The application pack, the Discovery flyer and a number of other documents have been uploaded (see bar on right of screen). Please download these by clicking on the link and following the prompts.
Applications are due at the latest on 7th April 2008. Please get these to us before that date if you can, as we have an introduction pack to send to you once we have registered your application.
One of the documents in the pack is a form to complete your Scouts of the World Award that needs to eventually go to the National Youth Programs Commissioner, Julie Creed. This will take about two working weeks to be processed and a SW passport returned to you prior to the Discovery. This award is available to non-Scouts as well, and more information will be included in the pack.
Once we have confirmed our program of guest speakers, exploration and cultural activities, we will upload this onto the website!
If there is someone you think would be interested in being a part of the Discovery (particularly if they aren't involved in Scouts), please ask them to come along or email the organisers for more information. Only a bit more than two months to go!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Updates to Discovery Website
Due to some serious technical difficulties (and incapabilities on the editors behalf) the official Cotter Scouts of the World Base website is out of action. This official website is located as part of the Scouts ACT website, and this blog will be our temporary replacement for the duration of the Indigenous Discovery 08. It is a fun, easy to use blog, and will be regularly updated with news and information on the Discovery.
Please email me if you have anything you would like me to put onto the website.
Please email me if you have anything you would like me to put onto the website.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Government says 'Sorry'
An excerpt from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 'Sorry' Address.
"today we honour the indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past mistreatment. We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were stolen generations - this blemished chapter in our nation's history.
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.
We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.
For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.
And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.
We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation."
Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples House of Representatives Parliament House, Canberra
Sorry, the First Step (from ABC news www.abc.net.au/news)
"today we honour the indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past mistreatment. We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were stolen generations - this blemished chapter in our nation's history.
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.
We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.
For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.
And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.
We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation."
Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples House of Representatives Parliament House, Canberra
13 February 2008
Aboriginal Dancers outside Old Parliament House (AFP news)
Sorry, the First Step (from ABC news www.abc.net.au/news)
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