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upsets Indigenous people on Sorry
Day
Queensland Opposition Leader Rob Borbidge caused a massive
walkout of the packed Parliamentary public gallery by his
remarks during the 'apology' debate on Sorry Day.
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Past
wages injustice righted
On 31 May 1999 the Queensland Government announced that it
would establish a process for dealing with claims by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queensland Government
employees, who were underpaid by a previous
government.
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 ATSIC
secures
favourable audit
An audit tabled in Federal Parliament last month confirmed
ATSIC had been both effective and innovative with its major
community housing and infrastructure
program.
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 Hill
rejects Jabiluka protection
application
Environment and Heritage Minister Robert Hill has rejected
an application by the Traditional Owners of the Jabiluka
Uranium Mine site for an area to be
protected.
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 Reconciliation
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It's Up To Us
As the Chairperson of the Council for Aboriginal
Reconciliation, I am pleased to invite the readers of the
Land Rights Queensland to take part in this exciting phase
of the reconciliation process.
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 Brisbane
Land Interest Forum
Brisbane's Indigenous community will participate in a forum
with the Brisbane City Council (BCC) this month to explore
opportunities for partnership
arrangements.
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Herron
announces ATSIC elections
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Senator John Herron has
announced that the next ATSIC elections will be held on 9
October 1999.
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Laura
Festival '99
The thirteenth Laura Aboriginal Dance and Cultural festival
will be held on 18 - 20 June 1999 at the Ang-gnarra Festival
ground near Laura, 300 kms north of Cairns.
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SA
Native Title Conference a great
success
Delegates at a recent South Australian conference said a lot
of myths about Native Title had been dispelled by the
conference.
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Herron
attendance a sorry spectacle
What sad symbolism there was in the attendance by Aboriginal
Affairs Minister John Herron at the first anniversary of
National Sorry Day at Parliament House yesterday (26 May
1999).
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WA
hit for legal fees on land rights
case
Attempts by the Western Australian Government to block a
land claim has resulted in the Government being ordered to
pay the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) around $4.7 million
in legal costs.
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Proud
to Say Sorry
It was a great privilege on May 26, National Sorry Day, to
be part of the Queensland Government that made an overdue
full apology to the stolen generations of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people.
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Valuing
Native Title as a Bundle of Rights
This article develops the author's earlier publication in
the February 1999 edition of LRQ entitled "Calculating the
Value of Native Title", and is the third of a continuing
series dealing with valuation issues.
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Scare
tactics on Native Title in WA
National Native Title Tribunal President Graeme Neate said a
statement by a Federal Parliamentarian that most of Western
Australia was "up for grabs" as a result of Native Title was
disappointing.
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NTRB
invitation areas
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs,
Senator John Herron, last month finally released the Native
Title Representative Body invitation areas.
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Clever
sleight of land keeps claims at bay
They are netherworld public servants. They work for no
stated purpose and provide no annual public annual reports.
Yet, they are the biggest freehold land owners in the
Northern Territory, conceivably the biggest in
Australia.
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Democrats
concerned about problems with Native Title
Act
The Native Title Act states that one of the duties of
the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title is to
inquire from time to time into a number of aspects of the
operation and effectiveness of the Act. Democrats'
Indigenous Affairs Spokesperson, John Woodley is a member of
this Committee. Here he talks about his recent trip to the
top of Western Australia and North -Western Queensland and
outlines some of the concerns highlighted by witnesses at
these hearings.
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In
Brief
- Numbers of young Indigenous youths in apprenticeships
and training have fallen.
- Westpac's Business and Consumer Banking Group
Executive, Michael Hawker, admitted recently that the
traditional response to falling business in the bush had
been to close branches.
- Executive Director of the Australian National
University's Academy of the Humanities, Dr David Bennett,
said recently that Indigenous tribes were living in
squalor while making billions for drug companies.
- Tax discussions took priority over reconciliation for
the Prime Minister John Howard in Canberra on National
Sorry Day.
- Just one day after indicating he would move to
disallow the Northern Territory's Native Title
legislation in the Senate, Senator Brian Harradine
withdrew his threat.
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What
They Said...
The words from the people who made the headlines this month.
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Adoptive
mother granted burial rights by UK
court
A High Court judge in England has given the adoptive mother
of an Aboriginal man the right to decide where he is to be
buried.
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ANTaR
News...
In March this year the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
ruled that the Australian Native Title Amendment Act 1998
was racially discriminatory and breached Australia's
international obligations. ANTaR plans support for CERD
Decision.
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Admission
on Stolen Generations
The Federal Government has conceded for the first time that
considerable taxpayer dollars may be required to compensate
victims of the stolen generations.
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NAIDOC
Celebrations: Musgrave Park Brisbane
As part of the celebrations
during NAIDOC week (4 July to 11 July 1999), a family fun
day will be held in Musgrave Park on Friday 9 July.
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Graduates
outraged
Sydney newspaper columnist
Piers Akerman sparked a walkout by graduates when he made
references to "the Aboriginal industry" during a graduation
ceremony at Wollongong University last month.
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SEQ
Regional Forest Agreement
On 14 May 1999, the Commonwealth and Queensland governments
released a report, Towards a South-East Queensland Regional
Forest Agreement: A Directions Report, for public comment.
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ACC
helps Palm Island community
With the assistance of the North Queensland Area
Consultative Committee (WorkNorth Inc), three Soroptimists
clubs in Townsville identified a previous pilot project in
Townsville for unemployed young people that they considered
was an appropriate model to assist the Indigenous people of
Palm Island. This project included a course "Small Business
Training for Unemployed Young People", based on the Young
Achievers Australia (YAA) program in schools.
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Cybertracker
Capers
We have now got four new iMacs in the Cybertracker
Café. These computers are not only attractive to look
at, but are very easy to set up. At the moment it takes me
only 14 minutes from the time I open the box until I am
surfing the net. I have not been able to achieve that with a
Wintel system yet. The best time in which I can get a Wintel
system up and running is about three hours. OK I can get
better times at home but here at the Café I am
running NT server 4, Free BSD, Windows 95 and NT
Workstations.
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Bookmarks
Links to interesting places on the internet.
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Book
Reviews
Book reviews on Connections in Native Title:
Genealogies, Kinship and Groups, Native Title Report
1998 and Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and
National Parks in Alaska.
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