more information, contact Robyn on 0400 195 621 or email <ssc...@optusnet.com.au>.
North Queensland artists | Two websites that display the work of some north Queensland artists you might enjoy browsing are Okkawikka, <http://www.okkawikka.com/>, and Karrinyarra <http://www.karrinyarra-artists.com/>.
While you are online, look at Inguides, <http://www.inguides.com.au>. The Indigenous-run website is setting itself up to be a one-stop shop for users to search for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service organisations and businesses around the country. It also aims to better promote upcoming events, and create an Indigenous ‘yellow-pages’.
*** Support ***
Dreamtime Kullilla-Art, <www.dreamtime.auz.net>, has 2011 Jukurrpa diaries and calendars in stock now. As usual, the busy people behind Dreamtime Kullilla-Art also have a range of Aboriginal flag products and other items with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait flavour. They are offering free delivery with orders placed and paid for before 31 October.
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Compiled by ANTaR Queensland for distribution to members and
supporters. For more news and information ANTaR recommends:
* WGAR News
(Working Group for Aboriginal Rights) — www.wgar.info
* National Indigenous
Times — www.nit.com.au/default.aspx
* The Little Red Yellow Black Site—
http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au
* The Federation Press —
www.federationpress.com.au
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