IWC is proud to host the 2nd National NDIS Conference: Doing It The First People Way in Cairns from October 23-25. The conference is designed to provide organisations, service managers and front line workers in the disability sector the opportunity to network, discuss and share information in regards to the successes and challenges they have experienced in the rollout and the implementation of one of Australia’s largest social policy reforms, the National Disability Insurance

“I FEEL like I’m a completely new person. I have so much energy and zest for life that sometimes I feel like I just want to run – I feel like Forrest Gump. What’s happening for me on the inside of my body is almost like a miracle.” These are the words of Grant Appo, a Bundjalung Minjungbal man from Tweed Heads now living in Bundaberg, after learning he had reversed his type 2 diabetes. “Exercise, good diet, connecting back into spirituality, the land, the sea - all these thin

A TEAM from Burnett State College in Gayndah has emerged triumphant from the 2019 South East Queensland Schools Constitutional Convention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students. Dayne Dakin Mi-Mi, Sara Mealand, Kaiden Ratcliff and Sophie Shadford went to Brisbane on 11 September, accompanied by teacher aide Kathy Ratcliff and with the sponsorship support of local health and wellbeing organisation IWC. Students from across Queensland participated in debates and ple

THE First Nation Traditional Owners of Bundaberg region were honoured by the Veteran Car Club of Australia (VCCA) at the official opening of the National Veteran Vehicle Rally at Bargara Cultural Centre on Monday 17 September. Traditional Owner / Elder Aunty Cheri Yingaa Yavu-Kama-Harathunian delivered a Welcome to Country to the large crowd, many of whom were dressed to suit their historic vehicles. Aunty Cheri told the crowd: “Art is generally static, but these vehicles are