Jagera Daran

19/07/2024

Meet the panel for our Indigenous Food Sovereignty in SEQ part of - an evening of canapes and conversation with First Nations women who are transforming our regional food system.

◾Madonna Thomson - Director of Nyanda, an Aboriginal owned enterprise which supplies authentic Aboriginal experiences, and owner of Jagera Daran, a long established, 100% Aboriginal owned and operated Cultural Heritage Consultancy in South East Queensland. Madonna is a proud First Nations woman – a member of the Jagera People and grand-niece of the late Senator Neville Bonner. Madonna has worked with First Nations communities in SEQ with a particular focus on developing and sharing traditional knowledge about management of the State’s natural resources and environment.
◾Aunty Dale Chapman - a proud Yuwaalaraay Kooma woman and the owner of My Dilly Bag. My Dilly Bag proudly builds awareness of the oldest living culture in the world - the Australian Aboriginal culture - to educate the national and international community and together take positive steps towards reconciliation. My Dilly Bag works sustainably with Aboriginal communities that grow and harvest bush tucker ingredients, and Aboriginal artisan creators, providing a platform to develop, market and distribute Aboriginal products and empowering communities.
◾ Aunty Terri Waller - a DTulua (Dooloowar) descendent of mixed ethnic heritage living on Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi country (Sunshine Coast). She is the Managing Director of SevGen. a community development organisation that aims to create wellness through connection and relationship. SevGen’s powerful social enterprise model empowers the social change that Terri and her mob are making through multiple projects in the community, including Galeru Bushtucker Orchard and Deadly Espresso Distribution and Cafe.
◾ Dominique Chen - a Gamilaroi woman, and interdisciplinary researcher living on Jinibara Country in South East Queensland. She lectures within the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Griffith University, and is undertaking PhD research at the University of Technology Sydney in the area of relational creative practice and urban-based Aboriginal food and medicine growing. She is a co-founder of Yuruwan, an Aboriginal-run not-for-profit supporting learning opportunities for culturally-centred, urban-based food and medicine growing, by and for Aboriginal people and communities.

Find out even more about our speakers, as well as our MC Ancestress, caterer Kuppibunda Kitchen, and an overview of the evening's discussion, and get your tickets here:

https://events.humanitix.com/indigenous-food-sovereignty-in-seq

21/03/2024

❗️New course alert❗️We're pleased to be offering a new Certificate in partnership with Nyanda, an Aboriginal-owned enterprise that has its cultural and professional groundings in Aboriginal cultural heritage assessment and archaeology. Learn more: https://uqskills.uq.edu.au/programs/cultural-heritage/certificate-iii-indigenous-cultural-heritage-assessment

13/10/2023

​A University of Queensland project is using technology to create a native food value chain to ensure Indigenous communities and businesses benefit from the ...

27/08/2023

Brisbane’s newest bridge is opening to the public for the first time!

500 lucky Queenslanders will get to walk on the Neville Bonner Bridge on Saturday 2 September - ahead of Riverfire that evening.

Crossing to the halfway mark, they will be able to take in the stunning view of Brisbane from the new Look Out.

You can find more information here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/neville-bonner-bridge-experience-day-tickets-705683597637

31/07/2023

💪🏽

18/03/2023

💪🏽

As the state moves to protect Indigenous site Whinpullin, or Minto Crag, climbing groups realise ‘you can’t just go charging in’

08/12/2022

Please post to your networks! Identified position for Indigenous Cultural Heritage Assessment Trainer.

The University of Queensland (UQ) acknowledges the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands on which UQ is situated. UQ is one of Australia’s leading teaching and research universities, and ranks within the top 50 in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU). More than 56,0...

22/09/2022

2022 marks 180 years since the invasion of the Yugambeh Nation began, but 1842 was a part of a wider movement of resistance and colonisation, beginning in 1823. Soon after these arrivals, the members of the Birin Alliance (Yugambeh, Yuggera, Githabul, and Quandamooka) actively fought off settlement within their areas. Despite the waves of disease that came with colonisation, our brave men and women refused to give up their homelands without a fight. It is estimated that by 1842, the local population had been reduced by 75%, with one-third said to have died within a three year period. ❌

The Proclamation to open Moreton Bay in February 1842 was celebrated by settlers with the gifting of poisoned flour to the Aboriginal people of Kilcoy, resultings in 50+ deaths. In the wake of these acts of war, the various Alliances gathered their Tribal Councils at a Great Bora and declared war. 👣👣

The United Tribes waged guerilla warfare against the British invaders, key examples being the Battle of One Tree Hill in September, 1843. This War of Southern Queensland is said to have ended with the public ex*****on of local leader, Dundalli - a prisoner of war, in 1855.🦅👑

Map Source: Cambridge University Press
"Smoke signalling resistance: Aboriginal use of long-distance communication during Australia’s frontier wars"