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A new organisation has launched in Australia with the aim of tackling political polarisation and division. Amplify says it has deliberately chosen to stand apart from affiliation to a political party to encourage national debate on community-driven solutions to policy challenges like housing and education. Kaytetye woman from Central Australia Rona Glynn-McDonald is a board member of Amplify. She has told Biwa Kwan the group is taking a different approach to finding policy solutions, including in areas like Indigenous affairs after the defeat of last year's Voice to Parliament referendum.
Tony Armstrong is a man who needs no introduction. The last few years have seen the ABC presenter become one of the hottest properties in the Australian media, as confirmed by his recent Gold Logie nomination.His status as Australia's most eligible bachelor almost meant you could practically hear the hearts breaking when he went public on social media late last year with his relationship with Rona Glynn-McDonald, a Kaytetye woman who grew up in Alice Springs and is the CEO of Common Ground, a DJ, and was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.Today, Rona and Tony sit down with Sarrah to discuss how they fell in love, why they decided to 'hard launch' their relationship on Instagram and what representation means to them this NAIDOC Week. You can find your post-weekend fix of sport and entertainment with Tony on Monday's Experts every Monday night after Media Watch until August 5. Find more from Stellar via Instagram @stellarmag or pick up a copy inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rona Glynn-McDonald proud Kaytetye woman from Central Australia who works with high impact organisations to create systems that centre First Nations people, knowledge and solutions. She's also the founding CEO of Common Ground, a company that is bringing Indigenous stories and voices to the rest of Australian society.
Max dials in with Kaytetye electronic artist, RONA. to chat about the release of her debut EP, "Closure". They talk about RONA.'s deep connection to country, and how it plays out in the release, how she's turning the sound of rustling wind into club bangers, and what the best way to throwdown on the dance floor is.Connect with RONA. on Instagram and Facebook, and listen to her debut EP "Closure" on Spotify and Apple Music. Discover more new music and hear your favourite artists with 78 Amped on Instagram, on Facebook.
Founder and CEO of not-for-profit Common Ground Rona Glynn-McDonald joins Talia on the latest episode of MobTalk. A proud Kaytetye woman, Rona yarns about storytelling as an educational resource, how Common Ground centres the experiences of mob to help strengthen and heal, and the power of young mob to change the future. "Young people are so incredible. I have so much trust and belief in them to be able to step into their own power, follow their own aspirations...I believe in young people to beat the injustices we face now, and completely transform the future." Tune in to hear these deadly young women speak about the work they're each doing to amplify First Nations knowledge, culture and stories. https://www.commonground.org.au
Rona Glynn-McDonald proud Kaytetye woman from Central Australia who works with high impact organisations to create systems that centre First Nations people, knowledge and solutions. She's also the founding CEO of Common Ground, a company that is bringing Indigenous stories and voices to the rest of Australian society.
The Coniston Massacre is the name given to the officially-sanctioned murder of hundreds of Indigenous people of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, and Kaytetye tribes, committed by Northern Territory police and landowners in 1928.The massacre was motivated, ostensibly, by the murder of Fred Brooks, a white station hand who worked at Coniston Station. In retaliation, William George Murray led a series of expeditions in search of Brooks’ murderers. Murray and his party indiscriminately murdered almost every Indigenous man, woman and child they came across. The number of murders in the official record is 31, but the true number of Indigenous people killed in this series of attacks is believed to be around 200.EPISODE NOTES:The Coniston Massacre is one of many atrocities committed against Indigenous peoples by white settlers – atrocities that began on January 26, 1776, and continue in various forms to the present day.Whatever your feelings about Australia Day, it cannot be denied that Australia has a continuing history of violence towards the Indigenous people of Australia. Indigenous people have lived on this land for over 100,000 years, and in the less than 300 years of white settlement, we have destroyed the land, marginalized its first peoples, and placed hundreds of refugees in offshore detention centres. We need to fix these systemic issues, and find a day when all people can celebrate all of the many incredible things that this great Southern land has to offer.To watch the Coniston Film, go here https://rebelfilms.com.au/films/coniston/To read more about the massacre from the Central Land Council, go here https://www.clc.org.au/files/pdf/Making_Peace_with_the_Past.pdfTo read about the Northern Territory police apology for the massacre, go here https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-24/nt-police-apologise-for-state-sanctioned-coniston-massacre/10162850If you like what we do please consider supporting us on PATREONSubscribe to the podcast on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM or EMAIL us on murderinthelandofoz@gmail.comwww.thatsnotcanonproductions.com
Rona Glynn-McDonald shares a Kaytetye phrase that was important to her while she was away at boarding school.
Rona Glynn-McDonald shares a Kaytetye phrase that was important to her while she was away at boarding school.
Rona Glynn-McDonald shares a Kaytetye phrase that was important to her while she was away at boarding school.
