This speech was delivered to Warramiri Cosmology Conference at Charles Darwin University by Dianne Biritjalawuy Gondarra on 21st February 2019. It was translated into English by Richard Trudgen Image by Wayne Quilliam ** Thank you…
How often do you get to invest in your own health and positively impact the lives of Yolngu people in Arnhem Land at the same time? Here’s an opportunity for you to directly contribute to closing the Gap.…
Richard recording with one of our Yolngu producers through the internet. Life-changing education: it’s here! In mid 2017 we gained funding from the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet to create new educational material for Yolngu. We’ve wanted to create…
ABC 15 May 2017, 7:36am Answers to the Lead Poisoning – Sniffing Problem From where most who read this sit, it is hard to understand why young people would do such things or why their parents did little to stop…
If you want to learn an Aboriginal Language find an existing resource for the group you feel that you will want to work with. Do you own home work rather than just going to find a native speaker and hassling…
Down Load:https://www.whywarriors.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Cheap-Drunk-170428-Final.docx Note: The following is not intended to be an in-depth study of petrol sniffing or the anti–sniffing programs run across the region. Having been centrally involved in permanently stopping petrol sniffing at Ramingining in the early 1980’s I…
Breaking of a People Down Load: https://www.whywarriors.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Breaking-of-a-People-161205-final.docx Submission to Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory I have called this submission “breaking of a people” because I want to talk about a number of…
I was sitting in a hospital waiting room to see a specialist and there were a number of Yolŋu present, also waiting to see the same doctor. None of these men and women was over mid-30s. As we sat there…
Our last newsletter titled “Two Way Abuse in Aboriginal Communities” received great feedback. Many thanked us for saying what should have been said a long time ago. Among these were people who had spent years working in Aboriginal communities and…
Some may think cultural competency is the same as cultural awareness. However cultural awareness is only one small aspect of it. Cultural competency teaches a whole range of knowledge and skills that are not covered in most general cultural awareness…
