Welcome
RIG Network is a national, cross-sectoral networking, research and outreach initiative. We link people, projects and resources to support better practice and undertake projects to help build better local food production initiatives that can deliver social, health and economic benefits to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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Charles Darwin Symposium 2011
Living with Climate Change At Home, At Work, At Play
The 2011 Northern Territory Climate Change Symposium aims to build knowledge and understanding and identify the challenges and strategies that will help us to respond and adapt to climate change.
Come along for the opportunity to comment, question and critique the experts, as well as present your own perspectives on the matters at hand.
Visit the Charles Darwin Symposium 2011 website for more details and to register: http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdss2011/index.html
This event is FREE to attend but you must register!
Reminder
The Indigenous Economic Development Forum, NT, is on next week in Darwin, 13-14th October.
COORECTION! Correct link is http://www.dhlgrs.nt.gov.au/iedforum
Or contact event coordinators, Agentur, for further information: iedforum@agentur.com.au ph: 08 8981 2010
Great new Health & Nutrition education resources available online
The Jimmy Little Foundation ThumbsUp! Good Tucker, Long Life! program, in conjunction with the Northern Territory Department of Education have developed and launched a great new series of educational resources for primary school teachers to assist them with health and nutrition education. Launched on August 15, the suite of resources is available online – and promises to be really useful for anyone involved in health and nutrition education for kids (and grown ups!).
To access the resources you need to register online. Go to:
Visit the Useful Resources section, see DAA NT/RIG Gardens workshop, to download handout of Useful Garden Resources from the workshop.
Welcome and thanks to Community Enterprises Australia – CEA, RIG Network’s first Strategic Sponsor in 2011/12.
CEA’s generous support will help us deliver RIG Network’s core communications and networking activities – thank you CEA! To read more about the great work that CEA does, go to our Sponsors page.
The date for written submissions in response to the Issues Paper for development of the National Food Plan has been extended from August 5 to September 2 – the advertised webcast is still planned and looks set to be held on August 18, 3:30pm. If you want to participate via the webcast you need to subscribe online at the DAFF site in advance.
