00:00:07
[Music]
00:00:21
woman jika
00:00:23
and that's an aboriginal word for down
00:00:25
here in the banurong and burnaron
00:00:28
country
00:00:28
in south east region it means welcome
00:00:31
and welcome to this presentation
00:00:34
my name is auntie helen bernadz and i'm
00:00:36
the elder
00:00:38
and the cultural lead for peninsula
00:00:40
health
00:00:41
and peninsula health is one of the major
00:00:44
health providers
00:00:46
here in the southeast region from
00:00:48
frankston and also mornington peninsula
00:00:51
i can do an acknowledgement to country
00:00:53
because
00:00:55
i am not from this country i am not a
00:00:58
traditional owner
00:01:00
i am what they call a murray a
00:01:03
traditional
00:01:04
owner from up in queensland how i
00:01:07
introduce myself tribal way is
00:01:11
i am a berry gabber from the bindel
00:01:13
group and i have direct family ties into
00:01:16
the sherberg aboriginal mission
00:01:18
and also into another traditional mob up
00:01:21
there in queensland the waka waka
00:01:23
i have been down here for 50 years
00:01:26
and with respect to the curry mob who
00:01:29
have looked after me
00:01:31
i've worked and lived in this area
00:01:34
so i can do an acknowledgement to
00:01:36
country which i will do now
00:01:40
on behalf of peninsular health i would
00:01:43
like to acknowledge the traditional
00:01:44
owners
00:01:46
the banarong peoples and the bunderong
00:01:48
peoples
00:01:50
and the wider nation here in victoria of
00:01:52
the cooler nations
00:01:54
i'd like to pay my respects to those
00:01:58
elders past and present and to the young
00:02:02
ones the emerging ones
00:02:04
i would also like to mention and pay my
00:02:07
respects to other aboriginal and torres
00:02:09
strait islander people
00:02:11
who do not come from this area but have
00:02:13
traveled from all around australia
00:02:17
i acknowledge them and welcome them into
00:02:20
this presentation and into this country
00:02:25
how i will run this presentation so you
00:02:28
will know
00:02:29
is firstly i'll be talking about the
00:02:31
traditional
00:02:32
aboriginal australia then i'll give the
00:02:36
perspective of
00:02:37
europeans
00:02:40
then later i'll let you know what's
00:02:43
happened on the missions and reserves
00:02:46
and i will then give you the timeline of
00:02:49
significance of political events
00:02:51
that has happened here in australia
00:02:54
lastly
00:02:55
i will be zeroing back into peninsular
00:02:58
health
00:02:58
and letting you know what we do there
00:03:01
with the aboriginal hospital liaison
00:03:03
offices
00:03:04
painting you a picture of the local
00:03:06
communities
00:03:08
and looking at the peninsula health
00:03:10
reconciliation
00:03:11
action plan
00:03:16
in traditional aboriginal australia
00:03:19
pre-colonisation
00:03:22
there supposedly was approximately 380
00:03:25
000 people
00:03:27
and a half a million people 250
00:03:30
languages
00:03:32
and approximately 250 dialects from
00:03:36
those languages
00:03:37
all those different groups from each
00:03:40
state
00:03:41
was different there isn't a uniform
00:03:45
aboriginal or torres strait islander
00:03:48
peoples
00:03:49
in our country there was a different
00:03:52
titanic belief system
00:03:56
there was a different way of dance
00:04:00
art and of kinship
00:04:04
not everyone was hunters and gatherers
00:04:06
there is plenty of evidence to support
00:04:09
that there were stone houses
00:04:10
particularly built here
00:04:12
in victoria where people stayed
00:04:15
over a period of time so what we have is
00:04:19
traditional foods eaten we have
00:04:24
dance we have a strong
00:04:27
men's business women's business rights
00:04:30
happening
00:04:31
amongst the youth the separation
00:04:35
the marriage groups the children being
00:04:38
taught
00:04:38
their local belief system
00:04:42
to what to believe and where to go
00:04:46
this all changed
00:04:50
when the mass colonisation took place
00:04:53
so you had all these aboriginal groups
00:04:56
around australia taking care of country
00:05:01
renewing and revitalizing their
00:05:04
