Tamworth – best known for its country music festival – is now making history for another reason: becoming the first town in Australia where a local council and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations have signed a formal agreement to work together on Closing the Gap. …
Stronger Communities with Aboriginal Community Connectors
Aboriginal communities are strong, resilient and resourceful, and utilising those strengths in community has been vital to the success of a special new initiative in regional NSW.
It’s called Aboriginal Community Connectors, is led by the NSW Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations (NSW CAPO) and is delivered in Tamworth by the Tamworth Local Aboriginal Land Council.…
Banaga-y Biruu – Tamworth Youth in the Australian Outback Marathon
Sunrise around Uluru and Kata Tjuta is always a breathtaking event.
The sun’s early morning rays play with the desert in half-light before creeping out across the landscape, bathing the iconic rocks and turning them glowing red orange.
It’s an incredible beginning to each new day, and one that the Anangu people have been a part of for 60-thousand years.…