Bangerang Cultural Centre in Shepparton, Victoria | Education

Bangerang Cultural Centre

Locality: Shepparton, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5831 1020

Address: 1 Evergreen Way 3630 Shepparton, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.bangerang.org.au/home.html

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21.01.2022 New language up on the 50 Words map! Stop by and learn 50 words in Pintupi! http://50words.online/ #50Words #IndigenousLanguages

11.01.2022 I can’t breathe. These were George Floyd’s last words, as his neck was stood on in a Minneapolis gutter. The exact same words were spoken by David Dungay fro...m the floor of a Long Bay jail cell in 2015. Multiple officers restrained him, compressing him down. He had breached prison regulations by eating biscuits in his cell, and he died shortly afterwards. He was 26 years old. We’ve had more than 20 years of Reconciliation. Our leaders speak out, our academics map pathways to change. Every time we lose one of our own, our people march in the streets. Our writers, filmmakers, painters, musicians, they tell our stories. They are the most productive, the most creative artists in the country. And yet somehow, we are still unseen. They don’t know the names Kumanjayi Walker. Tanya Day. Ms Dhu. They turn the page of injustice, and a blind eye to the statistics, because it doesn’t happen here. Around the country Aboriginal people are now organising protests in solidarity with those across the United States, precisely because we do understand their pain and anger. Maori activists in Aotearoa, and First Nations peoples in the United States and Canada are doing the same. The aim of us all is to expose, and to have understood, the structural racism that underpins these events. To see that these minor incidents escalate into death sentences because racism causes those of us with the power of life and death, to miscalculate, and to overreact. It makes us hood and shackle a child in Don Dale, or to trip, and slam the head of a 16-year-old into the concrete in Redfern. Most of all, it leaves those of us with goodwill looking for a pathway out. Looking to a future where we can co-exist as equals, having settled the injustice of the past and the prejudice of the present. We have turned to examine these issues before. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was handed down in 1991. Since then 432 of us have died. That is a rate of more than one per month. Aboriginal Australians know these statistics. We understand the history that brought us here. What shocks us is when our fellow Australians don’t know and don’t understand. In the United States, those in solidarity with the Black Lives Movement are now taking a knee, and publicly replicating the iconic protest of American footballer Colin Kaepernick. We now call on our fellow Victorians to stand in solidarity with us, and take a knee. Because it does happen here. We call on the Victorian Government, that will soon sit opposite us across the Treaty negotiation table, to take a knee, and to make clear that the names of our lost ones are not forgotten and are not in vain.

11.01.2022 The theme for 2020 National Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day on 4th August has been announced by SNAICC: WE ARE THE ELDERS OF TOMORROW, HEAR ...OUR VOICE! ... and more than ever, NON ABORIGINAL PEOPLE MUST AND WILL, LISTEN Photo: Jedda mural