For the latest news go to the ANTaR Qld FaceBook Page and see our Coming Events page for some activities in the Greater Brisbane area.
See ANTAR Qld’s SORRY DAY STATEMENT HERE
Reconciliation Australia’s song this year is Shane Howard and Goanna’s iconic Solid Rock
For National Reconciliation Week 2025, Reconciliation Australia called on choirs across the country to raise their Voices for Reconciliation once again. The song this year was Shane Howard and Goanna’s iconic Solid Rock, and the response was incredible. Here is just a few of the choirs we heard from. Reconciliation Australia thanks Shane Howard, Goanna Arts and Mushroom Music Publishing for their support of Voices for Reconciliation.
See a video of a collection of choirs HERE
Also a very good version by SING ON THE BALAN HERE
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ANTaR Qld’s website calendar at: https://antarqld.org.au/events/
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See the excellent ABC Four Corners programme on the Victoria’s Yoorrook Commission:
Australia’s first ever truth-telling commission uncovers our hidden history.
Bridget Brennan examines how we as a nation reckon with our colonial past and take critical steps towards truth, healing and justice.
Four Corners: Yoorrook Truth Telling Commission
See the excellent article on Closing the Gap in the National Indigenous Times:
https://nit.com.au/20-03-2025/16917/peak-bodies-join-call-for-action-on-close-the-gap-day
Supporting Justice and Solidarity – Your Continued Support Matters
At ANTaR QLD, we believe that standing with First Peoples in their pursuit of justice and equality does not only mean working to change institutional policies and practices. It’s also about responding together to the suffering that often results from injustice and inequality. True relationship means not only reaching out and offering support, but also celebrating the connections we share.
Given the current challenges posed by the cost of living, it is more important than ever to come together in solidarity and support one another.
In this spirit, ANTaR QLD has been offering direct support and collaborating with other organisations to make a broader impact. We’ve been actively reaching out to community members, linking with other organisations, supporting Sorry Business, preparing meals, assisting with food drops, distributing fresh food, and helping distribute over 120 Christmas hampers with MOB 23.
We also continue to work to support institutional change, for example, around youth incarceration and keeping young people out of the prison system, and to increase knowledge and understanding of First Nations peoples’ culture, history and contemporary circumstances through holding or supporting events, the Sea of Hands, and engaging with the school system.
Your support for ANTaR QLD will enable us to continue this work. Since we are now a registered charity any donation over $2 that you give is tax-deductible.
Donating and or updating your membership is now very easy. Simply click on Support Our Work and update membership and / or donate.
Truth-telling and healing Inquiry: First Report 25 October 2024 is now available
Petition from Queensland Citizens in Support of the Path to Treaty Act 2023
FNA is a Magandjin (Brisbane city) based group of ordinary people, First Nations (Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander) peoples, and non-Indigenous peoples, who formed at the time of the 2023 Referendum in Brisbane.For information and to sign the petition click: https://bit.ly/QldTreatyPetition
For more information about some of the First Nations support and Community groups around Brisbane go to “Organisations“
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