2014 Significant Dates
Friday 8th March 2014 Today is International Women’s Day International Women’s Day Website
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Read MoreSunday 1st December 2013 Today is the 36th Anniversary of the term of Sir Douglas Nicholls as Australia’s First Aboriginal Governor Sir Douglas Nicholls (Pastor) “Aboriginal People are the skeleton in the cupboard of Australia’s national life …. outcasts in our own land.” … Doug Nicholls, National Day of Mourning speech, 1938. “All we want […]
Read MoreWednesday 16th October 2013 Today is World Food Day Visit the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations In some ways, the world seems more prosperous, connected and global than ever before. Yet hundreds of millions of people are just struggling to survive. Parents go to bed at night with the deep anguish that […]
Read MoreWednesday 16th October 2013 Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty United Nations Events – Poverty Day The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year since 1993, when the UN General Assembly, by resolution 47/196, designated this day to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and […]
Read MoreTuesday 15th October 2013 Today is International Day of Rural Women United Nations Events – International Day of Rural Women The theme for the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (4 to 15 March 2013) is: “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.”
Read MoreFriday 4th October 2013 Today is the 153rd Candle Light Walk (for Treaty and a Bill of Rights) around Government House, Adelaide Justice & Peace Candle Walks 2000
Read MoreSaturday 21st September 2013 Today is International Day of Peace United Nations Events – Day of Peace Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and […]
Read MoreFriday 6th September 2013 Today is the 152nd Candle Light Walk (for Treaty and a Bill of Rights) around Government House, Adelaide Justice & Peace Candle Walks 2000
Read MoreMonday 2nd September 2013 Today is the Anniversary of the establishment of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation was established as a statutory authority on 2 September 1991 when the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991 received the Royal Assent. Its first members were appointed on 15 December 1991. Like other […]
Read MoreThursday 22nd August 2013 Today is the Anniversary of Freedom Day – The Gurindji Walk-Off from Wave Hill From wage rights to land rights In August 1966, Aboriginal pastoral workers walked off the job on the vast Vesteys’ cattle station at Wave Hill in the Northern Territory. At first they expressed their unhappiness with their […]
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