Toast Power Aboriginal programs - Why 'Community'? PCL Explained

[RussellEbertHandball]

Paul Vandenbergh the club's Aboriginal programs manager, and a former player with the Koonibba Football Club and Canberra Cannons NBL team has written an article about his old footy club Koonibba over on the far west coast near Ceduna.

I linked a 2006 7.30 SA Report about Koonibba, Gavin Waganeen and his great grandpa Dick Davey who was a early player for Kooniba and a member of their 1910 premiership side on the previous page of this thread at https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...ty-pcl-explained.1072855/page-2#post-39249142

They are looking for donations so they can build lights $50k and also get irrigation to the ground $150k from Cenduna's recycled water plant. Paul's sister is Shelly Ware who is one of the co-hosts of the Marngrook footy show. She also went out with Nathan Buckley in the earlier naughties. From her blog she explains the recycled irrigation water issue.
http://www.shelleyware.com.au/new-blog/2016/8/14/koonibba-football-club
"Their biggest hurdle is supplying water to the oval as the cost is the huge issue. They would love to install a sub soil irrigation watering system to reduce these costs. By fitting this system they will be able to access recycled water at a cost of $0.25c per Kilolitre which is a fraction of the $3.29 per KL the currently pay for mains water. Their average consumption is around 9,000 to 10,000 KL equating to a cost of $30,000. The costs are so high they can only keep the oval green for 6 months of the year. Other clubs pay $2,500 a year and have a green oval all year round for other sports to use.....

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-06/help-us-light-up-koonibba

The Koonibba footy club needs water and lights.

Right now, the Roosters can only train for 30 minutes before the sun goes down, and by the time summer rolls around, the green grass we expect on a footy field is nowhere to be seen. Koonibba is the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in Australia – 110 years old this year. It is a club that has produced many footballers. It’s an important club in our traditional Eyre Peninsula zone.

AFL players like Gavin Wanganeen, Peter and Shaun Burgoyne, Eddie Betts, Aaron and Alwyn Davey, Graham Johncock all have fathers or grandfathers who played for the Roosters.

The Power’s Aboriginal Programs team often visit Koonibba and the far west coast to deliver our WillPOWER program in primary schools and the nearby Ceduna Area School is a participant in our Aboriginal Power Cup. In Koonibba, the three most important things are family, culture and footy, but unfortunately one of these – the footy – is at risk of falling over.
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The Roosters are working hard to raise over $150,000 to fund reductions in the operation costs for the oval’s irrigation and installing lights. It’s an important investment in one of our most remote, but important football clubs.

My sister Shelley Ware – a prominent national media personality – has written a really insightful blog about Koonibba here.

This club means so much to so many people, and not just for footy – but for the netballers who keep sport running all year round, the basketballers and tennis players who get involved throughout the week as well.

It’s a precinct that inspired blokes like Patty Mills to reach for the top of world basketball as an NBA Champion. Many successful Aboriginal people like models Sedale Miller and Katarina Keeler, the Coloured Stones and senior government leaders like April Lawrie-Smith and Kerry Colbung all came from this area........... We’re not expecting Port supporters to fund all of this, but anything you’re willing to contribute is really important for the survival of this important cultural institution.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-06/help-us-light-up-koonibba

 

[simmo_bc]

Paul Vandenbergh the club's Aboriginal programs manager, and a former player with the Koonibba Football Club and Canberra Cannons NBL team has written an article about his old footy club Koonibba over on the far west coast near Ceduna.

