Friends
A highly respected Aboriginal woman is speaking at this weekend’s national Labor conference. A few years ago she said:
“There is certainly
nothing dignified about losing your human rights as a human being,
based on
being an aboriginal citizen” Yananymul
Mununggurr March 2009 .
Yananymul is
one of the Aboriginal Elders / Community leaders who prepared the recent Elders
statement released in Melbourne, 4 November. Please see
Last week’s Kairos (Volume 22 no. 22 ) ran an article on their trip
to Melbourne
There are serious
ongoing concerns with the NT Intervention. A proposed new bill is most
concerning.
Pat Turner (former CEO
of ATSIC and former Deputy CEO of Centrelink) is vehemently opposed to these
new bills which, amongst other punitive measures, will see cuts to welfare
payments of parents of truant school children. She
said, “ ... I see this as the last straw in Aboriginal
affairs policy. I am absolutely opposed to it. This is bad public
policy, it is morally objectionable, and it will not work... . This
legislation must be withdrawn...” 25 November 2011
Last week ACOSS
released a powerful statement "Cooperation not intervention: a call
for a new direction in the Northern Territory", 23 November 2011
There have been many others including, http://www.snaicc.asn.au/news-events/fx-view-article.cfm?loadref=32&id=694
Take action - go to: ANTaR
National
On Updates please take time to read,
· New opinion piece on Northern Territory Emergency Response 2011
Evaluation report, written
by Michele Harris OAM
· Please do read if you haven’t had a
chance: 'Cuts to Welfare
Payments for School Non Attendance - Requested or Imposed?' You will find the document embedded below and can be read on screen or downloaded.
The paper analyses the
recent NT Stronger Futures consultations on education and
questions Minister Macklin's claim that Aboriginal people asked her to
implement this new and measure.
Kind Regards and
Thankyou
Georgina Gartland
'concerned Australians'
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