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YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS • AUTUMN 2019 PAGE
BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE
COMMUNITY
Work is being undertaken on our Inclusive Communities Plan
which provides an integrated, whole-of-Council approach and
commitment to strengthen inclusion and access for all.
The new Disability Inclusion Act 2018 requires us to have a
plan which needs to include strategies to support people with
disabilities in the following areas:
• Access to built environs, events and facilities
• Access to information and communications
• Addressing the specific needs of people with disability in its
programs and services
• Employment
The Plan will have reporting requirements to the State
Government on a regular basis. At the moment we are reviewing
the feedback received during our first round of consultation.
During Autumn we will be running further engagement about the
plan, and will be inviting feedback from the community about the
work we have done so far. If you would like to have access to
the next version of the plan, please contact Leanne Davis-King,
Community Services Leader on 8405 6705 or
CHURCH SCULPTURE TO PAY
RESPECTS TO KAURNA PEOPLE
With a desire to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land
their church sits on, members of the Enfield Uniting Church
called on the local community and Council’s Aboriginal
Advisory Panel.
A popular, but neglected, public walkway next to the church at
247 Main North Road was chosen to develop into an inviting
green space for passers-by that also showed the commitment to
growing living relationships between First and Second peoples in
our local area.
During early conversations and investigations by the SA Museum,
it was discovered that the site had been the intersection of major
Kaurna trading routes and could well have been a gathering place
of indigenous peoples for many generations.
Horticulture students from Tauondi Aboriginal College, led by
teacher Michelle Noronha, also became involved by selecting
suitable plants and designing the site.
Margaret Gunn from the Uniting Church said that she hoped
passers-by would notice the striking screens, particularly at night
when they are floodlit to contrast with the Main North Road
business frontages.
“Most of all, we hope people passing by will stop and think about
the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains by seeing this positive
commitment to growing relationships today,” she added.
$22,000 was funded by the Enfield Uniting Church congregation,
anonymous donors and the Uniting Foundation, and the City of
PAE provided advice, and $2,500 Community Grant for flood
lights, security, additional seating and garden features.
COMMUNITY
A City that supports
commu nity wellbeing
Ms Margaret Brodie and Dr Deirdre Palmer share the cutting of the ribbons
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