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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
Monday, 21 September 2009
Updated: Friday, 23 October 2009
Tasmania
FATSIL is making preparations for the 2009 AGM and National Indigenous Languages Forum to be held in DEVONPORT, TAS from the 28th to the 29th November 2009.
The below PDF FATSIL (Corp) Member Update 24-08-2009 (gold paper) is to bring you up to date on a number of changes and other matters which will be of interest to you as a member of FATSIL (Corp).
Indigenous leader Mick Dodson says a plan to re-instate the racial discrimination act in the Northern Territory is at odds with the intervention in Indigenous communities.
A company that has been able to build a house in a remote Indigenous community in Queensland, at a third of the usual cost, says it has been inundated with calls - including from the Northern Territory Government.
The Sydney-based Public Interest Advocacy Centre is calling on the Federal and Territory Governments to do more to prevent a second generation of "stolen" Aboriginal children.
The Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships says the next 12 months will be vital to forming a new justice agreement to keep Indigenous people out of jail.
The Northern Territory health department is at odds with one of its most senior doctors about how long Indigenous children are having to wait for important tests.
Members of Aboriginal communities on the New South Wales far south coast will meet representatives from all levels of the judicial system at the weekend.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) says a report about the police handling of a north Queensland death in custody is likely to be finished by the end of the year.
The Queensland Government says education and justice will be the focus of an Indigenous mayors round table meeting today in Cairns, in the state's far north.
An Aboriginal Corporation based in Alice Springs says the future of central Australia would be better served by abandoning the two major political parties.
