APRIL 2024 NEWSLETTER

APRIL 2024 NEWSLETTER

We are pleased to bring you the April 2024 edition of the Highways and Byways newsletter. In this issue, we are delighted to bring you updates and stories from our Small Grants Program, including the inspiring work of volunteers to regenerate land across the country,...
MOMENTS OF YARNING

MOMENTS OF YARNING

Fiona Green will always carry with her the profound image of a moment from the Mparntwe/Alice Springs section of last year’s Wellspring Care for Creation Listening Pilgrimage. She was sitting amongst a circle of people. The circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous,...
FRIENDS GRATEFUL FOR A FEW REGENERATION ‘MIRACLES’

FRIENDS GRATEFUL FOR A FEW REGENERATION ‘MIRACLES’

Carolita Fuentes says little miracles along the way have helped a small band of volunteers regenerate a 0.5 hectare patch of Greenhide Reserve Forest, near Linville in southeast Queensland. In recent years, heavy rains have washed invasive weeds away and cattle who...
KIM SERVES UP A TREAT

KIM SERVES UP A TREAT

Kim Spriggs is working desperately to sustain her culture. She wants her own people to know about their culture and she wants non-Indigenous people to appreciate her history and let go of fears and suspicions about Aboriginal people. One important step was the...
FOREST REVEALS IT’S SECRETS

FOREST REVEALS IT’S SECRETS

Standing on the ridge of the Hunter River Reserve, surrounded by beautiful spotted gums, with sandstone steps down to the river flats, it’s hard to imagine you’re in one of the last remaining strands of intact native vegetation along the lower Hunter River. And...