Newsletter date: 10 March 2014
Contents:
* Callum Clayton-Dixon, Tracker: Treaty Now: An agreement between two equals
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
* Callum Clayton-Dixon, Tracker: Sovereignty: not a radical concept
* Jeff McMullen, Tracker: The Way Ahead: Sovereign rights in the 21st century
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Nothing will be done about suicides crisis
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities
* CALLUM CLAYTON-DIXON, TRACKER: TREATY NOW: AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO EQUALS
- Analysis / Opinion
newsTracker: Treaty Now: An agreement between two equals
http://tracker.org.au/2014/03/treaty-now-an-agreement-between-two-equals/
6 Mar 14: "NATIONAL: In 2014, the word ‘Treaty’ is back on the political agenda. But what does the word actually mean, asks CALLUM CLAYTON-DIXON*. A recent headline in The Australian newspaper read ‘Abbott open to treaties with Aboriginal nations’. It might shock, confuse and cause many Aboriginal people to be justifiably suspicious. All of a sudden the conservative coalition government is welcome to a discussion that has demanded for decades - a Treaty - a broken promise that Prime Minister Bob Hawke failed to deliver by 1990. How Labor has changed. It’s a proposal the current opposition has labelled "stupid"." By Callum Clayton-Dixon, a Nganyaywana journalist, editor of Brisbane Blacks magazine
* BACKGROUND TO TREATIES WITH ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGN NATIONS OF AUSTRALIA
Last updated: 7 March 2014
http://indymedia.org.au/2014/02/16/background-to-treaties-with-aborigina...
* CALLUM CLAYTON-DIXON, TRACKER: SOVEREIGNTY: NOT A RADICAL CONCEPT
- Analysis / Opinion
newsTracker: Sovereignty: not a radical concept
http://tracker.org.au/2013/11/sovereignty-not-a-radical-concept/
19 Nov 13: "NATIONAL: Nganyaywana journalist Callum Clayton-Dixon spent a week with a Tuhoe family in New Zealand – a country where Indigenous sovereignty and treaty is not a concept on the margins of public debate. If you read everything you read in the newspapers, you may have thought the current push for constitutional reform, encapsulated in the "Recognise" movement, is at the forefront of black activism. And while it does have support in some sections of the community, if you speak to legends of Aboriginal protest, you’d get a vastly different view." By Callum Clayton-Dixon, an up and coming Nganyaywana journalist, editor of Aboriginal rights-based publication Brisbane Blacks
* JEFF MCMULLEN, TRACKER: THE WAY AHEAD: SOVEREIGN RIGHTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Analysis / Opinion
agendaTracker: The Way Ahead: Sovereign rights in the 21st century
http://tracker.org.au/2014/03/the-way-ahead-sovereign-rights-in-the-21st...
6 Mar 14: "NATIONAL: The question of sovereign rights will take front stage over the next few months, writes JEFF MCMULLEN*. ... In so many respects it is the unresolved question of sovereign rights that will overshadow the major political discussion in the next few years over recognition of the rightful place of the ‘First Australians’ who are still dispossessed, discriminated against and disempowered in their own land. Ghillar Michael Anderson and Pangarte Rosalie Kunoth-Monks have been appointed by seventeen Aboriginal nations as head spokespersons for a rapidly growing Sovereign Union asserting that they have never ceded dominion and continue to hold land title under their Law and Culture." By Dr Jeff McMullen AM, one of Australia’s most respected journalists, a winner of the UN Media Peace Prize, prolific in Aboriginal affairs, a monthly columnist for Tracker Magazine
* BACKGROUND TO THE ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT:
Last updated: 9 March 2014
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-aboriginal-sovereig...
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: NOTHING WILL BE DONE ABOUT SUICIDES CRISIS
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: Nothing will be done about suicides crisis
http://thestringer.com.au/nothing-will-be-done-about-suicides-crisis/
8 Mar 14: "On October 23, the chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine responded to this publication’s sustained coverage of the horrific suicide crisis among First Nations people and to my research. Mr Mundine committed the Indigenous Advisory Council to the urgent need to address the pernicious and endemic crisis. But 150 days later nothing but a mix of flurries of just talking and mostly silence is all that the Indigenous Advisory Council and the Government have come up with - all the while suicide is claiming more lives, 100 more lives lost, children as young as 12 years old. The Government which has been selling itself on improving conditions for First Nations people has in fact done nothing thus far for First Nations people." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
* BACKGROUND TO SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM IN ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES:
Last updated: 27 February 2014
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/08/13/background-to-suicide-and-self-harm-i...
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