PAKAM in Broome, Western Australia | Community organisation

PAKAM

Locality: Broome, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9129 4400

Address: 7 Blackman St 6725 Broome, WA, Australia

Website: http://pakam.com.au

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16.01.2022 The fact that all these places returned ancient dates and two of them returned some of the oldest in all of Australia demonstrates what is potentially being ov...erlooked due to the constraints and research limitations of compliance archaeology in WA. The Western Range is covered with rock shelters. Due to the steepness of the terrain, the gorges and gullies that incise the range collect permanent water, provide shade and shelter from the elements, house some of Australia’s most threatened plant and animal species, essentially creating a paradise for all forms of life to persist in the arid zone throughout deep time. Dr Fagan said she hoped further rigorous and systematic study of the sites would be undertaken to help uncover the depth of history of Innawonga country and its people. A recent excavation has uncovered the oldest wooden artefact in the Pilbara along with evidence of one of Australia’s most ancient places. Archae-Aus and Yinhawangka Aboriginal Corporation excavated six rock shelter sites in the Western Range, a location about 25 minutes from Paraburdoo untouched by mining. During the excavation, chert artefacts, a hearth, wooden ladder, stone artefacts, burnt ochre, digging stick and grinding material were among the discoveries found. The wooden ladder was found to be 687 years old while the digging stick dates back 1723 years ago, making it the oldest wooden artefact in the Pilbara. Carbon dating revealed the artefacts were made in one of the rock shelters by a fireplace about 36,050 years ago. Another site has returned dates of 30,000 years old. However, the excavation is not yet complete, leaving archaeologists to believe the place is at least 40,000 years old, making it one of the most ancient places in the country. YWC archaeologist Anna Fagan said the sites, which held extremely high archaeological and ecological significance, would have once been a refuge for Aboriginal people in WA. To find a wooden artefact that old is pretty remarkable as usually these things perish, she said. The recent excavations of just six rock shelters demonstrate the archaeological and cultural richness of the Western Range. The fact that all these places returned ancient dates and two of them returned some of the oldest in all of Australia demonstrates what is potentially being overlooked due to the constraints and research limitations of compliance archaeology in WA. The Western Range is covered with rock shelters. Due to the steepness of the terrain, the gorges and gullies that incise the range collect permanent water, provide shade and shelter from the elements, house some of Australia’s most threatened plant and animal species, essentially creating a paradise for all forms of life to persist in the arid zone throughout deep time. Dr Fagan said she hoped further rigorous and systematic study of the sites would be undertaken to help uncover the depth of history of Innawonga country and its people.

15.01.2022 If you missed it you can watch it here. Thanks to Traelyn for digitising this old Betacam tape.

14.01.2022 https://cmto.org.au/media-training/nfds/ My story of patterns is now up on the NFDS page. It was not easy doing this story because it was a personal story and it was a time allot was going on in my life and not all good things. I hope you enjoy and we all have a story to tell.

14.01.2022 Great to see new lease of life to old recordings. Listen to more of Gabriel on PAKAM Music Volume 3 https://www.indigitube.com.au/album/5bff731ba75b380d4caf4044

14.01.2022 This National NAIDOC we're proud to present the re-release of Gabriel Nodea's song, "Will Always Be," which we thought to be % in line with this year's theme "...Always Was, Always Will Be." Nodea's theme of ancestral Gija country in the song was first released in the late nineties / early 2000s and originally produced by PAKAM - Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media. We hope you enjoy the little video with the lyrics! Original song "Will Always Be" by Gabriel Nodea PAKAM Media for original production Many thanks to Stuart Lapsley for drone footage and Darren Clark for the photo of Gabriel Nodea. copyright Gabriel Nodea and Warmun Art Centre 2020. #NAIDOCWeek #WillAlwaysBe #AlwaysWillBe #GijaCountry #Forever

