Newsletter date: 31 March 2012
Contents:
* The Lizard's Revenge over uranium mine
* Interviews re Federal Court challenge over Muckaty
* Brisbane Tent Embassy Interview
* Nyoongar Tent Embassy Interviews
* Deaths in Custody research Interview
* Other articles
* THE LIZARD'S REVENGE OVER URANIUM MINE:
- Upcoming Event
Event: Sat 14 to Fri 20 July 2012: Olympic Dam, SA
The Lizard's Revenge:
Olympic Dam expansion music/art/festival/protest
"Sleeping underneath the ground there is an old lizard,
Kalta the sleepy lizard. The lizard ain’t so sleepy anymore.
BHP is mining right into that Lizards body. The government
has just approved an expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium
mine, making it the biggest uranium mine in the world.
Kalta is angry and wants revenge.
Arabana elder Kevin Buzzacot is calling the people of the
world to help the lizard shut down the mine. He is calling
for people to come and heal the land in the name of peace
and justice for the next 10,000 generations to come."
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/the-lizards-revenge-olympic-dam-expansion-musica...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/224524544273924
Background: http://londonminingnetwork.org/2011/10/australia-approves-20-30bn-bhp-bi...
- Related Video
YouTube: Kevin Buzzacott challenges Tony Burke in Federal Court over Olympic Dam mine expansion approval
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05siosUrAZI
23 Mar 12: "Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin Buzzacott discusses his decision to challenge Australia's Commonwealth Environment Minister, Tony Burke, over his 2011 approval of the Olympic Dam mine expansion. Kevin describes (in part) his criticisms of the assessment, particularly the level of uncertainty the approval has permitted, by consistently referring to management plans and documents yet to be drafted."
- Related Request
facebook: The Lizards Revenge-Music/art Festival:
Funds urgently needed to support legal challenge of Federal Environment Ministers approval of the Olympic Dam expansion
[scroll down page] https://www.facebook.com/events/224524544273924
22 Mar 12: "Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder and honorary president of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, is challenging the approval on the grounds that various environmental impacts of the project were not properly considered as required under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (see attatched media release). This is an administrative challenge, so it does not challenge the merits of the project per se. If we succeed the Minister will be forced to re-consider the approval and show that the contested environmental impacts have been properly considered."
* INTERVIEWS RE FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE OVER MUCKATY:
- Audio Interviews
The Wire: The new waste dump about to be dumped
http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=8982
30 Mar 12: "Muckaty station in the Northern Territory will become part of the biggest legal cases Australia's ever had. Back in 2007, the federal Government accepted a nomination from the Northern Land Council that Muckaty be used as a nuclear waste dump. Since then, the traditional owners of the land have been fighting to get that nomination overturned. However, the story became much more complicated when questions arose as to who the traditional owners actually are.
Featured in story: Elizabeth O'Shea - Head of the Social Justice practice at Maurice Blackburn lawyers" Produced by Eduardo Jordan
SBS Aboriginal: Traditional Owners Continue Federal Court Challenge Over Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/aboriginal/highlight/page/id/209385/t...
29 Mar 12: "Legal proceedings against the Federal Government and the Northern Land Council continue in the Federal court after the passing of the new National Radioactive Waste Management Bill. ... Lawyers for traditional owners are continuing a Federal court challenge, alleging that that the Northern Land Council engaged in misconduct and breach of fiduciary duty because of the way the Muckaty site was nominated as a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. ... Natalie Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative tells Garfield Samuels, traditional owners weren't adequately consulted." By Michelle Lovegrove
- Related Audio
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
CAAMA Radio News 28/03/2012
http://caama.com.au/caama-radio-news-28032012
28 Mar 12: "A federal court determination over a case against plans to locate a national waste dump on contested Aboriginal land at Muckatty in the Northern Territory will have major implications for the future according to one of the countrys peak environmental advocate groups."
- Related News
ABC Environment: Muckaty dumps advances in reconcilation
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2012/03/28/3465800.htm
28 Mar 12: "EARLIER THIS MONTH after more than two years of debate and delay the federal government passed a law aimed at advancing a controversial radioactive waste dump on contested Aboriginal land in central Australia. This week Maurice Blackburn lawyers, with special assistance from Ron Merkel QC and Julian Burnside QC, will be representing Northern Territory Indigenous elders in a Melbourne courtroom in a move aimed at stopping the Federal government's plan for Australia's first purpose-built national nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek." Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Free campaigner for Australian Conservation Foundation
Age: Radioactive dump - with 10 days' notice, court told
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/radioactive-dump--with-10-days-noti...
