Wednesday 30 October 2024

Stand in Solidarity with Traditional Owners

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What: Voices from the frontline of the climate crisis: an urgent call to action from the NT
When: Saturday 23 November 2024 – 2.30pm Smoking Ceremony, 3-4.30pm Panel Discussion and Q & A
Where: Coburg Town Hall, 90 Bell St, Coburg VIC 3058

Here are the incredible speakers you’ll hear from:

  • Ray Dimakarri Dixon is a Mudburra elder and musician from Marlinja, Northern Territory. He has been fighting to protect his water, Country and community from fracking for over a decade.
  • Miliwanga Wurrben is a Rembarrnga woman from Central Arnhem land, but now lives in Katherine. She describes herself as a traditional healer, weaver and midwife.
  • Joni Wilson is a Yanyuwa and Garawa Traditional Owner. She has been fighting to protect her Country alongside her family for many years.
  • Asman Rory is a Gudanji Garawa man. He is a strong voice for his community and Country and has been fighting for them for many years.
  • Mililma May is a Danggalaba Kulumbirgin Tiwi woman. She is a community organiser and freelance writer. She has supported grassroots movements across the Top End in the fight for Aboriginal self-determination and liberation.
  • Dr Louise Woodward is a Northern Territory paediatrician from Darwin who has been using her voice and expertise as a doctor to raise the alarm about the health impacts of the Middle Arm gas hub and Beetaloo fracking.

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Many of Australia’s dirtiest gas expansions are planned for the NT and big polluters are about to start digging on land and at sea.

Traditional Owners need our help to pressure the Albanese Government to block handouts for these projects and call them in for assessment under our nature laws.

MC’d by Environment Centre Northern Territory's Executive Director Kirsty Howey, this town hall will bring together local climate and nature advocacy groups from across Naarm (Melbourne).

Let’s unite as people who care deeply about protecting our wonderful, natural world. Let’s raise our voices so they’re louder than those of the big gas polluters.

Come to the urgent community forum, listen to voices from the frontline of the climate crisis in the NT, and join us in calling on the Albanese Labor Government to protect Country and climate!

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We look forward to seeing you there! For the protection of Country, water and our climate,

Buarth Gurru Garden Festival at NECCHi

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  • Native Wildflower Meadows with Katherine Horsfall | SAT 2 Nov | 10am-12pm
Come and learn about native wildflower meadows with Katherine Horsfall whose research in grasslands restoration at the University of Melbourne has lead to planting millions of native seeds to create nurturing, inspiring, biologically and culturally important grassy floral wonderlands in small urban spaces. These include threatened indigenous species.
You will also have the opportunity to sow a mini meadow. Take the mini meadow home and put it in a sunny sheltered spot and wait and watch - you never know what you’re going to get! 
  • Making Clay Birdbaths | FRI 8 NOV | 8:30am-11.30am
Come and make a small clay bird bath with artist Ria Soemardjo. Water is a great way to attract wildlife to a garden. Our birds, lizards, insects and possums can benefit from additional water sources, particularly during the hot weather. A water bowl provides the opportunity for us to observe wildlife more easily, 

FRI 15 NOVEMBER
  • Propagating Indigenous Plants | 10am-12pm
Learn how to propagate indigenous plants in the NECCHi Newlands garden with Chris from Nangak Tamboree Nursery (La Trobe University). We will look at a variety of techniques and there will be hands-on opportunities for people to participate. Nurseries that specialise in indigenous plants are currently working to capacity to meet huge demand. Propagating these plants is a great skill to have to help increase local habitat!
  • Seed Exchange & the Art of Nurturing Local Resilient Seed | 4-5pm
Seed for home gardens is free in seed libraries and at food swaps. So if you're saving seed, it's good to know how to get strong seed to offer. Seed saving is an amazing story of cultural lineage and human survival. Annie Bolitho was a founding member of the Australian Seed Savers Network, come and learn about the seven simple questions to ask when saving seed, to ensure strong seed and plants.
  • Workshop: Make Garden Onigiri and Warrigal Green Miso Soup – zero waste, vegan, gluten free, lunchbox friendly | 5-6pm
Onigiri has been used as portable food from ancient times to the present day! It is a healthy, easy to make Japanese rice ball. Originally, it was used as a way to use and store left-over rice. Come and learn how to make onigiri using local, seasonal produce with Mifumi Obata. It's zero waste, vegan, gluten free, lunchbox friendly. We will be sourcing local produce from amazing nearby urban farms including Farm Raiser and Sun Patch. 
  • Draw Plants Together: Grass Flowering | 5-7pm
Join Draw Plants Together for a friendly inclusive twilight plant drawing session celebrating the Wurundjeri season ‘Buath Garru’ (grass flowering). A fun and creative two hours, come hang out with grasses and their allies and experiment with drawing :) 
  • Free Twilight Garden Picnic with music | 5-7pm
BYO picnic food and drinks, rugs and friends! It’s Buarth Gurru (grass flowering) season – listen to the rustling of the grasses, watch them shimmer and shake as the sun sets. There will be music!

