Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated in Maudsland, Queensland, Australia | Education

Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated

Locality: Maudsland, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 400 968 093

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25.01.2022 Hey everyone! We are trialling a new booking system to manage our bookings more efficiently this year. Click on the ‘Learn More’ blue button to book a visit to Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area or our Project Managers time - example below of where to book. We may need to edit appointment times as we go, but please bear with us while we work out the configuration of the new booking system

25.01.2022 A few of us went out to Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area today! Two teams - one doing a microbat box & a couple of the possum boxes and I took some ladies for a site tour and we did some secret womens business!! Us ladies were even blessed to see a koala on our way in to Guanaba IPA - we rarely get to see them down off the top ridges so very exciting!! #womensbusiness #GuanabaIPA #GoldCoast #Kombumerri #NgarangWal #Koala #possumboxes #GIPACrew

25.01.2022 ‘Ngarang wal to blesses Surfers Paradise Outrigger Canoe Club's new canoe’ A traditional Tahitian & Aboriginal naming & blessing ceremony will take place at Waterway’s Drive Main Beach (In between Southport Yacht Club & Pelican Beach) on Sautrday 28 November at 9am. Surfers Paradise outrigger club members voted to give naming rights of the new canoe to Ngarang-wal elders that would recognise local indigenous heritage. ... The name of the new Surfers Paradise canoe is Gwondo. The blessing & naming ceremony will be a blend of polynesian & aboriginal cultures & traditions, ensuring good fortune, that the spirit of the canoe is strong and to provide safe passage to all who travel/paddle in the canoe. All Ngrang-Wal elders, family & friends are welcome to attend the canoe blessing ceremony. A light lunch will be served & bring a change of clothes if you would like to have a go at outrigger paddling.

25.01.2022 Check out our video for National Sorry Day today and Reconciliation Week filmed at Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area today and edited by one of my NWAL work crew - we did alright for our first one!! *We got in a day early for the Reconciliation Week videos due to a busy work schedule! **Please feel free to share and use as resource ... #OneTake #SorryDay #ReconciliationWeek2020 #InThisTogether2020 #NgarangWal #Kombumerri #GIPA #IndigenousProtectedArea #GoldCoast #WelcomeToCountry #AcknowledgementOfCountry

24.01.2022 Hi everyone! Got any plans on Saturday? Why not come down to Kombumerri Park, home to the Broadbeach Cats AFL club to support their Indigenous round - 1:35pm sharp!! We will be there conducting a Welcome to Country & a Smoking Ceremony with some didgeridoo to bless their game, their season and training grounds while we pay respects to our Kombumerri ancestors. Entry fee applies for the club and please observe COVID-10 restrictions - crowd limits will be maintained as per leg...alities! #GoldCoast #Kombumerri #ngarangwal #mibiny #broadbeachcats #afl #indigenousround See more

23.01.2022 My next project at Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area - placing these possum boxes around our 200 acres - with special thanks to Ashmore Mens Shed (supported by Ashmore Rotary) for making the boxes for our group. Ive sought advice from our resident Animal Management Expert Michael Dickinson about where we should be placing them and hoping we can put some near our cameras to capture what makes their home in these - although intended for possums we know other animals at our s...ite like to move in - like carpet pythons and microbats!! Let me know if you want to come and lend a hand to put them onsite #GIPA #GuanabaIPA #Kombumerri #NgarangWal #Mibiny #GoldCoast #AshmoreMensShed #AshmoreRotary #IndigenousProtectedArea #possumboxes

23.01.2022 Job opportunity - check out the details on the original post!

23.01.2022 Hey all! Got any plans tomorrow??? Why not come down to Burleigh Mountain and join our Maori and Aboriginal communities to have a family day out and we are asking everyone to bring a plate of food to share with mob and donate to our homeless community! #GoldCoast #Kombumerri #KombumerriSacredMountain #WomensArea #GoldCoast #BurleighMountain #MibinyLanguageRegion ... https://facebook.com/events/s/the-big-3-koha-shed-youth-day/564226731181622/?ti=icl

