Show Society President, Peter Travis

Runs 7′57″

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Mayor Bob Abbott

Runs 7′18″

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Natural Areas Officer for the Sunshone Coast, Ered Fox

Runs 9′07″

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Fruit and Veggie Steward, Ivanovitch

Runs 4′11″

Gubbi Gubbi ambience from the stage

Hailey & Cheyenne

Runs 1.27″

Hailey and Cheyenne horsing around

Runs 4′30″

Judy and Ron from Canberra

Cooroora Woodworkers Demo

Runs 2′43″

Cooroora Woodworkers, Kevin Brewer

Runs 5′11″

Michelle from the ANZ bank

Eliza & Anna interviewing Miss Noosa Show Nancy(far right)

Runs 3′24″

Miss Noosa Show Girl, Nancy Rendell

Runs 4′11″

Creative Craft Assistant, Norma

Maxine interviewing Alan Burnett from the Reptile Show

Runs 5′27″

Reptile Awareness Displays of Australia, Alan Burnett

Runs 12′31″

Two car enthusiasts, Rod Dryce and Alan Kensler

Veggie Monster 'Fun' with the Kids

Runs 5′30″

Veggie Monster Girls, Miranda and Nicola

Runs 2′27″

Show Secretary , Mia Hacker, wraps it up

Runs 9′43″

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Thank you to all of our listeners and the local businesses who gave so generously

Diet Simon

By Diet Simon
Postponed from January because the Coast was soaking miserably then, sheeting rain was happily ignored when Booin Gari took place on 19 April in Tewantin.
I made no head count but it looked to me and happy United Synergies organiser, Karen Philips, that attendance by hundreds at the fourth of these annual four-hour celebrations of Aboriginal culture and presence here was as strong as ever – people kept “pouring in”, to borrow her pun.
It rained on our parade, though, as we presented Tribal Voice live from the first two hours of the event. New equipment to facilitate our outside broadcasting kept losing the link to the station, making us sound patchy, to put it mildly. Apologies if it spoilt your listening.For a flyer of what was on offer, click here.

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Karen Phillips

“Success building success”

Karen Philips explained how a student on placement with
United Synergies argued for the multi-layered social support organisation to engage more with Coast Indigenous people, resulting in Booin Gari.
Runs 3’31”

“Knocking down barriers to access good job training”

A job with United Synergies after two days of volunteering with them kicked off a social work career for Gerard Broersen, who now organises upskilling for north Queensland Indigenous community workers in a variety of state-government funded social support services . Gerard used to present an Indigenous program, Solid Ground, from our station.
Runs 6’09”

“Strong needs around dementia”

Suicides have been a big issue in the last few months in the Mount Isa region. In situations like that, Gerard says, a whole-of-community approach needs to be taken to upskilling.
Runs 6’49”
 

Bureaucracy gone mad

At this point I have to rant at state government bureaucracy gone mad. If there was one lesser presence than at previous Booin Gari’s, it was government support services explaining what they do. I wanted to talk to the two or three stallholders that did come, only to be reluctantly and sheepishly told they weren’t allowed to talk without clearing everything with the media handlers at head office. Now, how ridiculous is that! You have willing people presenting at the event, but you won’t let them widen their reach by talking to the radio station serving the community they’re targeting? From past Booin Gari’s we were able to give great publicity to available supports by talking with keen representatives of Department Whatever and as far as we know, no harm was done to anyone. Anna Bligh tyranny and cultish secrecy trickling down (my opinion, not necessarily that of Noosa Community Radio.)

“Successful through peer volunteers”

One person willing to talk was Anne Fisher of Queensland Injectors Health Network.
People who’ve “been there, done that” work in the communities, teaching users of illicit drugs to minimise the harm they do.
Runs 1’39”

“Bush food is really the future for a healthy Australia”

Competing with the smell of the rain and mud was the delicious fragrance of meat on the barbie wafting through the area. Some of it was kangaroo, offered by chef Dale Chapman, who runs a bush tucker business from Cooroy and Traveston. She’s taught French chefs and told me that non-Indigenous people are embracing bush tucker.
Runs 6’11”

Our technical hiccups lost the details of the bush tucker teaching Dale was just talking about. It’s a six-week course for Indigenous people called “Backyard Bites”, starting in Bli Bli on the 15th of May.

“Every closed door plants the seed for the next opportunity”

Kids don’t seem to mind rain, love mud anyway and are so easy to enthuse when there’s a lot of high-energy stuff put on for them, as there always is at Booin Gari, which prides itself as a family event. Quiet absorption, though, utmost concentration and wonderment on the faces of about a dozen girls, the youngest about two (no boys when I called around), painting their stories message-stick-style on bits of bamboo, guided by Pomona based Indigenous painter, Jandamarra Cadd.
He didn’t win the Archibald Prize he’d competed for, but is getting inquiries about prints of his oil and Red Centre sand portrait of Uluru custodian, Bob Randall.
Runs 2’31”

Hear a previous interview with Jandamarra by clicking here, then scroll down.

“Even as a young child I used to paint a lot of Aboriginal art”

Imbil-based Paula Wootton is one of many Indigenous business people harmed by fake overseas replicas of Aboriginal art work.
Runs 2’41”

“Meeting so many people, it’s hard to do my job”

Usually Bianca Bond co-hosts Tribal Voice. On the day she was Booin Gari master of ceremonies.
Runs 2’21”

Gubbi Gubbi Dancers tell the story

It’s almost taken as read here on the Coast that any Indigenous event will involve the Gubbi Gubbi Dancers. Lyndon Davis and three of his troupe performed several times on the day, Lyndon telling the story that belongs with every song. Some of you may know that huge schools of mullet swarm into the North Shore of the Noosa River once a year and the beach there fills with the four-wheel drives of net-fishermen out to harvest them.
The Gubbi Gubbi have a song and dance about that event which features the sea eagle. The bird must not be hunted because it leads the fish into the area to spawn.
Sorry about the quality of the recording, made by holding my mobile to a speaker box – just to catch some of the atmosphere.
Runs 2’08”

Judging by grim determination in the face of our outside broadcasting technician, Harry Miller, he’s going to lick the problems with our new equipment. I’ve yet to see him fail a challenge. Thanks for hanging in there, mate.
Thanks, too, to Tribal Voice producer, Mark Rodriquez, having to do a frantic dance at the control panel in the station to keep us on air one way or another.
And thanks, too, to Rob Reybroek (DJ Riding Pants) and Lawrance Chadwick (Celtic Connection) for being there to lend a hand.
You can reach Tribal Voice by emailing tribalvoice@noosacommunityradio.org or leaving a message with our receptionists from 9 to 5 on 5447 2233.