How a town Tony Abbott described as having the worst housing in Australia is changing the game
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Under a tree in Borroloola, a remote Aboriginal community about 10 hours drive from Darwin where less than half of all children attend school most days, local Garrawa woman Deandra McDinny helps toddlers with jigsaw puzzles.
After delighting in how far they can throw their sunhats in the tree, the children eat a lunch of stir-fried beef and brown rice before singing a local version of
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NIAF returns to Sydney in July 2021
The National Indigenous Art Fair returns to The Rocks in early July, marking the beginning of NAIDOC Week 2021 with an ethical art marketplace.
Words: Charlotte Middleton
3-4 July 2021 sees the return of the National Indigenous Art Fair, with Indigenous artists from across the nation set to come together at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at The Rocks in Sydney, coinciding with the beginning of NAIDOC Week.
This year in its third iteration, the two-day art market and program of events provides the unique opportunity to ethically buy artworks directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from remote community-owned art centres.
He said the company was also required to put programs in place to monitor aquifer drawdown and the health of vegetation in the region, and report the results.
âWeâve done a lot of work to make sure what weâre proposing meets the criteria the government has set for impacts on groundwater dependent ecosystems,â he said.
He said if the company found its assumptions were inaccurate or the impacts were greater than modelled âwe will adapt our bore field accordinglyâ.
âI think a lot of the conditions that have been put into the licence ⦠should give comfort to people who have what are quite genuine concerns,â he said.