The Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn 2010 is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the Mental Health Conference Funding Program, which is managed by the Mental Health Council of Australia. Thank you for making it possible for Indigenous people from around Australia to join the Summit!
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Department of Health & Ageing and Mental Health Council support Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn
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Mary Victor O’Reeri meets with Kimberley women in Fitzroy Crossing
Mary Victor O’Reeri was invited to meet with the women representatives of the Kimberley Land Council in Fitzroy Crossing on Wednesday 28 April 2010. It was a wonderful gathering – Mary said: “When we communicate together, bring things out into the open, share our grief and our drive to focus our efforts wisely in our communities, it [...]
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Aerogard on board for the Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn!
Thanks to the good folks at Reckitt Benckiser Group (Aerogard) for their generous support of the Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn 2010. Every Summiteer will have Aerogard Tropical Strength Insect Repellent on hand in their Summit backpack courtesy of Reckitt Benckiser – we appreciate the company’s kind donation.
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Registrations are flowing for Summit 2010!
Thanks to all the deadly folks around Australia who have stepped up to be a part of the Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn 2010! There will be Indigenous people from over 30 communities as well as content experts with enormous enthusiasm and goodwill. We have extended the closing date to Monday 31 May 2010 by request (some [...]
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Applications are open for Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn 2010
Apply here to join the 2010 Summit – Closing the gap means no more muckin’ around – at Billard Aboriginal Community in July 2010. Put up your hand and apply for an invitation if you want a fresh conversation about the way forward in ‘closing the gap’ and building a functional and healthy society for [...]
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Mary Victor O’Reeri back from UN meetings in New York
“It was extremely fascinating and mind blowing. I was well and truly privileged to be part of the Australian Government delegation to the 54th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. I absorbed a lot of the world’s best practices in ‘Gender Equality’ through the high quality access I had to many events. What [...]
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Billard kids on the move
Recently Quarnah (‘Koo Koo’) Chatanalgi, aged 6.5 years, from Billard Aboriginal Community travelled across Australia for the first time. Here she is with Laura Pritchard, who has lived in Austinmer all her life and was delighted to meet Koo Koo at Thirroul Beach on the NSW South Coast.
Inside The Tent – National Compact
Great news for the not-for-profit sector and the Australian Government – the National Compact: working together – setting out how the Rudd Government and the sector want to work together. Billard Learning Centre has been fortunate to work with Compact Partners such as Lifeline Australia, Foundation House and Mental Health Council of Australia. We have [...]
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Deafening Silence on Mental Health
500,000 Australians go to hospital emergency departments across the country every year with suicidal tendencies, says Professor Ian Hickie (Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney). Imagine how many more people don’t make it to a hospital and either take their own lives or live with undiagnosed depression? At the Blank Page Summit on [...]
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PELIKAN ARTLINE helps Summit fill the Blank Pages!
A big thanks to Pelikan Artline for assisting Billard Learning Centre with whiteboard markers and highlighters for the Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn! Great products and rock solid goodwill – thanks Bruce, Campbell and Pelikan Artline for not hesitating to contribute to the success of the Summit!