Weenthunga Health Network in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Weenthunga Health Network

Locality: Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Address: 17-23 Sackville St 3066 Collingwood, VIC, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 One of our favourite newsletter subscriptions is Ngarara Willim, RMIT! This month, our Community Partnership with Ngarara Willim is featured. We're looking forward to continuing our journey and relationship with Ngarara Willim mob and are deeply grateful for their support. Click the link below to subscribe and receive the latest edition.

25.01.2022 The first Aboriginal Senator in Victoria, Gunnai & Gunditjmara woman, Senator Lidia Thorpe, has today being sworn into parliament. Lidia shares "my fist was raised as I entered the Senate chamber as an expression of my people’s strength, resilience and survival and a symbol of solidarity with all the families of Aboriginal people who have died in custody"

23.01.2022 Sissy shares: NAIDOC week exists for a reason and so does the theme ‘Always Was Always Will Be’. The land that we are protecting right now always was and always will be Djab Wurrung country and the power of this land will continue to fuel its peoples to protect. With pain becomes strength, we will mourn but we will grow, unite and fight. Allies have been integral to the maintaining of this long battle, self-determination comes from the ground up and if you want to support us, support the asserting of our sovereignty. This is currently being done through the Wuurn of Kanak Land back initiative, lead by a Djab Wurrung mother: https://gf.me/u/y7nkb3

23.01.2022 Mandy Nicholson sharing and passing down of knowledge. We thought this may interest you. Stay safe

22.01.2022 Join Toorong Marnong and specialised staff from Koorie Student Support Units via zoom September 17th @ 4pm - 6pm to learn and yarn about university life and stu...dent supports available. Please register with the Eventbrite link below to receive zoom link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/indigenous-tertiary-informa See more

21.01.2022 So many great insights shared by social worker, educator and proud Durrumbal/Kullilli and Yidinji woman, Tileah Drahm-Butler in this article. Tileah reflects on racism in the teaching and practice of Social Work, the expert wisdom of Aboriginal community workers and land rights in this excellent article thank-you Tileah! Now is the time for a paradigm shift.It must start with acknowledging Aboriginal people’s expert knowledge and centring them as decision makers on thei...r land. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/ar/decolonising-social-work

21.01.2022 Blackfulla Bookclub = a must follow page! Meet the women behind Blackfulla Bookclub, Teela and Merinda, in this post.

21.01.2022 Thanks for the write up BSSC! Our Bendigo Nyarrn-gakgo mangkie team facilitated a weaving workshop for young womxn in high school and their families, including mums and Aunties. Weaving kits available at Tjanpi Desert Weavers #buyblak

21.01.2022 Have you ever said I am not racist? In his article, Ibram X Kendi proposes There is no such thing as a not-racist policy, idea or person. Just an old-fashioned racist in a newfound denial. All policies, ideas and people are either being racist or antiracist. As we get ready to welcome in the New Year, we hope to see more people talking and learning about antiracism in 2021 - then taking action. What antiracist actions will you be taking in 2021?... https://www.theguardian.com//antiracism-and-america-white-

20.01.2022 We hope you're all having a deadly NAIDOC week! Always Was, Always Will Be How are you acknowledging NAIDOC Week this year? What does this years theme mean to you as a First Nations person or as a settler? Yarn up with your friends and fam about this. See Victorian Naidoc's FB and website https://vicnaidoc.com.au and your local ACCHO for what’s on. There's still time to get involved!

18.01.2022 PLEASE SHARE AND INFORM OTHERS: How to be an ally to First Nations mob during the COVID-19 pandemic

17.01.2022 We are so excited to share that Weenthunga leader, proud Waywurru woman Sam Paxton was recognised with an IAHA Award today, congratulations Sam!

16.01.2022 During NAIDOC week, Lidia Thorpe Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman and Greens senator, shared her thoughts on the significance of NAIDOC week, its history and celebration of diversity of cultures: https://thenewdaily.com.au//11/08/lidia-thorpe-naidoc-week/

16.01.2022 Shout out to Tia Whyman, Paakantji woman at @weaving_as_medicine, for starting this new page on Instagram and sharing her journey with weaving. Despite the challenges and isolation of a global pandemic and her own personal struggles escaping domestic violence, she has embraced this new creative outlet and continues to inspire others and raise awareness. Follow Tia here: https://www.instagram.com/weaving_as_medicine/

15.01.2022 Where do you derive your sense of belonging from? Prof Aileen Moreton-Robinson states "In Australia, the sense of belonging, home and place enjoyed by the non-Indigenous subject the coloniser or migrant is based on the dispossession of the original owners of the land and the denial of our rights under international customary law. It is a sense of belonging derived from ownership as understood within the logic of capital; and it mobilises the legend of the pioneer the battler in its self-legitimisation." https://www.abc.net.au//our-story-is-in-the-land-/11159992

