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Finished Shooting Parts Two & Three of "Low Tide Turning"

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Submitted by parrabat on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 20:05

ABC 7:30 Report: Karabing

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Submitted by parrabat on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 09:25

ABC came to Twofella Creek to interview members about their film and GPS project for the 7:30 Report.

Karrabing discuss their film with ABC Vicki Kerrigan

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Submitted by parrabat on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 23:39

Members of "Karrabing, Low Tide Turning" discuss their recent short film on ABC Drive with Vicki Kerrigan. 

Billions of Dollars of Funding Go Nowhere

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Submitted by parrabat on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 08:37

Under the Freedom of Information Act, Channel Seven News obtained a copy of a scathing executive summary of the implementation of major programs under the Intervention. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Jenny Macklin, Minister for Indigenous Affairs, would have had this report in hand by the time Gillard declared, "I believe the intervention has made a difference" during

From the Transmedia Project

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Submitted by parrabat on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 08:10

Karrabing Film Workshop

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Submitted by parrabat on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 08:13

Karrabing spent the last few weeks workshopping and shooting a film about life within the Interventon.

Heated Debates on Intervention Continue

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Submitted by parrabat on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 22:49

"Aboriginal lawyer and academic Larissa Behrendt has tweeted that Aboriginal leader Bess Price, who appeared on Q&A last Monday night, was more offensive (in her views on the Northern Territory intervention) than a show she’d seen where a man had sex with a horse. In response, the deeply sensitive souls at Murdoch press have united against Behrendt."  For more see The Drum Opinion.

New Affiliations

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Submitted by parrabat on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 07:49

Although inspired by the life, knowledge, and world of Ruby Yarrowin (pictured above, 1960s, with first six children), Karrabing is not a clan, not a language group, not a nation. It is an aspiration. In Emiyengal, "karrabing" refers to the point at which the tide has reach it lowest point. Tide out! There is will stay until it turns, making its way back to shore. Karrabing does not have the negative connotations of the English phrase, low tide. There is nothing "low" about the tide reaching karrabing. All kinds of potentialities spring forward.