A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia’s APY Lands have formed the state’s first Indigenous female firefighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili cannot work with the men in the Country Fire Service (CFS) brigade in the town. But with the men often absent on cultural business and other help too far away, the women decided to undertake training so they could protect the community. Source: Mimili CFS brigade forms South Australia’s first Indigenous female firefighting team – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a not-for-profit social enterprise of Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (NPYWC), an Aboriginal governed and directed Corporation. Tjanpi provides one of the few opportunities for self-initiated income on the 26 remote communities in the western and central deserts of Australia, and brings Aboriginal women together on country to collect grass, sculpt and weave, sing and dance and keep culture strong. Source: Support : Tjanpi Desert Weavers
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For some people, it’s unimaginable that a 10-year-old girl could be so sad that she can’t imagine a future. That she sees the world as a better place without herself in it. For so many Aboriginal people it’s hard to imagine a harmonious world full of joy with you in it. Source: Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves? | Brooke Boney
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An Indigenous police officer who contemplated killing himself during the roughest years of his life joins a project to help other Aboriginal people find mental health services. Source: ‘Sometimes you wonder who’s next?’: A fight to stem the rising Indigenous suicide rate – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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