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The Wellbeing Weekly We are all in this together ! THE WELLBEING WEEKLY Issue 11, Week 6 2020 Wellbeing at Kenmore SHS NAIDOC Celebrations @ Kenmore Welcome to Issue 11 of Torres Straight Is- access a fantastic book the Wellbeing Weekly. lander community, recommendation. starting with a whole This week we celebrate school assembly on Get involved and share NAIDOC. The theme Monday. your NAIDOC Week This Issue: this year is Always celebrations on social Was, Always Will Be. In the newsletter learn media with the About NAIDOC Week about the Indigenous hashtags Throughout the week, and Torres Straight #NAIDOCWeek, Aboriginal and Torres activities have been Islander flags, read #NAIDOC2020 and Straight Islander Flags arranged to celebrate about the achievements #AlwaysWasAlwaysWil Celebrating the Achieve- our Indigenous and of the community and lBe ments of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Is- lander community Resource of the Week About NAIDOC Week 8-15 November 2020 NAIDOC stands for Na- culture and achieve- To read about the histo- tional Aborigines and ments of Aboriginal and ry of NAIDOC week click Islanders Day Ob- Torres Strait Islander here. servance Committee. peoples. To find out about NAI- Its origins can be traced NAIDOC is celebrated DOC week events click to the emergence of Abo- not only in Indigenous here. riginal groups in the communities, but by 1920′s which sought to Australians from all increase awareness in walks of life. The week is the wider community of a great opportunity to the status and treatment participate in a range of of Aboriginal and Torres activities and to support Strait Islander Australi- your local Aboriginal and ans. Torres Strait Islander community. NAIDOC Week celebra- tions are held across For more information on Australia each year to NAIDOC Week click celebrate the history, here. PAGE 2 THE WELLBEING WEEKLY ISSUE 11, WEEK 6 Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Flags The Australian Aboriginal Flag The Australian Aboriginal Flag was designed by artist Harold Thomas and first flown at Victoria Square in Adelaide, South Australia, on National Aborigines Day in July 1971. It became the official flag for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra after it was first flown there in 1972. Since then, it has become a widely recognised symbol of the unity and identity of Aboriginal people. In view of the flag’s wide acceptance and importance in Australian society, the Commonwealth took steps in 1994 to give the flag legal recognition. After a period of public consultation, in July 1995 the Aboriginal flag was proclaimed a ‘Flag of Australia’ under the Flags Act 1953. In 1997 the Federal Court recognised Harold Thomas as the author of the flag. The Aboriginal flag is divided horizontally into halves. The top half is black and the lower half red. There is a yellow circle in the centre of the flag. The meanings of the three colours in the flag, as stated by Harold Thomas, are: Black – represents the Aboriginal people of Australia. Yellow circle – represents the Sun, the giver of life and protector. Red – represents the red earth, the red ochre used in ceremonies and Aboriginal peoples’ spiritual relation to the land. Torres Straight Islander Flag The Torres Strait Islander flag was designed by the late Bernard Namok as a symbol of unity and identity for Torres Strait Islanders. Adopted in 1992, it was the winning entry in a design competition run by the Island Coordinating Council, a Queensland statutory body rep- resenting the community councils in the Torres Strait. In the same year it was recognised by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and given equal prominence with the Australian Aboriginal Flag. In July 1995 the Australian Government recognised it, with the Australian Aboriginal Flag, as an official ‘Flag of Australia’ under the Flags Act 1953. The Torres Strait Islander flag has three horizontal panels, with green at the top and bottom and blue in between. These panels are divided by thin black lines. A white Dhari (traditional headdress) sits in the centre, with a five-pointed white star beneath it. The meanings of the colours in the flag are: Green – represents the land Black – represents the Indigenous peoples Blue - represents the sea White – represents peace The Dhari represents Torres Strait Islander people and the five-pointed star represents the five island groups within the Torres Strait. The star is also a symbol for seafaring people as it is used in navigation. ISSUE 11, WEEK 6 THE WELLBEING WEEKLY PAGE 3 Celebrating the Achievements of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Community Mi-kaisha Masella is a proud Darumbal Murri and Tongan wom- an who is part of the inner city Aboriginal community of Sydney and the central Queensland Aboriginal community. Mi-kaisha is a social entrepreneur and political activist who has a national reach and is regularly featured on SBS, ABC and NITV. She frequently speaks about contemporary issues which impact young Aboriginal people. She is an advocate for young Indigenous voices in decision making and the empowerment of others as the ‘architects of their own destinies’. Mi-kaisha is a founding member of the Steering Committee for Kimberwalli at the Western Sydney Indigenous Centre of Excellence. She advocates approaches that allow young Aboriginal people to have a voice through creative expression; acknowledging that young people need different ways to express themselves, tell their stories and be heard. Mi-kaisha uses music to engage, in- form and incite debate about issues affecting Indigenous people. She uses the medium of song to share strength and hope and celebrate the unbreakable, ancient connections Indigenous peoples have with each other and their culture. Mi-kaisha is the first Indigenous Australian to be accepted into an undergraduate degree at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University. Cathy Freeman, byname of Catherine Astrid Salo- me Freeman, (born February 16, 1973, Mackay, Queensland, Australia), Australian sprinter who ex- celled in the 400-metre dash and who in 2000 became the first Australian Aboriginal person to win an individ- ual Olympic gold medal. ABCiview delivers the story of a nation coming together around Indigenous athlete Cathy Freeman who deliv- ered when it mattered on the greatest stage on earth. 20 years on, FREEMAN sheds light on one of Australia's proudest moments. To watch the documentary, click here. RESOURCE OF THE WEEK: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts to showcase as many diverse voic- es, experiences and stories as possible in order to answer that question. Each account reveals, to some degree, the impacts of invasion and colonisation - on language, on country, on ways of life, and on how people are treated daily in the community, the education system, the workplace and friendship groups. This ground breaking anthology aims to enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today. Click here to purchase this book. .
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