32. Research shows that attachment to traditional culture is important for Indigenous wellbeing . http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/19/2495568.htm
36. Swagman Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong , Under the shade of a coolibah-tree , And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, "Who'll come a- waltzing Matilda with me? Waltzing Matilda,Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?" And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
Did you know? Tully in Queensland is the wettest town in Australia, with an average annual rainfall of 4204 millimeters
The Canberra Times, 11 January 2001 The Day offers the community the opportunity to participate and be involved in activities to acknowledge the impact of the policies of forcible removal on Australia's indigenous populations. The Prime Minister said last month that reconciliation is an ‘unstoppable force’. So the latest statistics on Aboriginal health come as a nasty shock. They show that Aboriginal life expectancy, already 19 years less than the Australian average, is now nearly 20 years less. Australia is the only developed nation with a declining Indigenous life expectancy. In the sixties, the average Maori died at the same age as an Aboriginal. Now the Maori can expect to live 15 years longer than his Aboriginal counterpart. As Sir William Deane has pointed out, we will not achieve reconciliation until ‘the life expectancy of an Aboriginal baby is in the same realm as that of a non-Aboriginal.’ Why are we going backwards, when the rest of the developed world is going forwards? Canberra Times 11. January 2001