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Rona Tranby
Award Event 2007
- Background
Information
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The Rona Tranby Award was established in 1991. It is funded from a
bequest in the Will of Thomas Rona and administered by the Rona
Tranby Trust in collaboration with Tranby Aboriginal College and the
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.
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Thomas Rona and his wife Eva, both members of the NSW Jewish Board
of Deputies were committed to social justice and spent much of their
early life in Australia in rural NSW. Tragically, they died in a car
accident in 1987.
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Tranby College is an independent college run by the
Co-operative for Aborigines Ltd, providing a wide range of adult
educational services to Australia’s Indigenous communities.
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The NSW
Jewish Board of Deputies is the roof body of the NSW Jewish
community, including representatives from 63 cultural, educational,
welfare and religious Jewish organisations.
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- Aunty Beryl Carmichael
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Aunty Beryl Carmichael is an Elder of the Ngiyeempaa people and
Wongibauwn Language speaking group whose country sits inside the
“Home of the Emu” in Western NSW. She is grandmother to 18 and great
grandmother to 14.
Her
tribal links on both sides of marriage laws are with the Wemba Wemba,
Wiradjuri, Barkendji, Ngiyeempaa and Mullingees mobs.
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Aunty Beryl is committed to the preservation, renewal
and passing on of Aboriginal culture and language. She works in the
area of public and Aboriginal education, Reconciliation and in
teaching Aboriginal languages. She is also working with Meals on
Wheels to set up a bush tucker program at Menindee.
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Aunty Beryl is the recipient of a number of awards
including an honorary Doctorate from Tranby Aboriginal College, a
meritorious award from the NSW Department of Education and Training
for her 40 years work in education, and an ‘International Year of
Children’ award for establishing preschools in Broken Hill and
Menindee.
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Since 1983 Aunty
Beryl
has been operating Aboriginal Culture camps at
Menindee Mission on the Darling River in far western NSW where she
was born. Run under the Joining In The Dreaming Aboriginal
Corporation the purpose of these camps is, in Aunty Beryl’s
words, “renewing our culture, strength and spirit”.
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The Rona Tranby Award will enable Aunty Beryl to collaborate with
the writer and teacher Jennie Kerr in completing the oral history
recordings of her life story. She is planning to produce a book
based on these recordings, ‘The Footsteps of a Ngiyeempaa Elder’.
The documentation of Aunty Beryl’s story will reveal a fascinating
part of Australia’s culture and history. It is a narrative which
will inspire and educate.
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