28 Mar 12: "A nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land should go ahead even if the land’s traditional owners have been incorrectly identified to government, the Commonwealth has told the Federal Court. If it was found that a land council gave the federal government incorrect information about the traditional owners of Muckaty Station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek, it would not invalidate the government’s 2007 approval for a dump there, Commonwealth lawyer Dr Stephen Donaghue SC said in Melbourne yesterday." Maris Beck
Australian: Anthropologists called in for nuke land ownership dispute in court
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/anthropologi...
28 Mar 12: "THE federal government will use evidence from anthropologists to fight claims that traditional owners of a site at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory have not been consulted about a planned nuclear waste dump. Lawyers for the commonwealth told a Federal Court hearing yesterday that Mark Lane Jangala, a Ngapa man who opposes the proposed dump site, was not a traditional owner of the land. Stephen Donaghue SC said anthropological material supported the government's case against Mr Lane Jangala and his allies within the Ngapa group."
- Related Analysis / Opinion
Australian Financial Review: Our radioactive racism
http://afr.com/p/opinion/our_radioactive_racism_UTpKFLGc40Yd3aBCYAJByM
30 Mar 12: "As a co-convener of the Australian Uranium Association’s Indigenous Dialogue Group, it’s a shame that Warren Mundine turns a blind eye to the crude racism of Australia’s nuclear industry (“Step into the nuclear age”, Opinion, March 29). ... And Mundine ought to have noted that Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s National Radioactive Waste Management Act overrides the Aboriginal Heritage Act, sidesteps the Aboriginal Land Rights Act and allows for the imposition of a dump on Aboriginal land even in the absence of any consultation with or consent from traditional owners." Jim Green, Friends of the Earth
ABC The Drum Opinion: Dumping on Traditional Owners: the ugly face of Australian racism
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3919296.html
29 Mar 12: "The nuclear industry has been responsible for some of the crudest racism in Australia's history. ... Governments have systematically stripped back resources for remote Aboriginal communities, placing increased pressure on them to accept projects like the radioactive waste dump. ... While a small group of Traditional Owners support the dump [at Muckaty] in return for financial compensation, a larger group have been ignored and they have initiated legal action in the Federal Court challenging the nomination of the Muckaty site." Jim Green, National nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth, and former national committee member of Australian Nuclear Free Alliance
Songlines: Role of Muckaty Land Trust?
http://songlines.org.au/2012/03/28/role-of-muckaty-land-trust/
28 Mar 12: "As the farce plays itself out in the Muckaty Federal court case with Northern Land Council politicians and bureaucrats telling First Peoples at Muckaty they do not know their own traditions, there is another aspect of this matter which is worthy of crtical attention. This is the role of the Muckaty Land Trust, a body which holds title for the area of the former cattle station, now Aboriginal Land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act of 1976, In the present Federal court case the legal representatives of the Northern Land Council are also representing the Muckaty Land Trust."
See:
Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump at Muckaty, NT
Briefing Paper - February 2011
Jim Green B.Med.Sci.(Hons.), PhD
National nuclear campaigner - Friends of the Earth, Australia
Friends of the Earth: http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/nontdump/Dump%20briefing%20...
Beyond Nuclear Initiative:
http://beyondnuclearinitiative.com/
Vimeo: Nuclear Medicine & the need for a Waste Dump?
http://vimeo.com/29971907
YouTube: Muckaty Voices-Australia's nuclear waste dump story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcuNpT84Ovo
Australian Conservation Foundation: Muckaty radioactive dump:
http://www.acfonline.org.au/be-informed/northern-australia-nuclear/mucka...
Nuclear Territory News: Waste Dump News
http://ntne.ws/articles/article.php?section=waste
WGAR News: Nuclear waste dump laws pass the Senate (14 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/14/wgar-news-28-leading-australians-call...
WGAR News: Maurice Blackburn lawyers: "New Federal laws on nuclear waste have no impact on Muckaty legal challenge" (15 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/15/wgar-news-greens-senator-rachel-siewe...
WGAR News: Central Land Council (CLC): "New waste dump legislation fundamentally flawed" (18 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/18/wgar-news-responses-to-senate-committ...
WGAR News: Natalie Wasley: Traditional owners to fight Ferguson's nuclear waste dump (22 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/22/wgar-news-stand-for-freedom-campaign-...
