GWS Ngaliya

17/05/2026

🧡💛🫧 Merana Playgroup 🫧💛🧡

Merana provides a supported playgroup for
Aboriginal children and their parent's/carer's and all family members.

Everyone is welcome to come along and have a fun morning of activities with friends.

When & Where? ⤵️

📆 Monday 11th May 2026
⏰ NEW TIME 10am - 11am - Followed by Cheeky Monkeyz from 11-11:30am. Registration for Cheeky Monkeyz today!!
📍Merana; 2/20 West Market Street, Richmond

• Every Monday throughout school terms
• For ages 0-5
• Morning tea is provided

Activities include ⤵️

• Games 🎲🎾
• Arts & Crafts 🎨🫟
• Music 🎼🥁
• Outdoor Play ⚽️🪁
• Playing with Friends 👶🏼👧🏽👦🏾

For more information, please contact Merana on ⤵️

☎️ (02) 4588 5144
📧 [email protected]

16/05/2026

Join us for our Stolen Generations Picnic on Saturday, 11 July 2026 from 10:00am–2:00pm at the Murama Healing Space and Dance Ground, River Walk, Sydney Olympic Park.

The day will be filled with culture, yarns, reflection and unity as we honour the strength and resilience of Survivors and celebrate the importance of community, connection to Country and keeping culture strong for future generations.

Bring along a picnic rug and chairs and enjoy a meaningful day surrounded by community.

We look forward to sharing this day with you all 🖤💛❤️

16/05/2026

14/05/2026

☀️When you join HIPPY Emerton, your child will receive a HIPPY box filled with everything you and your child would need to complete the learning packs at home.

Extras include a bucket hat & bag, as well as more resources added throughout the program to support you and your child's learning journey at home. ☀️

13/05/2026

Big thanks from the GWS Ngaliya Project Team to our deadly partners, stakeholders, and community members who helped shape the GWS Ngaliya Community Development Plan. 🖤💛❤️

Your voices, ideas, and feedback are what make this plan strong and community-led. We’re proud to walk together toward positive outcomes for our mob, families, and future generations.

This plan reflects the power of partnership, culture, and community spirit, and we couldn’t have done it without you all✨

Link-Up NSW
Merana Aboriginal Community Association for the Hawkesbury INC
Aboriginal Employment Strategy - Greater Western Sydney
Butucarbin Aboriginal Corp
Marrin Weejali Aboriginal Coorporation
Goodradigbee Cultural & Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
NGROO Education Aboriginal Corporation
Greater Western Aboriginal Health Service
Yarning Crescent
NSW CAPO
Coalition of Peaks

13/05/2026

Some good news from the Healing Foundation :)

Changes reflected in the Federal 2026 budget to make Stolen Generations redress payments exempt from means testing for residential aged care removes undeniable discrimination for survivors.

Payments made under Stolen Generations redress schemes to survivors – including those currently open in Victoria, WA, and the Territories, ACT & NT – were not originally made exempt from being means tested as an asset for residential aged care.

This meant the payments were counted against how much recipients would be required to pay for residential aged care. This directly contradicted government’s decision to exempt National Redress Scheme payments early last year, a move The Healing Foundation has called clear discrimination.

The Healing Foundation had repeatedly warned without the exemption, survivors faced the prospect of being financially penalised in later life for compensation they waited decades to receive. Redress payments were intended to acknowledge profound harm, not fund essential care.

The Healing Foundation Chair Professor Steve Larkin said the government’s move to exempt redress payments made to survivors signaled accountability for policy decisions.

“The Australian Government has recognised that subjecting state and territory Stolen Generations redress payments to aged care means testing while exempting National Redress Scheme payments was a clear issue of injustice,” Professor Steve Larkin said.

“We welcome the government’s decision to treat all redress payments equally. This is the right thing to do.

“These changes represent a real sense of relief for survivors, removing one more burden among many they are forced to navigate. Abolishing a discriminatory measure like this will help ease ongoing pressure and uncertainty.”

To read our full statement head to the Healing Foundation website:

https://healingfoundation.org.au/news-events/news/posts/discriminatory-measures-acknowledged-as-federal-budget-changes-signal-a-step-closer-to-aged-care-fairness-for-survivors/

10/05/2026

The UN says systemic racial discrimination is funnelling First Nations children into the justice system and is calling for urgent action.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination committee raised serious concerns about the impact of racist policing, harsh “Adult Crime Adult Time” laws, solitary confinement in detention, and children being sent to prison as young as 10.

This follows a 2025 UN complaint by human rights experts Professor Megan Davis AC, and Associate Professor Hannah McGlade, supported by the Human Rights Law Centre.

This response from the UN is significant, issuing grave concerns, and strong recommendations for action.

Read more about the UN complaint at the link in bio: https://www.hrlc.org.au/reports/urgent-un-complaint/

10/05/2026

🖤💛❤️

Happy Mother’s Day to all the deadly strong, resilient women in our lives. Our Mums, Nans, our Aunties and Sista’s, and all the women who step into nurturing roles with love, strength, and care. Today we honour you and thank you for everything you give and all your sacrifices.

We want to take a moment to hold space in our thoughts for those that do not find days like today easy.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Mothers who had their children stolen, who were never given the opportunity to be mothers, to the children who grew up without the love, guidance, and connections to their Mothers. Days like today can bring deep sorrow, reflection, and longing for what they should have had, but was so wrongfully taken away. We see you, we honour your stories, and we recognise the strength it takes to carry this pain.

For the mothers and children who never got to hold each other, for the mothers and children still searching and hopeful to hold each other one day.

The Colebrook Statue stands as a powerful reminder of the pain, grief, and lifelong trauma experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Mums and families as a result of past government policies that forcibly stole children from their homes and communities. The statue reflects the devastating impacts these policies had on generations of Aboriginal families, while also acknowledging the resilience, courage, and survival of those who continued to hold onto hope through profound suffering.

May today be a time of gentle remembrance, of love that endures across distance and time, and of connection in whatever way feels right for you.

Always remembered. Always respected. Always held in our hearts 🖤💛❤️

07/05/2026