11.01.2022 Whadjuk Ballardong elder and Curtin University Emeritus Professor Simon Forrest said he was "pissed off" when he saw the tweet. "The wording is completely wrong... and inappropriate," he said. "I acknowledge Ellis was the first police officer to die while on duty, but he certainly wasn't murdered. "It was actually Stirling's party that was doing all the planning and premeditation to attack the Noongars. "The Aboriginal group were responding in self-defence to an attack on their camp." Key points: Some 15-80 people are estimated to have died in the Pinjarra massacre Theophalus Ellis was the only colonial in the party to die, after being speared The tweet stated Ellis was "murdered" and pledged to remember him Mr Forrest said Australians wanted and needed to be taught more about the history of Aboriginal massacres. He said a day to commemorate the mass killings could sit alongside occasions like Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. "We commemorate three days in a calendar year of soldiers going off and fighting overseas," he said. "Where's the remembrance for Aboriginal people who were doing exactly the same as them, fighting for their land and their way of life?" On Monday, the WAPU also posted in honour of Constable William Goldwyer and Inspector Frederick Panter, who were supposedly killed by local Yawuru Karajarri people. The University of Newcastle's database records that their deaths sparked a "punitive expedition" that led to the deaths of as many as 20 people. In 1994, a plaque was added to a monument to the men in Fremantle's Esplanade Park to recognise "the other side of the story". On October 31, the union shared a post in memory of Constable William Richardson, who died in 1894 while transporting 16 Bunuba resistance fighters from the Kimberley to Rottnest Island. All of the officers appear on both the WA Police Union and WA Police honour rolls, without noting the circumstances around their deaths.

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10.01.2022 Keep mentally healthy with Act Belong Commit. You can BELONG by building and maintaining a strong Aboriginal identity, by keeping connected to family and language groups, and by getting together with others at cultural events and visits to Country. Find out more here: https://www.actbelongcommit.org.au//targ/aboriginal-people #actbelongcommit #mentallyhealthy

10.01.2022 The following PAKAM video will be played for the first time on ICTV this week. Garkiny the Moon https://ictv.com.au/video/item/8155 28th of November 2020 at 03:32pm CST

09.01.2022 And while local communities welcomed the news that work on the road finally finished earlier this week, there was a mixed reaction to what the new road could br...ing. Key points: Work began on sealing the Cape Leveque Road in 2018 and provided 290 jobs The new road will allow residents to travel during wet season and for more tourists to visit the area A management plan to keep the Dampier Peninsula safe and protected from inappropriate use is being developed Tourism management plan needed Mr Baird, a Bardi man living on the Peninsula, said he was optimistic about how the road would help improve life for those living the area but there needed to be a management plan in place soon to help the coast deal with the projected influx of tourists. "It's good for the residents that live up here to have access in and out of town," he said. "On the other side of the coin, it paves the way for a lot of people to come out this way, and that in itself can damage the country up here. "I can tell you now, there needs to be a coordinated effort amongst the communities and the outstations to protect the Peninsula. "And they haven't got [anything] in place to do that at this point in time sad to say." The WA Government allocated $1 million to a working group of stakeholders on the Peninsula last year, which included Bardi Jawi Indigenous Protected Area coordinator Daniel Oades. He and the group have been working on a management plan but have not formalised any plans at this stage to manage tourists and communicate appropriate usage of the area. "It's the majority of Aboriginal native title land up the Peninsula," Mr Oades said. "There's a lot of tracks that should not be accessed by just the average tourists for privacy, landowner and cultural heritage concerns. "You're going to get a lot of uninformed people looking for free camping and we've been taking care of some of those people, but we've got to really get our story straight and really make it clear to any visitors about what kind of visitation is allowed." In the interim, signage will be erected to inform tourists entering the region. While the completion of the project marked an end to a two-year project funded by both the WA and federal governments, Transport Minister Rita Saffioti said the long-term benefits of the project could not be overstated. "This is a fantastic project that has been jointly funded and has supported about 290 jobs," she said. "I recently visited the project and met some of the workers on the project. It was great to hear the good news stories about the positive impact this project has had and will continue to have on the local communities."

