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Friday, 31 May 2013

Outback in The Barkly, local member Gerry McCarthy is having his say on NT Govt development plans for Aboriginal communities - first give us your land clear of native title encumbrances!

Picture from here

Gerry McCarthy
23 minutes ago · 
  • Little Bali for the Tiwi Islands, while the Barkly gets Australia's Nuclear Waste or will the Chief Minister join with the community most affected to better inform his decision?

    Economic development equals jobs and going to work becomes the agent of change for improving low self esteem offering an alternative to dysfunctional behaviour including alcoholism, drug addiction, criminal offending and prison.

    Going to work supports engaging with the community, training, meeting people, communicating, developing a world view and reflecting on achievements as opposed to despair.

    Government plays a strategic role in creating and stimulating economic development and jobs especially in regional areas through investment in public and enabling infrastructure also supporting private projects like beef, mining and construction.

    The Hon Adam Giles as reported by Paul Toohey in the Northern Territory News 18/5/2013 made, “an unprecedented offer to Aboriginal communities in the NT – If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory with a viable economic future and says we want to be a part of a bold new approach I’ll put them down as a major project and I’ll do everything I can to help them out.”

    Toohey reported the Chief Minister’s vision including the Tiwi Islands becoming the next Bali which made the headline however the real issue is Aboriginal land tenure, traditional ownership and agreements to support economic development for creating jobs.

    The Chief Minister was quoted as saying major developments on Aboriginal land, “would include making sure we had land tenure arrangements that allowed investment. It’s not about taking peoples land, or access to cultural sites, but a CBD and township that allowed for growth and got rid of native-title implications that stopped development in that area.”

    Economic development is a worthy ambition from our young Chief Minister however extinguishing native-title requires a sensitive approach by a CLP Government credited with a 30 year legal battle costing tens of millions in taxpayer dollars to resolve the Kenbi Land Claim.

    The most recent example of the CLP Government’s inaptitude in resolving Aboriginal Land Rights saw a complete breakdown in negotiations over the Blue Mud Bay decision and recent closures of top end rivers to recreational fishers.

    In Government NT Labor premised negotiation not litigation successfully negotiating the Barkly Work Camp and Tennant Creek Land Release with Aboriginal Traditional Owners including the Native Title consent determination over the township.

    As an Opposition Member I can only offer advice to the Chief Minister for sensitive native title negotiations emulating open and accountable decision making that embraces Aboriginal land tenure protocols representing spiritual and physical ownership.

    The Federal Court hearing in relation to Muckaty Station as Australia’s first nuclear waste management facility should become the Chief Minister’s ‘yard-stick’ as the decision reflects, can a small family group make a decision about Aboriginal land allowing development that adversely impacts on the extended clan, moiety and tribal owners including traditional owners from surrounding Aboriginal land?

    The Hon Adam Giles has not declared his position or the CLP Government’s position on the Northern Territory becoming the repository for Australia’s nuclear waste including intermediate to high level waste from nuclear fuel rods and decommissioned nuclear reactor from Sydney’s Lucas Heights.

    The Federal Court decision on Muckaty will provide a clear determination for correct decision making processes supporting land use on Aboriginal country structuring the Chief Minister’s ‘one liners’ for dictating Government policy.

    However where do the Hon Adam Giles and his Government members stand on the Muckaty nomination as Territory Labor’s position has not changed in opposition to Federal colleagues imposing Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on the Northern Territory!


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Labels: Aboriginal issues, Development, Government and Governance, Land, Land acquisition, NT

Thursday, 30 May 2013

It's all a numbers game - everyone counts - and if the numbers aren't right then nothing else is

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It is early on a Thursday morning in late May.  As I write, it is pitch black outside but soon I will see another sunrise over the mighty Murray River.  Yesterday it was at Swan Hill.  To-day it is at Robinvale.  The drive between Swan Hill and Robinvale is a lesson in Australian geography, sociology and economics. 

I am in Mallee country. Mallee is a species of eucalypt with many bracts or trunks.  It inhabits arid and semi-arid areas of southern Australia.  In the late 19th century and early 20th century, many would-be farmers broke their hearts and their backs trying to clear mallee scrub for agriculture.  

Picture from here
See more text and photos about mallee scrubs here
Description from The Argus of 6 February 1909
of trialling a traction engine to clear mallee scrub

The drive from Swan Hill to Robinvale across the mallee country is an entree to the fruity riches of Sunraysia.  While there are many vegetable crops along the way, it is the orchards - of citrus, of olives - and the grape vines that are the attention getters.  Thousands upon thousands of hectares planted in the straightest of straight lines, undoubtedly due to the wonders of GPS.

