Month: May 2017

Festival aims to unite Queensland in song

Festival aims to unite Queensland in song

Posted by | May 31, 2017 | , , , |

Katie Noonan has released her first program as Artistic Director of Queensland Music Festival (QMF), revealing a program that spans contemporary and classical music, large-scale community events and education programs, and big names like Kate Ceberano, Montaigne, Isaiah, Lior, Steve Kilbey, David Hobson, Elena Kats-Chernin and Manu Delago, alongside big ambitions to unite thousands of Australians in song from 7–30 July. Ms Noonan used the announcement to call for Queenslanders to learn to sing, to use the power of music as a healing force for positive change, and to reach out to people who are isolated, whether socially or...

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ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART

ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART

Posted by | May 30, 2017 | , , , |

We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart: Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago. This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and  the ...

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Moves afoot on Medical Marijuana

Moves afoot on Medical Marijuana

Posted by | May 30, 2017 | , |

Melbourne-based Cann Group Limited (ASX: CAN) will receive its first plant material and start cultivation of medicinal cannabis in the coming days after securing the necessary permits from the Office of Drug Control (ODC). The company has been issued with one medicinal cannabis permit and two cannabis research permits. These permits will facilitate the establishment of breeding plants for propagation purposes; a research program being undertaken with CSIRO to develop unique cannabis extracts; and the supply of plant material for manufacturing into medicinal cannabis products for patient use. The first plants being cultivated by Cann are expected to be...

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Don’t Just Count Us, Let Us Count!

Don’t Just Count Us, Let Us Count!

Posted by | May 30, 2017 | , |

Ten years ago, the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts (ACPA) developed a show called Reflections: Referendum 40 years and to the future. The performance was a creative response to the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum when Australians voted overwhelmingly for constitutional change to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the national census. Don’t Just Count Us, Let Us Count! tells the story of this historic milestone through the eyes of ACPA alumni as they reflect on the creative process, research and the performance which shaped who they are today and their understanding of the campaign to be counted....

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The Journey Home – Sorry Day 2017

The Journey Home – Sorry Day 2017

Posted by | May 27, 2017 | , , |

On 7 February 1997 Brisbane City Council, churches and local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities began a series of events entitled Kul-gun Da ‘Lo-bol’ pa – The Journey Home, to recognise the Stolen Generation. Indigenous Elders led a procession to City Hall where they were formally welcomed by the Lord Mayor. Cultural and historical ceremonies were conducted to mark the start of a healing process and a commemorative plaque was placed near City Hall. National Sorry Day In 1998, commemorative Sorry Day plaques were installed by Council in Brisbane parks as a mark of respect, apology and remembrance...

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