08.01.2022 Thanks to Meranda for delivering this deadly workshop!

07.01.2022 "The fact that these are some of the only extant objects created by people of the stolen generations anywhere around the country is profoundly important," he sa...id. The story of the artworks' survival is almost as remarkable as the work itself. The children at Carrolup were encouraged to draw by a teacher at the mission, Noel White, who discovered they had extraordinary talent. "When the teacher arrived the children were incredibly shy. They would not engage with him and he was about to resign his post until he actually saw a child drawing, under his own volition, a tree," Mr Malcolm said. "The teacher was so amazed at the skill of this child, that he hadn't seen in the classroom, that he suggested all the children go out on bushwalks and come back to the classroom and draw what they saw and that was a breakthrough for him in being able to communicate with the children. "He was astonished at how enthusiastic the children were and the level of sophistication of their drawings." In 1949 an English woman, Florence Rutter in Australia to establish Soroptimists clubs heard about the extraordinary drawings and visited Carrolup, where she was given around 1,000 pictures to take back to London to exhibit and sell, with the intention that money would come back to Carrolup. "The 120 that remained in her possession at the end of her life were then purchased by a collector in the US and that's when they disappeared," Mr Malcolm said. The man who bought the 120 paintings, Herbert Mayer, donated them in 1966 to his alma mater, Colgate University in upstate New York. They were only rediscovered by chance in 2004 when a visiting academic was shown them in storage. "That gentleman would have been only one of half a dozen people in the world who would have known what these drawings were, and he was the one who was shown this box [of pictures]," Mr Malcolm said. In 2013, after a long legal process, the pictures were repatriated to Australia and given to Curtin University, where they have since gone on display. The university hopes to create the Carrolup Centre for truth telling as a permanent home for the collection. "The aim of the centre is to bring people together so that people can understand what has been happening in this country for generations," Mr Malcolm said. "It's shedding light on the story of the stolen generations." But this is only a fraction of the work that was produced and sold in London and the university also hoped to identify more of the artists, and to track down the hundreds of paintings sold by Florence Rutter around Europe. "There were hundreds of children at Carrolup. This collection only has 17 children that we know about," Mr Malcolm said. For Alma Toomath, whose early experiences at Carrolup set her on the path to become the first Aboriginal woman in Western Australia to complete a fine arts degree, seeing the pictures 70 years after they were created brought back powerful memories. "I was only a small person then. I remember going to school there and I really enjoyed it because we had a lot of children to play with," she said. "We learnt a lot through the art because that was our way of speaking. "We needed that paper and crayons and to express ourselves." Her daughter Kathleen Toomath hoped that more Carrolup artists could be identified and be able to see their pictures again. "[Being in the gallery] is a little bit overwhelming and I see my mum with tears in her eyes, but I think it's a happiness, there is enough time that has passed," Ms Toomath said. While her mother's experience of being removed from her own mother's care, along with her brothers and sisters, involved a great deal of pain, Alma Toomath was happy the story was being told. "She has some really positive memories of Carrolup and she talks about it in a way that is loving, brings back memories, brings back tears," Ms Toomath said. "Whereas another place that she was in later, it was bad. "It's going to heal a lot of people, looking back to the children's perspective."

05.01.2022 NAIDOC Opening Ceremony Monday 9th November 2020 - HALLS CREEK It was a day of celebrating with dance, face painting fun, coming together and enjoying our culture as a community. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE

02.01.2022 The six-month SA Health pilot of stationing dialysis machines at Kanggawodli makes it the only treatment location outside of a hospital in a metropolitan settin...g. Kanggawodli Manager Wade Allan said traditional owners often find hospitals overwhelming and alienating, which results in patients not committing to ongoing treatment. Key points: A new dialysis trial in Adelaide has shown promising early signs of success More sessions have been attended in comparison to a traditional hospital setting The trial will expand in 2021 off the back of early results "Having this venue in this setting has been beneficial for their ability to manage their chronic health condition, but more importantly it's culturally safe, it's culturally inviting and it's inclusive of all cultures," Mr Allan said. "The rates of attendance at dialysis in a hospital setting have been quite low the attendance rate here would be about 98 per cent, which is a significant increase." He said the continuity of care meant patients often stabilised their health quicker and were able to return home sooner as a result. Kanggawodli includes on-site dialysis machines Federal government data shows that, compared with the non-Indigenous population, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are three times as likely to develop chronic kidney disease, four times as likely to receive kidney transplants and nine times as likely to rely on dialysis. Despite that, many regional and remote communities do not have dialysis facilities on-country, forcing First Nations people to travel hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometres for treatment. Wholistic approach to trial The trial not only brings dialysis closer to people who are already away from home it also brings Aboriginal health practitioners into the picture. Brenton Wilson worked in hospitals before moving to Kanggawodli and said patients were more comfortable in the smaller accommodation setting. "I think we get a lot more information out of them while they're sitting here, we hear a few more stories from them while they're here dialysing as well," Mr Wilson said. "Being dialysed by an Aboriginal person helps. "To hear a bit of their own language while they are away from home helps, too." He said the trial could also boost health practitioner numbers in remote communities. "To be able to train other health practitioners to be able to learn these types of skills so they can take them back to their communities and do it there would be great," he said. The trial's early success will see it expanded early in 2021. If that yield further results, Kanggawodli would likely to build a permanent dialysis facility in the long-term news welcomed by Bluey Roberts. "We've got good facilities, staff are great, they're like family," he said.

02.01.2022 Such a beautiful song and experience, working with the Mulan women was one of the many highlights of this crazy year!