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SNAICC
SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, formerly Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care and usually referred to simply as SNAICC, is an Australian organisation dedicated to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Catherine Liddle is CEO of SNAICC. History The inaugural Aboriginal Child Survival Seminar was held in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1979. There the attendees proposed the formation of a national peak body to advocate for and represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children nationally, the main driver being the high rates of removal of Indigenous children from their families by the state and territory child protection systems. Yorta Yorta women Mollie Dyer and her mother Margaret Tucker, who had established the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency in 1976, were instrumental in advocating for the body. The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care was formally established as a result of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Liddle
Catherine Liddle is an Aboriginal Australian executive, journalist, and advocate of Indigenous Australians' health. she is CEO of SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, and member of the Coalition of Peaks. Early life and education Catherine Liddle is of Arrernte and Luritja heritage (from Central Australia). She has said that "Aunty Pat" ( Pat Turner) was the reason that her mother went to university in Adelaide. Career Liddle's primary occupation has been as a journalist, but she has occupied many managerial roles. She worked in a number of roles at Imparja Television, the ABC, SBS, and NITV, including executive editor of news and current affairs. She also worked in managerial positions at the NT Department of Education. In 2019, while NPY Regional Director of Jawun (formerly Jawun Indigenous Corporate Partnerships) in Alice Springs, Liddle acted as interim general manager of Indigenous Community Television for five months. She was appointed CEO of First Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coalition Of Peaks
The Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Bodies, usually known as the Coalition of Peaks is an Australian community-controlled peak body whose members comprise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations. Its main purpose is to negotiate with the various Australian governments (Commonwealth and state and territory) regarding a national agreement on the Closing the Gap framework. Closing the Gap is a government strategy that aims to reduce disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians on key health, education, and economic opportunity targets. It was formed in 2018, driven largely by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO). Background and history In 2008, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) made a commitment to work together to reduce the disparity between outcomes in areas such as life expectancy, health, education, and imprisonment, for non-Indigenous Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollie Dyer
Mollie Geraldine Dyer (1927–1998) was an Aboriginal Australian child welfare worker and community worker, best known for co-founding the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency in 1977. In later life, she was a respected elder and spokesperson, known as "Auntie Mollie". Early life and education Mollie Geraldine Dyer, later known as "Auntie Mollie," was born in 1927 in Barmah, Victoria, Australia, of Yorta Yorta descent. She was the daughter of Margaret Tucker, an Aboriginal activist involved in establishing the Australian Aborigines League, and Philip Tucker, an Irishman. Dyer grew up in Hawthorn and Hastings and was educated at a convent school in Abbotsford, where she was the only Aboriginal pupil. She would frequently travel to New South Wales to stay with her mother's family at Cummeragunja Mission. When Dyer's father was serving overseas during World War II, Dyer, aged 15, left school to enter the workforce, where she experienced significant racism. Career and advo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency
The Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency (VACCA), formerly known as the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, and the Aboriginal Child Care Agency (ACCA), is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO) in Victoria, founded by Mollie Dyer in 1977 to provide services to and advocacy for Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. VACCA played an important role in bringing to light the effects of the Stolen Generations on families. History The Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency (VACCA) was established in 1977 by Auntie Mollie Dyer after discussions at a national adoption conference held that year. In particular, Mollie Dyer's contribution to the conference and increasing pressure from the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, which saw the link between child removal from Indigenous families (later known as the Stolen Generations) and over-representation in the criminal justice system. VACCA became a model for other Indigenous child care a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Thorpe
Alma Beryl Thorpe (born 1935) is an Australian Aboriginal elder and activist. In 1973, she co-founded the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS), together with her mother, Edna Brown, and Bruce McGuinness. Early life and education Thorpe was born in Melbourne during the Great Depression in Australia in 1935, and her family lived in the suburb of Fitzroy. Her mother was Edna Brown, who, after being forced off the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve in 1932, aged 15, became a community organiser in Fitzroy. She set up an Aboriginal funeral fund from her new home, after observing many homeless Aboriginal men being buried in pauper's graves. Her father, James Brown, was a second-generation Scottish-Australian who worked for Victorian Railways and was a communist involved in the labour movement. Thorpe left school at the age of 12 and worked in a shoe factory, and at 18 married and moved to the town of Yallourn. In the 1960s, Thorpe separated from her husband and returned to Melbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Bamblett
