Success in projects that are run by Aboriginals
Report found projects run by the Central Land Council showed a better chance of creating ongoing community benefits.
Projects under Aboriginal control reap rewards, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Tom Nightingale Dec 22, 2010 An Australian National University report argues Indigenous people are less likely to benefit from current government policies that do not empower Aboriginal groups. Continue reading
Northern Territory intervention aimed to get Aboriginals off their land
the real motivation for the intervention, which seems to be more about land than children…. the federal government intervention – entirely without consultation with the Indigenous people and ignoring the substantive recommendations of the report to which it was purportedly responding…..Wholesale compulsory acquisition of land for unstated purposes is another measure that would not be tolerated by the Australian community as a whole….to destroy Aboriginal culture and Aboriginal attachment to their traditional lands
Human Rights and the Northern Territory Intervention, Online opinion, By Alastair Nicholson – , 20 December 2010, Australia is the only western nation without a bill of rights and, indeed, is one of only a few countries in the world to lack such a bill. Continue reading
Opposition to WA govt’s compulsory grab of Aboriginal land
the government is trying to compulsorily acquire Aboriginal land. Traditional owners, some of who had previously been prepared to support the project, are now united in opposition. Many unions, including the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, are supporting them.
Stop the Kimberley land grab: renewables not gas, Green Left Weekly, November 21, 2010By Alex Bainbridge, Perth Woodside and the Western Australian government’s push to build a massive gas-processing plant at James Price Point will be a key battle in a broader campaign to protect the cultural and environmental heritage of the Kimberley region in WA. Continue reading
Australian Aboriginal owners petition against nuclear waste dump
Dianne Stokes, a traditional owner from the area, says community members, along with the Australian Conservation Foundation, have delivered a petition with more than 2,000 signatures to federal
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson.
Traditional owners petition against nuclear dump ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Nov 19, 2010 2 Traditional owners say they are ramping up their fight against a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. Continue reading
WA govt’s grab of Aboriginal land is condemned
Forum condemns Kimberley acquisition, Green Left Weekly, October 31, 2010 By Barry Healy, Perth Corporations trying to construct a gas processing hub at James Price Point “might have a bit of difficulty getting their power plant built” if Premier Colin Barnett completes compulsorily acquiring the Aboriginal land, Continue reading
South Australia’s Labor govt set to fail Aboriginal Maralinga victims’ quest for justice
Maralinga victims denied legal help, MELISSA MACK,
Oct 29, 2010, ABORIGINAL victims of nuclear testing in the 1950s are likely to be denied the chance of claiming millions of dollars in compensation, with the state Government refusing to help fund the legal case. Continue reading
Carbon offset scheme can be an economic winner for Australia’s Aborigines
Centrefarm has urged the Government to make new laws to enshrine Aboriginal ownership of the carbon stored on their land.
Australian govt to try mediation to get nuclear waste dump on to Aboriginal land
a representative from other clans, Mark Lane Jangala, has launched a Federal Court challenge against the Government and the land council to try to stop the dump.
Nuclear dump parties to enter mediation, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Anna Henderson, 26 Oct 10 The Federal Government and the Northern Land Council have agreed to mediate with Aboriginal clans who oppose a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. Continue reading
Hypocrisy of Australian Liberal Party over Aboriginal Land Rights
Aboriginal people from Muckaty north of Tennant Creek were told by the Liberal Party they would only receive funding for roads, housing and education if they accept a nuclear waste dump on their land. Abbott and Scullion are continuing to support laws which would force this waste dump on Muckaty by over-riding the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT), the Aboriginal Heritage Act and the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Tony Abbott and Nigel Scullion don’t care about Aboriginal Land Rights Statement on Tony Abbott’s Wild Rivers bill from the Intervention Rollback Action Group Alice Springs, October 6 2010 www.rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/statements/
We have been sickened by the hypocrisy of Liberal leader Tony Abbott and Liberal NT Senator Nigel Scullion on their recent crusade to overturn Queensland ‘Wild Rivers’ legislation. Continue reading
International Catholic group condemns Australia’s Aboriginal Intervention
“The Intervention has taken control of the lives of Aboriginal peoples through such measures as compulsory income management and compulsory acquisition of leases over Aboriginal land.
“The Labor Government has continued the Intervention which remains a blight on Australia’s reputation.”
Territory shame The Catholic Leader: : 23 September 2010 By: Paul Dobbyn AUSTRALIA’S “shameful treatment” of indigenous people in remote Northern Territory communities has been exposed during a six-day fact-finding mission by local and international visitors, a prominent Aboriginal Catholic leader has said. Continue reading
Liberal MP in Northern Territory plans to betray Aboriginal Jeffrey Lee
Member for Katherine Willem Westra van Holthe wrote: “People like Mr Lee won’t be around forever so I believe it will be easier to ‘unreserve’ a piece of land than mine it inside a park boundary or excise it … at a later time.”….
CLP digs up new uranium policy | Northern Territory News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au, BEN LANGFORD, September 16th, 2010 PLOTTING is afoot within the Territory Opposition to change its policy on uranium mining at Koongarra, a leaked email shows. Continue reading
Western Australian Aboriginals to Canberra to stop compulsory acquistion of their land
compulsory acquisition ……, is about taking away Aboriginal people’s Native Title rights and interest in a piece of land for the purpose of a big mining company making loads, lots and lots of money.
Indigenous leaders take land grab complaint to Canberra Radio Australia, September 14, 2010 The Kimberley Land Council has taken its campaign against the James Price liquified natural gas project in Western Australia to Canberra.
Two weeks ago the Western Australian government began a compulsory acquisition process for land in the Kimberley region in the north-west of the state. Continue reading
National rage against compulsory grab of Aboriginal land.
- The decision, as predicted in The Australian last Thursday, sparked nationwide indignation, with critics accusing Premier Colin Barnett of taking Aborigines back to colonial days and “sticking a finger in their eye” to do the bidding of Woodside.
- Woodside land move to be felt ‘around world’ | The Australian,Amanda O’Brien September 03, 2010
ABORIGINAL leaders and celebrity environmentalists have threatened to mobilise across Australia in a battle “as big as Noonkanbah”. Continue reading
Compulsory acquistion of Aboriginal land; gas now, uranium later?
“What I say to the Premier is be very careful about setting precedents like this, they can do more damage that you can ever imagine. I think compulsorily acquisition is, in a sense, another act of colonialism, it’s another theft of our land, it’s another invasion. It should never ever be contemplated at a political level….
Compulsory acquisition ‘theft’ of land, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 2 Sept 10 Indigenous academic Mick Dodson has delivered a warning to the WA Premier, describing compulsory acquisition of land for the Kimberley gas hub as theft and an invasion. Continue reading
Aboriginals and Labor oppose uranium mining in Western Australia
Kade Muir, a Wongatha anthropologist who was born in Kalgoorlie but now resides elsewhere, says, “We don’t want this product disturbed from the ground. We don’t want to bequeath a legacy for future generations of a toxic environment.”
Enough of Uranium Mining, Say Aboriginal Communities. Galdu. Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, August 2010, KALGOORLIE-BOULDER, Australia — As a mining giant prepares to open a major uranium mining site in Western Australia next year, the clamour for the state to once more ban mining of the radioactive mineral has become louder.
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