Articles:

Volume 5, Number 16 • Aboriginal Australia

Volume 5, Number 15 • NACoA/White Bison Run for the Children

Volume 5, Number 14 • Forgiving the Unforgivable

Volume 5, Number 13 • AUTHOR ANONYMOUS! Recovery Stories From You, the Reader

Volume 5, Number 12 • Wellbriety/Recovery Month September, 2004 is Underway!

Volume 5, Number 11 • Plans for Wellbriety/Recovery Month, September, 2004—Lookin’ Good!

Aboriginal Australia
Sobriety, Addictions Recovery, Prevention, and Wellness
On the Island Continent

The Aboriginal Flag (by Harold Thomas) ~ Yellow is the Sun, Black is the People and Red is the Earth	Torres Strait Islander Flag (by Bernard Namok) representing the people and their island homes

	In this issue of Wellbriety! we are honored to share two communications from Aboriginal people in Australia and begin exploring what’s happening in indigenous sobriety and healing on the island continent. The Wellbriety Movement International is taking shape.

Indigenous Australia

OOur Aboriginal brothers and sisters in Australia experience some of the same sobriety, recovery and wellness issues as do Native People in Turtle Island. Many Aboriginal Australians are working hard to get clear of alcohol and other drug use, as well as family violence. They are also working towards education, just as Indigenous people are here. Aboriginal Australian children were forced into “homes,” most never to see their families again or even know who their parents were. These are the Stolen Generations. The closest words we have to this is “boarding or residential schools.” Have you seen the film The Rabbit Proof Fence, which is all about the Australian Stolen Generations?

 

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