We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and pay our respects to the Elders past and present.
A group of Indigenous leaders and elders has branded as racist the South Australian government's decision to suspend the executive board of traditional landowners and appoint an administrator.
"For us it's rude [for women] to just get up and talk without permission from the elders".
Deo sits in a clearing, explaining his work to a group of cautiously interested elders.
Indeed, witness the protest during Pearson's speech by some, including elders, in Brisbane recently, where the Cape York Group chairman was told he certainly did not speak for Indigenous people.
That chook gonna get his head cut off – he's gonna be for dinner for sure Children attending Nawarrddeken Academy will be taught in traditional language a syllabus developed with community elders alongside the Australian curriculum.
We want to place calls to them in a language that they understand, and get people who have the same belief system as them – like elders and religious leaders – to convince them to change their behaviours.
Residents' concerns have been outlined in a petition sent to the chief minister, Adam Giles, the local government and community services minister, Bess Price, and the federal Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, and signed by 135 elders and senior people.
Perhaps there should be a deliberate broadening of view through a council of elders, people trusted by all like Jenny Macklin, who could report regularly and publicly on their assessment of the contributions of shadow ministers and caucus colleagues to the collective work of the opposition.
Community elders, dressed in white shawls and turbans, stood close by.
In the next four months alone they're taking part in a relay marathon in Redbridge (east London), a relay from Birmingham to London, attempting to notch up yet more records at the Norway KnarvikMila where times are age-weighted, and they are joining a British team with a total age of 1,000 years at the Toronto Waterfront marathon to challenge a team of Canadian elders over a 5km course.
