Newsletter date: 24 January 2013
Contents:
* YouTube: Daughter of 'Maralinga test victim' speaks out
* SBS Radionews Audio: Maralinga compo collapse prompts calls for Act of Grace
* ABC Radio National Breakfast: Maralinga compensation - Guest: WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlum
* Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog: In Contradiction to the British Position that Proof of Radiological Harm Does Not Exist. Part 2
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests
* Sovereign Union condemns Peris-Kneebone "steamrolling"
* NIT: You have betrayed us and Keating’s famous speech
* SBS Radionews Audio: Remembering 1938 'Day of Mourning' declaration
* NIRS: Lawyer Michael Mansell wants more Aboriginal rights marches
* Tracker: Debate needed on Aust Day date: Calma
* Aidan Wilson, Crikey Fully (sic): Census data misleading; languages still at risk
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools
* SBS Radionews Audio: Aboriginal remains lead to court action threat
* change.org petition: Petitioning Tony Burke: Protect sacred Aboriginal burial grounds in the Kimberley
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA
* Brisbane Times: Ruling looms in tent embassy case
* Background to Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, Qld
* Jack Waterford, Canberra Times: Prison walls to hide the view
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody
* Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, Daily Life: When the government controls what you can buy
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* YOUTUBE: DAUGHTER OF 'MARALINGA TEST VICTIM' SPEAKS OUT
- Video
YouTube: Daughter of 'Maralinga test victim' speaks out
By WorldNewsAustralia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJ0VRUXwjQ&list=UUuuTCooIMbBFHNbPcSS70uw...
17 Jan 13: "The Nunga victims of radiation exposure from British nuclear tests at Maralinga during the 1950s are being told they have no hope of compensation. SBS journalist Karen Ashford speaks with Rose Lester whose father was allegedly blinded by the tests at Maralinga about her thoughts on the compensation ruling."
- Related News
National Indigenous Times: Yami Lester has seen it all and says "no" to uranium mining
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2363-yami-lester-has-seen-it-all-and-says-no-...
22 Jan 13: "Inhabited is an exhibition of Aboriginal dissent borne from the experiences of Maralinga, a fear of Country destroyed for generations to come by uranium mining and the nuclear industry. The exhibition messages arrive through Aboriginal voices - Maralinga's Yankunytjatjara man, Yami Lester, Arabunna Elder, Kevin Buzzacott and Traditional Owners from throughout the Muckaty, the Northern Territory and Western... "
* SBS RADIONEWS AUDIO: MARALINGA COMPO COLLAPSE PROMPTS CALLS FOR ACT OF GRACE
- Audio
SBS Podcasts Radionews: Maralinga compo collapse prompts calls for Act of Grace
By Karen Ashford
http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/radionews/episode/250716/Maralin...
22 Jan 13: "Aboriginal people exposed to British nuclear tests in South Australia during the 1950s are being told they have no hope of compensation. ... pressure for a settlement on moral grounds is growing. ... Rose Lester says the Maralinga clean up didn't extend to her family's lands and she fears for the contamination that may continue today. ... There's no sense of closure for Rose Lester. She finds it hard to forgive the UK, and has little faith that Indigenous injury will ever be compensated."
* ABC RADIO NATIONAL BREAKFAST: MARALINGA COMPENSATION - GUEST: WA GREENS SENATOR SCOTT LUDLAM
- Audio
ABC Radio National Breakfast: Maralinga compensation
Presented by John Doyle
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/maralinga-compens...
18 Jan 13: "Aboriginal people exposed to British atomic tests in the South Australian outback have been told by lawyers their fight for compensation is over because it's impossible to prove radiation caused their illnesses. Seven atomic bombs were detonated at Maralinga in the 1950s and '60s on land that has since been handed back to traditional owners.
Guest: Scott Ludlum, WA Greens Senator."
* PAUL LANGLEY'S NUCLEAR HISTORY BLOG: IN CONTRADICTION TO THE BRITISH POSITION THAT PROOF OF RADIOLOGICAL HARM DOES NOT EXIST. PART 2
- Book
Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog: In Contradiction to the British Position that Proof of Radiological Harm Does Not Exist. Part 2
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/in-contradiction-to-the-b...