23.01.2022 Something super exciting happened today!! Varsity College students create an web design app with Mr Steve Tucker for us this last term!! Wow, we are so proud of this learning resource and happy to share via USB. Message me to grab a copy today and hopefully we can see this out in some public arenas to share our Kombumerri Cultural Heritage. #kombumerri #goldcoast #ngarangwal

23.01.2022 We are elated to share a new Hope Spot - Australias Gold Coast Bay! The glowing beaches and glimmering waters of the Gold Coast Bay have drawn both Australians... and globe-trotting tourists alike to its shores for decades. The bays most popular attraction is perhaps the populations of Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) who congregate and migrate through. The Hope Spot designation supports the Hope Spot Champion, Dr. Olaf Meynecke of Humpbacks & High-rises Inc., and his partners goals of protecting the whales sensitive populations with unified conservation, boating and fishing regulations, and a strong ecotourism industry that prioritizes animal safety and public appreciation for the natural world. Dive into the Ocean Story: http://bit.ly/GoldCoastHopeSpot Explore the StoryMap!: http://bit.ly/GoldCoastStoryMap Hope Spot Champions: Humpbacks & High-Rises Hope Spot Partners: Surfrider Foundation Australia, Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast, Reef Check Australia, AJSBA.org.au, Friends Of Federation Walk, Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated, Sea World Cruises, Whales In Paradise, Devocean Dive, Sea the Gold Coast, Gold Coast Dive Adventures, Spirit of Gold Coast Whale Watching, Ocean Connect, Griffith University, Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Friends of Kirra Reef, Gecko Environment Council, Whales and Climate, Watergum, Surfers Paradise Dive&Cruise, Dolphin Research Australia Photos by Humpbacks & High-Rises, Gold Coast Dive Adventures, and Blaze Parsons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please join Hope Spot Champion and Humpbacks and High-rises founder Dr. Olaf Meynecke for a Luminary Lecture: Whales in the City - Humpback whale resting and calving in the Gold Coast bay. tomorrow, August 19th! Register here: https://bit.ly/321rpaQ

22.01.2022 Friday hangs with Birdwings Forest School! Thanks for listening so well

22.01.2022 The Kombumerri Together Project website was launched today!! Thank you again to the Department of Education QLD & Griffith University School of Education and Professional Studies for all their help, support and engagement to get this programme off the ground - check it out via the link below. https://kombumerritogetherproject.com #kombumerri #ngarangwal #goldcoast #ngarangwal #griffithuni #departmentofeducation

21.01.2022 Nights at gipa, it was so loud and full of life, while walking with the headlamps on we could see so many glowing eyes watching us in the water, the Bush, and the ground, luckily we seen this beauty of a spider and not walked on him, he was the size of my hand #yikes #spiderthesizeofmyhand #horses #yabbies #frogs #guanabaindigenousprotectedarea #gipa

20.01.2022 QTIC FRIDAY FAMIL - Friday 13 November, 2020 Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated invite you to explore the Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area by 4WD, UTV or hike to down one of their many tracks to discover hidden waterfalls, lagoons and experience rare and endangered flora, fauna and native bush tucker with Kombumerri Traditional Owners. Please dress for bush conditions (long sleeve shirts and full-length pants are recommended. Closed in footwear is re...quired due to fauna onsite). If it’s wet weather, we will postpone due to flash flooding risk. WHERE: 750 Guanaba Creek Road, Guanaba WHEN: FRIDAY 13 NOV, 9:30 AM 11 AM (meet at Hollindale Park) COST: FREE Please contact Justine Dillon via [email protected] to register your interest in this famil. https://www.qtic.com.au//annual-indigenous-/friday-famils/

18.01.2022 Another beautiful day onsite #guanabaipa #gipa

17.01.2022 Trialling a new project for mapping our sites and suburbs names related to our Kombumerri cultural heritage! Please let me know if the link works and navigation - its a work in progress and I would like to know what content the community would like on this platform too? Please feel free to use as a resource! #GoldCoast #IndigenousMapping #IMWAustralia #Kombumerri #NgarangWal

16.01.2022 Bush trekking today at Guanaba IPA and got to see some awesome views and lots of native flora species flowering #guanabaipa #goldcoast #ngarangwal #indigenousprotectedarea #kombumerri #mibiny #gipa

16.01.2022 Our mystery animal Wanted to share again and see if the consensus is still for an echidna!? - video taken January 2019 - middle of summer...what does our community think?

