Newsletter date: 21 April 2013
Contents:
* SBS Living Black Audio Interview: Queensland's Stolen Wages to the Crime and Misconduct Commission
* SBS; AAP Video: Katter party fights for stolen Indigenous wages
* SBS Radionews Audio: Katter backs Queensland stolen wages return
* NIRS: Stolen Wages rally calls for compensation
* Tracker: CMC should probe stolen wages: Katter
* Central Land Council: Education is the key says new CLC Chair
* NIRS: Maurie Japarta Ryan to lead CLC
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Stringer’s interview with [Greens Leader] Christine Milne [on Aboriginal Australia]
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Nigel Scullion, NT Senator & Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs
* CAAMA: Expert calls for greater recognition of Aboriginal history!
* Jeremy Geia, NITV: Indigenous health in the hands of COAG
* NIRS: Calls for COAG committment
* Tracker: Indigenous health not on agenda, despite funding renewal
* NIRS: COAG urged to renew Indigenous health partnership
* NIRS: Community-based research approach needed: Academic
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Student Guild racism causes a storm
* SBS Radionews Audio: UWA student publication sparks racism row
* Jeremy Geia, SBS Video: Lib MP sparks outcry over racist tweets
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Dr Jensen’s Tweets nonsense
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Josie Farrer tells Parliament she has lived racism all her life
* SBS LIVING BLACK AUDIO INTERVIEW: QUEENSLAND'S STOLEN WAGES TO THE CRIME AND MISCONDUCT COMMISSION
- Audio Interview
SBS Living Black: Queensland's Stolen Wages to the Crime and Misconduct Commission
By Michelle Lovegrove
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/aboriginal/highlight/page/id/263006/t...
17 Apr 13: "An official complaint to be lodged with the CMC by the Katter Australian Party. ... The issue of stolen wages continues in Queensland - with Katter Australian Party organsing a rally to demand repayment by the Queensland Government. The government routinely withheld wages from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from the early 1900's until the 1970's. ... The latest rally was organised by KAP. Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster was there. He's speaking with Michelle Lovegrove."
* SBS; AAP VIDEO: KATTER PARTY FIGHTS FOR STOLEN INDIGENOUS WAGES
- Video
SBS World News: Katter party fights for stolen Indigenous wages
Source: Stefan Armbruster, SBS; AAP
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1757166/Katter-party-fights-for-stole...
17 Apr 13: "The Katter Australian Party (KAP) is taking the side of Indigenous Queenslanders, calling on the state's crime watchdog to investigate why $20 million in stolen wages has not been paid back. But Queensland's Labor government in 2009 closed claims for stolen wages in 2009 and the current Liberal National government says it won't revisit the issue. "We're calling on this government to come clean, to provide that amount to them that is owing, and recognise the contribution that they made to building up our country," MP Robbie Katter told SBS."
* SBS RADIONEWS AUDIO: KATTER BACKS QUEENSLAND STOLEN WAGES RETURN
- Audio Interview
SBS Radionews Podcasts: Katter backs Queensland stolen wages return
By Stefan Armbruster & Kristina Kukolja
http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/radionews/episode/263036/Katter-...
17 Apr 13: "Queensland's branch of Katter's Australian Party says it will refer the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander stolen wages case to the state's anti-corruption agency. The Queensland Labor government in 2009 closed claims for stolen wages reparations and the remaining 21-million was transferred to an Indigenous education trust fund. Elders want the remainder money paid out but the current Liberal National government says it won't revisit the issue. Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster told Kristina Kukolja about what the Katter Australian Party is proposing to do."
* NIRS: STOLEN WAGES RALLY CALLS FOR COMPENSATION
- Audio
National Indigenous Radio Service: Stolen Wages rally calls for compensation
http://www.nirs.org.au/blog/NEWS/article/29065/Stolen-Wages-rally-calls-...
18 Apr 13: "A Queensland Indigenous rights campaigner says she welcomes support from Katter’s Australia Party and Queensland Council of Unions on the Stolen Wages issue."
* TRACKER: CMC SHOULD PROBE STOLEN WAGES: KATTER
- News
newsTracker: CMC should probe stolen wages: Katter
http://tracker.org.au/2013/04/cmc-should-probe-stolen-wages-katter/
18 Apr 13: "Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) is calling for Queensland’s crime watchdog to investigate why more than $20 million in stolen wages has not been paid to indigenous people. ... KAP MP Shane Knuth says the party wants the CMC to investigate the previous government’s mismanagement of the fund and for the money to be paid to the rightful people."