spirituality
00:05:05
through dance through art and
00:05:09
through celebrations and meeting up with
00:05:12
other specific
00:05:14
aboriginal groups from around the
00:05:17
area you can guess what happened
00:05:20
on the mass colonisation of here in
00:05:23
australia
00:05:28
from the european perspective what we
00:05:31
had
00:05:32
over there globally away from australia
00:05:36
was a belief system of terra nullius
00:05:40
what that meant legally and politically
00:05:43
was
00:05:45
for those invaders it meant
00:05:48
if the land seemed to be emptied then it
00:05:51
was legally okay
00:05:53
to take the land what was happening
00:05:56
in the european context was also a
00:05:59
belief system about
00:06:00
two things darwinism
00:06:04
and that was from charles darwin and
00:06:06
from a biology
00:06:08
perspective that
00:06:12
the strongest in a group survive
00:06:15
through evolution coupled with that
00:06:20
was a christian belief system of a great
00:06:23
chain of being
00:06:25
at the top of the ladder there was a
00:06:27
white god
00:06:29
and you went through different other
00:06:31
human groups
00:06:33
until you reach the bottom where at the
00:06:36
bottom
00:06:36
were plants and animals but also
00:06:40
black skin people were right down the
00:06:43
bottom of the great chain of bean
00:06:46
those at the bottom of the ladder
00:06:50
it was believed needed to be saved
00:06:55
the european way of believing in the
00:06:58
land was
00:06:58
on that land you toil the land you
00:07:02
built buildings you chop down trees
00:07:05
completely different
00:07:07
to what was happening in aboriginal
00:07:09
australia
00:07:11
the people who came in the mass
00:07:13
colonisation was primarily
00:07:16
white males and they were convicts
00:07:19
there were very few women
00:07:23
the mass colonisation also meant
00:07:27
that they brought farm animals sheep
00:07:30
and cows and other plants what they
00:07:33
bought
00:07:34
tragically into aboriginal australia
00:07:39
was diseases primarily
00:07:42
smallpox measles
00:07:46
sexually transmitted diseases
00:07:50
there were a lot of massacres all around
00:07:52
australia
00:07:54
there was a lot of frontier wars
00:07:58
where aboriginal people
00:08:01
were outnumbered by
00:08:04
the guns the rifles the gun
00:08:08
powders taking over
00:08:11
the land from aboriginal people
00:08:15
so you can imagine what happened
00:08:18
what to do now with the remnants
00:08:22
of so many aboriginal and torres strait
00:08:25
islander groups
00:08:27
there was another philosophy and it was
00:08:30
a belief that
00:08:33
smooth the pillow of the dying race
00:08:37
what do we do with aboriginal and torres
00:08:39
strait islander people
00:08:42
very quickly through legislation
00:08:46
in australia to put in the aboriginal
00:08:49
protection
00:08:50
acts this was under the umbrella
00:08:54
the 1901 white australia policy
00:08:58
that the government put in place
00:09:01
aboriginal people were forcibly
00:09:04
forcibly removed from their cultural
00:09:07
lands from their own countries
00:09:10
and placed in what they call missions
00:09:13
or reserves in every state of australia
00:09:18
the conditions on the missions and
00:09:21
reserves
00:09:23
in a large case was pitiful the
00:09:26
aboriginal parents
00:09:27
were not in charge of their children it
00:09:30
was
00:09:31
the director of native affairs
00:09:34
who were able to take the children
00:09:37
remove them from their parents
00:09:41
and in a lot of cases the young
00:09:44
aboriginal males went up and worked in
00:09:46
the pastoral stations
00:09:48
and the young females into domestic
00:09:51
service
00:09:52
in the majority of cases those
00:09:55
young people those aboriginal people
00:09:58
who were in employment they were not
00:10:01
paid
00:10:02
they were working under slave conditions
00:10:05
and it was known as the stolen wages
00:10:08
on the missions and reserves you were
00:10:11
not allowed
00:10:12
to marry the person of your choice
00:10:16
there was minimal educational facilities
00:10:20
and minimal health care for aboriginal
00:10:23
and torres strait islander people
