Sentences with phrase «palm island community»

Images of the violent protests by the Palm Island community; the imposed «state of emergency» resulting in a military style police operation; the removal and arrest of 26 community members and the incarceration of Lex Wotton who subsequently had his right to free speech removed, was extensively reported in national and international media.

For example, the Palm Island Community Council stated that it had only received half the budget it was due from the Australian Government as it approached the end of the September 2004 quarter.

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Known by indigenous communities of the Pacific Islands as the «Tree of Life», the coconut palm is a highly valued source of food and medicine and has a fresh, sweet tropical smell.

We're happy to serve the communities of Isle of Palms, Sullivans Island, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Folly Beach, and beyond.

Isle of Palms is a barrier island, residential beach community, and popular vacation retreat for Charleston South Carolina residents based only ten miles away.

In addition to the Magnetic Island service, SeaLink Queensland also operates a service to Palm Island 5 times per week for the Indigenous community.

Metabolism and Communication, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 2003 Love, Magazin4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Germany Patty Chang, Tracy Emin, Naomi Fisher, Paul McCarthy, The Moore Space, Miami, FL (performance, April 26) Water, Water, curated by Lilly Wei, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Awakenings, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Feminine Persuasion, The Kinsey Institute and the School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington, Indiana 2002 Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Le Plateau Frac Ile - de-France (performance only, November 7), Paris, France Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA The Body Electric: Video Art and the Human Body, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Americas Remixed, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (performance / exhibition) Extreme Existence, curated by Klaus Ottmann, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY (performance / exhibition)(catalogue) Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New York Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (performance / exhibition), (Catalog available) Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY Le Studio, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Oral Fixations, curated by Sandra Firmin, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Panorama, curated by Carmen Zita, Room Interior Products, NY Superlounge, curated by Andrea Salerno & Mari Spirito, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY About the Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted to Know), Video Cafe, organized by Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum, NY Mirror Image, curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Traveled to: Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, NY Perspectives: Artists of Chinese Descent in New York, Queens College Art Center, NY Traveled to: Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, March - April 2003 2001 Bodily Acts, curated by Jennifer L. Gray, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Circus Maximus, BeganeGrond, Center for the Contemporary Arts, Utrecht, Holland Group Show, Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany (performance) Mimic, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst and the Bijloke Museum, Gent, Belgium (performance / exhibition) Looking for Mr. Fluxus: In the Footsteps of George Maciunas, Art in General, NY La Hijas de la Tierra (The Daughters of the Earth), IODAC Museum of Contemporary, Spain Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (brochure) 2001 Art + Performance + Technology, in conjunction with the 19th International Sculpture Conference, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (performance) WET, Luise Ross Gallery, New York Trans Sexual Express Barcelona, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Smirk: Women, Art, and Humor, curated by Debra Wacks, Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, New York 2000 Uncomfortable Beauty, Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery, New York Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (performance / exhibition): Traveled to: Kunst - und Kunstgewerbeverein Pforzheim, Germany (April / May 2001) The Art of the Screen Saver, Stanford Art Museum / Cantor Art Center, Stanford, CA Traveled to: ICA, London, England (Feb - March 2002) Steamroller, performance festival organized by Galerie MXM, Prague, Czech Republic (Catalog available) Soma, Soma, Soma, The Sculpture Center, New York Performance Festival, Kunstpanorama, Lucern and USINE, Geneva The Standard Projection: 24/7, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles Deja vu, Art Miami 2000, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach Galerie Fons Welters (two person exhibition with Atelier van Lieshout), Amsterdam ID / y2k, Identity At The Millennium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY 1999 - 2000 Illusion Delusion Denial, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York Mug Shots, Center for Visual Art and Culture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. 1999 IDENDITAT, hat man doch zu viel, Ort halle fur kunst, Feldstr.

After a long - standing campaign by environmentalists and local communities, the Indonesian government investigated an oil palm concession under development by PT Kallista Alam in Tripa peat swamp on the island of Sumatra.

Rudi Putra, 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for Islands and Island Nations, led communities in dismantling illegal palm oil plantations, protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.

Some preliminary investigation of the industry has been made by the NNTC [National Native Title Council] and the larger communities of Yarrabah and Palm Island are looking at some options with the alternative power industry.

Whilst the viewers will see the many challenges to health and wellbeing of people in communities, they will also recognise the rewards experienced by these health workers — I feel very positive and satisfied in knowing that I am helping others, particularly my people on Palm Island, with diverse health issues.

Gemma Armit is a Trainee Paramedic based on the remote Indigenous community of Palm Island.

Her current research activity involves working with her home community of Palm Island in partnership with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Healtcommunity of Palm Island in partnership with the Aboriginal Community Controlled HealtCommunity Controlled Health Sector.

Strategies: Develop policies and programs aimed at the recognition of land and sea rights; encourage education to the wider community about the recognition of land and sea rights; liaise with government to ensure that there is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation on all boards and advisory committees involved in land and sea management; develop land acquisition strategy; support Palm Island and other groups to prepare local Homelands Plan.

Perceived positive outcomes for the model include: decline in crime rate and level of violence; an effective community corrections program at Palm Island that has kept people from appearing before court and from possible incarceration; dramatic decrease in juvenile crime at Kowanyama; changes in social patterns; more effective government service delivery, leading to savings in time and money for government and community agencies, courts, law enforcement agencies and correctional centres.

It is often the tension between those charged with addressing the above issues on the Island, such as the Palm Island Shire Council, and those who are struggling with the ongoing effects of the trauma associated with colonisation that result in lateral violence in the community.

While the potential for conflict or lateral violence between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living on Palm Island was well secured in the establishment of the Reserve, the ongoing isolation and exclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living on the Island from the broader Australian community, exacerbates the effects of similar policies redesigned to reflect a contemporary context.

Palm Island is also a remote and isolated location so many of the past and present injustices take place off the main stage and only ever come into the spotlight when intense violence takes place, feeding the negative stereotypes about our communities.

To give an example of how the historical and contemporary issues are played out in our communities, Text Box 2.7 examines how lateral violence has evolved on Palm Island.

The Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs announced $ 14 million for a new housing and welfare strategy for Queensland's Indigenous community of PalCommunity Services and Indigenous Affairs announced $ 14 million for a new housing and welfare strategy for Queensland's Indigenous community of Palcommunity of Palm Island.

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