WGAR News: ABC 7.30: National radioactive waste dump faces resistance (24 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/24/wgar-news-call-for-delegates-to-inter...
* BRISBANE TENT EMBASSY INTERVIEW:
- Audio Interview
ABC Radio 612 - Brisbane: Brisbane Tent Embassy - Interview
http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/ash-tent-embassy-to-air.mp3
- Related News
ABC Brisbane: Brisbane joins sovereign rights protest
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/03/30/3467253.htm
30 Mar 12: "Musgrave Park, in South Brisbane has been transformed into a Tent Embassy, as the latest of the Sovereign Rights protests hits Brisbane. The Brisbane site is the third Aboriginal embassy to be set up across the country, with others already operating in Canberra, Portland (regional Victoria) and Perth [and Sandon Point, NSW]. Brisbane Embassy spokes person Kyu Bales says the national movement is gaining momentum. January this year marked the 40th anniversary for the Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra."
Courier-Mail: Tent embassy opens branch in Musgrave Park, protesting over sovereign rights
http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/central/protesting-over-sovereig...
30 Mar 12: "BRISBANE now has it's own branch of Canberra's tent embassy - the Brisbane Sovereign Embassy in Musgrave Park. Peter Skuthorpe said the working party, a group of eight volunteers committed to their cause, have set up camp near the corner of Russell St and Cordelia St, South Brisbane, which was once a sacred site in indigenous culture. He said they've been in the park for two weeks, and other similar embassies will be opened in Western Australia, Port Headland, and New South Wales."
National Indigenous Radio Service: Tent Embassy set up in Brisbane
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7061-tent-embassy-set-up-in-bris...
23 Mar 12: "The founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Brisbane says Indigenous people need to be heard on the issue of sovereignty. Adrian Burragubba says if more Aboriginal embassies were established across Australia, it would start a national conversation on the subject of sovereignty. He says Aboriginal people are treated as the property of the government in Australia instead of the original inhabitants of the country. "We're not people that are defined by the British colony or the Australia Government. ... ""
- Related Statement
Green Left: Brisbane’s Aboriginal embassy deserves wide support
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50445
22 Mar 12: "Liam Flenady, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of South Brisbane, released the statement below on March 21. * * *
The Socialist Alliance declares its full support for the Sovereign Embassy Brisbane, established by the Murri community in Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, on March 13.
The Sovereign Embassy Brisbane has issued a statement saying: "Our right to sovereignty, possession and occupation and enjoyment of our lands and waters and everything associated with the Original Tribes, is guaranteed under the term tribe. We now instruct the Parliament of Queensland to recognise us as tribes.
"The Sovereign Embassy Brisbane is on a state-wide campaign to acknowledge all tribal nations to treaty with the local Yaggara people and with each other.
"All Original Sovereign Nations who become part of the National Unity Government will be encouraged to challenge, within the domestic courts of the invader society, to seek a declaration by them confirming that our sovereignty cannot be dealt with within their jurisdiction." ... "
See:
facebook: Brisbane Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park
http://www.facebook.com/BrisbaneSovereignEmbassyMusgravePark
* INTERVIEWS WITH NYOONGAR TENT EMBASSY REPRESENTATIVES:
- Audio Interviews
SBS Aboriginal: Noongar People Stage Protest Rally Over Stolen Wages And Land Deal Offer
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/aboriginal/highlight/page/id/209391/t...
29 Mar 12: "Stolen wages and a billion dollar land deal were the main focus of a Noongar public rally in the centre of Perth. ... A Noongar public rally was held on Wednesday in the centre of Perth to protest offers from the stage government on stolen wages and a billion dollar land deal. The procession march follows a second police raid on the tent embassy at Matagarup a week earlier and a recent government announcement of a figure for stolen wages compensation in that state. ... Noongar spokesman Iva Jackson Hayward says it's important all community members get educated on what the government is proposing." By Michelle Lovegrove
RTRfm: Nyoongar Tent Embassy
http://www.rtrfm.com.au/stories/type/interviews/category/politics/3698
26 Mar 12: "After seven weeks of camping on Herrison island, protestors are no closer to ending their stand-off with police, council workers and the government. The protests are about the state governments proposed one billion dollar native title settlement deal, but it’s not clear what alternative agreement the protesters want to reach. In fact there’s a lot of unanswered questions and confusion in Perth about the tent embassy and the protests by the Noongar people. Tent Embassy representative Marianne Mackay has been there and knows why the tent embassy was set up, why the protesters are staying and what outcome they hope will come from all of this. Alia Glorie spoke to her on Morning Magazine."
