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We invite you to join us for the FATSILC AGM and National Indigenous Languages Forum 2009
“From Little Things, Big Things Grow” is the theme for the 2009 FATSILC National Indigenous Languages Forum, to be held in Devonport, TAS, from the 28th to the 29th of November 2009.
The great spirit saw the land was cracked and dry. It was because the Indigenous peoples language no longer washed across it. He took the seed called FATSIL from mans mind and tended to it. He nourished it with the hopes and dreams of the people of the land. The seed grew and blossomed bringing back the language, restoring things as it should be. Yurrawalan.
28th AND 29th November 2009
Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre, 145-151 Rooke Street, Devonport Tasmania
The Northern Land Council says the construction of the first two houses under the Federal Government's housing program in Wadeye in the Northern Territory should silence critics.
South Australian Aborigines are travelling hundreds of kilometres away from their communities for renal dialysis because of an impasse between the South Australian and Northern Territory Governments.
A group of young Indigenous men from Woorabinda has finished a training course to learn farm skills - boosting their employment opportunities and helping support the community's property.
The senior lawyer for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory says Indigenous legal services have been hampered by a lack of Federal Government funding that has not increased for almost a decade.
The South Australian Opposition says kidney disease patients from the state's far north-west Aboriginal lands are being forced to drive distances equivalent to going from Sydney to Adelaide to get treatment.
A Western Australian Goldfields Aboriginal leader is confident a new plan, being developed in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, will provide an opportunity to make a real difference on a range of local Indigenous issues.
The South Australian Government has been granted an ongoing exemption from anti-discrimination laws to let it give preference to Aboriginal health workers.
South Australia's Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, has denied that there are problems with the Port Augusta Court getting access to Aboriginal interpreters.
Four airstrips on remote Aboriginal lands, in South Australia's far north-west, have been closed indefinitely, raising concerns about access for medical evacuations and services.
The chairman of Western Australia's Indigenous Implementation Board will today deliver the keynote address at a forum on Aboriginal issues in the Goldfields.
The South Australian Government is being asked to increase the wages of Aboriginal court interpreters to combat continuing delays to the justice system.
The Western Australian Government says it will soon begin developing land in Karratha after signing an agreement with the Murujugu Aboriginal Corporation.
