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Takayna tracks referred for Federal Assessment

takayna tracks referred for Federal Assessment Hodgman Government continues their relentless push to let 4WDs in to destroy heritage. 16 Oct 2017: Federal environment Minister says full assessment is required. So now the state government have to prove that their planned mitigation works does not impact on the national heritage values (or threatened species) of the Western Tasmania Aboriginal Cultural Landscape. Media: Frydenberg seeks review of four-wheel-drive tracks in Tasmania's Tarkine https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/17/frydenberg-seeks-review-of-four-wheel-drive-tracks-in-tasmanias-tarkine Federal Environment Department wants more information on Tarkine tracks proposal http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/4991471/off-track/?cs=5312 Liberal State Government push ahead on plan to ...

ningimpi nungampi nayri! ‘Happy Seniors Week’ in palawa kani

Sharon Holbrook, from the Elders Council of Tasmania, Launceston, wishes everyone ‘Happy Seniors Week’ in palawa kani (16-23 October in Tasmania). Sharon is 1st speaker of 13 speakers saying Happy Seniors Week in their different world languages, all now spoken in Tasmania. The Expatriate Connection Support and Community For People Changing Country put this audio together for community groups to play during this week. We’ll post any links to these when we receive any.

Naming the Ice Breaker, nuyina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4yzwOT_hs8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEqhjACf-10

Visiting places our Ancestors had names for 2019

Visiting places our Ancestors had names for Preminghana Aboriginal community camp 8-11 March 2019 March 2019 NW places site visits + wh + preminghana camp HANDOUT click the link above palawa kani place names on the way to Kings Run Handover ceremony 2017 pataway (pah tah why) Burnie, city at Blackman Point pinmatik/Rocky Cape (peen mah teek) munatrik (mu nah treek) Stanley; The Nut (Circular Head) titima/Trefoil Island (tee tee mah) pilri (peel ree) Cape Grim pilitika (pee lee tee kah) Robbins Island luwuka (lu wu kah) 'Suicide Bay' ranamitim (rah nah mee teem) The Doughboys taypalaka/Green Point (tie pah lah kah) nungu/West Point (nu ngu) muntarikawtim (mun tah ree cow teem) Bluff Hill ...

Land Management Update Sept 2017

nupiri muka “Eye of the Sea” Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) official naming at the Australian Maritime College, Friday 18 August

nupiri muka “Eye of the Sea” Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Official naming at the Australian Maritime College, Friday 18 August Southern Cross News

palawa kani nayri mina-tu (Our Language Matters) because…

palawa kani nayri mina-tu (Our Language Matters) was the 2017 NAIDOC theme. To celebrate this, Aborigines of all ages across the state wrote and recorded their own message about why our language matters and what it means to them. The messages are written either in palawa kani or a mix of palawa kani and English depending on the writer’s level of language use. These messages were written across rri (hand) stencils and displayed in Hobart at piyura kitina (Risdon Cove) and the Aboriginal Children’s ...

Launceston Newsletter July-August 2017

Newsletter July - August

yula titima-ta. Muttonbirding on Trefoil Island

yula titima-ta. Muttonbirding on Trefoil Island POSTER PDF file Video: Audio:

pilri/Cape Grim, Our Story is in our Country and its Names, palawa kani booklet 2019

pilri/Cape Grim, Our Story is in our Country and its Names, palawa kani booklet 2019 CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO OPEN THE BOOKLET: NINE PLACES at CAPE GRIM In honour of our ancestors and in memory of their loss of life and lands, we proposed to the Tasmanian Place Names Board in 2017 that offensive and racist names in this region be replaced with the original Aboriginal names, and that other places are assigned dual names. In the case of three places which do not have European ...

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