Cr Kathy Duff - Indigenous Affairs Portfolio Report - 19 July 2017

The Mayor and I and some of the Councillors attended the opening of the Cherbourg Palliative Care Unit organised by the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Board. We also attended the NAIDOC celebration at Cherbourg organised by the Cherbourg Council.  The Mayor and I did a spot of dancing to Muddy Flats and a video shared on Facebook has had 4700 views so far.

Our Council held our first NAIDOC celebration in the Kingaroy Forecourt in partnership with some community members. It was very pleasing to see so many people and it was particularly good to see lots of young people at the celebration. I think that it was a great success and that we should consider making it an annual event. Thanks to Cr Danita Potter and Cr Roz Frohloff for helping me to organise the day. There was lots happening during NAIDOC week and I attended 6 NAIDOC celebrations over that period which were all very well attended.