21 Jan 13: "National Library of Australia Catalogue. ...
Title Maralinga dust /​ Lallie Lennon.
Author Lennon, Lallie Kantjuringa.
Published 1990. ...
Subjects
Defence – Missile and weapons testing – Nuclear weapons.
Family.
Health – Gastrointestinal system.
Health – Skin physiology and disease.
Maralinga (Far West SA SH52-12)
Summary
Personal observation of effects of Maralinga testing on health of her family.
Language English
Libraries Australia ID 46677215
Contributed by Libraries Australia
Perhaps the British authorities had better learn to read."
* BACKGROUND TO JUSTICE FOR ABORIGINAL VICTIMS OF MARALINGA NUCLEAR TESTS:
Last updated: 21 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/21/background-to-justice-for-aboriginal-...
* SOVEREIGN UNION CONDEMNS PERIS-KNEEBONE "STEAMROLLING"
- Media Release
Sovereign Union: Sovereign Union condemns Peris-Kneebone "steamrolling"
http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/sovereign-union-condemns-peri...
23 Jan 13: "I condemn Julia Gillard's action of steamrolling Ms Nova Peris-Kneebone into the Northern Territory Senate seat. There are a number of major flaws in this approach.
PM Gillard is committing a number of major wrongs by saying that she is the captain of the Labor party and she can pick the team she wants. Not even in sporting circles does the captain have veto rights over who is selected to play. Sure, the captain has rights to argue for their preferred choice, but the club selectors have authority to override the captain's choice. ...
In the case of Ms Nova Peris-Kneebone, I do not have confidence in her ability to stand up for and fight the hard fight that is coming our way. It is sad, from my perspective, that Ms Peris-Kneebone is only being used as a public relations exercise for Labor. After all, what role has Ms Nova Peris-Kneebone played in fighting the hard political fights that we are currently involved in? Ms Nova Peris-Kneebone has not been involved in major political processes, rallies or otherwise. She has been missing in political action all the time. ... "
See:
About 'Sovereign Union'
http://nationalunitygovernment.org/node/3
"This is the official website of the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia. The Sovereign Union was first formed at a meeting on 12-14 June 1999 on Mt Kaputar, near Narrabri, NSW. A delegation was sent to Geneva to the UN Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights to take our sovereign voices to the international community. The Sovereign Union was further formalised with a Foundation Meeting of the 'Sovereign Union – interim Unity Government' at the Kuradji Tent Embassy, near Wollongong, New South Wales on May 25 2012."
- Related Audio
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
http://caama.com.au/radio#tabs-6
http://caama.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/am-23-1.mp3
23 Jan 13: "The Northern Territory Labor Party suffered a major rebuke following the Prime Ministers decision to nominate Aboriginal Olympic athlete Nova Peris as Labor’s number one Senate candidate for the Territory at the upcoming Federal election."
- Related News
newsTracker: Gillard faces backlash over Crossin knifing
http://tracker.org.au/2013/01/gillard-faces-backlash-over-crossin-knifing/
23 Jan 13: "NATIONAL: The dumping of Northern Territory senator Trish Crossin to make way for star Labor recruit, Aboriginal athlete Nova Peris, has been described as brutal and "a night of the long knives against a senator". Labor left co-convenor Senator Doug Cameron, a friend of Senator Crossin, is disappointed with Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s interference in the NT Senate preselection process. "If we have a problem in the Northern Territory with Indigenous representation we should have been dealing with this six months ago," he told ABC Radio."
newsTracker: Endorse Peris for senate: Gillard
http://tracker.org.au/2013/01/endorse-peris-for-senate-gillard/
22 Jan 13: "NATIONAL: Prime Minister Julia Gillard has thrown her support behind Olympian Nova Peris as a senate candidate in the Northern Territory. Ms Gillard will ask the Australian Labor Party to endorse the Indigenous athlete and Olympic hockey gold medallist as a candidate. "Her passion for health and education makes her the right choice to succeed Senator Trish Crossin," Ms Gillard says."
National Indigenous Radio Service: Nova Peris given opportunity to become first Aboriginal women in Federal Parliament
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7770-nova-peris-given-opportunit...
