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A Wonderful Weekend Connecting
I spent a special weekend on a road trip with Sharing Culture colleague Michael Liu and two good Aboriginal friends, Cathy Coomer and Tommy Cooper. The purpose of our trip was to visit the Cooper...
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Happy 2nd Birthday, Sharing Culture blog
Yes, it is two years since I launched the Sharing Culture website blog. Since then, I have uploaded around 500 blog postings.Just as I started today's blog, my Yappa (sister) Miliwanga Wurrben called...
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Principles Underlying the Read Dust Healing Program
I've highlighted the Red Dust Healing approach before and recommended an excellent article. I thought I'd give another plug, highlighting six underlying philosophical principles underlying the...
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'We'll never Close the Gap until we start again with Indigenous policy' by...
'Every year it’s the same story: some minor improvements in the lives of Australia’s first peoples. The big picture doesn’t change though: dismal failureIt’s Close the Gap time again.On Wednesday...
View ArticleIndigenous Community Stories
Indigenous Community Stories PROMO from Film & Television Institute WA on Vimeo.This looks a very interesting initiative that has been set up here in Western Australia. 'The Indigenous Community...
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'As an Indigenous woman, it's been a long, hard journey to find out where my...
The colour of my skin and features show that I am Aboriginal, but not knowing where my country and family are have led me to question my Aboriginality.My name is Kristy McMahon, I’m an Aboriginal...
View Article'I am my homelands': Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
'Homelands are communities established by Aboriginal people in Australia so that they can maintain their connection with their traditional, ancestral land. These communities have lower levels of...
View ArticleInside a Mind-Body Medicine Fundamentals training
Inside a Mind-Body Medicine Fundamentals training from The Center Mind-Body Medicine on Vimeo.The Center for Mind-Body Medicine's professional trainings focus on practical techniques for self-care and...
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National Press Club Australia: Stan Grant
Journalist and author Stan Grant addresses the National Press Club of Australia to launch his new book Talking To My Country. He speaks of a 'deep wound' that 'comes from a time of dispossession',...
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'Closing The Gap Was Groundhog Day For Indigenous Australia' by Tauto Sansbury
Here's an excellent article which appeared in the Huffington Post a few weeks ago.I watched Prime Minister Turnbull's opening speech on Closing the Gap. Was I inspired and encouraged? No. For me it...
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'Revel': A story of resilience, intrigue, art and social justice
"Firstly, the Aboriginal was deprived of everything, his country, the freedom to live his chosen way of life. But the greatest and most depressing loss of all was the loss of man's greatest and most...
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'A 10-year-old girl has taken her own life. How can we possibly look away?'...
'A girl who should have been playing with dolls decided her world was so bleak she no longer wanted to live. Look at your children today and think about that.'Here's an important article from one of...
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A Busy Two and a Half Months
My apologies for the pause in my blogging, but I've been very busy on two related projects during the past two and a half months.The first project has involved writing a book on healing in Aboriginal...
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Cultural Education Introduced in Katherine Primary School
Just returned from a trip to the UK and Sweden to find this very interesting and inspiring project on Pip Gordon's Facebook page.'This week, in the grounds of little Clyde Fenton Primary School in...
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'NAIDOC 2016: Person of the year - Professor Chris Sarra' by Karina Marlow
Here is a man with whom I have always been mightily impressed. It's great to see him win the NAIDOC Award. This article is from the NITV website. The film of Chris's speech that is included on the...
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Revel Cooper Project
My apologies for my blog being on hold the past months, but I've been busy with an inter-related project which focuses on one of Australia's most famous Aboriginal artists, Revel Cooper.'Revel' is...
View ArticleJan James: My Path to Connecting Aboriginal People
A key part of our 'Revel' project is to connect Revel Cooper's family - many have been fragmented by Australia's past assimilationist policies - and help them celebrate his life and artworks. This...
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'Introducing 'Noongarpedia' – Australia's first Indigenous Wikipedia' by...
Here's an interesting and very relevant article - given where I live - which appeared in the Guardian newspaper at the beginning of September. I met the crew working on this exciting project recently...
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'Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study...
Now, isn't this something? This interesting article appeared in today's Guardian and reveals latest research findings from evolutionary geneticist Prof Eske Willerslev and colleagues published in the...
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'Indigenous Australians know we're the oldest living culture - it's in our...
Here is an important article from one of my favourite Aboriginal writers, Larissa Behrendt, which has just appeared in the Guardian.'Australia’s Aboriginal people have already been using the tag of...
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