I linked a 2006 7.30 SA Report about Koonibba, Gavin Waganeen and his great grandpa Dick Davey who was a early player for Kooniba and a member of their 1910 premiership side on the previous page of this thread at https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...ty-pcl-explained.1072855/page-2#post-39249142

They are looking for donations so they can build lights $50k and also get irrigation to the ground $150k from Cenduna's recycled water plant. Paul's sister is Shelly Ware who is one of the co-hosts of the Marngrook footy show. She also went out with Nathan Buckley in the earlier naughties. From her blog she explains the recycled irrigation water issue.
http://www.shelleyware.com.au/new-blog/2016/8/14/koonibba-football-club
"Their biggest hurdle is supplying water to the oval as the cost is the huge issue. They would love to install a sub soil irrigation watering system to reduce these costs. By fitting this system they will be able to access recycled water at a cost of $0.25c per Kilolitre which is a fraction of the $3.29 per KL the currently pay for mains water. Their average consumption is around 9,000 to 10,000 KL equating to a cost of $30,000. The costs are so high they can only keep the oval green for 6 months of the year. Other clubs pay $2,500 a year and have a green oval all year round for other sports to use.....

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-06/help-us-light-up-koonibba

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-06/help-us-light-up-koonibba

A great cause, please donate if you have a few spare $

 

[DaTBird187]

Donated.

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/video/2016-05-25/ptv-adelaide-oval-cultural-dance

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/video/2016-05-25/ptv-archie-roach-performs-took-the-children-away

Was a great day. I hope it continues in the future. I've thought it would be good to get Indigenous Round at home, but there's no real need when we put on awesome days like this.

 

[Lagooner]

Paul Vandenbergh the club's Aboriginal programs manager, and a former player with the Koonibba Football Club and Canberra Cannons NBL team has written an article about his old footy club Koonibba over on the far west coast near Ceduna.

I linked a 2006 7.30 SA Report about Koonibba, Gavin Waganeen and his great grandpa Dick Davey who was a early player for Kooniba and a member of their 1910 premiership side on the previous page of this thread at https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...ty-pcl-explained.1072855/page-2#post-39249142

They are looking for donations so they can build lights $50k and also get irrigation to the ground $150k from Cenduna's recycled water plant. Paul's sister is Shelly Ware who is one of the co-hosts of the Marngrook footy show. She also went out with Nathan Buckley in the earlier naughties. From her blog she explains the recycled irrigation water issue.
http://www.shelleyware.com.au/new-blog/2016/8/14/koonibba-football-club
"Their biggest hurdle is supplying water to the oval as the cost is the huge issue. They would love to install a sub soil irrigation watering system to reduce these costs. By fitting this system they will be able to access recycled water at a cost of $0.25c per Kilolitre which is a fraction of the $3.29 per KL the currently pay for mains water. Their average consumption is around 9,000 to 10,000 KL equating to a cost of $30,000. The costs are so high they can only keep the oval green for 6 months of the year. Other clubs pay $2,500 a year and have a green oval all year round for other sports to use.....

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-06/help-us-light-up-koonibba

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-09-06/help-us-light-up-koonibba

Mods should we give this fundraising effort its own thread?

I only became aware of it this morning after I went to the club website for something else, I missed REH's post on it ITT.

It might help get a few more dollars in the kitty from posters and lurkers.

 

[Lockhart Road]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...e/news-story/8931f2c64df850879a127b561038a0ca

Port Adelaide challenges AFL and clubs to do more than “celebrate” indigenous culture

The Port Adelaide Football Club manages four community Aboriginal programs throughout the year. The Aboriginal Power Cup is the longest-running program linking education and sport in Australia.

It began with six schools and 126 students in 2008 and on Tuesday will open with 52 schools and 430 students. In the past four years, more than 90 per cent of the participants complete their secondary school studies.

Supported by Santos since its start, the Aboriginal Power Cup delivers an incentive for indigenous youth to stay in school. Students must have at least an 80 per cent attendance rate at school to qualify to play in the football carnival that ends with the grand final as the curtain-raiser to the Port Adelaide-Hawthorn AFL game at Adelaide Oval on Thursday evening.

Port Adelaide's Robbie Young with Rex Davidson-Smith. Picture: DEAN MARTIN
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...e/news-story/8931f2c64df850879a127b561038a0ca

I need to check if a third SAASTA (SA Aboriginal Sports Training Academy) tour of China for qualifying students is happening at the end of this year.

