Newsletter date: 25 June 2015
Contents:
* Audio Interview: CAAMA: Australia's second class citizens legislation written in stone...
[Featuring Paddy Gibson, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS]
* About CAAMA: Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association: http://caama.com.au/
* Overview: UTS Jumbunna - Research Strength
* Special Feature: Chris Graham, New Matilda: Bad Aunty: Seven Years On, How ABC Lateline Sparked The Racist NT Intervention
* Bio: Chris Graham - New Matilda: https://newmatilda.com/users/chris-graham
* About Us - New Matilda: https://newmatilda.com/about-us
* Subs Deal: New Matilda: World's Worst Pitch Of World's Most Ethical Subscription Offer!
* Upcoming Event: 26-28 June 2015: An art installation about the Yolngu people: S.O.S. Australia -restoring dignity will take place in Berlin
* Tribute: Marion Caris - Berlin, Respect and Listen: Vale Michele Harris OAM: http://www.respectandlisten.org/vale-michele-harris.html
* Compilation: Respect and Listen: The Intervention: an Anthology: http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/intervention-anthology.html
* Upcoming Events: Respect and Listen: The Intervention: an Anthology book launches
1 July 2015: National launch in Sydney: National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE)
9 July 2015: Ashfield Town Hall
4 August 2015: NT Darwin launch: Charles Darwin University
* Compilations:
Respect and Listen: 'concerned Australians': http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/concerned-australians.html
Respect and Listen: NT Intervention: http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention.html
Respect and Listen: Treaty: http://www.respectandlisten.org/treaty.html
* Background:
WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government
WGAR Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
- Audio Interview
CAAMA: Australia's second class citizens legislation written in stone...
[Featuring Paddy Gibson, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS]
http://caama.com.au/australias-second-class-citizens-legislation-written...
22 Jun 15: "Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory have been forced to live under a system of forced apartheid since the Howard Governments intervention eight years ago… according to a Sydney based researcher. Paddy Gibson, from Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney says the Intervention introduced measures that are overtly discriminatory against Aboriginal people and designed to control their lives."
- About
About CAAMA
http://caama.com.au/
"The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) began operations in 1980 and was the first Aboriginal group to be allocated a broadcasting license. The Aboriginal people of Central Australia own CAAMA through an association regulated under the Incorporations Act , and its objectives focus on the social, cultural and economic advancement of Aboriginal peoples. ... CAAMA produces media products that engenders pride in Aboriginal culture, while informing and educating the wider community of the richness and diversity of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia."
- Overview
Overview of UTS: Jumbunna - Research Strength
http://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/jumbunna/our-re...
"Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, Research Unit is unique in Australia. An Indigenous led Research Unit, we operate throughout Australia, will staff working in communities in Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales, and collaborators in all States and Territories. Operating in the domestic and international spheres, the Unit prides itself on frank and fearless research and advocacy driven by the Indigenous communities it serves.
Our Vision is to promote, support and embody the exercise and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sovereignty and Self-Determination. ... "
- Special Feature
New Matilda: Bad Aunty: Seven Years On, How ABC Lateline Sparked The Racist NT Intervention
New Matilda: https://newmatilda.com/2015/06/21/bad-aunty-seven-years-how-abc-lateline...
Red Flag: https://redflag.org.au/article/seven-years-how-abc-lateline-sparked-raci...
21 Jun 15: "A version of this story was first published in 2012, in the now defunct Tracker magazine. Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Northern Territory intervention, a government policy that has been widely condemned as racist (including by the United Nations) but which continues to this day. This story has been updated, and revised. It charts the media’s role – in particular ABC's Lateline program - in the launch of the Northern Territory intervention. A role which to this day, the ABC refuses to acknowledge, let alone apologise for. Chris Graham explains. ... " By Chris Graham, the owner and editor of New Matilda
- Bio
Chris Graham - New Matilda
https://newmatilda.com/users/chris-graham
- About
About Us - New Matilda
https://newmatilda.com/about-us
"New Matilda is independent journalism at its best. The site has been publishing intelligent coverage of Australian and international politics, media and culture since 2004. You'll find new stories on the homepage daily. ... The New Matilda news digest is the best way to keep up to date with our coverage. We publish three times a week - it lands in your inbox at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and in the evening on Sundays. ... It's free!"
