Binawah

13/09/2022

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/uncle-jack-charles-victorian-aboriginal-actor-elder-dies/101433094

Actor, musician and revered Victorian Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles dies aged 79.

06/07/2021

𝗡𝗔𝗜𝗗𝗢𝗖 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 - 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆, 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
🖤💛❤️ Country is inherent to our identity. It sustains our lives in every aspect - spiritually, physically, emotionally, socially, and culturally. It is more than a place.

When we talk about Country it is spoken of like a person. Country is family, kin, law, lore, ceremony, traditions, and language. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples it has been this way since the dawn of time.

Through our languages and songs, we speak to Country; through our ceremonies and traditions we sing to - and celebrate Country – and Country speak to us. Increasingly, we worry about Country.

For generations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been calling for stronger measures to recognise, protect, and maintain all aspects of our culture and heritage for all Australians.

We have continued to seek greater protections for our lands, our waters, our sacred sites and our cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration, and destruction. We are still waiting for those robust protections.

Healing Country means hearing those pleas to provide greater management, involvement, and empowerment by Indigenous peoples over country.

Healing Country means embracing First Nation’s cultural knowledge and understanding of Country as part of Australia's national heritage. That the culture and values of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders are respected equally to and the cultures and values of all Australians.

The right to protect Country and culture is fundamental. Destruction and desecration of our sacred lands or ancient sites - some of the oldest human occupation sites on the planet – is an enormous loss for both our nation and the world. But to truly heal Country we have more to do.

Our lands will continue to burn from bushfires, droughts will continue to destroy our livelihoods, without using traditional practices that have protected this country for centuries.

For generations, our Elders and communities have advocated, marched and fought for substantive institutional, structural and collaborative reform.

The aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the culmination of generations of consultation and discussions among our nations on a range of issues and grievances.

Healing Country means finally resolving many of the outstanding injustices which impact on the lives of our people.

It must be a fair and equitable resolution. Fundamental grievances will not vanish. In the European settlement of Australia, there were no treaties, no formal settlements, no compacts. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people therefore did not cede sovereignty to our land. It was taken from us. That will remain a continuing source of dispute.

To Heal Country, we must properly work towards redressing historical injustice. While we can’t change history, through telling the truth about our nation’s past we certainly can change the way history is viewed.

After 250 years, our children and our future generations deserve better. For generations we have repeatedly called for just recognition of our right to participate on an equal basis in economic and social terms.

Yet such participation cannot be successful unless, first, there is formal recognition that Indigenous people have been dispossessed and, second, definite, specific steps are taken to redress the grave social and economic disadvantage that followed that dispossession.

Healing Country is more than changing a word in our national anthem – it is about the historical, political, and administrative landscapes adapting to successfully empower and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, nations, and heritage.

We are all looking for significant and lasting change. We cannot afford to let pass the very real opportunity that now presents itself for reform based on a fundamental change in the relationship Australia has with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Heal Country, heal our nation.

25/05/2021

Walk with us!

We are grateful for the support of our sponsors including Busways who provides free transportation across the

Register with your friends today!

Details here https://www.5landswalk.com.au

20/05/2021

23/04/2021

The 2021 is on for Saturday June 26!

Walk with us 😀

The 5 Lands Walk is a day-long festival held on the Saturday closest to the winter solstice when the whales, a significant totem of the Darkinjung people, are migrating north, along 10 km of spectacular coastline.

You can register with your friends now https://www.5landswalk.com.au

04/01/2021

Farewell Seaman Dan. Loved your music. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-02/aria-award-winning-musician-uncle-seaman-dan-dies-at-91/13026496?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf241609724&utm_campaign=abc_australia&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf241609724=1&fbclid=IwAR0fOAld4kgEkYiI3nfkZZt9SORYCPPzoRPjts0FTSaso8ngBNqG96xLQdM

Tributes flow for Torres Strait Island musician Henry 'Seaman Dan' Gibson, renowned for his melding of world musical influences and his backstory as a travelling pearl fisherman.