14.01.2022 Our VAHENonline team presenting at #IAHAonlineconf2020 #StayingConnectedStrongerTogether

14.01.2022 Join Pat Anderson AO, The Lowitja Institute Chairperson and 2021 ACT Senior Australian of the Year, and Professor Ian Anderson AO, ANU Deputy Vice-Chancellor, for our first Lowitja Live broadcast from Canberra this NAIDOC week. On Wednesday 11 November, from 9:45-10:30am, join two leaders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health as they share how they came into the field, and the journeys that led them to work with the Lowitja Institute. They will discuss the challenge...s and highlights, and share their thoughts on where to next for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led research. Facebook live: www.facebook.com/lowitjainstitute/posts/4513855115352832 Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/127955330839/

14.01.2022 Black fire - a taste of history lecture series with Dr. Tony Birch, Jacqui Katona and Prof. Gary Foley. Dr. Tony Birch Lecture title: Genocide and Legislation in Colonial Australia... Jacqui Katona Lecture title: Aboriginal Rights to Land Prof. Gary Foley Lecture title: The Black Resistance in the 20th Century

13.01.2022 Couldn’t agree more Djirra!

13.01.2022 Anyone up for a game of NAIDOC Bingo? The majority of these tiles can (and should) be completed year round, multiple times. Shout out to @blakbusiness for making this! https://linktr.ee/BlakBusiness

13.01.2022 The Diversity Council of Australia and the University of Technology Sydney's Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research joined forces to release the Gari Yala report on Tuesday. It is named after the Wiradjuri phrase meaning 'speak the truth’. The report has delivered 10 recommendations to help centre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and create inclusive workplaces. They include: * Commit to unearthing and acting on workplace truths however uncomfo...rtable this may be. * Ensure any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-related work is Indigenous-led and informed. * Focus on workplace readiness (cultural safety) rather than worker readiness. * Recognise and remunerate cultural load as part of an employee’s workload. * Take action to address workplace racism. See more

10.01.2022 Closing soon: the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership are calling for applications in Victoria for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Emerging Leaders. More info can be found on our website www.indigenousfellowship.net.au

09.01.2022 Check these out! Ngarara Willim has launched their own line of face masks designed in collaboration by the centre and students. They're very vibrant, with beautiful stories behind the artwork. There's also the option to pay it forward and provide a free mask to Aboriginal students, Elders and Community.

08.01.2022 Wear pink in honour of Aunty Tanya Day, who should have been here celebrating her birthday today #justicefortanyaday

08.01.2022 What have you got planned for the weekend ahead? With restrictions easing, why not journey up to Dja Dja Wurrung Country for this fantastic and joyful free show - simply book a time online! On now until 17 Jan 2021 and definitely one not to miss! https://www.bendigoregion.com.au//piinpi-contemporary-indi

07.01.2022 The recent Federal Budget had more money for school programs with First Nations boys than First Nations girls. Research from University of Queensland mapped funding to external service providers aiming to improve school attendance for First Nations students across Australia. The research showed that the programs working with First Nations young women received only a third of the total funding, see: https://theconversation.com/the-budget-has-more-money-for-s

05.01.2022 You may have heard conversations about changing the National Anthem, or some of the lyrics in the National Anthem - an ongoing conversation that’s resurfaced in the media this week. If you haven’t checked out this video that Briggs shared last year, do yourself a favour and have a watch now ... Who’s land? Always was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.

03.01.2022 First Nations people report that racism occurring in the classroom is often not acknowledged nor addressed by the educators who have the ability to do something about it. There are also times where the educator is the perpetrator. Racism in the classroom: How do I respond? An event for Victorian University Academics. Limited places, register here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/85J97WX

03.01.2022 Brooke Boney, a Gamilaroi Gomeroi woman, is the first Aboriginal person to star on an Australian commercial breakfast program, as a reporter for Today. Brooke said if she had one wish it would be for Australian settlers "to go back through their own family history and see how their family has benefited from the oppression of black people." How have you benefited from the continued oppression of First Nations people on these lands?... https://www.smh.com.au//brooke-boney-s-one-wish-for-all-no

02.01.2022 Weenthunga Health Network are excited to announce that we're a recipient of Geelong's Give Where You Live Foundation’s 'Community Grant' (2020-2021). This valuable funding will contribute to the activities and initiatives of our Geelong Nyarrn-gakgo mangkie Program (young Aboriginal Womxn in Health Careers). Much appreciation to Give Where You Live. We look forward to sharing the journey.... #givewhereyoulive #backingcommunity #onwadawurrungcountry #geelong

01.01.2022 Power, Privilege and Pushing Back: This event is hosted by Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman, Amy McQuire - journalist and podcaster. Panellists Nyadol Nyuon - lawyer and human rights advocate, Tanya Talaga - author of All Our Relations, and Lauren Michele Jackson - author of White Negroes, will discuss women’s political activity online and on the streets today. https://www.wheelercentre.com//power-privilege-and-pushing

01.01.2022 New friendships and strong bonds are being formed by a lockdown mentorship program in northern Victoria, where high school students are connecting with older community members online. "It's so great for the young ones to do something like this, involving the Elders and having a yarn," said Aunty Pam Pederson, Yorta Yorta Elder.

01.01.2022 November eNews - sharing about AGM and Member Event, program updates and more Koori Krismas ideas - https://mailchi.mp/5325b4bde01c/november-enews-30112020