It was to connect with the first tour group in 2015 in Beijing when KT made his first trip to China. At a reception in the Australian Embassy he made moves on certain future partners ... while Andrew Hunter got things started with China Central TV (CCTV).

I do like the SAASTA kit in the pic above, showing EnergyAustralia has persisted with its support for PAFC's community programmes.

The Magpies' kit ain't bad either.

(Note on the Sherrins that OAK equalises the West End message and the fact the photo was taken by Dean Martin.)

 

[HaroldOliver]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...e/news-story/8931f2c64df850879a127b561038a0ca

Port Adelaide challenges AFL and clubs to do more than “celebrate” indigenous culture

The Port Adelaide Football Club manages four community Aboriginal programs throughout the year. The Aboriginal Power Cup is the longest-running program linking education and sport in Australia.

It began with six schools and 126 students in 2008 and on Tuesday will open with 52 schools and 430 students. In the past four years, more than 90 per cent of the participants complete their secondary school studies.

Supported by Santos since its start, the Aboriginal Power Cup delivers an incentive for indigenous youth to stay in school. Students must have at least an 80 per cent attendance rate at school to qualify to play in the football carnival that ends with the grand final as the curtain-raiser to the Port Adelaide-Hawthorn AFL game at Adelaide Oval on Thursday evening.

Port Adelaide's Robbie Young with Rex Davidson-Smith. Picture: DEAN MARTIN
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...e/news-story/8931f2c64df850879a127b561038a0ca

I need to check if a third SAASTA (SA Aboriginal Sports Training Academy) tour of China for qualifying students is happening at the end of this year.

It was to connect with the first tour group in 2015 in Beijing when KT made his first trip to China. At a reception in the Australian Embassy he made moves on certain future partners ... while Andrew Hunter got things started with China Central TV (CCTV).

I do like the SAASTA kit in the pic above, showing EnergyAustralia has persisted with its support for PAFC's community programmes.

The Magpies' kit ain't bad either.

(Note on the Sherrins that OAK equalises the West End message and the fact the photo was taken by Dean Martin.)

I too like the SAASTA kit LR - very stylish.

 

[tribey]

I too like the SAASTA kit LR - very stylish.

Especially with the stylised wings being added to the shorts.

 

[TheFVK]

Say a lot about the club that we've been quietly running these programs for years to little fanfare.

It began with six schools and 126 students in 2008 and on Tuesday will open with 52 schools and 430 students. In the past four years, more than 90 per cent of the participants complete their secondary school studies.

Great achievement

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

430 students divided by 52 teams = 8.269 players per team. Are they playing AFL 9's??

 

[Us against the rest]

So much hard work going on behind the scenes at our club, well done Port Adelaide.

 

[Steve Dore]

 

[OneGreatClub]

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Les Mundy looks pretty chuffed.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I reckon it is worth putting today's KT's CEO message email I just got and the bit about our indigenous programs in full into this thread.

..... Where Shanghai was a bold step onto the international stage, this week’s Santos Aboriginal Power Cup returns our focus to the issue of closing the gap between the living standards experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and mainstream Australia.

In 2008, when Port Adelaide first embraced the challenge articulated by Monsignor Cappo’s groundbreaking report on Aboriginal disadvantage, the average attendance rate of Aboriginal children at school was around 52%.

In partnership with Santos, which has financially and wholeheartedly supported the development of the Aboriginal Power Cup since day one, we have seen the program grow from just six participating schools in 2008 to over 50 schools and 430 students in 2017. The average attendance rate of these students this year was 95%.

Our incredible director of Aboriginal Programs Paul Vandenbergh, and his crew, in conjunction with the equally passionate SAASTA team, now oversee the longest-running Aboriginal education-sport program in the Australian sports industry. They travel 60,000 kilometers per year to deliver messages of cultural identity, language, healthy lifestyle choices and the importance of staying in school and completing a solid level of education. Our programs now extend to helping place our graduates from the Aboriginal Power Cup into work or further education.