- Subs Deal
New Matilda: World's Worst Pitch Of World's Most Ethical Subscription Offer!
https://newmatilda.com/2015/06/23/worlds-worst-pitch-worlds-most-ethical...
23 Jun 15: "Our last subscription offer was a disaster. So we thought re-writing it a bit and re-publishing might help. Last week, we unveiled a new subscription deal which, if we were to be honest, we considered our most genius offer yet. Readers who subscribe to New Matilda at the Keen level or above can nominate an Aboriginal business or not-for-profit, who would then receive free advertising on New Matilda. To put it frankly, the offer bombed. While we greatly appreciate the limited support we did get, it’s by some margin our worst response to a subscription deal since New Matilda changed ownership a year ago. So we thought we’d put it out there one last time… because we believe strongly in the offer.... " By New Matilda
- Upcoming Event
26-28 June 2015: An art installation about the Yolngu people: S.O.S. Australia -restoring dignity will take place in Berlin
Indymedia Australia: https://indymedia.org.au/events/26-28-june-2015-an-art-installation-abou...
Respect and Listen: http://www.respectandlisten.org/landrights/homeland-closures/berlin.html
German Indymedia: https://linksunten.indymedia.org/en/node/146175
18 Jun 15: "From the 26th till 28th of June the art installation S.O.S. Australia –restoring dignity will take place in Berlin. The installation is about Yolngu people and their struggle for land rights, self-determination and a treaty. The installation was developed in cooperation with Michele Harris from 'concerned Australians' and with the support of Yolngu people from Arnhem Land. It will be dedicated to Michele Harris. The installation is part of the popular annual Berlin art festival 48 Stunden Neukölln and is integrated in the Berlin Action Week to support the rights of Aboriginal people, which takes place from the 23rd till the 28th of June. ... "
English version of the announcement of the art installation on the website of the art festival:
http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/en/event/sos-australien-kunst-macht-mit
- Tribute
Respect and Listen: Vale Michele Harris OAM
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.org/vale-michele-harris.html
4 Jun 15: "From Berlin I send my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Michele. I never met her in person but we spoke often via mail and I became to know her as a wise and intensely committed woman who did everything to help the Berlin Aboriginal Solidarität Netzwerk and the German NGO Society for Threatened Peoples to raise attention for Aboriginal issues in Germany. She was especially supportive of an art installation about Yolngu people, that I am building with an artist friend and that will be three days on display in Berlin in June during the art festival 48 Stunden Neukölln. I am so sad that she won’t be able to see the result that will be filmed and sent to Australia. I will really miss Michele, her wisdom and her valuable feedback, but I will carry on her spirit to keep on raising awareness of Aboriginal issues in Germany." Marion Caris, Berlin, Germany
- Compilation
Respect and Listen: The Intervention: an Anthology: http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/intervention-anthology.html
- Upcoming Events
Respect and Listen: The Intervention: an Anthology book launches
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/intervention-anthology.html
1 July 2015: National launch in Sydney
National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE)
166-180 George St, Redfern NSW 2016
To be launched by Gillian Triggs, AHRC
Speakers:
Pat Anderson, eminent author of the report Little Children are Sacred,
Ali Cobber Eckermann, award winning poet from the NT,
Anita Heiss and
Rosie Scott
9 July 2015: Ashfield Town Hall
http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/naidoc-week-event-the-intervention-an-ant...
Thursday, July 9 - 6pm for 6.30pm
Ashfield Town Hall
260 Liverpool Road, #3
Ashfield, NSW 2131
In conversation with
Mick Gooda the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, AHRC
Contributor Nicole Watson, who is currently employed as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.
Editor Rosie Scott
Cash sales only of the book on the night.
Organised by the Ashfield Library
4 August 2015: NT Darwin launch
Charles Darwin University,
in the new Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Education
at Casuarina Campus.
Speakers:
Yalmay Yunupingu,
Rosie Scott
Jeff McMullen
and more TBC
- Compilations
Respect and Listen: 'concerned Australians'
http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/concerned-australians.html
Respect and Listen: NT Intervention
http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention.html
Respect and Listen: The Intervention: an Anthology
http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/intervention-anthology.html
Respect and Listen: Treaty
http://www.respectandlisten.org/treaty.html
- Background
WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/06/08/wgar-background-intervention-into-no...
(last updated: 20 June 2015)
WGAR Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/03/26/wgar-background-to-treaties-with-abo...
(last updated: 20 June 2015)
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WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
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