22 Jan 13: "The Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced her endorsement of Indigenous Australian and Olympian Nova Peris for pre-selection for a Senate seat in the Northern Territory. The Federal election is due to be held this year. The seat is currently held by Labor Senator Trish Crossin. Ms. Peris would be the first Aboriginal woman to sit in Federal Parliament. She was also the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal."
Koori Mail: Anderson: Peris pick 'not before time'
[scroll down page] http://www.koorimail.com/index.php
22 Jan 13: "NORTHERN Territory Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson has welcomed news that the Australian Labor Party could pre-select Aboriginal Territorian Nova Peris for an NT Senate seat, describing the development as 'not before time'. Ms Anderson, who served as a minister in the Henderson Labor Government before resigning to become an Independent in the NT Parliament and later join the Country Liberals, said Labor had been 'shamed' by critics within its own ranks."
Koori Mail: PM backs Nova Peris for Senate
[scroll down page] http://www.koorimail.com/index.php
22 Jan 13: "THE Australian Labor Party (ALP) is pushing for its first Indigenous representative in the Federal Parliament, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard backing Olympic gold medallist Nova Peris for a Northern Territory Senate position. ... However, the move hasn’t gone down well with incumbent NT Labor Senator Trish Crossin who issued a statement saying neither she nor the NT branch of the ALP were consulted but should have been. Nova Peris is a Muran woman from Kakadu and Arnhem Land and was a 'treaty ambassador' for the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)."
* NIT: YOU HAVE BETRAYED US AND KEATING'S FAMOUS SPEECH
- News
National Indigenous Times: You have betrayed us and Keating’s famous speech
http://www.nit.com.au/your-say.html
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2364-you-have-betrayed-us-and-keatings-famous...
22 Jan 13: "Paul Keating's famous Redfern speech 20 years ago heralded a new beginning for Indigenous Australians but subsequent governments of all persuasions had betrayed those words and the promise of action to address injustices against Indigenous Australians, one of the country's most respected and revered Elders, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks said. Ms Kunoth-Monks said nothing had changed for the better for Indigenous Australians since Mr Keating as Prime Minister at that time delivered that famous speech."
See:
National Indigenous Times: About Us
http://www.nit.com.au/about-us.html
"The National Indigenous Times first hit the streets on February 27, 2002. The paper is staffed and owned by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and we are proud of the dedicated team of predominantly Indigenous Australian writers and columnists who contribute to the publication. It does not, and has never, received Government grants or funding."
* SBS RADIONEWS AUDIO: REMEMBERING 1938 'DAY OF MOURNING' DECLARATION
- Audio
SBS Podcasts Radionews: Remembering 1938 'Day of Mourning' declaration
By Stefan Armbruster
http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/radionews/episode/250714/Remembe...
22 Jan 13: "As Australia Day celebrations get underway around the country, it will also be the 75th anniversary of the declaration of January 26 as a Day of Mourning. In 1938 a congress of Aboriginal people met in Sydney to demand equality. Led by William Cooper, Jack Patten and William Ferguson, they inspired generations of activists to fight for their people's rights. Stefan Armbruster reports on the historic gathering and the calls for an end to celebrations marking the arrival of the first fleet in 1788."
See:
WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day Events: Sat 26 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/16/wgar-news-aboriginal-sovereignty-day-...
- Related News
National Indigenous Radio Service: Day of Mourning protest 75 years anniversary
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7766-day-of-mourning-protest-75-...
22 Jan 13: "The 26th of January this year will mark 75 years since the Aborigines Progressive Association member William Cooper organised the landmark Day of Mourning protest. The APA was formed in New South Wales with Jack Patten as president and Bill Ferguson as secretary and operated until 1944 before being revived in 1963 by Bert Groves and Pearl Gibbs. The 1938 protest in Sydney was the first major national Indigenous day of protest in Australia's history. Long-time New South Wales Aboriginal rights campaigner Michael Anderson says the APA has an important legacy."
* NIRS: LAWYER MICHAEL MANSELL WANTS MORE ABORIGINAL RIGHTS MARCHES
- News
National Indigenous Radio Service: Lawyer Michael Mansell wants more Aboriginal rights marches
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7769-lawyer-michael-mansell-want...