16.01.2022 Tomorrow is Friday 13 November, our QTIC Friday Famil!! We are the only one in the Gold Coast Region, so come check out what we do onsite!! See you are 9am at Hollindale Family Park, Guanaba Creek Road, Guanaba or onsite if you know where we are already! #goldcoast #kombumerri #ngarangwal #QTIC #FridayFamil

15.01.2022 Hi all! Check out the video below about Ashmore Mens Shed. A great place for men of all ages to connect and keep busy by working on small projects for the community - for example, making possum boxes for our Ngarang-Wal Aboriginal Land Managment team! #GoldCoast #AshmoreMensShed #Ashmore #MensBusiness #ConnectingTheCommunity

15.01.2022 Interested in attending a Rotary meeting and seeing what we theyre all about? Check out the Ashmore Rotary promotion video below

15.01.2022 Our Tourism in Action Newsletter is out now! This month includes an update on COVID-Clean, First Nations tourism, Micro-Credentialing, grants available, a welcome to our new members and more. http://ow.ly/J7in50AdQoM

14.01.2022 Surfers Paradise Outriggers Welcome to Country & Tahitian Blessing of new Samoan canoe before it was launched into our beautiful Broadwater today!! An amazing e...vent to be part of and a great fusion of First Nation Cultures #ngarangwal #surfersparadiseoutriggers #goldcoast #outriggersgc #Kombumerri See more

14.01.2022 An amazing community support and advocacy group!! Check out About time for justice

14.01.2022 Quick visit to Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area today - we focused on hand removal of the blue billy goat weeds popping up along the riparian area. We will continue to tackle to creek line over the coming weeks, let us know if you want to come and lend a hand next week - Thursday! #NgarangWal #GIPA #Guanaba #IndigenousProtectedArea #GoldCoast #Kombumerri #LandManagement

12.01.2022 Thank you to Mr Tuckers class at Varsity College for hosting us this morning. We were very grateful to be able to share our Kombumerri culture with the Year 10 students, who are making sure their research into local Indigenous perspectives is accurate and current!! #cousins #teachers #thedreamteam #goldcoast #kombumerri #goldcoast #ngarangwal #MibinyLanguageRegion #educate

12.01.2022 Naidoc poster design competition for this years theme ‘Healing Country’

11.01.2022 Ngarang-Wal Annual General Meeting was great today! Got our business done and a family feel to today’s meeting thank you to Guanaba local catering crew Donna Reynolds-Dimmick for handling the food and drink for our members and guests today and to our GIPA crew, especially Katie for helping set/pack up

10.01.2022 Hey all, a job opportunity on the Gold Coast! Looking for - *Digital Media Management *Graphic Arts *Preparing Promotions... *Assisting with Events *Website Design & Administration Check out the link below!! https://www.seek.com.au/job/50212591

10.01.2022 For our members - don’t forget our Annual General Meeting is this Saturday 7 November, 2020. Members will have received email/postal notifications - if you did not get yours please let our team know ASAP! *If you are interested in being a member or Ngarang-Wal - please come along or send us an email and we will email some membership forms to you! **Membership is FREE!! #ngarangwal #agm #kombumerri #goldcoast

10.01.2022 The lomandra is smelling amazing, the baby plants are growing so well, and the morning was just full of life this morning, and creek is looking beautiful #ngarangwal #guanabaindigenousprotectedarea #gipa

