Newsletter date: 12 July 2013
Contents:
* Community Radio 3CR: Walkatjurra Walkabout. A new mine, an old fight. [Featuring Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Kado Muir, Mia Pepper and Dave Sweeney]
* Background to the Walkatjurra Walkabout: Stepping out against uranium mining
* David T. Rowlands, Green Left: Australian atomic massacre still ignored
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: How Land Rights were won… and almost lost
* Tracker: Native title tax bill passes Senate
* Background to Mabo and Native Title
* Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine Editorial: Mining Earth
* Gavin M. Mudd, Arena Essay: Australia's Mining Legacies - The impacts of mining waste will be felt for years to come.
* Kristen Lyons and Carol Richards, Arena Magazine: Mining Universities - Research in today's mining-funded tertiary sector
* About Arena- the website of left political, social and cultural commentary
* COMMUNITY RADIO 3CR: WALKATJURRA WALKABOUT. A NEW MINE, AN OLD FIGHT. [FEATURING GREENS SENATOR SCOTT LUDLAM, KADO MUIR, MIA PEPPER AND DAVE SWEENEY]
- Audio Interviews
3CR Community Radio: Radioactive Show 22.06.2013
http://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/podcast/radioactive-show-22062013
22 Jun 13: "Walkatjurra Walkabout. A new mine, an old fight. This is the second in a series of Radioactive Shows focusing on the Walkatjurra Walkabout of May 2013, a 3 week walk throughout the Western Desert. We talk to Wiluna locals, local Indigenous people, and nuclear free activists including Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Kado Muir, Mia Pepper and Dave Sweeney, who joined us on the walk."
* BACKGROUND TO THE WALKATJURRA WALKABOUT: STEPPING OUT AGAINST URANIUM MINING
WGAR News: Kado Muir, Aboriginal leader and activist, interviewed by Community Radio 3CR (15 Jun 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/06/14/wgar-news-kado-muir-aboriginal-leader...
WGAR News: Walkatjurra Walkabout: Stepping out against uranium mining: WANFA & ANAWA (11 May 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/05/10/wgar-news-walkatjurra-walkabout-stepp...
WGAR News: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Walkatjurra Walk - three weeks of desert and rain (6 Jun 13)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2013/06/05/wgar-news-no-plans-for-jpp-gas-hub-bu...
Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA)
http://www.indymedia.org.au/2013/01/02/western-australian-nuclear-free-a...
* DAVID T. ROWLANDS, GREEN LEFT: AUSTRALIAN ATOMIC MASSACRE STILL IGNORED
- Analysis / Opinion
Green Left: Australian atomic massacre still ignored
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54394
29 Jun 13: "Nearly 60 years have passed since Totem 1, a British nuclear test in the Australian desert, was recklessly conducted in unfavourable meteorological conditions. ... it has been suggested by investigators that perhaps 50 short-term Aboriginal fatalities resulted. In addition to those who died, many others were exposed to harmful levels of radiation. The long-term health effects on these individuals have never been charted - but anecdotal reports of high cancer rates and horrendous birth defects in isolated "downwinder" communities have circulated." By GLW author David T. Rowlands
* BACKGROUND TO JUSTICE FOR ABORIGINAL VICTIMS OF MARALINGA NUCLEAR TESTS:
Last updated: 2 February 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/21/background-to-justice-for-aboriginal-...