25/12/2020

The CBAA certificate has finally arrived. Congratulations Gavi and Phil.

14/12/2020

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-13/barker-college-celebrates-first-year-of-classes-at-wollombi/12978330

An independent school where learning incorporates Aboriginal texts, poetry, dancing, painting and singing is teaching primary-school-aged kids pride in their cultural identities.

11/11/2020

Happy NAIDOC Week everyone.

https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/naidoc-week-frequently-asked-questions/11267024

Here's what you need to know about our national celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

05/11/2020

Congratulations to the winner of the Excellence in Indigenous Broadcasting category in the 2020 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia awards: The Mission on 3RRR 102.7FM.
Congratulations also to all of the finalists, including our very own Gavi Duncan and Phil Bligh, for their Binawah show. It certainly was an honour to have the show listed as a finalist in its first year on air.
We'll be recording more new episodes of the show shortly.
https://www.facebook.com/CommunityBroadcasting/videos/1064241230701589

13/10/2020

Wow, in its first year, Binawah is a finalist in the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) Awards for Excellence in Indigenous Broadcasting. Congratulations Gavi and Phil for this great effort. Alan.

Next up, we're stoked to be celebrating Finalists in the Excellence in Indigenous Broadcasting category of the 2020 CBAA Community Radio Awards. This year, they are:

The Mission, Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM
Moorditj Mag, RTRFM 92.1
Invasion Day 2020, 3CR Community Radio
Binawah, todayscountry94one
Ngaarda Breakfast Show, Ngaarda Media

Congratulations to all Finalists for your outstanding work! Stay tuned for more than 30 category announcements over the next 10 days.

11/07/2020

https://www.abc.net.au/life/remembering-the-day-the-moree-pool-became-a-part-of-history/11531506

Many of us just see pools as part of the Australian summer. But the pool has shaped who we are today, like in 1965 when Freedom Riders took Aboriginal kids for a swim that would change everything.

12/06/2020

Tonight - Wednesday the 17th June.

Get your tickets on the links below, support the Station that supports you and the Artists putting this great online gig on.

Here it is, The legendary Matt Scullion along with Next Edge have been working on this for todayscountry94one and has lined up a fantastic list of Australia's greatest Country Music artists.

As you may know 94one has been told we need to leave the central coast leagues club as they need the space we have. We have to be out by December and we need to finance the move ourselves.

Join us for this great online virtual concert featuring some in the biggest names in Australian country music.

We don’t usually beg but we need your help, if we can’t afford to move, we’re off air!!!
Please get behind this and share it far and wide to friends, artists, anywhere.

31/05/2020

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-31/learn-the-name-of-the-indigenous-language-of-the-land-you-live/12252006

Indigenous languages have struggled to survive since the time of colonisation but they are persistently being restored. Here's how you can learn the local language in your region.

21/05/2020

Hi Everyone, we'll continue with repeats of Binawah during the current lockdown period on Sunday nights at 10 pm and Tuesday nights at 9 pm. Restrictions are being relaxed and as a first stage, station staff will be able to access the studios and start broadcasting live-to-air between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm M-F, but with only 2 people in the studios at any one time, and strict hygiene standards in place. Hopefully, Stage 2 will allow us the latitude to start recording new Binawah shows. Thanks, Alan.

15/05/2020

Hi everyone, we hope that you are still tuning in to our Binawah repeats on Sunday and Tuesday nights during the current lockdown. As part of the station's commitment to indigenous broadcasting, please also check out our show, Indigenous Country, on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 pm on TodaysCountry94one. The show features songs from some of Australia's best known and rising indigenous country singers. We hope you can join us then.
https://www.facebook.com/Indigenous-Country-108313404180719/?modal=admin_todo_tour

Indigenous Country is a one-hour weekly radio show featuring some of the best in Australian indigeno

03/05/2020

https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2020/04/30/country-music-radio-station-seeks-new-home/

After more than eight years in its current studios, a Central Coast radio station is in search of a new home. 'Today's Country' is staffed by volunteers and needs help to remain on the air for its 40,000 listeners.