As of 12:32pm AEDT “today” in Australia, the predominantly-Aboriginal town of Cherbourg (pop’n 1,241) is one of many places in Queensland now “cut off by flooding, and could be isolated for more than 24 hours,” reports ABC News: [South Burnett Regional Council] Mayor David Carter says it is proving difficult to get supplies to flooded […]
Brief piece of sad news in yesterday’s The Australian: The natural disaster claimed another victim yesterday when a young woman drowned in a flooded creek at the Cherbourg Aboriginal community, inland from Gympie. The woman, in her 20s, was the 11th person to die as a result of the state’s floods in the past fortnight. […]
According to this map from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the small Aboriginal settlement of Woorabinda in central Queensland has been “declared a disaster zone due to the flooding” that’s devastated huge portions of the state. [cetsEmbedGmap src=http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=210606325855659952999.000498e8d8ebf782c3d80&ll=-25.595241,149.23605&spn=4.919548,6.224098&source=embed width=450 height=425 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no] Woorabinda, pop’n 928, is about 170 km southwest of Rockhampton, the Queensland […]
According to the Inside Film website, Australia feature film ‘Mad Bastards‘ will make its U.S. premiere at this year’s Sundance film festival on Jan. 18. Directed by first-timer Brendan Fletcher (a self-described “white guy from Sydney”), the movie was shot on location in Western Australia with the strong involvement of local Aboriginal people, including a […]
Minnesota Public Radio reported yesterday that Dakota academic Waziyatawin (aka Angela Cavender-Wilson) says she “received a call this week from the FBI to discuss remarks she made in November at Winona State University.” An associate professor and holder of the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair with the University of Victoria’s Indigenous Governance Program, Waziyatawin was invited […]
