RECONCILIATION - A Young Generation Vision

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXeD-68BITM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Geelong One Fire Annual General Meeting - a date for your diary

The 2012 Annual General Meeting of Geelong One Fire Reconciliation Group will be on November 20th, 2012 followed by our final Open Film night for 2012.

We hope you can join us. Details as follows:

• AGM TIME: 6.45 pm

• OPEN FILM NIGHT TIME: 7:30 PM

• Film - The First Australian

• VENUE: Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative, Morgan St, North Geelong.

Any queries please email: geelongonefire@gmail.com

Government action on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians

Link here to learn about the Labor Government's plans for indigenous recognition in the Australian constitution:

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/pm-plan-for-indigenous-recognition-20120919-2672z.html

Must see exhibition at Osborne House, Geelong during September

Reconciliation in the Park May '12 & launch of 'Djillong' Website

Held at Johnstone Park in Geelong, this annual event for National Reconciliation Week was developed in partnership with Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-op.

Activities included: local Aboriginal dancers, Uncle Herb Pattern playing the gum leaf, storytelling by Uncle David Tournier, basket making, emu egg carving, jumping castle, face painting, BBQ and the launch of the new 'Djillong' website: http://www.djillong.net.au - the cheque was presented by Councillor Eddy Kontelj for the website to two of its creators: Uncle David Tournier and Glenda Mac Naughton (see below).

Art work was also on at the Geelong Art Gallery & Geelong Regional Library - by students from local schools: Whittington Primary, Newcomb Secondary, Western Heights College and Clonard College. (See photos at - http://www.geelongonefire.org.au )

Aboriginal cultural heritage walk to be held at Big Rock, You Yang

 The walk is to be held on Monday 28 May 2012 and Sunday 3 June 2012 commencing @ 10.30 am.

Interested participants should register with Council FIRST as places are limited to 30 persons per walk.

If any member of One Fire Reconciliation group is interested please phone Julie or Cassandra at the City of Greater Geelong on ph 5272 5024 from Monday 14 May 2012.

Djillong and Wathaurong on The Pulse - download the podcast

Djillong and Wathaurong

Greg Mc Henry writes:

"I chat with Uncle David Tournier, Ron Milligan and Glenda McNaughton about our local history, and how they are on a quest to collect as much information and any artifacts that will tell us the real stories. We talk of The Mystery of the Medal? where is Dan Dan Nook's medal now?

Dan Dan Nook (Derdanook) is a Wathaurong man who competed in the early Highland games in the region. He won a medal which proclaimed him to be the 'fastest runner in Geelong'. He was chief of the Barrabool clan. He died of tuberculosis in the Geelong Invalid Asylum in 1870 and is buried in the Western cemetery. After his death there was only one traditional Wathaurong living in the Geelong region.

And we hear about a song written by Ron, about Willem Baa Nip (King Billy), the last of the local Wathaurong.

We also talk about the Geelong One Fire Reconciliation Group that is showing Indigenous films - check their site www.onefiregeelong.org.au for more information.

If you have any information or artifacts, call Uncle David on 5277 0044 or call in at 62 Morgan St. North Geelong."

From The Pulse website:
http://www.947thepulse.com/programs/roads-to-recovery.html