Ted Lovett at St Paul's : a footy great tells us stories of Lake Condah, harsh treatment, life achievements and eels

 

Ted Lovett at the pulpit at Saint Paul's, Bakery Hill, Ballarat

 

 Ted Lovett, Father Constantine Osuchukuwu ,

with The Chair of Advocacy @ St Paul's,

Hedley Thomson 

Yesterday at St Paul's, we celebrated NAIDOC Week by having as our guest Aboriginal Elder Ted Lovett.  (For further NAIDOC week events in #Ballarat, please see the program embedded below.)

Ted, now in his seventies, is a Gundjit-Mara man from south-west Victoria - down closer to the Victorian-South Australia border. Ted said he hadn't been in an Anglican church in a very long time. He was raised on Lake Condah mission - a mission run by the Anglican church. He grew up in the very harsh conditions that modern Anglicans remember in shame.  This land was regained and taken back by the Gundjit-Mara under native title. The story of The Gunditjmara Land Justice story is embedded below.

The Budj Bim landscape in southwest Victoria is a traditional homeland of the Gunditjmara people, and is on Australia’s National Heritage List as well as in the process of being nominated for the World Heritage List. The area in and around Mount Eccles National Park has great cultural and historical significance to the Gunditjmara people, with evidence existing that their people once had a settled aquaculture society and engineered the stony wetlands around Lake Condah and Darlots Creek.  To read of the restoration of the wetlands around Lake Condah please go here.

This partnership is designed as a way of continuing the traditional land ownership strategies practiced by that society, as well as their contemporary techniques, as part of a broader view that Indigenous communities have the potential to provide new and unique viewpoints on land management. Read more here.

Uncle Ted spoke of the regeneration of the water and the lake.  I think that Uncle Ted had us in the palms of his hands as he spoke of these things.  At Cuppa Time after the service, he was warmly greeted ... and a few of us are thinking that we would like to see this country too.  And stories of the eels got our attention as well.

If readers would like to join us, should we finish up with a plan to go to Lake Condah, please be in touch with Advocacy at our email address in the side bar.

World Environment Day - 2015 --- a very movable feast --- WED events in #Ballarat this week-end

 Picture from here

There is no doubt about it!  

World Environment Day is a movable and moving feast!

As you can see Advocates, the official date is on June 5.
However, those wishing to mark the spirit of the date
are not hindered if they find people are not able
to fully participate on the published day.

So Advocacy is here to tell you of two WED events
occurring this week-end.

There is the Plant Day on the Yarrowee River
- see details below.

St Paul's Anglican Church, Bakery Hill, Ballarat
is also marking the day to-morrow.
Please come along for the 10am Eucharist.
And read on further to see
when Pope Francis is marking the day!

 

Follow this link and you will find that people 

have been chatting about a Papal encyclical since

immediately after World Environment Day 2014!!!

Now time is/has run out on Pope Francis.

World Environment Day is here and no encyclical!

But we think it is coming - 

approximately a fortnight after WED - June 18.

According to this report, there will me much reference

to Saint Francis of Assisi.

Now Anglicans are rather keen on Saint Franics.

On his feast day we turn up with our

dogs, cats, canaries and guinea pigs -

and if you live in fictional Dibley,

the vicar even manages to cope with a horse!

However, among all the jollity of Saint Francis' Day,

Advocates at St Paul's remember that this was the day

that the organisation established itself in the parish.

... and if you too are excited about what is in the PE

(Papal Encyclical)

please go here for predictions on what the spin will be.

National Volunteer Week 2015 - and clearing the catchment with the Leigh Catchment Group on the Yarrowee

High Tea on the Yarrowee - Saturday 16th May

High Tea on the Yarrowee National Volunteer Week - Working Bee Saturday 16th May, 2015 Yarrowee River Hummfray Street, South (footbridge), Mount Pleasant 1:00 - 3:30pm   More than 6 million Australian volunteers give happiness to others each year. And research says that that those volunteers are happier as a result. So this National Volunteer Week (11-17 May 2015), help us make Australia the happiest place on earth, by giving as much of your time as you can. Give Happy. Live Happy. To celebrate the Leigh Catchment Group will be holding a working bee on the Yarrowee River. We will be doing some maintenance on a planting completed in 2014 and preparing some ground for planting in June 2015. All volunteers will be rewarded with 'High Tea on the Yarrowee' . This will include scones with jam and cream, tea, coffee and bush tea for those who would like to try something different. BYO: Gloves and sturdy footwear We will meet at the footbridge on Hummfray Street, South, Mt Pleasant (near the Prest Street bridge). For a map of our meeting site click here For further information contact: Kate Constance Mobile: 0409 585 998 Phone: 5341 2364 e-mail: katelcg@iinet.net.au For further information on the benefits of volunteering click here

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