If you are in the Red Centre at the end of October this conference would be well worth going to. I may well be there en-route to a few prior engagements.
Date: 30 – 31 October 2009
Location: Crowne Plaza, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Category: Indigenous
Overview
This symposium is being organised by the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institution in conjunction with Alice Springs Hospital and the Northern Territory Department of Health and Families. The objective of this two-day symposium is to provide health care practitioners in the region with the opportunity to learn more about the latest treatments and interventions for people with complex diabetes and to debate the challenges of preventing and effectively managing diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Central Australia.
Some of the topics include:
- a review of epidemiology and public health aspects of diabetes,
- consideration of cardiovascular complications of diabetes, and
- a review of current international trends in screening and diagnosis.
The symposium will contain a half day planning workshop to discuss future care and prevention strategies in diabetes and cardiovascular disease care in remote communities.
Keynote speakers at the symposium will include:
- Dr Stephen Brady – Head, Department of Medicine, Director of Physician Training, Alice Springs Hospital
- Dr Alex Brown – Director for Indigenous Research (CIVDR), Baker IDI
- Dr Christine Connors – Director, Preventable Chronic Disease Program, NT Department of Health & Families
- Professor Sandra Eades – Head, Indigenous Maternal and Child Health Research Programme, Baker IDI
- Professor Garry Jennings AM – Director, Baker IDI
- Associate Professor Jonathan Shaw – Associate Director, Health Services, Baker IDI
- Professor Paul Zimmet AO – Director Emeritus, and Director of International Research, Baker IDI
Registrations are complimentary and can be made via our website at www.bakeridi.edu.au or by contacting the symposium co-ordinator on 1300 728 900
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- Aboriginal Housing Plan. after more than 12 months the first house may soon be STARTED to be built http://bit.ly/asZBG
- $50 million in bureaucratic expenses ‘trimmed’ from $700M indigenous housing program. 7% of program. http://bit.ly/2ygrZ3
- Federal court case over Alice Springs town camp takeover resumes. Argue that housing assoc do not represent residents http://bit.ly/Zu5E
- Refugees in their own land – communities wait on hope as housing program stalls http://bit.ly/yldS9
- INDIGENOUS housing in northern Australia is in crisis. Inflated costs, delays in commissioning work on housing. http://bit.ly/tWsxy
- Govt insist indigenous people living in filthy, overcrowded “town camps don’t want new houses even though overcrowded Govt insist indigenous people living in filthy, overcrowded “town camps don’t want new houses even though overcrowded http://bit.ly/cak7F
- West Australian Government makes false claims that native title legislation will ‘block’ it from building new houses http://bit.ly/7nlrQ
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One of the world’s great cultural events has come and gone..
The Beanie Festival.
It is held over several days and this year was on from Friday June 26 to Monday 29 June 2009 at Witchetty’s in the Araluen Centre, Alice Springs Cultural Precinct.
I wasn’t there this year but in the past have bought several beanies, including my favourite which people have unfavourably compared to a tea cosy. It can’t be true as the beanie is a green cylinder with a flat top on it. No self respecting teapot would dream of wearing it.
The beanie below I also bought at the Beanie Festival. You probably noticed on first glance the dignity that this beanie gives the wearer. I reserve this for special occasions, particularly for important meetings where it is essential I add to my ‘gravitas’.
But get this. The beanie was sent across from Canada! They send them in from all around the world to sell or to enter in one of the competitions and win up to $300.
For a beanie.
This year there were 13 different sections to enter your beanie. Categories included the ‘Natural Fibres Beanie’, ‘Spirit of the Land’, ‘The Eileen Bladon Tea- Cosy Prize’ and of course the ‘New Wave Beanie Prize’
It’s not bad for an exhibition that started in 1997 as a beanie party. It was organised to sell beanies crocheted by Aboriginal women in remote communities. But now it is much much bigger than that. The aboriginal women art groups are still there giving demonstrations on beanie making or grass weaving and queues of people wanting to get in the door.
Read about the history of the festival here or look at the entire Beanie Festival Website.
And next year be there!
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