SAT 16 NOVEMBER
  • Follow the Merri Merri | 8-10am
Join NECCHI musician/artists in residence, Ria Soemardjo and Vanessa Chapple in a contemplative morning walk along Merri Creek. This collective walk is a wonderful opportunity to take time to tune into the current season of Buarth Gurru - grass flowering.
  • Family Friendly Bird Walk | 9-10:30am
Come and join a family friendly birding walk along the merri merri with champion Tawny Frogmouth spotter Arimbi Winoto from Friends of Merri Creek.
  • Gardens 4 Wildlife & Grasslands Walk | 9:30-10:30am
Walk along the creek and learn about native grassland species with Pascale Pitot – see the plants in a bushland setting and find out about how to work with them in your garden to create habitat for local birds, butterflies, lizards and other insects. Victorian grasslands are critically endangered. Learn how we can care for them and extend habitat by planting these species in our gardens. 
  • Growing community Through Seed Stewardship – Sharing Corn Culture | 9:30-10:30am
Heirloom corn (maize) has co-evolved with humans for more than 7,000 years and is probably the most famous flowering grass in the world today! However, this plant is often misunderstood. What we think of as corn today is only one small part of a long story of plants and people collaborating to thrive. First Nations communities in the USA, Mexico, Central- and South America have stewarded maize seeds and stories for thousands of years. Meg Kimber grows corn across a network of urban growing sites and communities in Naarm Melbourne. She holds corn parties with locals and those with cultural links to maize so they can feast together. Come and hear about the relationships that have grown and what Meg has learnt from maize. 
  • Wurundjeri Council Education Session & Morning Tea | 11am-12pm
Join us at East Coburg to hear from a Wurundjeri Elder. 
TICKETS
Please use the code SOLIDARITY for flexibly priced Solidarity Admission: First Nations People, People from refugee backgrounds, unwaged, concession
Please use the code CHILD for free tickets for children under 12 year old. All children must be accompanied by an adult with a ticket. 
Please email programs@necchi.org if any questions about tickets. 



Murnong Gathering

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The Murnong Gathering 2024 is on Saturday 9th of November starting from 11 am. Bring a picnic!

We will also have a working bee 10 am  to 12 noon on Tuesday Cup Day (5/11) to tidy the site (including litter collection), make signs and flags (bring paints and light materials in Koori colours) and probably a few other jobs we'll think about on the day 😊

Feel free to pass on to your networks. You can also check FB https://www.facebook.com/MECCARG/ and Insta https://www.instagram.com/merri.murnong/#







Sunday 27 October 2024

Free

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Free queen bed base

Already dismantled Ikea Malm queen bed base, used but in fine condition. 

Picture below is how they look new. 

Pick up from Preston. Anna: 0418 568 211.




Friday 25 October 2024

Free

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Hi Newlanders - Unfortunately our beloved Sun Dog (who many of you will have met over the years) has had her last swim in the creek. She has left behind a couple of large dog beds and this 15kg bag of Savourlife dry dog food which was only opened a few days ago. Also a few dog toys. 

We would prefer to give these items away to someone who might be struggling a bit to meet the needs of  their furry friend so please consider if this is you. Please text Dave on 0419 747 746.

RIP Sunny - 12/10/12 - 24/10/24.

May you finally catch whatever it was you were always chasing in your dreams XOXO






World Pasta Day

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Hi my name is Nella, together with my family we run a small fresh pasta business.

We have teamed up with the new owners of Deganis Coburg Hill, for world pasta day this Friday. 

Details are:

Celebrate World Pasta Day with Pasta Reggio.

On Friday October 25th from 3pm to 8pm at Deganis Coburg Hill, enjoy 4 delicious pasta dishes for $15.00 each, including:

• Homemade Potato Gnocchi with Napoli Sauce
• Fettuccine Carbonara
• Casarecce with 3 Greens Pesto
• Rigatoni Bolognese

Bring your friends and family for a fun, delicious evening. Mark your calendars, and we’ll see you there! 




Friday 18 October 2024

Lost Cat

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Our very hirsute and amply built cat Shadow has been missing since Monday. He has been known to jump in random cars and has been found in a few different houses on a couch, asleep on a computer keyboard and head first in another cats food bowl. He lives just north of Coburg Hill off Elizabeth street and is wearing a pale pink collar.  

If you have any info on Shadow please text us on 0438 043 166.