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To book for this event, please go to http://www.trybooking.com/DAGC and pay on the secure site by Credit Card Full Registration $50.00 Student Registration - $40.00 Please advise in writing if you have any special requirements (accessibility, diet) by 2 August. If you wish to pay by cheque, complete this form and send it by: Post: Creative Living Centre Floreat Uniting Church, 50 Berkeley Crescent, Floreat WA 6014 Email: m.yuncken@aapt.net.au Cheques must be made out to: CLC Floreat Uniting Church Name:.................................................................... Postal address:.....................................................
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Venue:
All Saints Floreat Uniting Church 50 Berkeley Crescent (corner of Kirkdale St) Floreat WA 6014

Parking:
Street parking or at rear of building

Saturday Lunch tea/coffee included

building on a century of cross cultural relationship in the Kimberley

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Friday 9 August, Saturday 10 August Sunday 11 August, 2013

AIM OF THIS EVENT

The Mowanjum community, incorporating Ngarinyin, Worrorra and Wunambal language groups, recently acknowledged the centennial of their relationship with the Presbyterian and later Uniting Church. As part of this commemoration you are invited to a seminar exploring a range of key issues for Aboriginal people and their communities and our relationship with them. The day will include presentations on the Mowanjum community and its history including an opportunity to hear personally from Mowanjum Elders. We have invited key speakers on the issues which impact on Aboriginal communities in Australia, including the modified preamble for the constitution, juvenile justice, education and the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children. A photographic display of Mowanjum, its history and culture, will accompany the seminar.

Friday 9 August 7.30 pm WELCOME TO COUNTRY UC Congress. Music, Supper Saturday 10 August 8.45 REGISTRATION 9.00 Welcome 9.15 Keynote Address: The Hon Fred Chaney The significance of a modified preamble for the Constitution. 10.00 Morning tea 10.30 Hon Peter Collier Minister for Education and Aboriginal Affairs 11.00 Paul Bridge Educational opportunities for Aboriginal children. 11.30 Eddie Bear and Rev Dr Robert Hoskin The story of Mowanjum 12.00 Assoc Prof Dawn Bessarab Holistic wellbeing of Aboriginal Children. 12.30 Lunch 1.30 Tammy Solinec The value of a Justice Reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia. 2.00 Mowanjum community members provide insights The dream for the future of children of the West Kimberley. 2.30 Rev Andrew Watts - Kunmunya and Rev J R B Love Lessons for the future. 3.00 Afternoon Tea 3.30 Q & A Panel - All Speakers Chairman Rev Dr Robert Hoskin 4.00 Close: Conversation, cheese and drinks Sunday 11 August 9.30 Mowanjum Celebratory Church Service 10.30 Morning tea 11.00 -12.00 Q & A with Mowanjum Leaders Chairman Rev Dr Robert Hoskin

PROGRAM

SPEAKERS
The Hon Fred Chaney, AO. Deputy President of the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT), Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Fraser Government 1978/80. Currently Board Chair of Central Desert Native Title Services Hon Peter Collier MLC Minister for Education; Aboriginal Affairs; Electoral Affairs in WA parliament. Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council. Eddie Bear, Chairman of the Mowanjum Aboriginal Community, and community Elder. 2013 winner the Horizon Power Leadership and Innovation Award at the Regional Achievement and Community Awards, WA. Rev Dr Robert Hoskin D.Min, B.D (Hons), B.A, BVAD is a retired minister of the Uniting Church, currently undertaking a PhD with the Australian Catholic University exploring up-country collaboration with Mowanjum families Tammy Solinec Director of the National Congress of Australias First Peoples, Member of the Law Society of WAs Aboriginal Lawyers Committee and the National NAIDOC Committee Rev Andrew Watts past Frontier Services Minister of the Uniting Church in Derby. Currently doing a PhD on Rev J R B Loves influence at the Kunmunya Mission early last century. Assoc Professor Dawn Bessarab BSW(Hons), PhD(Curtin). Senior Aboriginal Health Researcher at Curtin University and on the Centre for Research Excellence with Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Paul Bridge, Principal, Derby District High School