Toowoomba First Nations Allies

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Tag: environment

  • Native grains at Sunshine Coast

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    Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu raised awareness of native grains. Now the ABC has a story about a mill being set up on the Sunshine Coast to process native grains from […]

  • Cultural burning

    Cultural burning

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    A few members were able to attend a cultural burning ceremony at North Branch Creek in May. To assist our understanding of the practice, Geoff Reid has sent links to […]

  • Call of the Reed Warbler

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    This is not specifically about indigenous matters but it addresses the degradation of Australian countryside post settlement/invasion and describes how some of those effects may be reversed through more effective care for country.

  • Nyalar Mirungan-ah

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    Nyalar Mirungan-ah Nature Refuge is in the western foothills of the Dividing Range near Cunningham’s Gap, Qld. We have identified over 350 species of Australian plants, a large number of which were used by the First Australians for food, medicine, pleasure, art, tools and shelter.

  • Bunya Mountains

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    Aboriginal people of the Bunya Mountains and Blackall Ranges (nearer the coast) invited people from as far south as the Clarence River in northern New South Wales, west to the Maranoa River and east to Wide Bay to join the gatherings. For local and visiting groups, the bunya festivals were times for ceremonies, law-making and resolving…

  • Amaroo Environmental Education Centre

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    Amaroo Environmental Education Centre (EEC) is a day visit centre situated in the Darling Downs and South West Region of the Department of Education. The Centre is located on the site of the old Kleinton State School, approximately 22km north of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.