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Background Briefing

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What Is BMEET

BMEET is an organisation established by Barkindji and Maraura elders in Dareton, Wentworth and Gerard to provide culturally appropriate training and employment in cultural and natural resource management of country for the young people of their communities.  It is to provide a pathway out of social welfare, crime, drugs and alcohol through meaningful and appropriate employment.

BMEET has shown that it is a contract works organisation that can deliver appropriate vocationally oriented training and employment to a highly disadvantaged community.

Our Objective - Bringing country back to life

Our Output - Appropriate people managing country appropriately and holistically

Outcome – Better managed country and a healthy community

LINKS


BMEET'S VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Apj1JYVplw

ENVIRONMENTAL WATERING VIDOE – MDWWG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNC8f3qwiWw



Fish Habitat Project
watch

Indigenous Heritage Project
watch

ABC INTERVIEW

www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/05/22/3765182.htm

SUNRAYSIA DAILY ARTICLE – SITE SPITE

http://www.sunraysiadaily.com.au/story/1596903/site-spite-ride-motorbike-riders-deliberately-desecrate-cultural-burial-areas/

What BMEET Has Done

  1. BMEET has proven itself to be able to create good role models in our community, to pass on important information about culture, heritage and the environment.  
  2. BMEET’s aim is to provide ongoing work for young Indigenous people in Cultural and Natural Resource Management (CNRM) on a range of public land in the Dareton and Wentworth areas to develop biodiversity, create corridors for wildlife, manage pest plant and animals and preserve and protect culturally significant sites.  
  3. Our work provides social and emotional well being support for young people, especially young men, in conjunction with the CNRM programs to give them a sense of their cultural identity and the value and possibility of work and employment. 
  4. BMEET wants to be funded to research and manage the high value national cultural heritage sites around Fletchers Lake that are conservatively estimated to be around the 15,000 – 20,000 years old
  5. BMEET wishes to continue to develop our partnerships with scientific and technical organisations, like the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, the Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group to develop the technical skill base of our work teams to be able to bring together Science and Tradition for a better approach to the sustainable management of land in this region – and the country
  6. BMEET has a model that trains and develops an Indigenous model of caring for country that incorporates traditional ecological knowledge and the best of the west.  It works and can be taught in other communities.



Our Model

Since its operational commencement in August 2011, BMEET has shown that;

  • It has a great model for delivering vocational training and employment to the Indigenous community that is based on;
    • putting the responsibility back on the community and the workers to deliver outcomes
    • Bringing together traditional ecological knowledge and the authority and responsibility of elders in the community with a range of scientific and technical knowledge and expertise in ecology to create a unique method for managing country
    • Being able to implement the model into a range of land management and land use systems to improve outcomes for all
    • a ‘Smart And Skilled’ approach, developing enhanced skills amongst Indigenous workers so that they can continually raise the levels of work they can do, their relevance in mainstream management and the levels of careers they can aspire to.
    • a continuing responsibility by the organization (BMEET), for the ongoing employment of its trainees.  This is because it is a community organization, headed by community elders and employing principally Aboriginal people in management, administration and work crews.  You cannot divorce training from employment or people are given false hopes and expectations that lead to heightened sense of frustration and abandonment when 
Using this model developed over the last two years, BMEET have created a crew of workers that want to work and will do whatever it takes in terms of attendance, punctuality, training and interest to achieve their goals of taking on sustainable employment.

There have been significant positive benefits of this small group to the whole community as role models, particularly for younger people in the community, to see that there is a possibility for a positive future.  This has had a major positive effect in the community in terms of reduction of anti-social behavior and more importantly giving a future for the young, especially those still in school.






BMEET Projects 2011 – 2014

Project                                            Date                                            Agency
Training Certificate 2                August 2011 - February               DEEWR
Agriculture                                 2012


Australian Inland                      April 2012 - November                 Murray Darling
Botanical Gardens                   2012                                                   CMA


Training Certificate 3               March 2012 - November               DEEWR
Agriculture                                2012


Elders Housing                         February 2012 - July                      Murdi Paaki
Maintenance                            2012                                                  Housing
 
Namatjira Avenue                   November 2012                           GWAHS
Housing Cleanup


Bone seed Weed                     May 2012                                      Wentworth Shire
Cleanup                                                                                           Council


Fletchers Lake                          July 2012 - July 2013                       Caring For Our
Tradition - Meets                                                                           Country Open Call
Science


Fletchers Lake                         May 2013                                      Murray CMA 
Fencing


Namatjiri Avenue                   May 2013                                       Murray CMA
Reserve Landscaping
And Hothouse


Fletchers Lake - Pest              July 2013 - September                National Landcare
& Animal Control                                                                          Grants


Business Support &               July 2013 - September                DEEWR
Enterprise Development      2013


Mine Site                                 August 2013                                  Crystal Mining
Revegetation


Social & Emotional Well       October 2013 - December          Coomealla Health
Being Camps For Men &      2013                                                Aboriginal Corporation
Woman


Track Repair &                       August 2013 - October                Friends Of Kings
Maintenance                         2013                                                Billabong


Pest Plant & Animal             August 2013 - March                    Murray CMA
Management at                    2014
Fletchers Lake


Horticultural Training          March 2014 - May 2014               Murray CMA
Project 


Fletchers Lake Reserve       December 2013 - June                  Department Of Prime
Indigenous Ranger              2014                                                 Minister And Cabinet
Program - Working on

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