Last day of the old kitchen
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Media coverage - Mt Druitt Standard: Mission Australia keep children happy at Mt Druitt
The centre is based in Ayers Grove and runs through Mission Australia. Friends of the organisation officially opened the extensions last week. Check out the photos from the opening. C4C supports parents, children and families by providing a venue for local services to offer support and programs.
These include playgroup, early learning and literacy and early development of social and communication skills.
Mission Australia service manager for C4C Angela Power said the revamped building incorporated a new play room with a connected meeting room and outdoor play area.
"This will allow us to provide things like parenting courses while the children can be looked after with onsite child care," Ms Power said.
"Parents can participate in workshops without having to worry about who will look after the kids."
Funds for the extension were made available through the State Government’s Community Building Partnership program.
Mt Druitt Labor MP Richard Amery helped mark the occasion. He was joined by Community Services Parliamentary Secretary Julie Collins, Chifley Labor MP Ed Husic and Blacktown cr Charlie Lowles.
Story and image courtesy of the Mt Druitt Standard
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FAHCSIA Media Release: Improving financial literacy in Indigenous communities
More than 17,000 Indigenous Australians living in remote communities have been supported to help manage their money through a joint Australian Government and ANZ bank initiative that is marking its five year anniversary today.MoneyBusiness has helped Indigenous families and individuals with budgeting, saving and making informed financial decisions.
It was developed in consultation with Indigenous people and designed specifically to address local financial issues in remote and regional Australia.
In most cases local Indigenous people employed by community organisations deliver the service one-on-one, in family groups or in community workshops.
In one example, a Northern Territory man had been considering a costly car loan before he attended a MoneyBusiness workshop on "making your money last until payday".
The workshop helped him set up a family budget which identified that the loan would cost him more than he could afford to repay with his current spending.
He decided not to apply for the loan and with his new family budget in place he was able to save for part of the cost of the car and subsequently take out a loan with reduced repayments.
MoneyBusiness was first piloted in 2005 in Katherine, Tennant Creek, Nguiu (Tiwi Islands) and Galiwinku (Elcho Island) in the Northern Territory, and Geraldton and Kununurra in Western Australia.
It is now delivered by more than 120 workers in 215 remote sites in the NT, WA and Queensland; 72 per cent of these workers are Indigenous.
MoneyBusiness includes nine education workshops on issues such as planning for the future, making money last until payday and tenancy agreements and makes learning enjoyable with large picture prompt cards, a board game, and DVDs.
The life size edition of the board game has been particularly successful in engaging young children in schools.
The Australian Government has invested $356,000 in the MoneyBusiness education tool over five years.
Media Release issued by Julie Collins MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Community Services, and Jenny Macklin MP, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Marine Parade, Manly
It has always been a favourite activity for visitors to Manly to make their way around from South Steyne to the secluded Shelly Beach. Prior to the 1890s this involved much clambering over rocks. However when the sewerage system was nearing completion, the Council took advantage of the works to construct a broad promenade along the route. At a meeting of Manly Council on 8 January 1891 it was decided that "The extension of South Steyne towards Fairy Bower be named the Marine Parade." The Mayor arranged for seating and a two-rail fence along the seawall.
Struck by the number of visitors who made the promenade to Shelly Beach, the Council decided at its meeting of 25 April 1899 to seek permission "to erect a toll bar on the Marine Parade to Fairy Bower and Shell Beach," the proposed charge to be one penny per head. This brainwave was never going to work, and was quietly abandoned.
Various attractions have operated at Fairy Bower over the years to capitalise on the passing pedestrians. One such was Manly Winter Gardens. This limited company was registered in November 1930 with capital of a thousand pounds. It was intended to provide a miniature golf course, dance hall, amusements and catering. The venue would feature "tropical gardens". However the timing was wrong, coming as it did during the Depression. The venture only operated for a few months, before being voluntarily wound-up in May 1931.
Later, a "refined tea room" named The Tapestry Inn operated at 8 Marine Parade in the late 1940s. It was the venue for the charter meeting of the Manly Soroptimist Club in November 1949. Manly Soroptimist Club was only the third such club to be formed in Australia, and did a lot of good work in the following years.
The photo shows Marine Parade in circa early 1920s. The Marine Cafe is visible, and Fairy Bower Beach has a good expanse of sand.
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