Indigenous Consulting Group in Perth, Western Australia | Community organisation

Indigenous Consulting Group

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9468 2022

Address: 1316 Hay Street 6005 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.icgaustralia.com.au

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24.01.2022 We are hiring an Administration Assistant! Visit the link below for more information and to apply.

21.01.2022 It Has Only Taken 165 Years Finally a Statue to Yarri at Gundagai I notice, with some droll amusement, that the good citizenry of Gundagai finally recognized ...the town’s one true hero (not a manufactured one but a person who risked his life to help fellow humans) in June this year. It is a cautionary tale of European arrogance and of Aboriginal bravery. For nearly two decades the Wiradjuri people living along the banks of the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai had been warning of a potentially catastrophic flood. The river’s indigenous name wasn’t one big water for nothing. Typically the European settlers took no notice and built their settlement on the floodplain beside the river. Consequently, on the night of 24 June, 1852, after three weeks of solid rain, the Murrumbidgee broke its banks and poured through the riverside town. The results are still recorded as the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history. One third of the town’s residents (83 out of a population of 250) were drowned and 71 buildings were destroyed or washed away. It was a cruel consequence of a refusal to listen to the advice of people who had been living in the area for tens of thousands of years. Cometh the hour, cometh the man! At this point let me hand the story over to Kamilaroi man and one-time editor of Tracker magazine, Chris Munro: The population of Gundagai were now either on the roofs of their houses, or had chanced a perilous swim to higher ground to escape the rising water level [when a young Wiradjuri man, Yarri, sprang into action. Yarri launched into the now kilometre wide flood zone in a traditional bark canoe he’d carved himself from local timber. Many dwellings had already been washed away, torn off their foundations and sent downstream with their human cargo. In the black of night, Yarri was guided by the screams of survivors clinging to trees and rooftops in the freezing waters. Dodging huge logs and other debris, he went back and forth rescuing anyone he could find. He spent the entire night in his canoe, paddling up and down stream to conduct rescue after rescue. His canoe would usually only hold one person, but such were the water skills of Yarri, he ferried up to six people at a time to a safe spot on the river bank. John Spencer the Inn Keeper spent 36 hours in a tree until Yarri came for him. Spencer was near frozen and completely naked at the time, save for a cash box strapped around his neck. Whole families were torn from the roofs of their houses, the carcases of sheep, horses and cattle were found wedged in the branches of trees the following day Yarri saved 49 people from the great flood over a 40-hour period. In a disaster of any kind, such a truly amazing act of bravery is simply mind-blowing, but given the date was 1852 and Yarri was atop a bark canoe in the black of night, it makes this yarn all the more astounding. But what’s perhaps more mind boggling is the lack of recognition in Australian history books of such a superhuman feat. There’s no poetry, folk song or bronze statue to honour Yarri in Gundagai. Well, Chris, the locals have finally put up a sculpture. A small recognition for one of the greatest acts of heroism in Australia’s history. See more

20.01.2022 I ACKNOWLEDGE AND RESPECT THE CLOSURE OF ULURU TODAY FOR THE ANANGU PEOPLE! #MAYNOMOREFEETDISRESPECTHIM

13.01.2022 Although World Mental Health Day was yesterday, every day we will continue to keep our #mentalhealthpromise.....

13.01.2022 Check.it.out!! This is so awesome.... https://www.indigemoji.com.au/

10.01.2022 This man... so sad to hear of his passing yesterday. My arrival into Broome for the first time in 1992 was meant to be for 2 weeks at most. I met Baamba within days and he talked me into staying and living in his house for a year. I ended up in Broome for more than a decade, and a lifelong connection, and it wouldn't have happened without Baamba. A beautiful, generous man always with a "hello bubbley" and time for a yarn. So much respect.... Kali

07.01.2022 Australiasian College of Health Service Management are working towards a 2030 vision for revamped mental health services. NMHC's Connections Project is getting communities fully involved in the engagement and system-design process of what they envisage suicide prevention to look like. Featured in this video is one of our amazing trainers Rosalie Kickett who is also part of this project.

05.01.2022 Our first ever ICG Family Camp, bringing our amazing team together across WA, Pilbara, Kimberley, South Australia and Northern Territory - what an incredible 3 days down at Donnelly River for more than 50 of us... culture, learning, laughter, nature, animals, swims, healthy food and heartfelt connections... us mob are so amazing...!

04.01.2022 Kaya Moorditj Mob, Indigenous Consulting Group is looking for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a current Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, who are interested in delivering workshops every now and then around Western Australia and Australia. If you’re keen, get in touch with us at [email protected].

03.01.2022 'Solid Rock (Puli Kunpungka) Stronger Now’ was recorded for the 30th Anniversary of ‘Solid Rock’ in 2012, but never released. With the close of the climb today,... it seems timely. Uluru-cultural integrity restored. Respect to Anangu. The track features special guests Dan Sultan, Emma Councillor - Donovan, Natalie Pa'apa'a, Archie Roach, Bart Willoughby, Amy Saunders, Myra Howard as well as the APY Lands Choir singing the Pitjantjatjara translation by Trevor Adamson and Ruby James. 'Solid Rock (Puli Kunpungka) Stronger Now’ is available to download or buy at: www.shanehoward.com.au/palya-wiru-uluru