22 Jan 13: "Prominent Tasmanian Aboriginal lawyer Michael Mansell has renewed calls for Indigenous Australians to take to the streets in light of Canada's growing Idle No More movement. The campaign has seen thousands of First Nations people continue to march through major cities of Canada following their Government's introduction of contentious legislation impacting Native Treaty rights. Mr. Mansell says it's time for people in Australia to take "more direct action" on Indigenous issues."
See:
About the National Indigenous Radio Service
http://www.nirs.org.au/about-us
"The National Indigenous Radio Service Limited (NIRS) is a national service provided from a hub station residing in Brisbane. It networks material for Indigenous media organisations that don't have the staffing or capital requirements to provide a 24-hour high quality broadcast to their audience."
* TRACKER: DEBATE NEEDED ON AUST DAY DATE: CALMA
- News
Debate needed on Aust Day date: Calma
newsTracker: http://tracker.org.au/2013/01/debate-needed-on-aust-day-date-calma/
BigPond News: http://bigpondnews.com/articles/National/2013/01/23/Debate_needed_on_Aus...
23 Jan 13: "ACT Australian of The Year finalist, indigenous elder Tom Calma, wants a national debate on whether Australia Day should be moved to a more neutral date. ... 'In the big spectrum, you get some people who are opposed to the notion of Australia Day ... people call it survival day or invasion day. All those notions are there,' Dr Calma told AAP. He said there was merit in a public debate about whether Australia Day should be celebrated on a more neutral date."
See:
WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day Events: Sat 26 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/16/wgar-news-aboriginal-sovereignty-day-...
See:
About Tracker
http://tracker.org.au/about-us/
"Tracker magazine is a publication of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Australia’s largest Aboriginal organisation."
* AIDAN WILSON, CRIKEY FULLY (SIC): CENSUS DATA MISLEADING; LANGUAGES STILL AT RISK
- Analysis / Opinion
Fully (sic) - Crikey's language blog: Census data misleading; languages still at risk
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2013/01/21/census-data-misleading-la...
21 Jan 13: "A report in The Australian claims that the 2011 census showed that the Aboriginal language "crisis" has been overstated, that indigenous languages are not in danger of dying out. Aidan Wilson looks into the data to find out what’s going on. ... The census is simply not the best way to assess the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages ... The census is an extremely useful enumeration of the population for a whole range of different reasons, but gathering accurate and useful information with respect to the health of Aboriginal languages is evidently not one of them." Aidan Wilson
See:
Fully (sic) - Crikey's language blog
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/
* BACKGROUND TO THE USE OF ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES IN NT SCHOOLS:
Last updated: 5 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/05/05/background-to-the-use-of-aboriginal-l...
* SBS RADIONEWS AUDIO: ABORIGINAL REMAINS LEAD TO COURT ACTION THREAT
- Audio
SBS Podcasts Radionews: Aboriginal remains lead to court action threat
By Dawn Tratt
http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/radionews/episode/250696/Aborigi...
21 Jan 13: "A South Australian Aboriginal leader says he's planning legal action over the disturbance of Aboriginal remains during a major road project. The Chairman of the Ramindjeri Heritage Association Karno Walker says he is preparing court action to stop the Southern Expressway Duplication project going ahead. ... Aboriginal remains were found on the construction site in November last year and more were unearthed earlier this month. ... Mr Walker told Dawn Tratt he plans to lodge a court injunction against the state government and the construction companies involved."
See:
WGAR News: Australian: Road project may be halted as Aborigines seek burial-ground injunction (20 Jan 13)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/19/wgar-news-alswa-calls-for-bipartisan-...
* CHANGE.ORG PETITION: PETITIONING TONY BURKE: PROTECT SACRED ABORIGINAL BURIAL GROUNDS IN THE KIMBERLEY
- Petition
change.org petition: Petitioning Tony Burke: Tony Burke: Protect sacred Aboriginal burial grounds in the Kimberley
Petition by Teresa Roe, Broome, Australia
http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-burke-protect-sacred-aborigin...
"The WA State government has given permission for Woodside's proposed gas plant to disturb ancient burial grounds in the dunes near James Price Point (Walmadany) without giving any rationale, and despite findings by a previous State Government that these sites must be protected for environmental and cultural heritage reasons.