I did come across, though, mass destruction of citrus trees. Perhaps someone can enlighten me why this destruction was taking place.  Firstly, I came across huge bonfires of cut down trees.  Further on, I saw a whole section of uniformly dead citrus trees, starkly grey compared to the usual dark green glossy leaves.  Further on, ploughed fields on which the ashes of fire were still present.  

I know there are farmers who are or will be destroying their trees in the Goulburn Valley area of Victoria because of the SPC Ardmona cutbacks - but does this impact on growers this far west?  Perhaps the destruction was of trees which were past their use-by date and no longer as productive as once they were?  Perhaps the destruction was the result of a commercial decision to destroy a section of citrus to plant other crops such as olives or grapes?

As I came closer to Robinvale, white plastic was on many of the vines. This was to keep the birds away from the grapes underneath.  In one area, I saw pickers at work and trucks loaded with boxes. Harvest was in full swing.

Which brings me to what I really want to talk about ... the people.

Particularly since World War II, both sides of the Murray River - in New South Wales and in Victoria - have developed multicultural populations.  Large Italian communities are evident but there is quite a mix.  Family farms have become agricultural corporations.  In some cases, not only is fruit produced it is also processed at an industrial level locally.  Wineries abound.  Those thousands of hectares of GPS-ploughed fields represent huge financial investments and some thick wallets have been developed in communities either side of the NSW-Vic border.  

But in the end, there is a harvest and that fruit - whether it be citrus, olives or grapes - has to be picked.  In come the pickers, the casual workers.  Who are these people? Young, old - single, married, in relationship - educated, uneducated, undereducated - male, female - Australian born - foreign born Australian citizens - illegal immigrants.  What does it matter, some might think, as long as the job is done; the fruit is picked; the fruit gets to market, to the processors.  

People have to live.  People have to have shelter; health care; schools for kids; public services such as police, fire brigades, ambulances.  In these days of ubiquitous technology, people need access to computers, phones.  Those with no English or basic English need language classes.  Sometimes strangers need people to talk to.  How can all this be managed?

Communities have a way of managing. We have governments at federal, state and local level with a mix'n'match - and, sometimes, mismatch - of responsibilities in service delivery.  Since around the 1970s, communities have found that less formal services than those provided by bureaucratic government departments are needed to plug holes, fill gaps, communicate.  To do this work, across the nation numerous NGOs have sprung up, assisted by government funding, to meet specific and even non-specific community needs.  There are Welfare Committees, Neighbourhood Houses, Community Networks, Housing Co-operatives, Hospital Auxiliaries .......

What NGOs - and even local councils - have found is that there has to be thought, organisation and planning even at volunteering levels to get done what needs to be done.  Funding comes from on high it would seem - particularly if you live far from a state capital, let alone far from Canberra.  Application for funding and succeeding on obtaining sufficient funding can be quite a skill - particularly when people operate more informally and more collaboratively at the local level and then have to learn the ways of bureaucratic operation to find a pathway through the morass of forms as well as build linkages with departmental contacts.

For Local Government and NGOs to get funding, they have to substantiate their case.  Anecdotes and reporting of experience won't do.  Proof, facts are required.  The basic turn-to for such proof, facts is the Australian Bureau of Statistics. And the basic turn-to is the regular Census statistics. The last Australian Census collection was in 2012.  However, it is a bit difficult for the ordinary citizen to find useful and detailed statistics relating to their town. In short, it is not easy to find an online breakdown of census statistics for Robinvale either as a town or as a district.

Robinvale is in the local authority area of Swan Hill which has been deemed, in somebody's wisdom, a 'rural city'.  Now from my community studies training "rural city" is a bit of a contradiction in terms.  

The long and short of this is that it is quite clear that the citizens of Robinvale have no confidence in the population statistics for their town and believe that various departments and bureaucrats have not been doing their job well.  A visit to the Information Centre in Robinvale will get you a very useful booklet called Official Visitors' Guide - Robinvale Euston - Victoria Australia.  On Page 1 of this booklet under the title of this is robinvale euston, the third paragraph down makes for interesting reading:
Our vibrant townships on the Murray River comprise over 22 different nationalities, and according to the 2011 census data, has a resident population of around 4,500.  Although as many of the locals will tell you, this is severely understated. They believe a more accurate figure is between 8,000-10,000 people, due to the seasonal employment nature of the area and many residents being missed at data collection time. None the less, Robinvale Euston is one unique multicultural melting pool.
 I went shopping at the local IGA Supermarket between 5pm and 6pm yesterday evening, and I can assure Networkers that this didn't seem like a town of 4,500 people.  I've lived in small towns, tiny towns, regional cities, and capital cities across the eastern seaboard and in the Northern Territory and I reckon the supermarket test give a reasonable feel - on all sorts of levels - of a town, its population, and its social demographics.

