Visit Warrnambool Street Art Website

As part of the Ngatanwarr Welcome Mural project you can now visit www.warrnamboolstreetart.com/ngatanwarr-welcome-mural to read about the project, Adnate the artist and link to Gunditjmara significant info/sites including:

• The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story
• Eumerella Wars
• Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve
• Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve & Worn Gundidj Visitor Centre
• Moyjil Aboriginal Place (Point Ritchie)
• Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape
• Lake Condah Indigenous Protected Area
• Tyrendarra Indigenous Protected Area
• Deen Maar Indigenous Protected Area

The project has been led by a steering group consisting of Leadership Great South Coast, Warrnambool Art Gallery, the F Project, Gunditjmara Aboriginal Cooperative and South West TAFE.

Strategy Program Day

Look to the future, contribute to society and “think big” were the challenges posed by our Strategy Program Day presenters.

Karen Foster, Great South Coast Group Executive Officer provided an overview of the Great South Coast Strategic Plan and challenged participants to become involved by putting forward ideas and actively participating in implementing the plan. The plan sets out strategic goals to attain economic growth, improve connections, sustain natural assets, strengthen communities and increase collaboration across the Great South Coast.

Bruce Anson from Great South Coast Group and Regional Development Australia encouraged participants to “think big” using the illustration of Tullamarine Airport being built in an era where few planes were flying resulting in a major international freight and passenger terminal, a true strategic vision at the time.

Martin Ellul from Regional Development Victoria similarly provided a local example of how the Committee for Portland in collaboration with Great South Coast Group successfully lobbied to establish infrastructure allowing cruise ships to berth at the Port of Portland, providing a huge injection into the local economy.

Mike McAllum, Futures Architect from Global Foresight Network, left heads spinning when he challenged structures and strategies of the past and present stating that we have undergone a network revolution as monumental as the agricultural and industrial revolutions which makes current business models and planning completely outdated.

In essence Mr McAllum challenged participants not just to think outside the box but to get rid of the box! With technology progressing at such a rapid pace in the last decade it’s time for vision, for recognising information gathering is no longer where the power lies it is with sharing of information and thus a move from competition to collaboration is needed.

It will be interesting to see how the leadership program participants respond to these challenges and the impact this has on community project ideas coming forward for 2015.

Thanks to our Program Day sponsor, Warrnambool City Council the Lighthouse Theatre staff.

Ngatanwarr ‘Welcome’ Mural – Preserve Past, Embrace Tomorrow

Launch 20 March Cnr Merri and Kepler Streets Warrnambool @ 5pm – Join us

Congratulations 2014 LGSC Project Team Paul Lougheed, Marcus Clarke, Allan Miller and Carolyn Woods and Project Steering Committee, including Gunditjmara, F Project and WAG for contributing to the artistic landscape in Warrnambool.

Artist www.adnate.com.au See our Gallery Page for progress images

Ethics 2015

Showing true leadership when the going gets tough

The 2015 program participants were challenged to explore business ethics on their first Program day held in the Terang Co-op Board Room. We collectively considered the question ‘To do or not to do’ and debated the blurred lines of ethics.

Simon Illingworth shared his Victorian Police Force story and his role in exposing corruption which led to his appearance on Australian Story in 2004.  It was a harrowing journey about listening to your internal sense of right and wrong and having the courage to ‘put your foot in the arena and stand up’.  Simon’s presentation was inspiring and filled with key messages about good leadership, trust, persistence and courage.

Using the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire as a case study Sharon Linke, County Fire Authority,  took the team through the ethical challenges of making sure accurate emergency information gets to the people who need it most, at the right time and in the best way.  This included understanding your audience and delivering messages in a format that can be understood.

The Program Day was linked together by Professor Greg Wood, Deakin University, who prodded the participants to think hard about ‘what would you do?’ when faced with ethical business and personal decisions.  He led the group in comparing their own differences and how experiences, culture and gender can alter an individual’s ethical stance on issues.

A great learning day was had by all.

Thanks to the Terang Co-op for their ongoing support of LGSC.

Claire Holt