00:10:26
the food was now into processed food
00:10:30
some aboriginal people predominantly
00:10:33
aboriginal males if they spoke up and i
00:10:35
know in queensland
00:10:37
many did well they were shipped off
00:10:39
immediately
00:10:40
from their families on the missions and
00:10:42
reserves and taken to a harsh
00:10:46
penal colony near townsville called palm
00:10:48
island
00:10:50
and there they stayed that was their
00:10:52
punishment but also
00:10:54
it was the punishment if you do not
00:10:56
behave
00:10:58
we will remove your children
00:11:01
[Music]
00:11:06
across the waters from palm island was a
00:11:10
leprosarium
00:11:12
for punishment still further
00:11:15
some of the aboriginal and torres strait
00:11:18
islander peoples
00:11:19
and youth were then taken over to the
00:11:23
leprosarium
00:11:24
even though they never had leprosy
00:11:28
aboriginal and torres strait islander
00:11:29
people
00:11:31
in the missions and reserves
00:11:34
were again devastated when
00:11:38
the police were used to remove
00:11:41
aboriginal children from their families
00:11:45
and if they were taken away
00:11:49
and into hospitals social workers and
00:11:52
nurses were used also
00:11:54
to remove children so this
00:11:57
has had a lasting effect until
00:12:01
now on the missions and reserves
00:12:04
those who were i hate the terminology
00:12:07
but half
00:12:08
past were given the option
00:12:11
of obtaining an exemption certificate
00:12:14
aboriginal people referred to them
00:12:16
as a dog tag a dog license
00:12:20
we will give you an exemption
00:12:23
certificate
00:12:24
but this is what happens of course you
00:12:27
have the freedom
00:12:28
you can drink alcohol you can live
00:12:31
outside the community you can get a job
00:12:34
you can marry who you want you can
00:12:38
go for a job which you want out in the
00:12:40
community
00:12:44
but what was the setback here
00:12:48
with all those other conditions the
00:12:50
setback was
00:12:52
you are to give up your aboriginality
00:12:55
you are no longer able
00:12:59
to mix with your aboriginal families you
00:13:01
are no longer
00:13:03
able to come onto the missions and
00:13:04
reserves
00:13:07
that was the dog tag the exemption
00:13:10
certificates
00:13:12
some aboriginal people did go down that
00:13:15
pathway
00:13:18
and i have found that later their
00:13:21
children and grandchildren are coming
00:13:23
back to say
00:13:25
we would like to come back into the
00:13:27
aboriginal community
00:13:29
and to claim our dissent heavy with the
00:13:32
legislation with the aboriginal
00:13:34
protection acts aboriginal people
00:13:38
complied the best way they could
00:13:43
and in doing so many lost their language
00:13:47
their identity their cultural beliefs
00:13:53
further the australian legislation meant
00:13:57
that they brought in four distinct
00:14:00
periods
00:14:02
of legislation for aboriginal
00:14:06
people leading right up
00:14:09
into the 1970s what you had was the
00:14:12
protection era
00:14:14
then assimilation assimilation is if you
00:14:18
had
00:14:19
again white blood other blood you come
00:14:23
under the assimilation act
00:14:25
integration period and lastly
00:14:30
you had the management period the
00:14:32
self-determination
00:14:34
starting from the 1970s until now
00:14:39
what we have there were significant
00:14:42
events
00:14:43
in australia's history where aboriginal
00:14:46
people
00:14:47
and non-aboriginal people came on board
00:14:51
for the benefit
00:14:53
of aboriginal people again we see the
00:14:56
reconciliation
00:14:58
taking place so like in the 1967 the
00:15:01
referendum
00:15:02
it was not only about getting the vote
00:15:07
over 90 percent of
00:15:10
australians in six states said yes
00:15:13
well they voted for aboriginal people to
00:15:16
be counted on the census
00:15:18
but also that aboriginal affairs be
00:15:22
taken over by the federal government
00:15:25
previously in all the states of
00:15:29
australia
00:15:30
the individual governments were looking
00:15:31
after aboriginal affairs
00:15:33
this all changed in 1967.
