A walk to see our local community, the landmarks and landscape that are familiar through the different eyes – the eyes of the local Indigenous people. What was here before white settlement and what continues to be here without our seeing it. To build a bridge between what we understand as the history of this Country and the understanding of the traditional custodians to build our shared history.

“A song for people on Country. The song is a collaborative creation by music teachers, students, Yuggera eEders and a music producer as part of a RQIS song project – they would love to see it shared. Please contact your local Elders to have the chorus translated into the language of your country if you are not on Yuggera land."

Please contact us if you would like a copy of this booklet and we can email it to you.

“In 1996 the community development workers at Benarrawa worked in partnership with the Brisbane City Council’s Community Development Team West on the Community Development and Social Planning Study for the Local Area Plan for the southern part of Walter Taylor Ward. Members of the Solidarity Group were astonished to find that there was little known officially and so little recognition of the Aboriginal heritage in this area prior to European settlement.

The dream for this project was to reclaim our community’s consciousness of the Aboriginal history of our local area, Benarrawa. When we started our journey back through the surviving historical records and stories, we had no idea we would wander so many different windy pathways before completing this booklet.”

‘Benarrawa Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Solidarity Group: working to reduce the deleterious effects of racism through structural community development’ by Athena Lathouras and Dyann Ross.

Twice yearly the CD workers publish a newsletter called ‘Benbits’. In this you can find updates on the auspice groups, public events, management committee news, date claimers, project work, community notices etc. Please let us know if you would like to contribute to this newsletter and/or obtain a recent copy.

A case study written by Lathouras, T & Ross, D. It is located in the journal called ‘International Community Development Practice’.

Edited by: McConnell, C, Muia, D & Clarke, A. Routledge, pp. 190-193

We have a youtube channel where we at times upload videos of our community events and project work. We would like to acknowledge everyone who has helped us do this to enable the practice wisdom at Benarrawa to be shared with others.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLqPHs8e4h_MhBH9tGmiiA

Or please just search in youtube for ‘Benarrawa Community Development Association’.

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