Traditional owner, Teresa Roe says, "My spirit comes from this country. My sister was stolen by welfare so my parents hid me, so I could be raised on country with my culture. I raised 9 of my own children and 8 of my sisters children after she passed away. My sons are the law men for this country. They have the responsibility to protect it. They hold the songs, the stories. Our ancestors are buried in those dunes. No one would allow a whitefella cemetery to be dug up so why here? ... "
- Related News
National Indigenous Radio Service: No warning about Woodsite heritage authorisation: Lawman
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7768-no-warning-about-woodsite-h...
22 Jan 13: "Senior Kimberley traditional lawman Joseph Roe says the Western Australian Government gave no forewarning that they'd give mining company Woodside permission to disrupt sacred sites. Last week, state Indigenous Affairs minister Peter Collier said Woodside was now authorised to access and work on sacred sites for exploration and assessment at James Price Point. ... Indymedia Australia reports Mr. Roe is outraged they weren't pre-warned of the decision due to the area's deep cultural significance."
* BACKGROUND TO THE SAVE THE KIMBERLEY CAMPAIGN - JAMES PRICE POINT, NORTH OF BROOME, WA
Last updated: 18 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/11/22/wgar-news-background-to-the-save-the-...
* BRISBANE TIMES: RULING LOOMS IN TENT EMBASSY CASE
- News
Brisbane Times: Ruling looms in tent embassy case
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/ruling-looms-in-tent-embassy-...
21 Jan 13: "A magistrate will decide if three Aboriginal activists arrested for refusing to leave Brisbane's tent embassy can return to the site while on bail. Wayne Wharton, Bogaine Skuthorpe-Spearim and Hamish Chitts were arrested at the tent embassy shortly after midnight on December 12 when they refused a police order to leave. ... Magistrate John Costello adjourned the complex matter, but is expected to deliver his ruling on Thursday."
- Related News
National Indigenous Times: Brisbane Tent Embassy threat
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2359-brisbane-tent-embassy-threat.html
22 Jan 13: "What a couple of hundred Queensland police officers couldn't achieve in May this year, when they invaded the Tent Embassy site at Musgrave Park in Brisbane, arrested over 20 protesters and moved campers on to another location, it now appears the itinerant residents of the Embassy site has given cause for its imminent closure."
National Indigenous Radio Service: Idle No More campaign reaches Australia
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7761-idle-no-more-campaign-reach...
21 Jan 13: "The Canadian Indigenous rights campaign Idle No More continues to gain global strength after a rally in Sydney recently. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island protesters and supporters gathered outside the Sydney Opera House last week to show their support for the cause. ... Brisbane Sovereign Embassy member Bogaine Spearim says Indigenous Australians are able to relate to the struggles of other First Nations people."
* BACKGROUND TO BRISBANE ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGN EMBASSY, MUSGROVE PARK, SOUTH BRISBANE, QLD:
Last updated: 15 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/02/brisbane-aboriginal-sovereign-embassy...
* JACK WATERFORD, CANBERRA TIMES: PRISON WALLS TO HIDE THE VIEW
- Analysis / Opinion
Canberra Times: Prison walls to hide the view
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/prison-walls-to-hide-the-view-20...
16 Jan 13: "Government is ineffective at improving the lives of the underclass - so why expect Aboriginal imprisonment rates will fall? ... The persistence of Aboriginal overrepresentation in the jail system is getting its periodic airing. But very little of the breast-beating, or finger-pointing, is likely to have the slightest effect, least of all when the hanging implication is that it is a result of some conscious or unconscious discrimination by police, or judges, or the broader legal system." By Jack Waterford, Editor-at-large, The Canberra Times
- Related News
National Indigenous Radio Service: Trends towards harsh regional sentences sees call for inquiry
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7772-trends-towards-harsh-region...
22 Jan 13: "The Western Zone Principal Legal Office of the Aboriginal Legal Service of New South Wales has called for an inquiry into sentencing in regional courts. Stephen Lawrence says evidence suggests in regional parts of New South Wales, there are patterns of harsh sentencing and, in many cases, it appears a person sentenced in the bush often receives a harsher sentence compared to a person sentenced in the city. He says the only way for the facts to be known is for the State Government to launch a formal inquiry."