On the 26th of January 2019 at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in a a yurt, I interviewed three women from Wilora ... a small town just off the Stuart Hwy 300 ks North of Alice Springs .This is the area of the last state sanctioned massacre in Australia in 1928. The women are from the Kaytetye aboriginal group in Central Australia and are raising the alarm, again, about the unsafe levels of uranium and other dirty solutes in their bore drinking water. This unjust situation has been going on for far too long as successive governments fail to act . Not far away a new mine proposal at Mount Peake causes concern over fragile and little understood groundwater sources. Now a crowd fundraiser has been started to bring water tanks, a filtration system, life, peace of mind and health to Wilora Find the ChuffedfFundraiser : Wilora Kwatye here : https://chuffed.org/project/wilora-waterPresenter: Bec Horridge. Guests: Rebecca Numina, Aunty Janey, Christine Kngwarraye Palmer, Mercedes ZankerHistory: https://twistedhistory.net.au/tag/kaytetye-people/ Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority: Mount Peake Assesment report News:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/20/uranium-in-remote-communities-water-puts-peoples-lives-at-risk> Earth Matters #1186 was produced by Bec Horridge
Rona Glynn-McDonald shares a Kaytetye phrase that was important to her while she was away at boarding school.
Rona Glynn-McDonald shares a Kaytetye phrase that was important to her while she was away at boarding school.
Rona Glynn-McDonald works with high impact organisations to propel social change, with a strong passion for disruptive ideas. She is a proud Kaytetye woman and the founder of Common Ground, an online space that shares Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and lived experiences. Rona aims to help create an Australia that embraces and celebrates…
A quick chat while Myfany was in Melbourne about her work with the Kaytetye and Arrernte communities. As well as a little bit about the nuts and bolts of traditional Aboriginal music and language from the central desert. http://sydney.edu.au/music/staff-profiles/myfany.turpin.php
In 1959 Ken Hale made what we believe were the first Kaytetye audio recordings. He recorded six speakers, eliciting words, phrases and one story. Since then the language has changed significantly and the community would like to access the recordings and the beloved narrative. We chose a web-based interface to present the collection that would consist of: • Biography and photo of speakers • Audio • 1959 fieldnotes • Written text in standard orthography • Morphological and word gloss • Free translations We discuss the issues encountered, current solutions and their relative successes. For example, in consultation with Kaytetye collaborator Alison Ross, we found some subject matter was inappropriate for public display, so we developed a way to 'hide' such material that has so far been unproblematic. Obtaining formal permissions from institutions was also unproblematic. In terms of workflow we chose FLEX to create consistent glossing; however this has been time-consuming and requires complex set up, import and export. We also identified a bug in FLEX that caused timecode information to be lost. Our master copy is ELAN, so we have to go back and make changes in that every time we make a change in FLEX. Another issue was the online interlinear audio & text presentation. Trials with a fully-transcribed story showed that the system wasn't ideal for our situation so we built a custom system that could deal with the particular attributes of the data – the audio file length, and the number of annotations.
Adam Kendon’s in-depth analysis of Australian Indigenous sign languages still remains the most broad-reaching to date (Kendon, 1988), even as steps are being taken to build on the foundations he laid (Adone & Maypilama, 2013; Carew & Green, 2015; Green & Wilkins, 2014). Kendon called these sign languages ‘alternate’, as they are not generally the primary mode of communication but rather are used instead of speech in particular cultural circumstances. Kendon’s fieldwork in the late 1970s and the 1980s in Central Australia generated valuable records of sign used in Warlpiri, Kaytetye, Warumungu, Warlmanpa, Jingulu, Mudburra and Anmatyerr speaking communities. The original 16 mm film and VHS video recordings, housed at AIATSIS, comprise more than 50 hours of archival material. The collection includes metadata with various fields, including spoken language, semantic domain, language sign glosses with English translations, and a phonetic transcription in a unique font that Kendon devised especially for the purpose. There is also a time-code that points to locations in the film media. I discuss some of the steps that can be taken to get the most out of this metadata, link it to the media it refers to, and make this unique collection searchable. This is a first step in forming a comparative corpus of Indigenous sign that combines old and new sources. The format and structure of archival deposits and their delivery to users leads to some steps forward…and some backwards. The lessons learnt also have implications for the ways that structure our contemporary archival collections. The presentation will end with some suggestions for further uses of this material and a bid for collaboration. Adone, D., & Maypilama, E. (2013). A Grammar Sketch of Yolŋu Sign Language. Darwin: Charles Darwin University. Carew, M., & Green, J. (2015). Making an online dictionary for Central Australian sign languages. Learning Communities - International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts. Special Issue: Indigenous Sign Languages, 16, 40–55. Green, J., & Wilkins, D. P. (2014). With or Without Speech: Arandic Sign Language from Central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34(2), 234–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2014.887407 Kendon, A. (1988). Sign languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, semiotic and communicative perspectives. Cambridge University Press.