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Jamie's Ministry of Food rolls into Indigenous Australia
A culinary classroom on wheels run by Jamie’s Ministry of Food will visit the remote Aboriginal community of Mossman Gorge in north Queensland this June to deliver a five-week, hands-on cooking program to interested locals.
The mobile food kitchen, a huge truck spanning 15 metres in length bearing the celebrity chef's branding, will operate in Mossman Gorge from 13 June, providing cheap 'Jamie-style' cooking lessons, recipes and tips to help locals make nutritional food, fast and on a budget.
The upcoming program, marking the van’s second-ever visit to an Indigenous community in Australia, will aim to empower families with the confidence needed to improve their diet and in-turn, their health.
“The food we want to cook is not unattainable and it uses basic ingredients,” says food trainer for Jamie’s Ministry of Food mobile kitchen, Bree Kennedy.
“By participating in these classes, people will gain confidence in the kitchen to make meals from scratch.
“Once you have that sort of confidence ignited within yourself, it is infectious. I see it every day.”
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Art lights up new path for Indigenous prisoners
The arts are a powerful repository of cultural identity, believes Dr Vicki Ware. “Humans have long used arts to present their cultural identity,” says Ware, lecturer in International and Community Development at Deakin University.
“They are a space in which Indigenous community members can represent their past, and in genres that blend traditional and global practices, they can renegotiate a sense of who they are in a rapidly changing world.”
“Amidst the tumultuous changes forced upon Indigenous Australians, traditional art forms are often one of the few avenues left to express their links to their traditional identity and culture,” she explains.
Indigenous youth are now 31 times more likely to wind up in detention than non-Indigenous juveniles.
According to BOSCAR reports, the rate of Aboriginal imprisonment increased by 40 per cent between 2001 and 2015. Indigenous youth are also 31 times more likely to wind up in detention than non-Indigenous juveniles.
Dr Ware believes the arts are particularly instrumental in diverting young people – especially those in rural communities – from engaging in harmful practices out of boredom.
“It can also provide a safe space for emotional expression, leading to opportunities to resolve trauma,” the academic says.
Barkindji man, Kent Morris, is one of many Indigenous Australians who have experienced the synergy between art and identify, firsthand.
“They’re so interlinked; our stories are visual – they’re painted and etched onto rocks and bark and into the sand,” Morris tells SBS. “This whole idea of expressing culture visually is so intrinsic to our culture.”
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The lawyer for one of the Queensland university students who has escaped a lawsuit for allegedly posting racist comments on Facebook has lashed Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs.
Alex Wood, Calum Thwaites and Jackson Powell were being sued by Cindy Prior, an Indigenous administration officer, under the Racial Discrimination Act's controversial section 18C.
The case was thrown out by Brisbane's Federal Court Judge Michael Jarrett on Friday after he found Ms Prior did not have reasonable prospects of successfully bringing a case against the trio.
Outside court, Mr Thwaites' lawyer Tony Morris QC slammed Ms Triggs for allowing the case to get so far.
Mr Morris said everyone involved in the case was a victim, including Ms Prior, and the matter should have never come to court.
"I'm not going to call for her to resign but if the woman had any decency whatsoever, her resignation would be on the attorney-general's desk on Monday," he said.
Mr Thwaites said he was very relieved at the outcome.
"I'm happy to be able to get on with my life," he told AAP.
Ms Prior argued she was unable to continue working face-to-face with white people following a series of Facebook posts made after Mr Wood was asked to leave an Indigenous-only computer lab at the Queensland University of Technology in 2013.
"Just got kicked out of the unsigned Indigenous computer room. QUT stopping segregation with segregation," he wrote.
The post attracted a number of responses, including one from Mr Powell who wrote: "I wonder where the white supremacist computer lab is."
Mr Thwaites is alleged to have written "ITT N***ers" but has denied being responsible for the post.
Ms Prior was not in court for the judgment and is said to be facing a six-figure legal bill if the students recoup their legal costs from her.
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Lawyer criticises Gillian Triggs as 18C university case thrown out
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