National Indigenous Times: HUMANINSIDE highlights ongoing government apathy over jail rates
22 Jan 13: "A forum titled Solid Talk which was part of the HUMANINSIDE visual exhibition at the Fremantle Prison museum gallery in Western Australia brought to the fore some of the most pertinent issues that continue to stagger the Australian consciousness - the disproportionate and discriminatory incarceration rates of Aboriginal peoples and their treatment inside prisons by authorities and by the criminal justice system... "
National Indigenous Radio Service: Call for governments to implement cultural reconnection programs
http://www.nirs.org.au/news/latest-news/7763-call-for-governments-to-imp...
21 Jan 13: "The head of a social justice group says cultural reconnection programs for Aboriginal young people are a way to reduce the Indigenous youth incarceration rate. Recent reports have found young Indigenous people were 31 times more likely than non-Indigenous youth to be in detention - a rate which has increased in recent years. Ray Jackson from the Indigenous Social Justice Association says governments should look at the Mt. Theo cultural rehabilitation program for young people in central Australia as an example of youth crime reduction policy."
* BACKGROUND TO ABORIGINAL IMPRISONMENT AND DEATHS IN CUSTODY:
Last updated: 20 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/12/17/background-to-aboriginal-imprisonment...
* GREENS SENATOR LEE RHIANNON, DAILY LIFE: WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS WHAT YOU CAN BUY
- Analysis / Opinion
Daily Life: When the government controls what you can buy
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/when-the-governmen...
21 Jan 13: "We have learnt in recent decades that people drowning in a myriad of social problems, entrenched over generations, won’t benefit from this top down paternalistic 'solution' reminiscent of a less enlightened era. The collective wisdom is that what people in a tough spot need most is trained workers who can help them get a job, manage their bills, gain an education or improve their parenting. The federal government needs to a deep breath, look at the evidence, and drop income management." By Lee Rhiannon, a Greens Senator for NSW, spokesperson for women
- Related News
National Indigenous Times: Intervention lie revealed
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2330-intervention-lie-revealed.html
22 Jan 13: "Claims of a child sexual assault epidemic in the Northern Territory prescribed communities which was used by the Indigenous Affairs Minister of the Howard Government, Mal Brough and subsequently supported by the current Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin as the primary reason for the Northern Territory Intervention has not led to any increase in prosecutions of child sex offenders."
* BACKGROUND TO 'STRONGER FUTURES' NEW NT INTERVENTION LAWS:
Last updated: 12 January 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-stronger-futures-new-nt...
* BACKGROUND TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT) INTERVENTION:
Last updated: 31 December 2012
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-northern-territory-...
* OTHER ARTICLES:
- Analysis / Opinion
National Indigenous Times: Finally, ABS data to corroborate the horrific extent of homelessness - but who really cares?
http://www.nit.com.au/opinion/2342-finally-abs-data-to-corroborate-the-h...
22 Jan 13: "The Northern Territory's homelessness and overcrowding rates remain the worst in the nation, and one of the worst in the world according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Human Rights Alliance (HRA). Grandson of Vincent Lingiari, Maurie Japartu Ryan, and leader of the fledgling Aboriginal political party, First Nations, said it is time Aboriginal people... " By Gerry Georgatos
SMH: The evil within
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-evil-within-20130118-2cym9.html
19 Jan 13: "The Indian gang rapes and the Steubenville rape in the US have brought sexual assault into focus. But it remains all too common in one part of the Australian community which is too afraid to report it, writes Yatungka Gordon. ABORIGINAL women experience sexual assault at six times the rate of non-Aboriginal women, and those of us who work to support them know that this is no exaggeration. However, despite the prevalence of sexual assault in Aboriginal communities, the topic is still taboo. People don't want to talk about it." By Yatungka Gordon
- Audio
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
http://caama.com.au/radio#tabs-6
http://caama.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/pm-22.1.13.mp3
22 Jan 13: "* Central Australian Stolen Generations and Families have added their voice to concerns that the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will become just another report that sits on a shelf and goes nowhere.
* An Inquiry into child protection has been told that mainstream media continues to portray Aborignal people as drunks and women bashers despite the fact that the majority continue to live wholesome lives without alcohol or domestic violence."