- Related Audio
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
CAAMA Radio News 28/03/2012
http://caama.com.au/caama-radio-news-28032012
28 Mar 12: "A Nyoongah Aboriginal rights campaigner has criticised the mainstream media’s coverage of their concerns over the Western Australian Governments billion dollar offer to extinguish native title."
- Related News
newsTracker: Aboriginal activist on trial for Nyoongar tent embassy
http://tracker.org.au/2012/03/aboriginal-activist-on-trial-for-nyoongar-...
30 Mar 12: "WESTERN AUSTRALIA: A Perth magistrate was forced to adjourn his court sitting after supporters of an Aboriginal activist disrupted proceedings. Herbert Bropho was appearing in the Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with obstructing police and two counts of disorderly behaviour when police moved in to clear the Nyoongar Tent Embassy on Heirisson Island on March 22. The police prosecutor told the court that Bropho had stood in front of officers and told them, "This is our land, get back" and had also threatened a member of the public on the island."
Perth Now: Hecklers thrown out of Herbert Bropho hearing
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/hecklers-thrown-out-of...
29 Mar 12: "A PERTH magistrate has thrown a group of Noongar protesters out of his courtroom after they continually heckled him during proceedings. Aboriginal activist Herbert Bropho appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court charged with two counts of disorderly behaviour in public and one count of obstructing a police officer. The charges stem from a clash between police and protesters at the Heirisson Island "tent embassy" on March 22, when four people were arrested as police moved in clear the camp."
National Indigenous Times: Leaders appalled at Noongar Tent Embassy tactics ... while Queensland’s leaders fire up
http://www.nit.com.au/your-say.html
http://www.nit.com.au/news/819-police-bullies.html
29 Mar 12: "Brisbane families and friends were treated to a day of cultural celebrations during the lighting of the sacred fire for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Musgrave Park in Brisbane. Meanwhile West Australian protesters at their Tent Embassy on Heirisson Island in Perth came under unprovoked attack by police on foot and horseback. At day's end 70 tactical response and mounted police officers and 15 City of Perth rangers arrested four protestors and removed tents as well as several cars parked on the public reserve. What started as peaceful protests in mid February by Noongar people ... "
National Indigenous Radio Service: Talkback radio bagging led to Embassy dismantling
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7080-talk-back-radio-bagging-led...
29 Mar 12: "A West Australia human rights advocate says the content of talkback radio in Perth contributed to the decision to dismantle the Noongar Tent Embassy last week. Gerry Georgatos, social commentator, journalist and PhD law researcher into Australian deaths in custody, says the Noongar protest has been a hot topic on Perth radio. Mr. Georgatos says influential radio jocks and their listeners in Perth made comments suggesting the State Government was being 'weak and impotent' on the issue. ... It was the third time the Embassy had been taken down in six weeks."
National Indigenous Radio Service: Noongar protesters call for action on high incarceration rates
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7077-noongar-protesters-call-for...
29 Mar 12: "Noongar protesters in Perth who oppose a billion-dollar offer to extinguish Native Title in the south-west of Western Australia are also calling for action on high Indigenous incarceration rates. The Noongar Tent Embassy on Heirisson Island was removed by police last week. Since then, protesters have re-affirmed their position. But he [Spokesperson Robert Eggington] says improving incarceration rates of Aboriginal men in Australia's prison systems is crucial."
National Indigenous Times: Protest told Nyoongars need to rise and fear no one
http://www.nit.com.au/news/814-protest-told-nyoongars-need-to-rise-and-f...
29 Mar 12: "Nyoongar Tent Embassy supporters joined with supporters of the Bellotti family to protest outside the West Australian State Parliament on Monday at the Government's treatment of Aboriginal people. The protest, which started with the Bellotti Walk for Justice march through the State's south west region the... "
SMH: WA Aboriginal protesters demand new deal
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/wa-aboriginal-protesters-d...
28 Mar 12: "About 50 Aboriginal rights activists have marched on Western Australia's parliament to demand a compensation deal equal to five per cent of the annual gross domestic product of the state's southwest. Such a deal, according to organisers of the protest, would be worth about $1.3 billion annually, to be deposited in a special fund and distributed equally amongst the Noongar people of the southwest to settle native title. The protesters, who marched through Perth on Wednesday before rallying outside parliament, also want an end to mandatory jail terms for certain offences, ... "
Perth Now: Police, rangers clean out Heirisson camp
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/police-rangers-clean-o...