So, I reckon I agree with the people of Robinvale.  The true population and its needs are not currently reflected in the official figures.  It would be good to have some way for politicians and departmental bureaucrats to recognise this so that more precise information can be available to local government and NGOs as well as giving the aforesaid politicians and departmental bureaucrats the tools to better serve Robinvale.

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Labels: Agriculture, Environment, Food Production, Horticulture, Population, Statistics, Trees and Forests, Victoria

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Religion and Empire : Jesus and Catholicism - Pell and Hart


George Cardinal Pell gave evidence at the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry Into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations.  This followed close on the heels of the appearance last week before the Inquiry of the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart.  Denis Hart's evidence and his demeanour were less than inspiring.

At one point Hart raised the ire of the gallery with a sort of sneering reference to what the church is now doing as being "better late than never:"  However, I don't think Hart is worthy of consideration.  Aside from the sexual abuse controversy, based on what makes the newspapers about Hart I don't think he's much of an Archbishop. Archbishops are meant to act as shepherds protecting the sheep, their flock.  Clearly, Pell and his Melbourne successor, Hart do not meet Jesus's qualifications for shepherds. 

What I want to open for consideration concerns George Pell.  If you watched the performance of George Pell at the Inquiry yesterday, what or whom did you see?  As I watched, I did not see someone who was a Jesus follower or imitator.  I saw a corporate CEO or Business Manager.  I did not see someone who became Christ every time he said mass.  You see, the Catholic Church refuses to ordain women - based on the sacramental doctrines underlying the priesthood and the eucharist.  Well, the macho interpretation of them!

The teachings of Jesus are seldom brought up in regard to the sexual abuse of children - whether in reference to Catholicism or any other Christian organisations.

Jesus said in Matthew Chapter 18 verse 6
But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.    -  New living translation

I take this to mean not that the children fall into sin.  Instead, it refers to the gravity, the depth of depravity, when those old enough to reason morally draw children into their own web of sin.

Does that refer specifically to paedophilia?  I think not.  There are all sorts of moral depravity by which adults might draw the young into their web.  Violence, corruption - and, the current cause of concern, gambling - are just a few of the categories that spring to mind by which adults might corrupt the young.

While there are adults who draw children into the world of paedophilia in a direct manner, should we go on to consider those who provide the fertile soil in which paedophilia operates, grows, networks?  I think so.

Watching Pell the CEO, the Business Manager before the parliamentary inquiry, Australians could see on display the self-satisfaction, the self-serving nature of the social milieu in which Catholic clerics - particularly those at higher levels of the Catholic hierarchy - are immersed.

To take the point further, I would suggest that one cannot ignore the history of Christianity and its continuing relationship, over the last 1700 years, with Empire.

Jesus pointed out that His kingdom was not a kingdom of this world and neither was it akin to a worldly empire. There might have been a reformation and a split from the Roman form of Christianity but the role and power of Empire was displayed in a similar manner within the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of England, and the Lutheran Church.   Such a relationship of Christianity to empire is seen in contemporary USA politics via the Tea Party.

A factor in perverse sexuality which damages other human beings is dominance: dominance of the paedophiliac over a child; dominance of male over female; exploitation of of one person by another simply because one is able to control and dominate another.  Religion can play a dominating and power role in the lives of individuals and, in this manner, has the capacity to become a transmitter of exploitative, harmful, and soul-destroying desires.

In short, I am saying that Pell and Co are not only at fault in their response to the victims of paedophiliacs.  They are part of a self-perpetuating social milieu which enables paedophiliacs to perpetrate and enforce their desires.

Not all Christian faith communities are associated with or cosy-ing up to Empire.  There are faith communities who are aloof from Empire ... and, even within their communities, paedophiliacs may be discovered. However, having said this, it would seem that in those communities paedophiliacs are fewer in number that those in the faith communities associated with Empire.