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
http://caama.com.au/radio#tabs-6
http://caama.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/am-21-1-update.mp3
21 Jan 13: "Members of the Northern Territory Stolen Generations have welcomed the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse but are concerned about having to give more evidence because nothing was done to address these issues following the release of the Bringing Them Home Report 20 years ago."
- News
newsTracker: Appoint Indigenous commissioners: inquiry
http://tracker.org.au/2013/01/appoint-indigenous-commissioners-inquiry/
23 Jan 13: "NATIONAL: Indigenous parliamentary commissioners should be appointed to advance the push for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. The federal government put on hold last September plans for a referendum to constitutionally acknowledge Indigenous people until there was more community awareness and support. Instead it has introduced to parliament legislation for an act of recognition which will be a stepping stone towards constitutional change."
National Indigenous Times: Uncle Boydie delivers on grandfather’s brave stand against Jewish atrocities
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2361-uncle-boydie-delivers-on-grandfathers-br...
22 Jan 13: "Members of the Aboriginal and Jewish communities observed the anniversary last week of a unique protest in Melbourne. Seventy four years ago Aboriginal activist William Cooper and his colleagues at the Australian Aborigines League tried to hand a resolution to the German consul-general condemning the Nazis' persecution of the Jews."
National Indigenous Times: Gurrumul’s run in with racist taxi driver is nothing new in Victoria, say leaders
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2356-gurrumuls-run-in-with-racist-taxi-driver...
22 Jan 13: "Award-winning Yolngu musician, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was left standing in the street outside a Melbourne concert venue last week after a taxi driver refused to allow him in his cab. The taxi stopped and waited after being hailed by Mr Yunupingu's manager, Mark Grose and musical director, Michael Hohnen, who are both non-Indigenous but when Mr Yunupingu, who is blind, was... "
National Indigenous Times: Black Diggers a planned production in tribute to soldiers Australia refused to acknowledge
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2353-black-diggers-a-planned-production-in-tr...
22 Jan 13: "Every evening at sunset, a lone bugler stands at the Menin Gate in Ypres and sounds the Last Post in memory of the unknown British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in World War I. Sometimes the Belgian square is full of life, at other times the bugler may play only to an audience of snowdrifts. It's a familiar landscape for Sydney Festival director Lieven Bertels, who grew up in Flanders. So close is his home to... "
National Indigenous Times: Governance overhaul is needed to empower communities: Gooda
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2351-governance-overhaul-is-needed-to-empower...
22 Jan 13: "The way Indigenous Australians are governed needs a complete overhaul, Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has used his annual report to call for a complete overhaul of the way Indigenous Australians are governed. Mr Gooda was delivering his annual report to the Australian Human Rights Commission. "We need Government to sometimes just get out of the road and give us a chance to make some decisions... "
National Indigenous Times: Collard warns mining jobs push a misguided approach
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2350-collard-warns-mining-jobs-push-a-misguid...
22 Jan 13: "A leading Indigenous spokesman has called for partnerships and co-management between Traditional Owners and mining companies to help protect country, sacred sites and natural resources. David Collard, a keynote speaker at last week's Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations conference at the University of WA, said there needed to be more "Aboriginal engagement in natural resource... "
National Indigenous Times: Jack Johnson lashes NSW Land Council
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2331-jack-johnson-lashes-nsw-land-council.html
22 Jan 13: "The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) has recommended a consultancy firm allegedly linked to the New South Wales Labor Party mining corruption scandal and also linked to an Aboriginal death in custody be appointed by the New South Wales Government to investigate Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council. Chief Executive Officer of the Gandangara Land Council, Jack Johnson has made the claim... "
National Indigenous Times: Famous Larrakia petition a reminder of a great struggle
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2329-famous-larrakia-petition-a-reminder-of-a...
22 Jan 13: "A petition central to the struggle for Aboriginal Land Rights has been brought out of storage at the National Archives for a rare viewing in Canberra. The fragile Larrakia petition, signed with a thousand names and thumbprints, was brought out for a special viewing by the National Archives' Aboriginal Advisory Group, which had been visiting Canberra for the first time from the Northern... "
National Indigenous Times: Gary Murray labels Victoria’s Heritage Council as "a sham"
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2328-gary-murray-labels-victorias-heritage-co...