* BRIAN JOHNSTONE, TRACKER: HOW LAND RIGHTS WERE WON... AND ALMOST LOST
- Analysis / Opinion
agendaTracker: How Land Rights were won… and almost lost
http://tracker.org.au/2013/06/how-land-rights-were-won-and-almost-lost/
26 Jun 13: "NATIONAL: A book charting the rich and turbulent political history of the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act is to be published later this year by Aboriginal Studies Press. From Activism to Enterprise: a political history of the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act, will be the first comprehensive warts and all history to be published on the Act, and the political network and governance regime it created. It is the work of Dr. Heidi Norman, a Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Change in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology in Sydney." By Brian Johnstone, a Walkley and Human Rights award winning journalist, employed by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council
* TRACKER: NATIVE TITLE TAX BILL PASSES SENATE
- News
newsTracker: Native title tax bill passes Senate
http://tracker.org.au/2013/06/native-title-tax-bill-passes-senate/
26 Jun 13: "NATIONAL: No income tax will be paid on certain native title benefits after legislation cleared parliament. Federal Labor says its legislation will confirm that income tax is not payable on some native title benefits and on certain capital gains tax transactions involving native title rights. This will give Indigenous communities clarity when they are negotiating native title agreements, the federal government says."
* BACKGROUND TO MABO AND NATIVE TITLE:
Last updated: 10 July 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/07/02/background-to-mabo-and-native-title
* ALISON CADDICK, ARENA MAGAZINE EDITORIAL: MINING EARTH
- Analysis / Opinion
Arena Editorial: Mining Earth by Alison Caddick
http://www.arena.org.au/2013/07/mining-earth/
July 2013: "As John Scott notes in this issue of Arena Magazine, once upon a time 'miners' were the working men who went down the mines and dug the dirt. Today 'the miners', in Australia at least, typically refers to the mining companies, if not to the particular entrepreneurial personalities of certain mining company owners and executives. Not only has the slide been away from recognising who does the dirty work as opposed to who owns the means of extraction, but members of those more abstract categories 'voters' and 'television viewers' seem to identify with 'the miners'." By Alison Caddick
* GAVIN M. MUDD, ARENA ESSAY: AUSTRALIA'S MINING LEGACIES - THE IMPACTS OF MINING WASTE WILL BE FELT FOR YEARS TO COME.
- Analysis / Opinion
Arena: Australia's Mining Legacies by Gavin M. Mudd
The impacts of mining waste will be felt for years to come.
http://www.arena.org.au/2013/07/australias-mining-legacies-by-gavin-m-mudd/
July 2013: "Mining is, by its very nature, a dirty business-it excavates and processes billions and billions of tonnes of rock and dirt every year to extract a wide variety of metals and minerals demanded by modern industrial and technological society. ... The great scale of modern mining, however, comes at a real cost whether on the local landscape, public health or the global environment, and it is understanding these real costs and how the environmental and social impacts intertwine with economic issues that is the crux of the great mining debate in Australia and globally." By Gavin M. Mudd
* KRISTEN LYONS AND CAROL RICHARDS, ARENA MAGAZINE: MINING UNIVERSITIES - RESEARCH IN TODAY'S MINING-FUNDED TERTIARY SECTOR
- Analysis / Opinion
Arena: Mining Universities by Kristen Lyons and Carol Richards
Research in today's mining-funded tertiary sector
http://www.arena.org.au/2013/07/mining-universities-by-kristen-lyons-and...
July 2013: "Australia’s economic growth and national identity have been widely celebrated as being founded on the nation’s natural resources. With the golden era of pastoralism fading into the distance, a renewed love affair with primary industries has been much lauded, particularly by purveyors of neoliberal ideology. The considerable wealth generated by resource extraction has, despite its environmental and social record, proved seductive to the university sector. The mining industry is one of a number of industries and sectors ... that is increasingly courting Australian universities." By Kristen Lyons and Carol Richards
* ABOUT ARENA - THE WEBSITE OF LEFT POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COMMENTARY
- Background
About Arena
arena - the website of left political, social and cultural commentary
http://www.arena.org.au/about/
"Arena is well known in Melbourne and Australia more broadly as a publication which has made an impact on political and cultural interpretation and practice over a period of more than thirty years. However, Arena is more than this or that publication. It is composed of a core of people with a large number of friends and supporters who have established various venues and discussion projects in Melbourne and its environs as well as engaging in a variety of practical endeavours over this period. The core value of co-operation stands at the centre of what motivates and structures the practices and discussions of people at Arena."
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