Blue Mountains City Council First Nations Community Updates

The community election to the Aboriginal Advisory Council for Blue Mountains City Council is coming up on Wednesday 27 November.

To be held at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre from 10am to 1pm in the workshop room.

The committee has a total of 9 members including a designated Dharug and Gundungurra custodian position.

The election will be run by independent First Nations facilitators.

Any Blue Mountains resident who is a First Nations person can nominate themselves.

Nominations can be received in advance or by 10:30am on the day. Nominations must include your name and a little bit about yourself.

To vote you must be in attendance at the election.

Morning tea provided so please RSVP to firstnations@bmcc.nsw.gov.au

If you're an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander student studying or enrolling in an entry level health course, you can now apply for financial,cultural, mentoring and other supports.

To find out more follow the link

Expressions of interest are now open for NSW Aboriginal organisations seeking to own and manage their own carbon project. Carbon projects are a great way to restore Country, bringing back totemic species, medicinal plants and bush tucker. You can also receive income by selling carbon credits generated by your project.

Successful applicants will receive help to:

• plan and design their project, including access to legal, financial and technical support
• register their carbon project as an Environmental Plantings project under the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) scheme.

Once the carbon project is registered, partners can apply for funding for up to 90% of project implementation costs, up to a maximum of $250,000 per project.

Expressions of interest are now open and close 11:59pm AEST Thursday 24 October 2024.

To find out more or to submit an expression of interest visit the website or email netzero.land@environment.nsw.gov.au

This funding is part of our $2.5 million investment to support NSW Aboriginal organisations to set up mixed species tree planting projects that earn carbon credits and restore Country

Your're invited!

Sunday 8 September 9:30am to 4pm

Join the Blue Mountains Women's Health and Resource Centre to celebrate the new native garden with workshops on traditional uses of native plants, cooking and women's health.

124 Lurline St Katoomba

Bring a plate to share for lunch.

Wednesday 4 September from 2pm to 3:30pm

Mid Mountains Neighborhood Centre 9 New St Lawson

Belong BM, supported by BMCC Library, ACRC and Connect Child and Families, are hosting a book swap, story time and afternoon tea, for children and families.

Bring no more than 3 good quality books per person and and swap them for a small donation to INDIGENOUS LITERACY FOUNDATION.

Afternoon tea provided

Storytime at 2:30pm.

Check out the video filmed at the 2023 Glenbrook Lagoon Cultural Burn.

Click for VIDEO

The latest update to the dashboard and the fourth Annual Data Compilation Report were released on 31 July 2024.

The dashboard provides the most up-to-date information available on the targets and indicators in the the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. The data will be available in different formats including visual.

The information repository is produced by the Productivity Commission.

Save the date, more details to come!

Aboriginal people and communities, and anyone with a deep interest in access to water for cultural and economic purposes for Aboriginal people, are invited to join a face-to-face workshop on Country.

There are 52 workshops across the state. Register for a community workshop.

Call it Out Racism Register

Download the ‘Call it Out’ Racism Register Free App. This is led by UTS Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research.
For more information go to www.callitout.com