Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
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Colour run fun By Dongyun Kwon Healesville Primary School students were covered by different colours while running through obstacles on Thursday 6 March. The Colour Fun Run was held to celebrate the success of the fundraising efforts of the school community. A few weeks prior to the event, three students, Macey, Sienna, and Penny, walked along the town’s main street and knocked on the doors of the businesses to ask for donations for their school. Grade 6 student Macey tried to hand over her skills of communication, which she had learnt from the experience over the past few years, to the other two Grade 5 students as she is going to leave the school at the end of the year and wishes to pass the good legacy down to the next generation. “My joy for helping out made me passionate about participating in the fundraisers for the school community,” Macey said. “If there was any way in the community that I could help, I’d just love to have a go.” Sienna and Penny said they learnt public speaking skills while following Macey. The two Grade 5 students also promised Macey to continue the fundraiser with younger students next year. Turn to page 11 to read the full article
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Confusion reigns By Dongyun Kwon Yarra Ranges Council received a permit application for buildings and works at Oonah Belonging Place at Queens Park, 1 to 1A Badger Creek Road, Healesville and confirmed the Healesville Living and Learning Centre is not closing and is not included in this planning permit. Despite Yarra Ranges Council’s explanation, some Healesville community members felt left in the dark due to the lack of communication.
According to the council’s Advocacy Agenda 2022 report, Oonah requested a $10-15 million investment, shared by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments to construct the Belonging Place and realise its potential to enhance Aboriginal health and wellbeing across Melbourne’s east. A Belonging Place operating under the Aboriginal community control of Oonah is a self-determinative response to meeting the health and wellbeing needs of Indigenous communities in
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Melbourne’s east. Oonah chief executive officer Amanda Hand said Oonah welcomed the Yarra Ranges Council’s support for the important new centre which responds to the needs of the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community. “It will allow Oonah Health and Community Services Aboriginal Corporation to continue to operate on the site, within a much larger and refreshed community space. It will deliver a net community benefit for the area by providing inte-
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grated community services for Oonah Belonging Place on the wider site,” she said. Three Healesville residents, who were concerned with the planning permit, recognised the need for improved health services for First Nations communities to close the gap between First Nations and non-First Nations communities. However, they claimed the approach of the state and local governments would cause divide rather than unity. Turn to page 5 for more
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