29 Mar 12: "POLICE and City rangers descended on Heirisson Island early today to clean up remnants of the tent camp and remove a handful of Noongar activists. The "tent embassy" has been on the island since February and was set up in protest of the State Government's proposed $1 billion native title deal. Police spokesman Rex Haw said the City of Perth council workers came onto the island about 7am. About 20 police officers attended to protect them in case there was any resistance."
- Background
facebook: Nyoongar Tent Embassy
http://www.facebook.com/NyoongarTentEmbassy
Welcome to our website: Nyoongar Tent Embassy
http://tentembassywa.com/
facebook: Aboriginal Tent Embassy
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aboriginal-Tent-Embassy/210730945611610?sk...
WGAR News: Force used to suppress the Aboriginal sovereignty movement: Michael Anderson (27 Mar 12)
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/27/wgar-news-force-used-to-suppress-the-...
[Includes several articles on the Nyoongar Tent Embassy in Perth.]
WGAR News: Perth police invade Nyoongar Tent Embassy (24 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/24/wgar-news-call-for-delegates-to-inter...
WGAR News: Welcome to our website: Nyoongar Tent Embassy (22 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/22/wgar-news-stand-for-freedom-campaign-...
WGAR News: More on the Nyoongar Tent Embassy at Matagarup (1 Mar 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/01/wgar-news-press-conference-on-stronge...
WGAR News: More on Nyoongar Tent Embassy in Perth (26 Feb 12)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2012/02/26/wgar-news-petition-stop-stronger-futu...
WGAR News: Nyoongar Tent Embassy marches to Government House in protest (23 Feb 12)
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/02/23/wgar-news-nyoongar-tent-embassy-march...
WGAR News: News of the Nyoongar Tent Embassy on Heirisson Island in Perth (21 Feb 12)
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/02/21/wgar-news-news-of-the-nyoongar-tent-e...
* DEATHS IN CUSTUDY RESEARCH INTERVIEW:
- Audio Interview
4ZZZ Brisbane 102.1FM: Trauma: prisons, dentention centres and the NT Intervention
http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/news/audio/2012/mar/23/trauma-prisons-dententio...
23 Mar 12: "Research into deaths in custody in Australia's prisons and dentention centres has revealed an alarming rate of deaths post-custody as well. The study being done by Gerry Georgatos of the Human Rights Alliance in Western Australia started out as an examination of deaths in custody, but has lead more broadly to an examination of trauma induced while in custody. ... he says, people growing up under the intervention have had their rights taken away from them which feeds into their sense of identity, leading to an "inter-generational trauma" not dissimilar to poverty among current and past generations of Aboriginal people."
See:
Indymedia Australia: Gerry Georgatos
http://indymedia.org.au/users/gerry-georgatos/track
* OTHER ARTICLES:
- Analysis / Opinion
SMH: Alarm over NT response to Aboriginal youth suicide
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/alarm-over-nt-response-to-a...
28 Mar 12: "Indigenous suicide programs are fragmented, un-coordinated and failing to make an impact on the alarming numbers of indigenous youth committing suicide in the Northern Territory, a parliamentary investigation has found. Suicides of indigenous children under the age of 15 are five times the national rate with girls accounting for a previously unheard of 40 per cent. There were no cases of non-indigenous suicide in the same five-year period to 2011 in the Territory." Russell Skelton
- News
The Standard: Racial tensions blamed on tent embassy in Portland
http://www.standard.net.au/news/local/news/general/racial-tensions-blame...
30 Mar 12: "AN Aboriginal tent embassy protest on Portland’s Market Square [Victoria] has been blamed for an ugly eruption of racial tension in the district. As the small protest led by activist Sandra Onus drags on beyond 50 days, other members of the Koorie community have copped criticism, taunts and insults. ... The protestors continued to stand firm yesterday, telling The Standard they would remain steadfast in their bid to maintain a campsite at Market Square."
The Riot ACT: Father of Hip Hop to tour the Tent Embassy
http://the-riotact.com/father-of-hip-hop-to-tour-the-tent-embassy/68648
26 Mar 12: "KP Records and the Tent Embassy are letting you know that New York Hip Hop kingpin KRS One is going to be making a solidarity visit to the Tent Embassy when he’s here in Canberra on 12 April (to play on 13 April)."
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