00:15:38
in 1983 aboriginal and torres strait
00:15:42
islander
00:15:44
identification was legalized in the high
00:15:47
court so to be an aboriginal person
00:15:50
there is a three-part slogan and that is
00:15:54
of dissent for aboriginal people to
00:15:58
identify
00:16:00
and thirdly to be accepted by the
00:16:03
community
00:16:04
in which they live having a
00:16:08
confirmation of aboriginality
00:16:10
certificate
00:16:11
a piece of paper is very difficult for
00:16:15
some aboriginal people
00:16:17
what happens and this is the question
00:16:19
what happens when
00:16:21
you're removed from your family you're
00:16:23
institutionalized fostered out
00:16:25
and then later even 50 years down the
00:16:28
track
00:16:29
you haven't got a confirmation of
00:16:30
aboriginality where do you go
00:16:34
down here in the southeast region one of
00:16:36
the aboriginal gathering places
00:16:38
what happens is they come
00:16:41
and become members of that aboriginal
00:16:44
organization they give
00:16:45
service they speak to someone within
00:16:49
the organisation who can then trace as
00:16:52
much as they can
00:16:54
their aboriginal ancestry we have that
00:16:57
piece of paper
00:16:58
we can take it right back through the
00:17:01
family tree
00:17:02
as much as we can and then once all the
00:17:05
documentation
00:17:07
is gathered as much as we can it then
00:17:10
goes towards a board meeting and the
00:17:12
board
00:17:13
stamps off on that person being an
00:17:16
aboriginal person for themselves
00:17:18
and their children and that brings a lot
00:17:21
of closure
00:17:23
for aboriginal people whom at last
00:17:27
feel like they can rest this spirit and
00:17:30
say
00:17:30
honestly that they're an aboriginal
00:17:32
person through that paper
00:17:34
in 1987
00:17:37
was the royal commission into black
00:17:40
deaths in custody
00:17:44
99 aboriginal people
00:17:48
who were in police custody and had
00:17:51
dealings in the prison also
00:17:54
their lives were dissected
00:17:58
and from a perspective of their
00:18:00
childhood from a social
00:18:02
emotional well-being perspective
00:18:07
their lives dissected to see what had
00:18:09
brought them into the prison system
00:18:11
what had happened here out of the royal
00:18:14
commission
00:18:15
into black deaths in custody there were
00:18:19
339
00:18:20
recommendations over 30 years ago
00:18:25
very few of those recommendations
00:18:29
have been put in place following
00:18:33
the black deaths in custody report
00:18:37
the government then put in place the
00:18:39
reconciliation
00:18:41
act so that 10-year plan
00:18:44
was about actively putting out in the
00:18:48
australian community
00:18:50
programs of education
00:18:54
for non-aboriginal people to let them
00:18:57
know about aboriginal history
00:19:00
and culture
00:19:03
there were very strong movements of good
00:19:06
non-aboriginal people
00:19:07
coming on board realising
00:19:11
what had happened here in aboriginal
00:19:14
australia
00:19:16
thinking it unjust and then
00:19:20
coming out in the streets to support
00:19:22
aboriginal people
00:19:25
and then to make a movement a very
00:19:26
strong movement
00:19:28
the reconciliation movement of australia
00:19:32
from the reconciliation action
00:19:35
movement in 1991 then came in 1993
00:19:41
the overturn of terra nullius
00:19:46
there was a person called
00:19:49
eddie marbow from the torres strait
00:19:52
islands
00:19:53
and a group of his friends who took
00:19:56
10 years of going through the legal
00:20:00
system
00:20:01
to say our traditional
00:20:04
cultural beliefs and languages is still
00:20:07
practiced on the torres strait islands
00:20:10
and the torres strait islands is on the
00:20:13
top of australia there are five
00:20:15
main islands
00:20:18
terra nullius was overturned in what
00:20:20
they call the mabo case
00:20:22
which gave aboriginal people native
00:20:26
title and land rights here
00:20:29
in australia after mabo
