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Jawi : Songs
Jalurra : Dances
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Separate Paths
5 February, 2013Coming in from the sea, was he, the great snake spirit that travels up the river To make sure everyone was ok across country…Penillion of the Iron Ore Eaters
18 February, 2012For the Yindjibarndi People and all other peoples who are or have been or will be driven from their land by the rapacious miners of the Pilbara.by John KinsellaYOU CANNOT DIVIDE US
1 December, 2011By Kirsten Tona 2011 You cannot divide us by race We multiply. Our Group grows like a burning fuse, lit by our anger at the desecration of Country at the disrespect of Culture. And although anger can turn to hate, which only burns out the hater, the wise ones amongst us remind us to keep our ...A note from a fellow traveller…
15 November, 2011Psalm 15 A psalm of David. Lord, who may dwell in your sacred house? Who may live on your holy mountain? The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is fair, who speaks the truth from their heart; whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbour, and casts no slur on others; who despises a vile person but honours those ...When the ground is hard, Yindjibarndi dance
14 September, 2011For a year now, we Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara have been suffering a split in our community engineered with terrible outcomes by the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) who intend to mine Yindjibarndi country. Despite having Native Title to our homelands, and despite showing Australian courts and the Native Title Tribunal that the Yindjibarndi people ...Thankyou Ned Cheedy
7 September, 2011Earlier this year our beloved elder, 105 year old Mayinbungu (Ned Cheedy), was awarded the most prestigious NAIDOC prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award. This week (6 September 2011) Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation and Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) invited people from Roebourne and surrounding towns to Cheeditha Community to celebrate Ned’s honour and to thank him for ...Palm Sunday Prayer
4 April, 2011There were two parades that day. Through the Western gate Pilate entered on a horse accompanied by soldiers in full uniform with banners and drums and the sun glinting on spear and shield, and people watching in sullen silence. … A Sermon by Neville Watson, Wembley Downs Uniting Church, 17 April 2011
“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.”
Thomas Jefferson (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)