22 Jan 13: "Aboriginal Cultural Heritage management in Victoria is a sham according to Aboriginal leader Gary Murray who has claimed the State Government's Heritage Council only represents a few clans from the south west of the State. Mr Murray, an Elder of the Dja Dja Wurrung people of central Victoria, said the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council is dominated by "government appointed self appointed leaders" from a... "
National Indigenous Times: Tauto Sansbury to ALP: "I quit!"
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2326-tauto-sansbury-to-alp-i-quit.html
22 Jan 13: "One of South Australia's most respected Aboriginal leaders, Tauto Sansbury has followed in the footsteps of Warren Mundine, the former President of the Australian Labor Party and formally resigned from the Australian Labor Party because he declared the Party was not helping Aboriginal peoples. Mr Sansbury said he had lost faith in the party which he said no longer cared about Aboriginal peoples and... "
National Indigenous Times: Buzzacott tells BHP: "Get off my land"
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2325-buzzacott-tells-bhp-get-off-my-land.html
22 Jan 13: "Arabunna Elder, Kevin Buzzacott led protesters who gathered for the launch of an alternative annual report titled "Dirty Deeds", which was distributed to shareholders at BHP Billiton's annual meeting at the Sydney Convention Centre last week. Mr Buzzacott, who has earned admiration and respect for his long running battle against BHP's planned expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South... "
National Indigenous Times: Steels call for Restorative justice
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2321-steels-call-for-restorative-justice.html
22 Jan 13: "Restorative Justice Week is an international event and last week it was highlighted throughout Australia with world renowned restorative justice academic and prison reform advocate, Dr Brian Steels calling for humanity to underwrite corrective services and the criminal justice system and restitute society. Dr Steels coordinated the launch... "
National Indigenous Times: The warrior has left the prison
http://www.nit.com.au/news/2319-the-warrior-has-left-the-prison.html
22 Jan 13: "Respected Queensland leaders have expressed outrage that the Queensland Corrective Services have denied a family's request to have a home town funeral of a prisoner who died in custody recently after serving 31 years. Rev Alex Gator (right) Queensland's first female Aboriginal Priest and long time prison chaplain who knew Garnet Mickelo when he was a young boy in the Cherbourg Boys' dormitory, said... "
Mudgee Guardian: Indigenous involvement vital in plan for constitutional recognition
http://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/1251301/indigenous-involvement-vi...
22 Jan 13: "Specially-appointed indigenous parliamentary commissioners are needed to oversee the push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the constitution, the government funded campaign for change says. At a hearing of the joint select committee examining the proposed changes, the deputy director of the You, Me, Unity campaign, Tanya Hosch, acknowledged it was an ''unusual'' proposal but one that was necessary to maintain the involvement of indigenous people."
Australian: Inquiry 'may miss stolen children'
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/inquiry-may-miss-stolen...
19 Jan 13: "INDIGENOUS groups have raised concerns that Aboriginal children who were sexually assaulted in remote communities or in foster care may fall through the cracks of the national royal commission. The National Stolen Generations Alliance and Northern Territory Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation said there was a "grey area" for many indigenous victims of child abuse because the abuse may have happened within a family context."
Australian: Tim Carmody's remarks offensive, says Mick Gooda
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tim-carmodys-remarks-of...
19 Jan 13: "ABORIGINAL and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has criticised Queensland's child protection inquiry head for raising a theory that violence was a "cultural value" in some indigenous societies. Mr Gooda said the comments by Tim Carmody SC, who is heading an inquiry examining the over-representation of Aboriginal children in Queensland's child safety services, showed a "complete misunderstanding" of indigenous self-determination in his comments during hearings this week."
Australian: Torres Strait Islander children 'should not be removed', inquiry told
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/torres-strai...
15 Jan 13: "TORRES Strait Islander children should not be removed from their cultural environment because of the trauma it causes, an inquiry has heard. Dr Rose Elu, a project officer qualified in child-rearing studies and anthropology, told Queensland's Child Protection Inquiry Torres Strait Islanders retained a strong culture with language differences and raised children in that tradition."
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