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Dr Anita Heiss, a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales and one of Australia’s most prolific and well-known authors of Indigenous literature, will be presenting children from the wordUP! literacy program that recently ran at The Yurungai Learning Centre community based project in Read More…
Wednesday 10 December is International Human Rights Day and is the sixty years¹ anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration came about in the aftermath of World War Two and was envisioned by those determined to ensure that nothing like Nazi Germany would ever happen ag Read More…
Recent studies have shown that by the age of 15, more than one-third of Australia’s Indigenous students do not have the skills and knowledge in reading literacy needed to meet real-life challenges.1 The wordUP! literacy program recently run at The Yurungai Learning Centre in Waterloo in Sydney is a Read More…
In the extract below RailCorp CEO provides one person who wrote to the Minister for transport about the Large Erecting Shop with some encouraging news that “RailCorp’s plan for the Large Erecting Shop is consistent with the Friends of Eveleigh proposal that the workshop be retained for continuing ra Read More…
Some market stalls should be admired from a distance. Standing a good metre away, you can nod encouragement to a dejected artisan without giving false hope of a sale. “A wind chime made of old forks! How did you think of it?” you might remark, before moving on to admire a compact disc tower carved f Read More…
LUKE Ford, favoured for tonight’s AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor, will follow his front-running film to the US. Not for long if our filmmakers have their way reports The Daily Telegraph December 06, 2008. Read More…
A decade ago Bill Crews decided he’d like to help kids who can’t read. Under the guidance of Macquarie Uni, a team of educators and volunteers takes kids who’ve spent five years in the education system and can’t read a word (“Is it the black stuff you read?” asked one) to writing and reading a piece Read More…
It is a radical act to garden … We are afraid of being in deep relationship with each other … the earth … God. To plant a seed and begin that process is an act of hope” (Mural in the Eden Garden, South Sydney Uniting Church) reports Brendan Wong in the South Sydney Herald of December 2008. Read More…
On November 14, the Waterloo Recycling Workshop (WRW), which provides furniture and non-electrical household goods to low-income persons, was officially re-opened at the garages of the Turanga flats at 1 Phillip Street, Waterloo. The WRW was re-opened by Greens Councillor Irene Doutney, and included Read More…
Where are they now? ‘N Grade’ Grand Final, Redfern Oval, 1976. Jimmy Monta (La Perouse) and Brad Downes (Mascot Juniors) holding the ‘N Grade’ trophy in this photo from South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club. Mascot Juniors won the grand final that year reports the South Sydney Herald of December 200 Read More…