10.01.2022 Hey everyone! Remember when we were bragging about filming with Totally Wild and Ranger Stacey?! We just got confirmation our episode will feature next Friday 14 August, 2020 on 10 Peach at 8am! The episode (TW26/139) will be available after airing at https://10play.com.au/totally-wild #ngarangwal #kombumerri #goldcoast #indigenousprotectedarea #rangerstacey #10peach #channel10

09.01.2022 Hi people! Our Invasive Plant Species Manager has a position available on her team! Check it out below!!

09.01.2022 Tomorrow 8am on 10 Peach everyone - Ngarang-Wals segments with Ranger Stacey will feature!! If you miss it, episode will be available after it airs at https://10play.com.au/totally-wild

09.01.2022 Photos from yesterdays visit to Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area with Native Plants Queensland We went for a walk up the track to the back pad area, where we conducted a smoking ceremony to welcome our guests. We then enjoyed some afternoon tea and I got to share our Kombumerri artefacts and resources! Thank you for visiting our site and we actually learnt a lot from you all too ... #goldcoast #ngarangwal #gipa #kombumerri #mibinylanguageregion #nativeplantsqld #indigenousprotectedarea

09.01.2022 We received a beautiful folder and letter from the Premier of Queenslands Office for our finalist nomination in the 2020 Queensland Reconciliation Awards! #NgarangWal #GoldCoast #ReconciliationAwards2020 #Queensland

09.01.2022 Quick site visit for today to grab equipment and hand remove some weeds near the creek line, prepping for the wet weather we are supposed to get love spring everything is about to fruit and bloom onsite - the sandpaper figs, the rosellas, the finger limes, the white mulberries and ginger will be ready next week I reckon!! #bushtucker #birdwingbutterfly #guanabaipa #guanabaindigenousprotectedarea #protectedareas #gipa #ngarangwal #kombumerri #goldcoast

08.01.2022 Broadbeach AFC, Maroochydore Roos AFL & Umpire AFL Queensland take part in a traditional welcome to country ceremony performed by the local Kombumerri tribe! We... say NO to racism together. Go Cats QAFL Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated Brooke Sleep

08.01.2022 To all my fellow educators!! A wonderful professional development coming up in October! Register through the link below. https://hota.com.au/events/cross-curriculum-priorities/

06.01.2022 Super important job, thankyou Mr Bee

06.01.2022 Filming at Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area today with Totally Wild crew and Ranger Stacey!! We pretty much combined a years worth of work we do into one day to showcase our site (and didnt even get all the activities planned done!) - massive day filming but super grateful to be part of this event! We had some of our family and our Steering Committee members attend for the day to share their experiences and how they help us with our environmental conservation work. Thank you to all for the support and will share details of the episode when its available!! #Channel10 #tenplay #10Peach #TotallyWild #RangerStacey #NgarangWal #GoldCoast #Kombumerri #MibinyLanguageRegion #GIPA #IndigenousProtectedArea #Indigenous

06.01.2022 Site visits the last two days - moving the bees to full sunny spot, looking at orchids, spiders and the odd wallaby! #ngarangwal #gipa #guanaba #IndigenousProtectedArea #GoldCoast #Kombumerri

06.01.2022 Link to Totally Wild episode from this morning for anyone that slept in for the public holiday or had to work still!! Thank you to the families and work crews that help with the Guanaba IPA https://10play.com.au//season-26/episode-139/tpv200810pgoev

06.01.2022 Dont forget to register for our team if you havent already!! *********************** Hey all! The first walk was postponed, now has come the time to try again for the Motor Neurones Disease (MND) walk at Main Beach! Its a short walk along the path to raise awareness and funds for this horrible disease. ... Sadly I watched my father lose his battle with this disease and there is currently no cure and limited treatments, help us raise money to fund this group to help people suffering MND - they provided resources, advice and support and can help other families who are living through this. When you see a sea of orange shirts walking along the beach - thatll be us, making sure people see this disease exists and is affecting a lot of our local families. It was hard to see the first time how many families are actually affected by this disease and would love some of my family and friends there this year side-by-side with us to stand up with others and show them that we care!! Join our team via the link or register your own event! Team: Ngarang-Wal Kombumerri WALK TO D-FEET MND - GOLD COAST 2020 When: 9am, Sunday 11 October 2020 Where: Hollindale Park, Main Beach, Gold Coast (just near the Surf Life Saving Club) Distance: Two distances - 2km and 3km Follow the COVID regulations in place on the day for everyone health and safety! Theres information on the webpage to check the conditions, if you have any questions.