If all that is not convincing, I would simply draw attention to the second part of the two commandments given by Jesus.   As for the Catholic Church's response to legal action, its prelates seem to have forgotten completely the words of Jesus on how to respond when being sued. 

Addendum:
It seemed to make things worse:  Pell sorry over meeting
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Labels: Catholicism, Justice, Religion, Sexism, Sexual abuse

Monday, 27 May 2013

Join The Sharehood and celebrate Global Sharing Day


Yes, the Sharehood is back!

Thanks to everyone who wished us well after we were hacked by spammers, and thanks to those wonderful geeks who turned up to help get us back online, and those who donated through http://www.givenow.com.au/sharehood. We love you all!

The site is very different now. Much simpler was the aim.

No more accounts, no more logging in. To search for shareables, or to post a new shareable or community post, just visit the front page. Make sure you set your suburb and postcode first, then away you go. That electric drill you need is just around the corner.

And more importantly, don't forget to add more shareables and community notices for those who live near you.

Please let us know what you think, or if you have problems or ideas for how it could be made even simpler or better.

Share*Make*Mend


To mark Global Sharing Day in Melbourne, join the Sharehood and Transition Darebin atShare*Make*Mend - an afternoon of free making and mending workshops and activities, a food swap, clothes and book swap and kids' entertainment.  Share*Make*Mend is on Saturday 1 June, from 1.30 - 4pm at Northcote Uniting Church, 251 High St, Northcote.

Bring along your excess herbs, fruit, vegetables and preserves, pre-loved books and clothes for swapping, or attend a workshop or activity, or learn how to mend or repair broken jewellery, bags, bicycles, ceramics, clothing, shoes, small electrical appliances, toys and umbrellas!

Please note that while Global Sharing Day is on the 2nd of June, Share*Make*Mend is on Saturday the 1st of June

Share*Make*Mend is on Saturday June 1st from 1.30-4pm at Northcote Uniting Church, 251 High St, Northcote, Melbourne. We are looking forward to a fabulous afternoon of skill-sharing, swapping, sharing, making and mending!

The Neighbour Project: And the winner is...


Cara, a West Melbourne resident and Sharehood member!

Earlier this year the Sharehood put out a call to members in Melbourne to participate in a new way to explore being in the hood. Since then we've been putting our experienced community facilitators to work and getting our feet wet (metaphorically) in the suburb of West Melbourne.  Cara, a West Melbourne resident and Sharehood member, put in a convincing argument about why we should work with her community.

So far we've…
  • connected with the locals including getting along to the local community centre launch of their annual festival ‘Spring Fling’,
  • letterboxed over 500 West Melbourne households to invite them to afternoon tea and let them know where doing a project in the area, and
  • had an afternoon tea at Cara’s house with over 20 people from the community.
…and we’ve learnt...
  • that if West Melbourne was a person he/she would… be fast paced, on the brink, have unrealised potential with no specific ethnicity but street smart, although not aggressive, and conservative in dress, but open to changes in style...
  • and that people like West Melbourne’ s proximity to the city and its old-style streetscape and friendliness...
  • and that they would improve the area by bringing people out of their homes, creating more green and social spaces with more public art.
This project is in its early days, so if you live or work in West Melbourne and want to get involved in exploring the potential of your community then call or email Jane Ward on 0419 352 036 or jane@thesharehood.org


Thanks for being part of the Sharehood!
The Sharehood collective,
Michael, Brett, Theo, Asha, Liz F, Jo, Sam, Jane, Thibault, Tosh and Liz S.
P.S. To get in touch about any of this please email contact@thesharehood.org
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Sunday, 26 May 2013

WGAR New - Keeping them home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families

Keeping Them Home
- Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families


Special Sorry Day Edition
http://www.nsdc.org.au
"National Sorry Day offers the Community the opportunity 
to acknowledge the impact of the policies spanning more 
than 150 years of forcible removal of Aboriginal and 
Torres Strait Islander children from their families."

