Newsletter date: 21 March 2013
Contents:
* SNAICC News: New booklet raises awareness of the impact of trauma on children
* ABC Alice Springs Audio Interview with Marie Ellis: Why we want our community back
* The Wire Audio: New push for dialysis in remote communities as 'service hubs' junked
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: From Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples
* Chris Graham At Large: Frenetic activity, bugger-all progress: the art of bureaucracy
* Other articles
* SNAICC NEWS: NEW BOOKLET RAISES AWARENESS OF THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA ON CHILDREN
- News
SNAICC News: New booklet raises awareness of the impact of trauma on children
http://www.snaicc.org.au/news-events/fx-view-article.cfm?loadref=32&id=1031
[Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care]
19 Mar 13: "The Healing Foundation has published a booklet to help promote understanding of the effects of the trauma of forced removal over generations and ongoing colonisation on children now. Trauma and its effects continue to be passed on through the generations, and children today witness and experience those effects. Growing our Children up Strong and Deadly explains the complex ways in which trauma is experienced and transmitted, and outlines the effects of intergenerational trauma on children and young people."
* ABC ALICE SPRINGS AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH MARIE ELLIS: WHY WE WANT OUR COMMUNITY BACK
- Audio Interview
ABC Alice Springs: Why we want our community back
By Brendan Phelan
http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/03/17/3717414.htm?site=alicesprings
17 Mar 13: "A long-running legal battle to eject a Northern Territory Shire from an Aboriginal community has entered mediation. The Amoonguna Community Council Incorporated initiated the legal action six years ago when the MacDonnell Shire took over. The head of the community council, Marie Ellis, said the mediation was requested by the Shire, but that it was still unclear exactly what will be on the negotiating table. Ms Ellis said that the dysfunction in her community had worsened under the management of the MacDonnell Shire, and that they had had not done enough to tackle the key problem of alcohol abuse."
* THE WIRE AUDIO: NEW PUSH FOR DIALYSIS IN REMOTE COMMUNITIES AS 'SERVICE HUBS' JUNKED
- Audio Interview
The Wire: New push for dialysis in remote communities as 'service hubs' junked
Produced by Tim Roxburgh
http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=10151
19 Mar 13: "After a plan to deliver dialysis services at central locations collapsed this week, there are renewed calls for the government to redirect the funds into mobile dialysis units so that kidney treatment can be given to people where they live, on country. The Northern Territory government has rejected ten million dollars in federal funding for two dialysis service centres in Alice Springs and Tennant creek. The NT government said it shouldn’t have to fork out for the ongoing service costs of 1.8 million a year. This leaves it unlikely that the centres will ever be built. ...
Featured in story: Sarah Brown - Manager of the Western Desert Dialysis Project"
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: FROM SECRET COUNTRY TO FORGOTTEN PEOPLES
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: From Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples
http://thestringer.com.au/from-secret-country-to-forgotten-peoples/
19 Mar 13: "WA has the nation’s highest median income - per capita it is the richest State in the Commonwealth of Australia yet it has the highest homelessness rate in the nation. Its poorest people - most of them Aboriginal - have not benefited from the mining boom. More and more Western Australians are stepping up and speaking out about the stark contrast between those benefiting from mining and those whom the mining boom has left behind. Critics are saying that chronically impoverished Aboriginal peoples are missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to rise out of poverty." By Gerry Georgatos, contributing editor of The Stringer, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
Gerry Georgatos: http://thestringer.com.au/gerry-georgatos-contributing-editor-and-journa...
* CHRIS GRAHAM AT LARGE: FRENETIC ACTIVITY, BUGGER-ALL PROGRESS: THE ART OF BUREAUCRACY
- Analysis / Opinion
Chris Graham At Large: Frenetic activity, bugger-all progress: the art of bureaucracy
http://chrisgrahamatlarge.com/2013/03/19/frenetic-activity-bugger-all-pr...
19 Mar 13: "THERE are at least two truisms in Aboriginal affairs. The first is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. I’ll come back to that one. The second is that the road through Aboriginal affairs, while often paved with good intentions, is sometimes paved with bad ones. In the interests of my new-found positivity (refer to my last column in Tracker for background!), I’m going to assume that when Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin held a gun to the head of Alice Springs town campers and told them that unless they signed over their land for 40 years it would be compulsorily acquired, that her intentions were good." By Chris Graham, "the former managing editor of Tracker magazine, now a freelancer and roving reporter for Tracker"
* OTHER ARTICLES:
- Video
SBS World News: Long way to go to close the work gap: report
Source: Nancia Guivarra, NITV News
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1747824/Long-way-to-go-to-close-the-w...
18 Mar 13: "Closing the work gap in the corporate sector has improved in the last ten years but there's still a long way to go, says a new report released today. It seems closing the work gap in the corporate sector is not just about increasing job opportunities for Indigenous people. The key is to engage more effectively with Indigenous communities, the report says. "Thinking about two way conversations, it's not just a one way relationship where the private sector goes in to deliver an employment program or sell the population", said Janice Constable, author of Closing the Work Gap."
- Audio
National Indigenous Radio Service: Support for Bowraville murders retrial
http://www.nirs.org.au/blog/NEWS/article/28865/Support-for-Bowraville-mu...
19 Mar 13: "By NIRS/Koori Radio: New South Wales Greens MLC David Shoebridge has supported calls for a retrial of the main suspect of the infamous murders of three Aboriginal children at Bowraville over 20 years ago. A rally was held last week calling for justice in response to state Attorney-General Greg Smith’s refusal to grant a retrial."
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
http://caama.com.au/radio#tabs-6
http://caama.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/am-18-03.mp3
18 Mar 13: "* The appointment of ADAM GILES as the first Aboriginal to lead a State or Territory Government within Australia has been widely reported across the global indigenous community. ...
* Adam Giles elevation to the position of leadership within Northern Territory politics has been recognised by significant Aboriginal organisations who see the new direction in leadership as a positive for their people."
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