Muriel Pauline Bamblett is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung advocate for Aboriginal child welfare in Victoria and Australia. Career Bamblett has been the chief executive of Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA), since 1999. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University. From 1998 to 2008 she was the chair of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC). Bamblett is a member of the Aboriginal Treaty Working Group; Aboriginal Family Violence Steering Committee; Victorian Children's Council; Aboriginal Justice Forum; and the Aboriginal Community Elders Service. From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the board of the Northern Territory Inquiry into Child Protection. She was elected to the Victorian First Peoples' Assembly in November 2019. Recognition In 2019, Bamblett was awarded the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the Indigenous community of Victoria as an advocate fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Munro
Jenny Munro (née Coe) is an Australian Wiradjuri elder and a prominent activist for the rights of Indigenous Australians. She has been at the forefront of the fight for Aboriginal housing at The Block in Sydney and started the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy. She is the sister of activists Isabel Coe and Paul Coe. She is an active member of the Waterloo Public Housing Action Group. Early life Munro was born to parents Les and Agnes Coe, who were Aboriginal land rights activists. She is the younger sister of activist Isabel Coe and her brother Paul Coe, and had another sister and brother. She grew up on Erambie Mission, near the town of Cowra, New South Wales. In 1972, Munro's parents took her to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, where they joined the protest by sleeping in tents. At the age of 17, she moved to the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern. In 1972 in Sydney, she met her husband, Lyall Munro Jnr, and they both became founding members of the Aboriginal Housing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Indigenous Times
The ''National Indigenous Times'' (NIT) is an Indigenous Australian affairs website, originally published as a newspaper from February 2002. History ''National Indigenous Times'' was first published in newspaper form on 27 February 2002. It was established by Owen Carriage, the founder of the '' Koori Mail''. In 2006, ''NIT'' published a major story about government staff anonymously representing themselves as independent witnesses in the ''Lateline'' report on child abuse in remote communities, with particular reference to Mutitjulu, in the Northern Territory. On 27 February 2012, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's program '' Media Watch'' aired a segment that detailed how the newspaper had repeatedly taken substantial material from other media sources without any attribution. This was addressed by editor Stephen Hagan, who promised to deliver more original material and use citations when using external references. Hagan left in December 2013. In January and February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The service covers both local and world affairs, broadcasting both nationally as ABC News, and across the Asia-Pacific under the ''ABC Australia'' title. The division of the organisation ABC News, Analysis and Investigations is responsible for all news-gathering and coverage across the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's various television, radio, and online platforms. Some of the services included under the auspices of the division are its 24-hour news channel ABC News Australia TV Channel (formerly ABC News 24), the long-running radio news programs, '' AM'', '' The World Today'', and '' PM''; ABC NewsRadio, a 24-hour continuous news radio channel; and radio news bulletins and programs on ABC Local Radio, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, and Triple J. ABC News Online has an extensive online presence which includes many written news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Shearer
Heather may refer to: Plants *The heather family, or Ericaceae, particularly: **Common heather or ling, ''Calluna'' **Various species of the genus ''Cassiope'' **Various species of the genus ''Erica'' Name * Heather (given name) * Heather (surname) Arts and media * ''Heathers'', a 1989 film directed by Michael Lehmann ** '' Heathers: The Musical'', a musical by Laurence O'Keefe based on the film ** ''Heathers'' (TV series), a 2018 television series based on the film * "Heather" (''The Secret Circle''), a television episode Music * Heathers (band), an acoustic singing duo from Ireland * "Heather" (Beatles song), an unreleased 1968 song by Paul McCartney and Donovan * "Heather" (Conan Gray song), a 2020 song by American singer Conan Gray * "Heather", a song from fusion drummer Billy Cobham's 1974 album ''Crosswinds'' * "Heather", a 2001 song by Paul McCartney from the album ''Driving Rain'' * "Heather", a song from ''Patent Pending'' by Heavens * "Heather", a version of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Closing The Gap
The Closing the Gap framework is a strategy by the Commonwealth and state and territory governments of Australia that aims to reduce disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians on key health, education and economic opportunity targets. The strategy was launched in 2008 in response to the Close the Gap social justice movement, and revised in 2020 with additional targets and a refreshed strategy. The Closing the Gap targets relate to life expectancy, child mortality, access to early childhood education, literacy and numeracy at specified school levels, Year 12 attainment, school attendance, and employment outcomes. Annual Closing the Gap reports are presented to federal parliament, providing updates on the agreed targets and related topics. The ''Closing the Gap Report 2019'' reported that of the seven targets, only two – early childhood education and Year 12 attainment – had been met. The remaining targets are not on track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidia Thorpe
Lidia Alma Thorpe (born 18 August 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian ( Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung) independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023, when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and became a key figure in the "progressive No" campaign for the Voice referendum in October 2023. Thorpe served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022. Thorpe has previously been a member of the Victorian Parliament. On winning the Northcote state by-election on 18 November 2017, she became the first known Aboriginal woman elected to the state's parliament. She served as the member for the division of Northcote in the Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2018. Thorpe has received media attention for her support of the Blak Sovereign Movement and her cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