00:20:33
in 1995 there was the creation of the
00:20:36
aboriginal and torres strait islander
00:20:38
flags
00:20:40
it was legally recognised by the federal
00:20:43
government
00:20:44
as a flag of australia so the aboriginal
00:20:48
flag
00:20:48
has black at the top for the people the
00:20:51
reg
00:20:52
for the earth and in the middle
00:20:55
is a circle which is
00:20:58
recognized as the sun and the sun and
00:21:01
the source of hope
00:21:04
the torres strait islander flag
00:21:07
was designed by a 15 year old torres
00:21:10
strait islander person
00:21:11
so it has the colours of the green for
00:21:14
the land
00:21:16
the blue for the sea because the torres
00:21:18
strait islanders are seafaring people
00:21:21
they have two black stripes for
00:21:25
the aboriginal people of the torres
00:21:27
strait islands
00:21:29
and in the middle of the torres strait
00:21:30
islander flag
00:21:32
is a white diary or traditional
00:21:35
headdress
00:21:36
there is a five-pointed star a star
00:21:40
also on the torres strait islander flag
00:21:43
that used to guide the sea varying
00:21:45
torres strait islanders
00:21:48
[Music]
00:21:50
in 2007 we have what they call
00:21:54
close the gap there was great concerns
00:21:58
about the health of aboriginal and
00:22:00
torres strait islander people
00:22:02
here in australia about also
00:22:05
the low educational qualifications
00:22:08
not many were getting through education
00:22:11
starting
00:22:12
from kindergarten right up and
00:22:15
those who were not completing year 12.
00:22:19
there were lots of other concerns too
00:22:23
from that time it was a very poor
00:22:26
performance of
00:22:28
hardly any improvement in regards to
00:22:31
close the gap measures
00:22:32
until this year
00:22:36
in 2021 there are now four
00:22:40
new priorities of
00:22:43
what close the gap looks like
00:22:47
the four priority areas are about
00:22:52
responsibilities with other
00:22:55
organizations
00:22:56
primarily working in partnership
00:23:00
with aboriginal communities and
00:23:03
non-aboriginal communities
00:23:06
and that every state and territory
00:23:09
will now be reporting individually
00:23:13
about their report and close the gap
00:23:16
instead of just leaving it up to the
00:23:18
federal government
00:23:23
regarding aboriginal health and the
00:23:26
present
00:23:27
picture of what it looks like aboriginal
00:23:30
males and female
00:23:31
aboriginal people with the males it's
00:23:33
about 10 years
00:23:35
below what non-indigenous males are
00:23:37
living to
00:23:38
approximately the same with aboriginal
00:23:42
females and non-indigenous
00:23:45
females our health
00:23:48
concerns are greatly
00:23:52
diabetes respiratory
00:23:57
and cardiac conditions
00:24:01
smoking is also high up there
00:24:07
intergenerational massively
00:24:11
grief and loss from the past
00:24:14
is carried on in that picture
00:24:18
the health picture is also
00:24:22
high self-harm and mental health issues
00:24:28
combined with for aboriginal people
00:24:32
in our area homelessness
00:24:35
and high rates of incarceration
00:24:39
and low education qualifications
00:24:43
and unemployment
00:24:47
in 2008 and here in australia
00:24:51
the prime minister kevin rudd
00:24:54
made an apology we apologize for the
00:24:58
laws and policies of successive
00:25:00
parliaments
00:25:01
to the stolen generation those
00:25:03
aboriginal and torres strait islander
00:25:05
people
00:25:06
who were forcibly removed from their
00:25:09
families
00:25:11
and the communities what he apologized
00:25:14
for
00:25:15
was the legislative processes
00:25:18
that took children from their families
00:25:22
and communities
00:25:24
and for the pain
00:25:27
that they suffered and are still
00:25:29
suffering
00:25:32
still suffering intergenerationally
00:25:35
those who are removed who do not know in
00:25:38
full
00:25:40
their aboriginal identity or culture
00:25:44
[Music]
00:25:46