Newsletter date: Sorry Day - 26 May 2013

This newsletter: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/05/26/wgar-news-keeping-them-home-stop-the-forced-removal-of-aboriginal-children-from-their-fam

Contents: 

* Petition: Keeping Them Home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews renowned journalist Jeff McMullen about child removals and the importance of families
* Jeff McMullen, Respect and Listen: The Future of the Family (giving context to the suicide and child removal issues)
* SNAICC News: Keeping Them Home - Elder Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, calls for this trend to be reversed
* Peter Robson, Green Left: NT government risks new stolen generation
* ABC Indigenous: Chief magistrate says NT's child protection department is failing
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage
* Background to the Stolen Generations and the Bringing Them Home report
* Background to Child Protection and Out-of-home care

* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: Six years and still standing strong: NT trade unions join Traditional Owners to protest Muckaty radioactive waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* ABC Indigenous: NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nation
* Background to Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* CAAMA: NAAJA CEO Priscilla Collins on The Alcohol Protection Order Scheme
* APO NT: Alcohol and Other Drugs
* ABC: New alcohol powers for police
* ABC: Grog culture defended as 'core social value'


* PETITION:
KEEPING THEM HOME:
STOP THE FORCED REMOVAL OF ABORIGINAL CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES



- Petition

Change.org Petition: Keeping Them Home
- Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families

Petitioning Adam Giles
Petition by Stand For Freedom
http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/keeping-them-home-stop-the-forced-removal-of-aboriginal-children-from-their-families
"40 years ago the Stolen Generation happened on our watch.
5 years ago the Nation apologised for it.
Now, forced child removal is happening again on our watch."
"Please read the petition letter to the Chief Minister Adam 
Giles, initiated by the Keeping Them Home campaign by 
'concerned Australians', and lend your voice to this 
important cause."


- Campaign

Keeping Them Home
'concerned Australians': http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
Respect and Listen: http://www.respectandlisten.org/


* LET'S TALK'S TIGA BAYLES INTERVIEWS RENOWNED JOURNALIST JEFF MCMULLEN
ABOUT CHILD REMOVALS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILIES



- Audio Interview

Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane:
Let's Talk - Jeff McMullen

http://www.989fm.com.au/category/podcasts/lets-talk/
17 May 13: "Jeff McMullen, Honorary CEO of the Ian Thorpe’s 
Foundation For Youth and renowned Journalist."
Listen to this interview on-line: 
http://www.989fm.com.au/podcasts/lets-talk/jeff-mcmullen-11/


* JEFF MCMULLEN, RESPECT AND LISTEN:
THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY



- Analysis / Opinion

Respect and Listen: The Future of the Family - Jeff McMullen
http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/speeches/jeff-mcmullen---the-future-of-the-family.html
13 Mar 13: "Many Elders have told me that the family 
counselling efforts trialled in Central Australia tap into 
traditional approaches for alleviating social crisis by 
involving members of the extended family and community 
services to discuss how to improve the safety and 
well-being of the child. This approach can reduce the 
removal of children from family and we should be supporting 
the local efforts vigorously." By Jeff McMullen


* SNAICC NEWS:
KEEPING THEM HOME:
ELDER REV DR DJINIYINI GONDARRA, CALLS FOR THIS TREND TO BE REVERSED



- News

SNAICC News: Keeping Them Home
- Elder Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, calls for this trend to be reversed

http://www.snaicc.org.au/news-events/fx-view-article.cfm?loadref=32&id=1083
23 May 13: "The most recent data shows that the number of 
children being moved into out-of-home care in the Northern 
Territory has just about doubled since 2007. Two-thirds of 
these children are being placed with non-Indigenous 
families away from their communities. Elder Rev Dr 
Djiniyini Gondarra, as spokesperson for Yolngu Makarr Dhuni 
calls for this trend to be reversed by increasing family 
support services in communities. He has written to the Chief 
Minister of the Northern Territory, Adam Giles, asking him 
for his support."


* PETER ROBSON, GREEN LEFT:
NT GOVERNMENT RISKS NEW STOLEN GENERATION



- News

Green Left: NT government risks new stolen generation
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54144
25 May 13: "Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentary 
leader, Adam Giles, announced on May 13 that his government 
would increase the number of Aboriginal children removed 
from their families. Concerns that a new stolen generation 
could be created were putting children at risk, he said. ... 
Since 2007, the number of Aboriginal children removed from 
their families in the NT has almost doubled and two-thirds 
of those removed are placed with non-Aboriginal families. 
This reality has led Aboriginal elders to condemn Giles’ 
statements and call for more support for Aboriginal families." 
By Peter Robson


* ABC INDIGENOUS:
CHIEF MAGISTRATE SAYS NT'S CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT IS FAILING



- News

ABC Indigenous:
Chief magistrate says NT's child protection department is failing

