“In areas like this, they can’t keep the lights on,” says #CEO of #AboriginalOwned #nonprofit #OriginalPower , Karrina Nolan.
A #descendant of the #YortaYorta people, Nolan & team aim to position #Aboriginal #communities like #Borroloola at the forefront of #RenewableEnergy changes #revolutionising #power #generation in #Australia .

https://cosmosmagazine.com/news/remote-power-indigenous-comunity/

#Indigenous #SolarEnergy #NativeNews #GoodNews #NativeLeadership

https://theconversation.com/90-years-ago-yorta-yorta-leader-william-cooper-petitioned-the-king-for-aboriginal-representation-in-parliament-198396
The first campaign for a #VoicetoParliament came from #YortaYorta man William Cooper in the 1930s. Seriously this is long overdue #auspol

#BLAKLOVE rolls down the tracks!

The #Melbourne #ArtTrams have been rolling around the largest tram network in the world in 2022, with six trams featuring designs by #FirstPeoples artists.

The collected works each respond to the theme “Unapologetically Blak”.

And more than three decades later a design by acclaimed artist, painter and sculptor Lin Onus (#YortaYorta) hits the tracks for the first time since 1991—a harmonious symbol of balanced opposites: circles and diamonds, day and night, black and white cockatoos.

2022 ARTISTS :

* Lin Onus (Yorta Yorta)
* Louise Moore (Wamba)
* Patricia Mckean (Gunditjmara/Kirrae Wurrong)
* Dr Paola Balla (Wemba-Wemba/Gunditjmara)
* Tegan Murdock (Burapa)
* Darcy McConnell / Enoki (Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung)

I’ll share various web sourced pictures here… and I hope to do some #tramspotting on my return to the big smoke next week.

Here’s the #LinOnus original (first #indigenous painted #tram), from 1991.

It’s lovely :firstnations

❤️💛🖤

#melbourne #victoria #australia #yarratrams #ptv #makesmehappy