Newsletter date: 2 November 2013
Contents:
* The Stringer: Bunna Lawrie will not give up on whale dreaming Country
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Mirning Country - the whale people - at risk from Native Title
* Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Aboriginal: Challenge to Native Title on Their Country - Mirning Say - You Must Listen
* Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Aboriginal: Far West Coast Native Title Claim Pushing Ahead Despite Unrest
* NIRS: Nullabor native title dispute
* Background to Mabo and Native Title
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: Indigenous people most affected by climate change
* Ryan Liddle, NITV News: A new Draft Management Plan protects sacred Aboriginal site
* Catherine Liddle, NITV News: Culture centre aims to revive Wiradjuri language
* THE STRINGER: BUNNA LAWRIE WILL NOT GIVE UP ON WHALE DREAMING COUNTRY
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: Bunna Lawrie will not give up on whale dreaming Country
http://thestringer.com.au/bunna-lawrie-will-not-give-up-on-whale-dreamin...
31 Oct 13: "Koonibba born whale dreamer, medicine man, song man, musician and Mirning Elder, Bunna Rupert Lawrie has been driving a petition since last week to stop a Native Title meeting from proceeding this Saturday in Ceduna. He said that the meeting could be the death knell for the whale dreaming Country of the Mirning people along South Australia’s Great Australian Bight. ... He has been outspoken about the Far West Coast Native Title claim, in regards which he said anthropologists and lawyers had combined six different groups together and at first many of the communities had been ignorant of the premises of the combined agreement and its implications." By The Stringer
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: MIRNING COUNTRY - THE WHALE PEOPLE - AT RISK FROM NATIVE TITLE
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: Mirning Country - the whale people - at risk from Native Title
http://thestringer.com.au/mirning-country-the-whale-people-at-risk-from-...
25 Oct 13: "Six Traditional owner groups are tussling over a messy combined Native Title dispute on the far west coast of South Australia. One of the claimant groups, the Mirning peoples, are alleging that they were "railroaded by anthropologists and lawyers" into the combined claim which now "threatens to take our Country from us." Thirty-five Mirning Elders presented South Australian Attorney-General John Rau a petition calling on the State Government to intervene. According to Mirning Elder, Robbie Miller, the combined claim "disregards our traditional rights."" By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
* MICHELLE LOVEGROVE, SBS ABORIGINAL: CHALLENGE TO NATIVE TITLE ON THEIR COUNTRY - MIRNING SAY - YOU MUST LISTEN
- Audio
SBS Aboriginal: Challenge to Native Title on Their Country - Mirning Say - You Must Listen
By Michelle Lovegrove
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/aboriginal/highlight/page/id/296463/t...
23 Oct 13: "Mirning people in South Australia have come forward - saying they've been railroaded into a combined Native Title claim. ... The Mirning Nation was convinced to drop a registered Native Title claim over its own country, in order to include other nation groups living on its country. The joint claim is known as the Far West Coast Native Ttitle Claim. The Mirning people say that they did not understand how the combined claim would water down their right to speak for their land."
* MICHELLE LOVEGROVE, SBS ABORIGINAL: FAR WEST COAST NATIVE TITLE CLAIM PUSHING AHEAD DESPITE UNREST
- Audio
SBS Aboriginal: Far West Coast Native Title Claim Pushing Ahead Despite Unrest
By Michelle Lovegrove
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/aboriginal/highlight/page/id/296469/t...
23 Oct 13: "The solicitor overseeing the Far West Coast Native Title Claim adamant he will push on - despite years of unhappiness from original owners, the Mirning People. ... 35 Mirning people protested against the amalgamated claim last week and delivered a petition to the South Australian Attorney General, asking for it to be postphoned. Osker Linde from the South Australia Native Title Services told Living Black Radio that the protesters were not Mirning native title applicants. Living Black Radio has since found that current registered native title applicants were involved in the protest."
* NIRS: NULLABOR NATIVE TITLE DISPUTE
- News
National Indigenous Radio Service: Nullabor native title dispute
http://nirs.org.au/blog/NEWS/article/30855/Nullabor-native-title-dispute...
23 Oct 13: "By Gerry Georgatos/Michelle Tuahine: To South Australia, An elder whose clan holds thousands of years of traditonal ownership and caretaking over Nullabor country, says they may lose ownership of the area under a new combined native title claim. Bunna Lawrie, a TO from the Mirning people, says the new claim, being lodged on behalf of six groups, was put together by lawyers and anthropologists against his family's wishes. ... "
* BACKGROUND TO MABO AND NATIVE TITLE:
Last updated: 15 October 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/07/02/background-to-mabo-and-native-title
* EMMA MURPHY, GREEN LEFT: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE MOST AFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE
- Analysis / Opinion
Green Left: Indigenous people most affected by climate change
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/55190
24 Oct 13: "A leaked draft of the second Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, due to be released in March, gives a sobering picture of what lies ahead for Aboriginal communities in Australia as climate change intensifies. Last month, the IPCC said it was 95% certain that human activity was the main cause of climate change. The recent leaked report did not look at the science, but rather the impacts climate change will have, particularly in areas of vulnerability and adaptation." By GLW author Emma Murphy
* RYAN LIDDLE, NITV NEWS: A NEW DRAFT MANAGEMENT PLAN PROTECTS SACRED ABORIGINAL SITE
- Video
NITV News: A new Draft Management Plan protects sacred Aboriginal site
By Ryan Liddle
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/10/28/new-draft-management-plan-...
28 Oct 13: "The release of a new draft management plan will ensure better protection for the Worimi Conservation lands existing north of Newcastle. The picturesque Worimi Conservation lands stretch 22 kilometres from Anna Bay in the North, to Fern Bay in the South. Traditional owners from the region consider the area to be of high cultural significance. It appears to be untouched from the outside world and it is hoped new measures will ensure it stays this way for many years to come. Worimi Conservation Lands Chairperson Petrice Manton is excited about the increased protection to be implemented over the region."
* CATHERINE LIDDLE, NITV NEWS: CULTURE CENTRE AIMS TO REVIVE WIRADJURI LANGUAGE
- Video
NITV News: Culture centre aims to revive Wiradjuri language
By Catherine Liddle
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/10/28/culture-centre-aims-revive...
28 Oct 13: "The Wiradjuri community of western New South Wales now has the opportunity to learn their language and culture in an integrated learning nest catering for people of all ages. Opened in Dubbo last week, the Yarradmarra Centre is being hailed as the first of its kind in the state, with many more to come. The new intergenerational language and culture nest will save the Wiradjuri language which is currently listed as endangered."
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