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-25/chief-magistrate-critical-of-nts-child-protection-department/4712740/
25 May 13: "The Northern Territory's chief magistrate says 
the child protection department is failing to categorise 
Aboriginal children at risk because of a lack of services. 
Hilary Hannam says the NT's Office of Children and Families 
will "only very rarely conclude there are risks" to a child 
or that they need protection, especially when they are from 
an Aboriginal community. She said the "department's 
reluctance to become involved is unclear" and there may be 
"subtle pressure" on child protection workers "to conclude 
that a child is not in need of protection where services 
are not available"." By Phoebe Stewart

Australian:
Northern Territory agency battles with child-neglect cases

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/department-good-at-taking-kids-into-care-but-not-very-good-at-looking-after-them/story-e6frgczx-1226647958868
22 May 13: "CASES of child neglect are falling through the 
cracks as the Northern Territory's under-resourced child 
protection agency bounces between crises. Sometimes the 
agency is doing more harm than good, its incoming head has 
warned." Amos Aikman, Northern correspondent


* NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT) FORCED ABORIGINAL ADOPTION MEDIA COVERAGE


- Compilations

Respect and Listen: Keeping Them Home: Media Coverage
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.org/

WGAR News: Keeping them Home - What have we learnt from Bringing them Home?:
ACM Sydney
 (23 May 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/05/22/wgar-news-keeping-them-home-what-have-we-learnt-from-bringing-them-home-acm-sydney

WGAR News: Indigenous adoption push prompts Stolen Generation fears:
ABC Radio Australia Video
 (18 May 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/05/17/wgar-news-indigenous-adoption-push-prompts-stolen-generation-fears-abc-radio-australia-vi


- Audio

The World Today:
NT Govt to strengthen long term child protection orders

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2013/s3764812.htm
22 May 13: "The Northern Territory's Child Protection 
Minister says her Government is redrafting laws to increase 
stability for vulnerable children in long-term foster care. 
Last week the Northern Territory's Chief Minister Adam 
Giles suggested it was time to increase permanent adoptions 
for children in long-term foster care. He said successive 
governments had failed to protect Aboriginal children by 
not removing them from abusive and neglectful situation, 
for fear of creating another Stolen Generation. But the 
Child Protection Minister says forced adoptions is not on 
the table."


- News

ABC Indigenous:
Care options call to protect Aboriginal children

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-23/care-options-for-aboriginal-children-dr-sarah-mares/4708534/?site=indigenous&topic=latest
23 May 13: "A child psychiatrist from the Menzies School of 
Health Research says alternative long-term care options are 
necessary to protect vulnerable Aboriginal children. The 
Northern Territory Government has flagged allowing the 
adoption of Indigenous children who are subject to 
long-term neglect or abuse. Dr Sarah Mares of the Menzies 
School of Health Research delivered a talk in Alice 
Sporings yesterday on the damage trauma does to children's 
development. She says all children need stable and loving 
homes to reach their full potential."

newsTracker: Elder slams NT forced adoption plan
http://tracker.org.au/2013/05/9207/
21 May 13: "NATIONAL: An Indigenous elder is pleading with 
Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles to scrap plans 
to address Aboriginal child neglect via forced adoptions. 
Mr Giles has warned that Aboriginal children are being left 
with neglectful parents for fear of creating another stolen 
generation. ... But in a letter obtained by AAP, elder 
Djiniyini Gondarra, who represents 8000 Yolngu people of 
east Arnhem Land, urges Mr Giles to have a rethink. 
"We vehemently oppose your proposed policy to take away our 
children and give them up for adoption," Dr Gondarra writes."


* BACKGROUND TO THE STOLEN GENERATIONS AND
THE BRINGING THEM HOME REPORT



- Compilation

Respect and Listen: Keeping Them Home: Background Information
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.org/


- Analysis / Opinion

lara (author-blogger):
Some things never change: more Stolen Generations

http://larahentz.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/some-things-never-change-more-stolen-generations/
23 May 13: "As a Native American who has experienced 
upheaval and survived my own closed adoption, the 
devastating loss of my culture and my language cannot be 
overstated as a loss to me, to my family and to other 
adoptees I know who endured it. This media release struck 
me that some things never change, either in the US or in 
Australia. If we do not teach this history, we are doomed 
to repeat it - over and over. Poverty is the worst form of 
violence and the Third World and Indian Country is still 
suffering the effects, generation after generation... 
Trace/Lara"

Stolen Generations: The invention of the Stolen Generations
http://www.stolengenerations.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=27
"IN 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 
made the most notorious accusation ever directed by a 
government body against Australia. It accused this country 
of committing genocide against the Aborigines by stealing 
their children. According to the commission’s report, 
Bringing Them Home, state officials ripped from the arms of 
loving parents several generations of Aboriginal children 
in order to raise them in institutions or with white 
families."