Through the club’s networks and with the help of Anglicare, over 80 students were successfully placed into tertiary education or workplace positions in the past 12 months.

This is an extraordinary result, and I would like thank Santos, Anglicare, and every organization who has supported our Powerful Futures program this year. Quite simply, your support is changing lives.

Our work in this area must continue. The harsh reality is that we still have a long way to go as a society when it comes to bridging the gap. There is still a 10-year gap in the life expectancy between an Aboriginal person and the broader Australian community.

70% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people still die of chronic disease.

The unemployment rate of Aboriginal people is 42% in our major cities. 65% in remote communities. Our national average is 6%.

The area that is improving is that more Aboriginal kids are completing Year 12 and generally staying at school longer. Our programs are contributing a small, but not insignificant, amount to this encouraging result. With Santos and our other dedicated partners in this space, we are making progress… but there is still much to do.

So when you see all the kids running about on the Adelaide Oval tonight and performing their cultural dance for you, take a moment to think about how hard they have worked to get there. We are incredibly proud of them.
..............
And let’s give our Aboriginal Power Cup kids the thrill of their life while we’re at it – first bounce of the cup finals is at 5.15pm!

See you at the footy!
KT

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

But wait there is more

Port to lead AFL in reconcilaition
PORT ADELAIDE has launched its second Reconciliation Action Plan with a bold strategy to forge greater understanding between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-First Nations peoples in Australia.

The ‘Stretch’-stage plan will operate from June 2017 to June 2020 and is a framework for Port Adelaide to realise its vision for reconciliation.

It is endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, the independent not-for-profit organisation that promotes reconciliation by building relationships, rest and trust between the wider Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Key points of Port Adelaide’s new Reconciliation Action Plan include:

• Financial support for national and state-based initiatives around recognition and reconciliation.
• Engagement of Port Adelaide staff, players and coaches around issues of cultural awareness, recognition and reconciliation.
• Promotion of cultural awareness outside of AFL Indigenous Round matches.
• Increase recruitment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players and staff
• Expand existing programs targeting Aboriginal young people in SA.

Port Adelaide chairman David Koch said the new Reconciliation Action Plan would guide the club's approach to Aboriginal affairs.

"In this Reconciliation Action Plan, Port Adelaide will extend itself in promoting reconciliation within our club’s four walls, throughout our strong membership base, and in every touchpoint in the football, commercial and community sectors," Mr Koch said.

"We are honoured to participate in Reconciliation Australia’s Reconciliation Action Plan program and are excited about our future rolling out our ambitious plan to keep leading the Australian Football industry in promoting inclusion, respect and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities."
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2017-05-31/port-to-lead-afl-in-reconcilaition

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

And even more

Port to support new Aboriginal health checks program based on successful Queensland model
Port Adelaide has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia Ltd (AHCSA) to deliver Deadly Choices – a program that will build awareness of healthy lifestyle choices and encourage regular health checks.

‘Deadly’ is a common term used to express positivity or excellence within Aboriginal communities, and Deadly Choices is designed to help improve the excellent health choices made by Aboriginal people in South Australia.

The program is based on a successful model used in Queensland since 2009 with the Brisbane Broncos, developed by Adrian Carson and his team and staff at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health. That program led to a 1300 per cent increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people undergoing health checks.
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Port Adelaide players will support the promotion of the program and encourage participants to take part in the eight-week education program to receive their Deadly Choices footy guernsey.

As part of the program:

• Education programs will be launched in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands) in collaboration with the Nganampa Health Council in June, in support of Port Adelaide’s WillPOWER program.
• Curriculum will cover leadership, chronic disease, tobacco cessation, nutrition, physical activity, harmful substances, healthy relationships, access and health checks.
• Health checks will be provided in the first stage of Deadly Choices by AHCSA-aligned members, which already provided comprehensive primary health care in SA.
• Long-term partnerships with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) are being explored to established metropolitan clinics to provide health check services.

