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This NAIDOC Week, Aunty Liz Thorpe is encouraging everybody to reflect on what can be done to heal. Photo: Sarah Luke THIS week is NAIDOC Week — an opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to come together, connect to culture and Country, and share with non-Indigenous Australians to help them to grow their cultural awareness, knowledge and skills respectfully. Until Sunday, NAIDOC celebrations will be held around the country, with this year’s theme — ‘Heal Country!’ — providing the basis for NAIDOC discussion. Aunty Liz Thorpe gave a Welcome to Country at a N...

Better boating facilities are on the way for far East Gippsland, with concept design work to begin on an upgraded ramp and jetty at Cape Conran. Minister...

Return to a bush oasis, one year after the fires By Susan Murphy Normal text size Advertisement A goanna swaggers from side to side, tail swooshing left and right, his fat stomach dragging through the dirt. He isn’t frightened of us, but we keep an eye on him. Goannas are one of the native animal species that have returned to the Cape Conran Coastal Park in in East Gippsland in the wake of the devastating 2020 bushfires. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and CFA crews monitor fires and begin back burns between the towns of Orbost and Lakes Entrance in East Gipplsland.

Dismay as VicForests allows logging of unburnt forest in East Gippsland for TAFE training FriFriday 11 updated FriFriday 11 A timber training unit logging in the Colquhoun Forest in December, 2020. ( Print text only Cancel Environmentalists say a logging school is operating in bushfire-damaged forests in East Gippsland that should be protected. Key points: Minister Jaclyn Symes says only 'salvage logging' is taking place in the fire footprint Conservationists say they have documented logging in the Colquhoun State Forest Publicly-owned forest agency VicForests has allowed an unburnt coupe at ...