Brisbane Blacks Monthly: The New Stolen Generations
http://brisbaneblacksmonthly.weebly.com/the-new-stolen-generations.html
October 2012: "Tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres 
Strait Islander children were forcibly removed from their 
families between 1869 and the 1970s, with the 1997 Bringing 
Them Home report estimating that "between one in three and 
one in ten" were stolen and made wards of the state. In 
2008, then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a 
formal apology to the Stolen Generations "for the laws and 
policies of successive Parliaments and governments that 
have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss" on the 
nation’s Indigenous people." 
By Callum Clayton-Dixon, Anaywan Nation


* BACKGROUND TO CHILD PROTECTION AND OUT-OF-HOME CARE


- Consultation

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA):
National Standards for Out of Home Care - Consultation Paper

http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/publications-articles/national-standards-for-out-of-home-care-consultation-paper?HTML


- Research

Information concerning Australia and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/information-concerning-australia-and-convention-rights-child

NTCOSS Submission to the Inquiry into the
Child Protection System in the Northern Territory
 2010
http://www.ntcoss.org.au/sites/www.ntcoss.org.au/files/Child%20Protection%20Inquiry%20NTCOSS%20Submisison_0.pdf

Adoption and Forgotten Australians
http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/content.php?pid=55757&sid=498466

'Getting the big picture':
A synopsis and critique of Australian out-of-home care research 

- Leah Bromfield and Alexandra Osborn
http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/issues/issues26/issues26.html

The mental health care needs of children in out-of-home care:
A report from the expert working committee of the
Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

http://www.ranzcp.org/Files/ranzcp-attachments/Resources/FCAP_paper_on_Out_of_Home_Care_June_2008-pdf.aspx

Experiencing Out-of-Home Care in Australia:
The Views of Children and Young People 

- By Dr Joseph J. McDowall
http://www.nwhn.net.au/admin/file/content101/c6/CREATE_ReportCard2013%28LR%29.pdf

Do Not Damage and Disturb:
On Child Protection Failures and the Pressure on Out of Home Care in Australia 

- Jeremy Sammut
http://www.cis.org.au/images/stories/policy-monographs/pm-122.pdf
CIS Policy Monograph 122 - 2011: The Centre for Independent Studies

Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse:
Permanency planning and adoption of children in out-of-home care.

http://homelessnessclearinghouse.govspace.gov.au/about-homelessness/agreements-and-initiatives/s-and-t-initiatives/nsw-initiatives/permanency-planning-and-adoption-of-children-in-out-of-home-care-briefing-paper-no-032013-nsw-aust/

Aboriginal Child Abuse the Royal Commission Cannot Avoid 
- Tony Thomas
http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2013/5/aboriginal-child-abuse-the-royal-commission-cannot-avoid


- Background

SAF,T: Our Kids, Our Way program
http://www.saft.org.au/carers

Child protection and wellbeing
http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/related-issues/family-violence/publications/specific-topics/child-protection

Child protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/pubs/factsheets/a142117/

The Inquiry into the Child Protection System in the Northern Territory: 
http://www.childprotectioninquiry.nt.gov.au/

Australian Bureau of Statistics:
Child protection

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.NSF/bb8db737e2af84b8ca2571780015701e/1E0502ECA1BA306DCA2574390014CF1C

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW):
Child protection

http://www.aihw.gov.au/child-protection/
http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=60129542752

Child protection and youth justice services
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/122864/21-2013-compendium-chapter15.pdf

Protection and support services
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/114969/53-government-services-2012-chapter15.pdf

Reporting abuse and neglect:
State and territory departments responsible for protecting children

http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/pubs/factsheets/a142843/index.html

Their needs:
appropriate service models for vulnerable children, young people and families

http://www.cfecfw.asn.au/sites/www.cfecfw.asn.au/files/PVVC_Issues_Paper_2_Final.pdf


* BEYOND NUCLEAR INITIATIVE:
SIX YEARS AND STILL STANDING STRONG:
NT TRADE UNIONS JOIN TRADITIONAL OWNERS
TO PROTEST MUCKATY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP



- News

Beyond Nuclear Initiative:
Six years and still standing strong:
NT trade unions join Traditional Owners
to protest Muckaty radioactive waste dump

http://beyondnuclearinitiative.com/2013/05/25/six-years-and-still-standing-strong-nt-trade-unions-join-traditional-owners-to-protest-muckaty-radioactive-waste-dump/
25 May 13: "NT Union members will join Traditional Owners 
and supporters from across the Territory in Tennant Creek 
this weekend for a rally against the proposed national 
radioactive waste dump at Muckaty in the Northern Territory. 
The rally and concert will mark exactly six years since the 
Northern Land Council voted to nominate the site. In May 
2012 the Australian Council of Trades Unions National 
Congress unanimously voted to support the Muckaty campaign. 
Bryan Wilkins, NT Organiser for the Australian 
Manufacturing Workers Union said, "NT Unions are standing 
in solidarity with Traditional Owners and communities ... ""


* BACKGROUND TO THE PROPOSED MUCKATY NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP:

Last updated: 11 May 2013

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-proposed-muckaty-nuclear-waste-dump-in-nt-australia


* ABC INDIGENOUS:
NT INDIGENOUS DEATHS IN CUSTODY WORST IN NATION



- Video

ABC Indigenous: NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nation
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-24/nt-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-worst-in-nation/4712380/?site=indigenous&topic=latest
24 May 13: "Source: 7pm TV News NT"


* BACKGROUND TO JUSTICE REINVESTMENT,
ABORIGINAL IMPRISONMENT AND
DEATHS IN CUSTODY: 


Last updated: 15 May 2013

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/12/17/background-to-aboriginal-imprisonment-and-deaths-in-custody


* CAAMA:
NAAJA CEO PRISCILLA COLLINS
ON THE ALCOHOL PROTECTION ORDER SCHEME



- Audio Interview

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
NAAJA CEO Priscilla Collins on The Alcohol Protection Order Scheme

http://caama.com.au/ceo-of-naaja-priscilla-collins-talks-about-the-alcohol-protection-order-scheme
14 May 13: "The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency 
(NAAJA) CEO Priscilla Collins talks to Lorena Walker about 
the APO and the supply of Alcohol."


* APO NT:
ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS



- Analysis / Opinion

Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT):
Alcohol and Other Drugs

"The Northern Territory has the second highest alcohol 
consumption in the world. Misuse of alcohol has devastating 
health and social consequences for NT Aboriginal 
communities. APO NT believes that addressing alcohol and 
drug misuse, along with the many health and social 
consequences of this misuse, can only be achieved through 
a multi-tiered approach. 
APO NT supports evidence based alcohol policy reform, 
including: 
* Supply reduction measures 
* Harm reduction measures, and 
* Demand reduction measures 
To address alcohol and drug misuse within Aboriginal and 
Torres Strait Islander communities, social and structural 
determinants of mental health must be addressed."

APO NT Membership
http://apont.org.au/index.php/membership.html
"Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT) 
is an alliance comprising the 
Central Land Council (CLC), 
Northern Land Council (NLC), 
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), 
Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS) 
and the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT (AMSANT). 
The alliance was created to provide a more effective 
response to key issues of joint interest and concern 
affecting Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, 
including through advocating practical policy solutions 
to government."


* ABC:
NEW ALCOHOL POWERS FOR POLICE



- Video

ABC: New alcohol powers for police
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-10/new-alcohol-powers-for-police/4683052
10 May 13: "The Deputy Chief Minister David Tollner 
outlines new alcohol protection orders to ban some alleged 
criminals from drinking."


* ABC:
GROG CULTURE DEFENDED AS 'CORE SOCIAL VALUE'



- News

ABC: Grog culture defended as 'core social value'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-23/giles-defends-nt-drinking-culture-as-core-social-value/4708310
24 May 13: "Chief Minister Adam Giles has defended the 
Northern Territory's drinking culture as a "core social 
value". Speaking at an Australian Hotels Association (AHA) 
annual awards dinner in Darwin last night, Mr Giles said 
the tradition of "having a coldie" in a pub should be 
"enshrined" as part of Territory life. "This is our 
lifestyle, this is the way we live," he said. Mr Giles 
said the Government would do its best to support the liquor 
industry." By Kristy O'Brien

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http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/30/about-wgar-news-working-group-for-aboriginal-rights-australia

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'WGAR News' monitors the media, including alternative media, focusing on: 

* the Australian Federal government intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities; 
* the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies; 
* Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody; 
* Aboriginal land rights and mining; 
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'WGAR News' publishes information and opinions from a wide range of sources. 
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