05.01.2022 Broadbeach Cats were honoured to have the traditional custodians of the Gold Coast; the Kombumerri people perform a Welcome to country ceremony and a smoking ce...remony today. Thank you Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated And thank you to Councillor Pauline Young for your attendance

05.01.2022 Men’s Business - feel like you’re not coping or struggling, go check out one of these Men’s Circle workshops in Logan area for some deadly support!! Brotherskeeper

04.01.2022 We were honoured today to be able to do the Welcome & Acknowledgment to Country for Foxwell State Secondary College! Check out their page for the live video from today. #ngarangwal #goldcoast

04.01.2022 The language books are now available online only! Follow the link below for purchasing! https://aiatsis.gov.au//gurgun-m/paperback-pdf-epub-kindle

04.01.2022 Hey everyone go and check out Watergums live video from our Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area! Amazing work Emily, keep up the great work your doing for our community!! #GIPA #GuanabaIPA #GoldCoast #NgarangWal #Watergum #Kombumerri #Mibiny #IndigenousProtectedArea

03.01.2022 Sign up below to our team or as an individual to help raise awareness and support for local families affected by Motor Neurones Disease by joining in a short walk along Main Beach!

03.01.2022 Jingeri Jimbelungs! Our centre is a meeting place for learning and connection and we loved welcoming Aboriginal mentors and friends from our local community for... a post-NAIDOC Week lunch gathering. Belonging to Kombumerri, Ngarang-wal, Mununjali, Yugambeh and Wiradjuri clans, our guests enjoyed connecting to country and exploring the beautiful native surrounds, wildlife and centre facilities. With yarning, stories, music and food, it was a special afternoon to honour the importance of Indigenous cultural integration and community engagement in schools. #alwayswasalwayswillbe

03.01.2022 Our dedicated invasive plant species team hard at work today!! Abseiling to treat weeds in a very steep terrain go team!! #NgarangWal #GuanabaIPA #IndigenousProtectedArea #goldcoast #FRE #ForestRehab #Kombumerri

02.01.2022 Hi all, could you please share and like our page! We have recently heard other local Indigenous groups want to shut us down and take over the IPA for commercial operations at our site. We dont want all our work in Environmental Conservation to be undone and heavily rely on community support! Lets get Ngarang-Wal 1000 likes and show them who supports our group ... We work tirelessly to conserve the native flora and fauna and support the community efforts as much as possible...it would be a terrible loss to lose this area to other groups that dont have the same intentions as our current working team. Ngarang-Wal can provide educational cultural resources from our work on Country & in the community (since establishment in 1998, and beyond in other family ventures!), conduct Welcome Ceremonies and continually practice Environmental Conservation! #ngarangwal #kombumerri #goldcoast #MibinyLanguageRegion #mibiny Kombumerri Ngara:ngwal language

02.01.2022 Beautiful day at Guanaba IPA today happy Naidoc week everyone!!

02.01.2022 Ngarang-Wal G.C.A.A Inc. will feature on June 15, 2020!! Check out the event below for other Gold Coast landholders and their environmental initiatives. #NgarangWal #GIPA #Watergum #CatchmentCrawl #GoldCoast #GoldCoastCatchmentCrawl #Kombumerri #IndigenousProtectedAreas

01.01.2022 Ngarang-Wal G.C.A.A Inc. is proud to be a finalist in this years Queenslands Reconciliation Awards 2020 - Community Category. Congratulations to all the winners for their amazing efforts towards Australias Indigenous & non-Indigenous communities https://www.qld.gov.au//reco/2020-recipients-and-finalists