Port Adelaide chief executive officer Keith Thomas said the decision to partner with AHCSA is a continuation of Port Adelaide's commitment to helping forge tangible outcomes for Aboriginal communities in South Australia..........
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2017-06-01/port-supports-new-aboriginal-health-check-program

 

[Doctor Feel]

I wonder how much Adam Goodes has to do with this strategy? Back in march:

Port Adelaide joins Adam Goodes's Indigenous Defence Consortium

PORT ADELAIDE and Adam Goodes's Indigenous Defence Consortium will work together to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned and operated businesses in tendering for defence and other related industry contracts and sub-contracts.

The memorandum will work to realise Port Adelaide and IDC’s shared ambition of developing a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and people with the skills and qualifications to benefit from the growth of defence and related industries.

Port Adelaide will pursue its share of the memorandum through its long-established community programs working with Aboriginal children in South Australian middle and senior schools, and its partnerships with the Australian Defence Forces.

Among commitments made in the memorandum, Port Adelaide will:

• Assist in forming pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth towards careers in defence-related industries.
• Develop pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses to engage and supply in the defence sector.
• Seek out business and sponsorship opportunities to benefit Port Adelaide and the IDC.
• Provide opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses to engage with industry leadership, educational institutions and state and federal governments.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2017-03-24/goodes-stuff-port-signs-mou

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Thought I would put in here the Uluru Statement From the Heart that was issued last Friday 26th at the National Constitutional Convention, given the club is backing it and the Reconciliation Council both in a philosophical sense in a practical way thru all the community programs. Its worth a read

https://www.referendumcouncil.org.a.../2017-05/Uluru_Statement_From_The_Heart_0.PDF

Uluru Statement From the Heart

We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from 'time immemorial', and according to science more than 60,000 years ago.

This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or 'mother nature', and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link Is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.

How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?

With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia's nationhood.

Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.

These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.

We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.

We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.

Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.

We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.

In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.

https://www.referendumcouncil.org.a.../2017-05/Uluru_Statement_From_The_Heart_0.PDF

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I wonder how much Adam Goodes has to do with this strategy? Back in march:

Port Adelaide joins Adam Goodes's Indigenous Defence Consortium

PORT ADELAIDE and Adam Goodes's Indigenous Defence Consortium will work together to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned and operated businesses in tendering for defence and other related industry contracts and sub-contracts.

The memorandum will work to realise Port Adelaide and IDC’s shared ambition of developing a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and people with the skills and qualifications to benefit from the growth of defence and related industries.

Port Adelaide will pursue its share of the memorandum through its long-established community programs working with Aboriginal children in South Australian middle and senior schools, and its partnerships with the Australian Defence Forces.

Among commitments made in the memorandum, Port Adelaide will:

• Assist in forming pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth towards careers in defence-related industries.
• Develop pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses to engage and supply in the defence sector.
• Seek out business and sponsorship opportunities to benefit Port Adelaide and the IDC.
• Provide opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses to engage with industry leadership, educational institutions and state and federal governments.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2017-03-24/goodes-stuff-port-signs-mou

The Goodes program ties in with the defence contractors we have worked with for years and more importantly ties in with the jobs program we launched in February 2016 called the Powerful Futures program which is for both indigenous and non indigenous kids who graduate from the Aboriginal Power Cup and the Empowering Youth programs.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/ne...r-launches-new-initiative-at-government-house

 

[Tibbs]

Port really is a very special footy club!

That's all I can say!

 

[Smithy7]

Absolutely brilliant

 

[Steve Dore]

 

[TheFVK]

Awesome to have Peter Burgoyne and Alipate Carlile still involved with the club

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Awesome to have Peter Burgoyne and Alipate Carlile still involved with the club

Bobby works for the club as multicultural officers linking in with the multicultural program/academy. Think it was part of his settlement for retiring at end of 2016 but having a contract for 2017.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Missed the Hawks game as I was in Qld but looks like the pre game was spectacular