Safe Community & Family Empowerment March – Tuesday 6th September, 2016
Beagle Bay, 9am to 1:00pm
In October 2013, the Kimberley’s state parliamentary member, Gija woman, Josie Farrer, presented to her parliament the ‘Baton of Life’. The baton was symbolically handed to Josie by nine Beagle Bay families who had lost loved ones to suicide. During her presentation of the baton in parliament Ms Farrer implored her colleagues that it was crucial for the State Government to at long last invest resources into remote communities to right the inequalities, to address the racialised economic inequalities. Remote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities are denied an equivalency to the services and infrastructure enjoyed by non-Aboriginal remote communities.
During her parliamentary speech, Josie said, “The baton was carved from a special medicine tree by a Walmajarri Elder.”
The annual Baton of Life march continues to raise awareness of suicide and to make it our business to stop indigenous children living in the Kimberley from dying too young. The event will be held in Beagle Bay.
Beagle Bay 