Language and culture go hand in hand for Yorta Yorta woman Ebony Joachim

Ebony Joachim

My language is Yorta Yorta which was and is spoken by the majority of the clan groups within the Yorta Yorta Nation.

It was in 2013 that I was first really exposed to Yorta Yorta language. I was 24 at the time.

I had only grown up with a few Yorta Yorta words until I started working as a language support worker in a local primary school that had just introduced a Yorta Yorta language program.

I had no teaching experience before I started teaching. I was only a few steps in front of the kids with my own language learning.

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Into the Dreaming: Palliative Care for the Indigenous

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An innovative new resource kit has been developed in NSW to help local Aboriginal communities feel more welcome in palliative care settings and start inclusive and culturally appropriate conversations about end of life planning. “Into the Dreaming” is A Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through “Sorry Business”.

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NAIDOC Week – Bura Fera

In observance of NAIDOC Week, we bring you the story of a Yorta Yorta nation song, Bura Fera, sometimes called Ngarra Burra Ferra; an earlier hymn was translated into the Yorta Yorta language, which expressed their identification with the Jews as the dispossessed of the Book of Exodus.

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Border Politics Film Night

Border Politics ScreenshotBorder Politics – an Australian documentary which follows Human Rights lawyer Julian Burnside as he examines attitudes to refugees and human migration patterns worldwide – will be screened in Shepparton on evening of Thursday 18 July. Julian Burnside will be present for a Q and A session.
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