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SANTS is moving office in September
We’ve outgrown our current office and will be moving to a new location on the 9th of September!
Our new address will be: Level 6, 27 Currie Street Adelaide 5000.
Visitors will be able to enter the new building from Currie Street or Anster Lane via Waymouth Street.
If travelling to the office via public transport, there are bus stops along Currie and King William Streets and the Pirie Street Tram Stop. Paid parking is available at UPark Topham Mall, with taxi/Uber drop-off on Waymouth Street.
For more info, please contact SANTS on 8110 2800.
Nukunu consider legal battle over proposed Port Augusta nuclear power plant
Earmarking Port Augusta for the opposition’s nuclear plan is unpopular with Aboriginal leaders, who say mining and dumping nuclear material is akin to “killing your mother”.
Nukunu Elder Lindsay Thomas said his community was against mining fissionable elements, such as uranium as a whole.
“Our people don’t believe in this, we don’t believe it should have even been dug out of the ground anywhere in Australia,” he said. “We believe it’s poison.”
Mr Thomas said First Nations people had a spiritual connection to the land and he was proud of the work the Barngarla people had done in stopping the federal government’s attempt to dump nuclear medical waste in Kimba.
“You put that stuff in the ground, that kills that earth forever, we can’t do that, we cannot do that,” he said. “That’s like killing your mother.”
Dialysis on Country for Coober Pedy
In a groundbreaking development for the community of Coober Pedy, a new dialysis unit has been established by Purple House, bringing essential healthcare services closer to those in need.
Coober Pedy is the first of six facilities announced alongside this funding, with Purple House working on the next five, including a new site at Yalata on the Far West Coast.
The four chair dialysis unit is the first to open from the Commonwealth’s $73 million package intended for up to 30 facilities to benefit patients across Australia.
Patients who previously had to travel long distances for treatment can now receive care closer to home, reducing the burden of travel and crucially allowing patients to remain on (or return to) Country, which is paramount for individual and community wellbeing.
Aboriginal Way spoke to Purple House CEO Sarah Brown about their ongoing work to in providing critical dialysis care for those in need.
Celebrating NAIDOC in the North
National NAIDOC Week events were held around the country in July to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Aboriginal Way went along to NAIDOC in the North at the John McVeity Centre in Smithfield Plains and conducted interviews with stallholders, artists and event organisers to see what NAIDOC means to them.
Keeping Place unveiled at RAAF Base
After a a burial site and artefacts were discovered during RAAF Base works at Edinburgh, the Air Force started working with Kaurna people to establish a Keeping Place at the site.
The Keeping Place includes a First Nations war memorial and is designed to be a meeting location for defence and Indigenous communities.
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