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NAIDOC Week is a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and history.

You can visit the NAIDOC website

The Sydney City Council site details a range of activities for the week

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Songline: A Living Narrative is the theme for the week in 2016.

Just over three percent of É«ÀÇÉçÇømembers identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, while many members work in departments such as the Aboriginal Housing Office.

NAIDOC has a useful to visit for ideas on how to celebrate the world’s oldest continual culture.

Local councils such as the , and the new will be putting on community events to mark the week.

Check local websites for other council events.

The É«ÀÇÉçÇøhas recently appointed Ann Weldon as Aboriginal Liaison Officer on a six-month posting.

A member of the Kalar River people, in the Wiradjuri nation, Ms Weldon has worked at AHDC Burwood, in the Community Support Team – Sydney Local District, since 2015.

Before then, she was at the Metro North Region – Parramatta Local Office and the Rosebery ADHC Office for Metro South Region.

She is also a Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land  Council Board Member and Elder.

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For your information please see the Public Service Commission’s .

Also, a number of resolutions regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were passed at the ACTU Congress in Melbourne this year:

• Federal funding cuts to indigenous programs and the forced closure of Western Australian Aboriginal communities

• Land Tenure

• Realising rights: changing the frame

The ACTU Congress is where all unions in Australia come together and make decisions.

I had the privilege of speaking to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy at Congress as a É«ÀÇÉçÇørepresentative.

You can see that speech

Thanks to Allen Hicks (ETU) and Michael O’Connor (CFMEU) for their strong support in passing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, which will guide our work for the next three years.

For other Aboriginal issues please go to the Aboriginal liaison page of the É«ÀÇÉçÇøwebsite.

Mal Cochrane
Aboriginal Liaison Officer

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