* CENTRAL LAND COUNCIL: EDUCATION IS THE KEY SAYS NEW CLC CHAIR
- Media Release
Central Land Council: Education is the key says new CLC Chair
http://www.clc.org.au/media-releases/article/education-is-the-key-says-n...
17 Apr 13: "The Central Land Council has a new Chairman.
Mr Maurie Ryan, 64, was elected as the CLC Chairman at the Council’s meeting in Tennant Creek on April 17 this year. ...
Mr Ryan is a member of the Stolen Generations who was born under a tree at Wave Hill Station and taken away to Croker Island where he lived until he was eight before being sent to an orphanage in South Australia. ...
"I am a proud Australian and I hope I can achieve everything I have hoped for," he [Mr Ryan] said.
"I want to have a voice for people for issues like the discriminatory Basics Card, banned drinkers, economic bases for remote areas and outstations and bilingual education. ... ""
* NIRS: MAURIE JAPARTA RYAN TO LEAD CLC
- News
National Indigenous Radio Service: Maurie Japarta Ryan to lead CLC
http://www.nirs.org.au/blog/NEWS/article/29073/Maurie-Japarta-Ryan-to-le...
18 Apr 13: "The Central Land Council has elected a new chairman. Maurie Japarta Ryan recently stepped down as the leader of Australia's First Nations political party."
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: THE STRINGER'S INTERVIEW WITH [GREENS LEADER] CHRISTINE MILNE [ON ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA]
- Interview
The Stringer: The Stringer’s interview with Christine Milne
http://thestringer.com.au/the-stringers-interview-with-christine-milne/
19 Apr 13: "Christine Milne, Senator for Tasmania and Leader of the Australian Greens, is one of Australia’s most experienced environmental and community activists, with more than thirty years of front line activism. ...
The Stringer posed its first series of questions to Senator Milne on Aboriginal Australia: ...
SENATOR MILNE: The Greens have always been opposed to the Intervention and have been trying to roll it back. We were also the only ones standing up against Stronger Futures when it was debated in Parliament last year. It is a failed Howard policy that should never have been extended." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
* LET'S TALK'S TIGA BAYLES INTERVIEWS NIGEL SCULLION, NT SENATOR & SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
- Audio Interview
Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane:
Let's Talk - Nigel Scullion
http://www.989fm.com.au/category/podcasts/lets-talk/
15 Apr 13: "Northern Territory Senator & Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs"
Listen to this interview on-line:
http://www.989fm.com.au/podcasts/lets-talk/nigel-scullion/
* CAAMA: EXPERT CALLS FOR GREATER RECOGNITION OF ABORIGINAL HISTORY!
- Audio
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association: Expert calls for greater recognition of Aboriginal history !
http://caama.com.au/expert-calls-for-greater-recognition-of-aboriginal-h...
19 Apr 13: "A Canberra based academic says Australian history remains "almost a site of segregation" where only the white explorers and pioneers are remembered. Professor Ann McGrath, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History has launched a new online resource which will help the wider community gain a greater understanding of the depth and connection that Aboriginal people have with their land."
* JEREMY GEIA, NITV: INDIGENOUS HEALTH IN THE HANDS OF COAG
- Video
SBS World News: Indigenous health in the hands of COAG
Source: Jeremy Geia, NITV
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1757626/Indigenous-health-in-the-hand...
18 Apr 13: "Australia's peak Indigenous health organisation says future outcomes are now in the hands of the states and territories. Today, the Federal government announced it would invest more money in improving the health standards of our people, but just how much the states will contribute is still unknown. ... The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations says it’s now up to the states to ensure black health remains a priority. Justin Mohammed told NITV "It's going to be very vital right now that the states and territories come on board. ...""
* NIRS: CALLS FOR COAG COMMITTMENT
- Audio
National Indigenous Radio Service: Calls for COAG committment
http://www.nirs.org.au/blog/NEWS/article/29081/Calls-for-COAG-committmen...
19 Apr 13: "By NIRS/NITV: The head of the National Community Controlled Health Organisation has welcomed the Federal Government’s funding for Indigenous health. ... The state and territory governments are yet to follow suit and NACCHO CEO Justin Mohamed told NITV News it’s important they do."
* TRACKER: INDIGENOUS HEALTH NOT ON AGENDA, DESPITE FUNDING RENEWAL
- News
newsTracker: Indigenous health not on agenda, despite funding renewal
http://tracker.org.au/2013/04/indigenous-health-not-on-agenda-despite-fu...
