Deadly Yarning from South Australian Aboriginal Communities

26/06/2025

📣 Upcoming Voices for Change Forums – 26th June 2025 📣

Wakwakurna Kanyini are inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members who have lived experience of infant removal in South Australia, whether firsthand, in their family or through support and advocacy roles to share their insights about the challenges, successes, and lessons.

Wakwakurna Kanyini are partnering with the Reily Foundation, Flinders University and Child and Family Focus SA to support the Voices for change research project, funded by the Fay Fuller Foundation. Your voices are valuable to this project and will help shape the research undertaken, ensuring it is informed and appropriate for future participants.

Community Forum
For: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members
🗓 Thursday 26th June 2025
🕘 9:30am – 1:00pm
📍 Yitpi Yartapuultiku, Port Adelaide

📝 Register you attendance: https://forms.office.com/r/md83wpTU7X

📩 Questions? Email us at [email protected]

25/06/2025

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 CONNECTING TO COUNTRY PLAYGROUP 🌿

Come along and celebrate NAIDOC Week with a special Connecting to Country Playgroup!

📆 Wednesday 9 July
⏰ 9.30am - 11.30am
📍 Port Pirie West Children's Centre, First Street, Port Pirie
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 All families with children aged 0-5 years are welcome
🆓 Free event - no bookings required

Gather around the campfire, share stories, make some damper, explore natural art and enjoy time together on Country!

Port Pirie West Children's Centre Discover Port Pirie

25/06/2025

ALL GAS, NO BRAKES! 💥😤

Australia's king of the bend just broke the Australian 200m record AGAIN! Gout Gout runs a sensational 20.02 in Ostrava for the win to make his European debut one to remember.

What were you doing at 17? More to come.

25/06/2025

Australia is supporting Papua New Guinean women to advance their research skills and connections with Australian research institutions.

Through this initiative, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) is providing an intensive training program and workshops in Port Moresby, Lae and Goroka; covering essential topics such as research fundamentals, data analysis and management, report writing, leadership, collaborative research, data-based decision-making, and policy impact.

Read more: https://tvwan.com.pg/news/4945

25/06/2025

What if we told you the world’s first bakers weren’t Egyptian… but Indigenous Australian?
Most people credit ancient Egypt with the birth of baking—around 17,000 BCE. But in Australia, grindstones used to make flour from native seeds have been dated to 30,000 years ago.
At Cuddie Springs in NSW, archaeologists uncovered a grinding stone used by First Nations people to process grass seeds into flour—12,000 years before the Egyptians even started experimenting with bread.
This isn’t just an archaeological fact—it’s a window into a sophisticated civilisation. A culture that cultivated crops, engineered waterways, built spiritual economies, and lived in harmony with land and climate. A culture that thrived without war.
Yet, how often do we hear this story?
Why don’t we learn about the yam daisy monocultures that stretched across Victoria? Or the Brewarrina fish traps, potentially the oldest human-made structure on Earth?
The myth of “nomadic” Aboriginal people has long hidden the truth: this land was cultivated, managed, and enriched for tens of thousands of years.
It’s time to shift the narrative. To recognise the intellectual property, innovation, and ecological wisdom of Aboriginal Australia—not just during NAIDOC Week, but every day.
Australia wasn’t “discovered.” It was built.
Let’s start telling the full story.

25/06/2025

25/06/2025

Why is there NEVER any Kaurna involvement when it comes to decisions about their COUNTRY ... 🖤💛❤️

Department of State Development South Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation Network Reconciliation South Australia Living Kaurna Cultural Centre

25/06/2025

25/06/2025

Hundreds of families have been left in limbo with an embattled Adelaide out-of-school care provider forced to close after 7NEWS revealed a boy was abandoned on a locked bus for over an hour at Salisbury Downs.

In an urgent text to parents last night, Happy Haven OSHC confirmed it has been suspended from operating, leaving children at four schools including Salisbury Downs and Lake Windermere with nowhere to go.

Download the 7NEWS app: https://7news.link/7NEWSapp

25/06/2025

24/06/2025

Working together to promote the rights of older people
Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM recently hosted three roundtables focused on advancing the rights and inclusion of older Australians.

The Age Diversity at Work Roundtable emphasised the need for age-inclusive employment practices across all sectors and explored ways to drive action on this important economic and social issue. The Human Rights as We Age Roundtable established a Human Rights as We Age Network, comprised of organisations and individuals working collectively to advance human rights for older persons.

The Financial Elder Abuse Roundtable laid the foundation for a cross-sector Action Collaborative to prevent and respond to financial elder abuse, involving key stakeholders from finance, advocacy, and community sectors.

Financial elder abuse is defined as the misuse or theft of an older person’s money or assets. This can cover a broad spectrum of behaviours, sometimes describing as existing ‘in the grey area between thoughtless practice and outright theft’.

Governments and the community increasingly recognise that the abuse and mistreatment of older people is a serious social, human rights and health problem. According to the 2021 Australian Institute of Family Studies, about one in six older Australian report experiencing elder abuse in the previous 12 months, and this is on the rise according to National and state-based elder abuse helpline data.

Financial abuse is the third most common form of elder abuse, after psychological abuse and neglect.

https://humanrights.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f64cd1da1ba6a894b8d5ee6df&id=80f3bebd21&e=55cdcb17fb