in 2017 we had the statement of the
00:25:50
heart
00:25:51
from uluru over 250 people
00:25:55
aboriginal and torres strait islander
00:25:56
people and others
00:26:00
gathered at a convention in alice
00:26:03
springs
00:26:04
what they were calling for was to be
00:26:08
involved
00:26:09
and to be a part of the constitution of
00:26:12
australia
00:26:14
and for a makarata or an agreement or a
00:26:17
coming together
00:26:20
of people legislatively
00:26:24
to have a voice in what has happened
00:26:28
here in australia the truth-telling
00:26:31
truth-telling and treaty
00:26:34
and here in victoria the first state
00:26:39
there was the treaty act of 2018
00:26:43
which gave permission for traditional
00:26:47
owners who were voted in
00:26:50
by the community to represent them to
00:26:52
have a voice
00:26:53
in the victorian government in regards
00:26:57
to what the treaty process
00:26:59
will look like that is still
00:27:02
current i'll now
00:27:06
zero in on our state
00:27:11
there is believed population wise from
00:27:14
the abs
00:27:15
which is the australian bureau of
00:27:17
statistics that was done in about 2016
00:27:20
there is approximately 4500
00:27:24
aboriginal people in victoria
00:27:28
in the southeast region
00:27:31
there is approximately 500 people
00:27:34
aboriginal people when aboriginal people
00:27:38
come into the hospital
00:27:39
i will say like peninsula health like
00:27:42
frankston hospital
00:27:44
it is mandatory that the ward clerks
00:27:47
ask the identity question
00:27:50
are you an aboriginal or torres strait
00:27:53
islander person
00:27:54
or both that sets in motion
00:27:58
a call for the two aboriginal hospital
00:28:01
liaison officers
00:28:03
who work at frankston hospital
00:28:06
to go and see this aboriginal person
00:28:11
patient or client who's come into the
00:28:13
peninsula health system
00:28:15
who asks the question is primarily the
00:28:18
ward clerks
00:28:20
the identity question in some cases
00:28:24
aboriginal people particularly those
00:28:28
who are white skinned blue-eyed or
00:28:31
blonde
00:28:32
or don't know their history or shamed
00:28:35
up to now of stating that their
00:28:37
aboriginal people
00:28:39
will say no until later
00:28:43
if they are admitted they will see the
00:28:45
staff
00:28:46
and say to them that they're an
00:28:48
aboriginal person we would like to see
00:28:50
the aboriginal hospital liaison officer
00:28:52
in every state of australia
00:28:56
there should be in the major hospitals
00:28:59
an aboriginal hospital liaison officer
00:29:03
also known as a cultural broker
00:29:08
they are there to support aboriginal
00:29:11
people culturally but also to
00:29:14
work side by side with the doctors and
00:29:18
the nurses
00:29:19
and other allied health members
00:29:22
in the hospital for the best possible
00:29:25
care
00:29:26
for the aboriginal and torres strait
00:29:27
islander patient
00:29:30
to be culturally safe in a hospital
00:29:33
and that means for aboriginal people
00:29:36
very cautious about coming into a big
00:29:38
organisation
00:29:40
very cautious about dealing with social
00:29:42
workers and the police
00:29:44
and others who have removed children
00:29:47
they're apprehensive and vulnerable if
00:29:50
the aboriginal hospital liaison officer
00:29:53
is involved
00:29:54
they are involved from a community level
00:29:58
and there to support the best
00:30:01
clinical health plans that can be
00:30:05
in place for aboriginal people there is
00:30:08
a
00:30:08
high rate of aboriginal people
00:30:11
leaving the hospital being just walking
00:30:14
out
00:30:15
discharged without medical advice or
00:30:18
medical permission
00:30:20
just had enough but you can understand
00:30:22
that
00:30:24
but if those aboriginal people have the
00:30:26
support of a liaison officer
00:30:28
it's a different story to be culturally
00:30:32
safe up at peninsular health
00:30:34
we have not only the aboriginal and
00:30:36
torres strait islander flags flying