18 Apr 13: "NATIONAL: Indigenous health will not be on the agenda at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting tomorrow but the Gillard government claims it will put in $777 million in renewed funding to close the gap. The federal government did not state in its press release whether this was new funding. The Closing the Gap campaign earlier this week called on the government to sign off on a new national partnership agreement on Indigenous heath before the current plan expires in June."
* NIRS: COAG URGED TO RENEW INDIGENOUS HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
- Audio
National Indigenous Radio Service: COAG urged to renew Indigenous health partnership
http://www.nirs.org.au/blog/NEWS/article/29074/COAG-urged-to-renew-Indig...
18 Apr 13: "Indigenous and medical groups are urging the federal and state governments to discuss Aboriginal health at the Council of Australian Governments meeting."
* NIRS: COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH APPROACH NEEDED: ACADEMIC
- Audio
National Indigenous Radio Service: Community-based research approach needed: Academic
http://www.nirs.org.au/blog/NEWS/article/29094/Community-based-research-...
19 Apr 13: "A professor of Indigenous studies at the Queensland University of Technology says there needs to be a more community-based approach to Indigenous research. Nunukul woman Aileen Moreton-Robinson says it’s vital for Indigenous people to conduct their own research for forming policy affecting their communities."
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: STUDENT GUILD RACISM CAUSES A STORM
- News
The Stringer: Student Guild racism causes a storm
http://thestringer.com.au/student-guild-racism-causes-a-storm/
18 Apr 13: "The University of Western Australia’s Student Guild has apologised after publishing racist slurs in its once a year Perth-wide fund raising satirical newspaper - Prosh. The annual university publication reaches tens of thousands of West Australian households in its bid to raise money for charity. It challenges the boundaries of offense but on this occasion has been slammed by just about everyone for its racist tone." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
* SBS RADIONEWS AUDIO: UWA STUDENT PUBLICATION SPARKS RACISM ROW
- Audio
SBS Radionews Podcasts: UWA student publication sparks racism row
By Darren Mara
http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/radionews/episode/263416/UWA-stu...
19 Apr 13: "The Student Guild at the University of Western Australia has apologised over the publication of a racist article in a student newsletter. But for one indigenous group, it's too little, too late. The satirical student newspaper made jokes about petrol sniffing and alcohol abuse in the Aboriginal community. An indigenous education group in WA was supposed to get funds raised by the guild, but now it's announced it won't be accepting any money. Darren Mara reports."
* JEREMY GEIA, SBS VIDEO: LIB MP SPARKS OUTCRY OVER RACIST TWEETS
- Video
SBS World News: Lib MP sparks outcry over racist tweets
Source: Jeremy Geia, SBS
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1757174/Lib-MP-sparks-outcry-over-rac...
17 Apr 13: "Liberal MP Dennis Jensen has defended telling an Indigenous woman to "get over" colonialism on Twitter by saying he used 'inappropriate channels of communication'. The West Australian parliamentarian, who is infamously known to have boycotted Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generation, was asked by a person with the Twitter handle @thekooriwoman why he didn't attend the event. Minister Jensen's replies included: "Hell, how long ago was colonialism? Get over it. Every country in the world has been successfully invaded in the past.""
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: DR JENSEN'S TWEETS NONSENSE
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: Dr Jensen’s Tweets nonsense
http://thestringer.com.au/dr-jensens-tweets-nonsense/
18 Apr 13: "Western Australia’s Federal Liberal Member for Tangney, Dennis Jensen’s controversial views continue to dog his patch of the political landscape. On Tuesday he tweeted various insults that do not befit someone in political office. His is not the first but it does come as a surprise when it is from a highly educated individual. He twittered to an Aboriginal lady, known as @TheKooriWoman, who identifies as Gomeroi and who has many Twitter followers – "get over" colonialism." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: JOSIE FARRER TELLS PARLIAMENT SHE HAS LIVED RACISM ALL HER LIFE
- News
The Stringer: Josie Farrer tells Parliament she has lived racism all her life
http://thestringer.com.au/josie-farrer-tells-parliament-she-has-lived-ra...
18 Apr 13: "Josie Farrer got up in the Western Australian Parliament and at times spoke in Kija when telling her parliamentary colleagues of the racism she has suffered throughout her life and to this day. Ms Farrer is the third Aboriginal parliamentarian to represent the Kimberley electorate – following on from Carol Martin and the late Ernie Bridge. Her elevation to State parliament keeps to two the number of incumbent Western Australian parliamentarians. She joins Labor colleague Yamaji Ben Wyatt, who holds the shadow portfolios of Native Title and Aboriginal Affairs." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
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