#BrandColesSupermarkets #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples #NewspaperAUTabloidHeraldSun
Context: "Coles Group acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia.
We recognise their strength and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
Coles Group extends that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and recognise their rich cultures and consulting connection to land and waters."
#NewspaperAUOnlineWAtodayNathanHondros "Data released by the federal government this week on the causes of death for Australians between 2012 to 2016 has revealed a higher suicide rate in the Kimberley than in any other part of the nation.
And in the Kimberley, which includes towns like Broome, Kununurra and Halls Creek, the suicide rates are higher than Sri Lanka, Guyana and Mongolia, the nations with the worst rates in the world, according to the World Health Organisation." https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/if-the-kimberley-was-a-country-it-would-have-the-worst-suicide-rate-in-the-world-20190207-p50wem.html #NoROceaniaAustraliaWAKimberley #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPMarkMcGowan
Supplementary: "Earlier this month, Australian politician Mark McGowan received harsh criticism for a video campaign intended to disseminate COVID-19-related information to Aboriginal people living in the state of Western Australia (WA).
Several political commentators within and outside of Australia ridiculed the video, even deeming it racist, for including an interpreter to speak in Kriol, a language which shares much of its grammar and lexicon with English -- however, it's likely that the outrage comes from a deep misunderstanding of Australian Aboriginal people and their languages. MultiLingual spoke with Lawson Stapleton, an Australian language services professional who developed South Australia's first interpreting service for indigenous languages, about the video and why the outrage against it is largely unjustified.
'Kriol is widely unknown to the general Australian public and is often labeled as 'broken English' in a derogatory way,' Stapleton said. 'What's really important is that often critical words or adjectives in Kriol take an English word and change the meaning.'
As its name suggests, Kriol is a creole language, which is derived from English and various Aboriginal languages spoken in Australia. It's quite mutually intelligible with English, a fact which likely contributed to commentators' misunderstanding and outrage surrounding McGowan's video. The video, developed with the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia, was created in order to share information about the pandemic with Aboriginal people groups living in WA, as a means of providing adequate language access services to the community.
McGowan, the premier of WA, is seen side by side with an interpreter reading a message about COVID-19 vaccination efforts; after each line, the interpreter renders the message in Kriol. Because the message sounds so similar in both languages, it may sound like the interpreter is simply speaking English, especially to viewers who are only familiar with English. While the video was first published in Dec. 2021, critics like Matt Walsh began sharing the video earlier this month, ridiculing what they believed to be a racist and simplified version of English.
There are several words in Kriol that are pronounced similarly to English words with similar meanings, but the words have different connotations. For example, Stapleton noted that the word 'deadly,' is often used in Kriol to mean 'awesome' or 'amazing' -- having a Kriol interpreter to render McGowan's message into Kriol ensures that there is no confusion when describing COVID-19 as 'deadly.'" (29 January 2022) https://multilingual.com/aboriginal-kriol-interpreter/ i.e. #TheoryEpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge #WebsiteTheDailyWireMattWalsh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSFmZSNa-As i.e. #TauntArrogance / #TheoryInstrumentalism
Addendum: the following statement: "Because it seems that the minister looks at the Aborginals as some 'uneducated folk who cannot understand plain Australian English'" is presumably a reference to criticism of the use of #IdentityFirstNationsAborigianalKriol to translate #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 information as explained in the #BrandMultiLingualMedia piece above. #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples
"If NL is already woke then Australia it is even more. Especially Sydney: gender neutral toilets everywhere, honoring indigenous peoples (eg Aboriginal people) and realizing that we live on their soil and signs explaining that art from the past is now viewed differently" #NoREuropeNetherlands #NoROceaniaAustraliaNSWSydney #PhenomnGenderNeutralNeutrality #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples
Marjetica Potrč, The House of Agreement Between Humans and the Earth (2022); The Time of Humans on the Soča River (2021); The Time on the Lachlan River (2021-22); The Rights of a River (2021); and The Life of the Lachlan River (2021). Courtesy the artist & Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin/Stockholm/Mexico City. Installation view, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sydney-biennial-2088115 And https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/marjetica-potrc-ray-woods/
"Environmental hauntings
The art of our past forms an ongoing dialogue with our present. As 19th-century artists painted landscapes transformed by agricultural economies, they imaged -- often unwittingly --traces of the immeasurable ecological damage of the colonial era, and the terrible facts of First Nations peoples' dispossession from Country.
These paintings of Australia's natural environment reveal destructive patterns that have fed into our present. From poetic metaphors for the death of nature envisaged through local fauna, to images of savaged ecologies, these works contribute to a larger picture of incalculable loss.
Paintings of dry, drought-stricken lands were once artistically celebrated as part of an Australian pastoral lexicon. Today, they reveal alarming visions of deforestation and harmful agricultural practices. Floods and droughts, once considered sublime markers of the forces of nature, have come to symbolise an escalating lament and battle for a threatened country. "
Context: #TheoryEpistemologyKnowledgesIndigenous ?
NationalityOrRegionAustraliaVicMelbourneDarebin #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples
"Darebin is situated on the Traditional Owner lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. It is home to many Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, and a large number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people work, live and play within the municipality. Our Vision is for a community that works together to advance community life. Council responds to the many needs of the Darebin community, notably First Nations residents and organisations." https://www.seek.com.au/job/53635633