00:30:39
we have aboriginal art all within the
00:30:42
hospital
00:30:45
that aboriginal art has come from an
00:30:48
aboriginal organization called
00:30:50
torch which is ex-offenders and
00:30:54
prisoners
00:30:56
we purchase potential health purchase
00:30:59
their art
00:31:00
and then place it on the walls
00:31:04
of the hospitals and we know that the
00:31:06
money goes
00:31:07
directly back to those prisoners
00:31:11
later in the reconciliation action plan
00:31:15
the
00:31:15
third for peninsula health
00:31:19
where there is a high emphasis on
00:31:22
employment for aboriginal and torres
00:31:24
strait islander people within peninsular
00:31:26
health
00:31:27
ex-offenders appropriate ex-offenders
00:31:30
will also be included in that list for
00:31:33
employment
00:31:34
and further education within our
00:31:37
organisation
00:31:39
within peninsula health we have what
00:31:42
they call the ballot ballot
00:31:43
reconciliation bus
00:31:45
tours so approximately about five years
00:31:49
ago the non-aboriginal staff came to me
00:31:51
and said
00:31:52
auntie helen we know that there's
00:31:54
aboriginal organizations
00:31:57
here locally but we're embarrassed
00:32:00
to even go in it seems disrespectful
00:32:04
we would like to go in so what i did was
00:32:07
i went around to the major aboriginal
00:32:09
organizations in our area
00:32:12
which are willem meringue aboriginal
00:32:16
gathering place
00:32:17
at down at hastings
00:32:20
here at banjawara which is a 12-badge
00:32:25
rehabilitation youth organisation and
00:32:28
healing center for aboriginal youth
00:32:32
some who have been caught up in the
00:32:34
prison system
00:32:36
i went to the frankston gathering place
00:32:38
called jambana
00:32:41
narrow margin banner
00:32:44
spoke to them and got their permission
00:32:46
in regards to the ballot ballot tours
00:32:48
and went to balik arts
00:32:50
up in mornington which is an aboriginal
00:32:53
owned
00:32:54
and run creative arts centre
00:32:58
we are now dealing with the kui cafe in
00:33:01
rosebud which is again
00:33:03
aboriginal owned and run
00:33:06
and that economic hospitality
00:33:10
center so on the ballot ballot tours
00:33:14
which people have to go on a waiting
00:33:16
list the potential health staff
00:33:19
to go on the waiting list and then with
00:33:22
organisational permission
00:33:25
from the gathering places we take people
00:33:28
around on the bus
00:33:30
it took six months through the
00:33:32
consultative process
00:33:34
to get this happening so our cultural
00:33:37
awareness
00:33:39
is alive the staff of peninsular health
00:33:42
has seen this
00:33:44
what's available out there
00:33:48
also within peninsular health we
00:33:50
actively
00:33:52
actively celebrate things like
00:33:55
reconciliation week in may
00:33:59
nadoc week in july
00:34:02
and naidoc week just didn't start
00:34:04
overnight it commenced in 1938
00:34:09
in sydney with over a thousand
00:34:12
protesters
00:34:13
out in the streets non-aboriginal people
00:34:17
supporting aboriginal people for
00:34:19
aboriginal rights
00:34:21
it was called the day of mourning
00:34:24
so from reconciliation week
00:34:27
sorry day night week we invite
00:34:32
non-aboriginal people to come along to
00:34:34
our celebrations
00:34:40
i would like to sincerely thank
00:34:42
bunjawarra
00:34:45
here at hastings for hosting this
00:34:47
presentation
00:34:49
and i would greatly encourage all
00:34:52
non-aboriginal people
00:34:54
to join in at reconciliation week in may
00:34:58
and made up events
00:35:00
join in in enthusiasm for uluru the
00:35:03
statement
00:35:05
join in for sharing the information
00:35:08
not only that you now hold but also to
00:35:12
spread it amongst
00:35:13
your family and friends
00:35:16
to give non-aboriginal people
00:35:22
an inkling into what's happened here in
00:35:25
australia that australia does have
00:35:27
a black history
00:35:31
[Music]
00:35:47
you
