Living styles of the First Nations --- with emphasis on the Gunditjmara of south-west Victoria

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  Patricia Olive Corowa

  Yesterday at 09:16 · 

  This is a wondrous and dangerous essay.. Worthy of being read, and bookmarked to be revisited and re-read more times.. First Peoples in every Sovereign Ancient Nation probably have some similarities in the lifestyles of the Gunditjmara of the South East..

  So how could previous archaeologists have missed all this, given the scale of the operation and that the fish farms would still have been operating when Europeans arrived?

  Builth suspects it is because the Gunditjmara disappeared quickly after white settlers came. "History tells us, many (of the settlers) had a military background and they knew tactics - they knew how to survive - they knew how to win, and they knew how to get rid of Aboriginal people pretty quickly."

  By the time archaeologists had arrived in Australia the only Aboriginal people still leading traditional lifestyles in significant numbers were the ones living on the less desirable land.

  "Most studies - certainly anthropological studies - focused on people dwelling in desert in semi-arid conditions, because they were the last people to live in their traditional land. These people (the Gunditjmara) were the first to lose their land, that's the difference."

  The article above continues HERE

Purchases from to-day's Jiggety-jig Market 16-01-16

Back from the Jiggety-jig!

Purchases to-day:

Waubra eggs

Sequoia potatoes

Harmony Garlic's cool smoked garlic

Beetroot. I chose small - easier for pickling in re-used jars.

Cos lettuce

For some of this quality produce, you will pay a little more.

Sometimes, though, you won't.

If growers get to know you, there's a chance

that they may give a discount.

Some items, like the garlic, fall into a specialty category, in my view.

However, growers have to find numerous uses and varieties'

for the food they have chosen to specialise in.

My regular shopping places are Coles and Aldi.

Each have their uses and their pricing systems.

I rarely enter a Woolworths and when I do,

 don't spend much money there.

The ethics of the major supermarkets are dubious at best.

Woolworths comes out bottom of my list.

For more on Australia's supermarkets,

please purchase a copy of Supermarket Monsters:

the price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance

by Malcolm Knox.

So while I may pay a little more

for top of the range value at a growers' market,

this comes from my savings at the supermarkets,

careful budgetting, being a thoughtful consumer,

a vegetarian, and a cook.

My purchases have another purpose.

I am investing, in a small way, in Australian growers.

If we all did this, the investment could become substantial.

Do we want Australian growers to disappear?

Do we want exploited labour so that growers can stay in the game?

Do we want everything to be imported -

and, usually, from places which have subsidised agriculture

such as the United States and the European Union?

Celebrating Fair Food Week at the Jiggety-Jig Farmers Market in #Ballarat

The Editor trotted off jiggety-jig to market, this morning. 

No, she didn't buy the fat pig of the nursery rhyme. 

Being vegetarian, she steered clear of the meat that was available

and focussed on bread and veges. 

 The Jiggety-Jig farmers market was on this morning. 

 Local producers. 

 It costs a little more to purchase the food available at good farmers' markets 

but it is worthwhile to spend a just a little extra 

to purchase local food of good quality 

which has not travelled far from the farm; 

where you can be absolutely guaranteed that free range eggs 

are actually free range.

It is also wise to remember that
if we don't support our local producers and makers
then, one day in the not too far away,
we will lose them.
If we lose them and make ourselves slaves
to imports and cheap foreign government subsidised food,
with these people will go the skills that
ensure that we can feed ourselves.
So purchasing from the locals
is like making a down-payment on
a sort of food insurance policy.

Below is an album of my purchases. 

Some good eating is contained therein 

Where does your food come from? Animal cruelty in Australia.

Yesterday was Saint Francis' Day.
On this day we honour creation and bless the animals.
But....
and it is a big but....
have we thought about where our food comes from?

Did you know:

• Increasing commercialisation and industrialisation of our food chain has led to "Factory Farming"
• Even people engaged in food production have become separated from the animals which insure their livelihoods
• Your pets have legal rights.
• Industrial animals don't.
• If you eat pork, do you know about sow crates?
• Are you aware of how cows are milked for mass consumption in the 21st century? 
• Do you know what veal is?
• Most industries in the primary production of our food have industry standards. 
• In practise, what has occurred is that primary producers negotiate very low standards for their industries.
• Primary industry is organised so that it is has close relationships with governments.
• This means close relationships with Agriculture and Primary Industry Ministers, Departments, bureaucrats.
• This has resulted in a situation wherein if a Primary Producer is taken to Court for cruelty to industrial animals, the Producer can claim that industry standards have been maintained. This is a legal defence to the charges.
• Your domestic cat, dog, and guinea pig have more rights than this! 

Animal welfare in Australia - Australian Government - Dept of Agriculture & Water Resources
Working with farming industries - RSPCA
Regulation of Animal Welfare in Australia - Steven White - Federal Review
Australian Animal Welfare Law and Cruelty in the Context of Production Animals - 
Australian Law Society

Animals Australia - Animal cruelty
Please go to the link above for many articles on this topic

You can't eat coal for breakfast

Read the background to all this here.

If u want to help, Liverpool Plains farmers

are asking u to email/ring PM re Shenhua coal mine 

(details in the link below)

https://t.co/sn9g4a7fQB pic.twitter.com/JjLwr2Lc2r

— HRH Terry Australis (@AustralisTerry) July 8, 2015

Senate Inquiry into slave and exploited labour in Australia's fresh food chain. Woolworths admits moral responsibility but not legal responsibility.

Cross-posted with The Network

Today saw NUW members speak at the first Senate Inquiry into Australia's temporary work visas. The NUW remains firm: Coles and Woolworths have the power to fix this Labour hire agencies need to be regulated No workers should be forced to work for poverty wages in our fresh food supply chain We cannot allow a two-class system to remain in Australia. Every worker counts! Woolworths also appeared at today's Senate Inquiry, and admitted moral responsibility for underpaid farm workers. However, Woolworths are still refusing to meet with workers and the NUW to talk about a Fair Food Agreement to eradicate exploitation from our fresh food. Help put the pressure on and sign the petition here! And remember, we all have friends and family that can help. Share this petition with your community. NUW's Godfrey Moase, Winnie Lin, Caterina Cinanni, Sherry Huang & George Robertson with Senator Sue Lines & Senator Deborah O'Neill If you haven't watched the Four Corners program that exposed exploitation, you can watch it here. In unity, Tim Kennedy National Secretary National Union of Workers Email: nuwassist@nuw.org.au Call: 1300 275 689 National: 833 Bourke St, Docklands VIC 3008 Click here for office locations Website: www.nuw.org.au © Copyright National Union of Workers Unsubscribe

TWU boss calls for all migrant workers to be given the vote Taskforce to target worker exploitation, visa fraud following 'slave labour' revelations Inquiries into 417 visa to be expanded Workplace watchdog aims for top of retailers' supply chain on worker exploitation We need a new class of visa for low-skilled migrant workers Previous posts referencing this topic  can be found on The Network site at: Part 1 - Slavery in Australia. Is the 'Let 'er rip" attitude on visas for overseas workers going to be stopped? The Robinvale experience Part 2 - Names have been named in "Slaving Away".  Here they are recorded below and their responses. Part 3: The conscious consumer becomes the aware and ethical shopper.  Destroy the slavers from the checkouts of Australia! What are you buying? How did it get to you?  Whose hands has it passed through?