← Palm Island Community Company
Bwgcolman Healing Service
service
Primary care + cultural healing. 17,488 episodes of care FY23-24. 2,283 clients · 1,935 First Nations.
Bwgcolman Healing Centre, Palm Island, QLD 4816
The voices behind this service
3 storytellers carrying the work
Themes the storytellers carry
Pooled from their interviews, only from analyses that passed anti-fabrication grading
- Community Resilience ×5
- Cultural Identity ×3
- Community Governance ×2
- Healing And Trauma ×2
- Education Access ×2
- Cultural Protocols ×1
- Data Sovereignty ×1
- Self Determination ×1
- Colonization Impacts ×1
- Kinship Systems ×1
In their own words
Verbatim, sourced, no fabrications
“Bwgcolman Healing Service”
The new name for the Primary Health Centre after extensive community consultation
“extensive consultation with the Palm Island community and the Elders' Advisory Group”
Process undertaken before the name change was implemented
“Mum's never known her history”
Describing how her mother, a member of the Stolen Generation, never knew her roots and passed away at 52
“She didn't want us to be lonely like she did”
Explaining her mother's motivation for having ten children
“We should have been consulted”
Elders expressing their frustration at being excluded from disaster preparedness and emergency planning decisions despite possessing generations of knowledge about surviving disasters on Palm Island
“I was in my house when it happened”
Craig explaining his location during the flood event