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Native
Title laws under
scrutiny yet again
Australia's Native Title laws will again come under
international scrutiny at next month's meeting of the United
Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (CERD).
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S-E
Qld Regional Forest
Agreement
Recently the Federal and Queensland governments released a
report, Towards a South-East Queensland Regional Forest
Agreement: A Directions Report, for public
comment.
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 Local
Government meet to discuss Native
Title
The Local Government Association of Queensland recently held
six Native Title seminars throughout the State to allow
Councils to meet and discuss Native Title
issues.
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 Honour
for NLC Chair
Over 200 north east Arnhem Land people last month witnessed
the Governor-General Sir William Deane bestow a special
award on the Northern Land Council Chairman Galarrwuy
Yunupingu.
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 ANTaR
News...
During
June 2-3, two representatives of ANTaR Qld attended a
half-day seminar in Sydney, titled Forging a New
Relationship.
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 Brisbane
Mabo Day Celebrations1999
Brisbane celebrated Mabo Day 1999 in King George Square.
Radio station 4AAA broadcast from the Square all day and
FAIRA staff and volunteers provided breakfast and lunch to
passers by. Indigenous dancers and performers put on a good
show for all and the Papunya Women kept people captivated
with their paintings and
dances.
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 Brisbane
Land Interest Forum
FAIRA/Brisbane
City Council (BCC) held a three-day Land Interest Forum last
month to foster a better understanding of land management
issues in the Brisbane City Council
area.
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Starcke,
Lakefield to be returned to Traditional
Owners
The
Beattie Government has announced that two of Queensland's
most prominent wilderness areas will be handed back to their
Traditional Owners.
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SA's
First cross-border Native Title claim
Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement's (ALRM) Native Title Unit
and the Goolburri Land Council are developing the
Yandruwandha-Yawarrawarrka and Wangkumara Native Title
application.
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ALP
Life Membership for Aborigine
Aboriginal and Labor Party activist Paddy Jerome was awarded
the meritorious service award of Life Membership at the
Queensland ALP's annual conference in June.
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Torres
Strait Islander artist appointed to Queensland Art Gallery
Board
Torres Strait Islander artist and curator Brian Robinson has
been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Queensland
Art Gallery in Brisbane.
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Tent
Embassy ceremonial-fire case dismissed after DPP steps
in
Canberra's Tent Embassy elders were outraged at the
intervention of the Director of Public Prosecutions in their
case against senior National Capital Authority members and
two police officers.
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FAIRA
sets up new agency
FAIRA Aboriginal Corporation has set up a new agency to deal
with the important Indigenous cultural heritage and
biodiversity issues which emerge under Native
Title.
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SA
Native Title changes
The South Australian Native Title Bill, due to be debated in
the July session of the South Australian parliament, is
racist, according to the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
(ALRM).
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Delivering
Overdue Justice
The June issue of Land Rights Queensland reported on the
Queensland Government's historic decision to work on a
process for compensating Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people who were under-paid while working for
previous Queensland Governments.
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NAIDOC
Grants
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy,
Judy Spence, recently announced community grants of $80,000
to celebrate NAIDOC Week, 4-10 July.
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A
guarantee for compensation for Native
Title
This article develops the author's earlier publication in
the June 1999 edition of LRQ entitled "Valuing Native Title
as a Bundle of Rights", and is the fourth of a continuing
series dealing with valuation issues.
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Reconciliation
- the mother of all millennium
challenges
The world may witness two potential scenarios at the opening
of the Sydney Olympics in October 2000.
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Kakadu
"In-danger" listing gains momentum
The Mirrar people, Traditional Owners of the area
over which the Jabiluka uranium mine is located, have
received support from 34 members of the United States
Congress in their efforts to have Kakadu National Park
declared "In-Danger" by the United Nations' World Heritage
Committee.
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In
Brief
- As a result of a decision by the University of
Wollongong to cut its Indigenous health course, students
responded by erecting 12 tents outside the University's
administration building.
- The Lockhart Aboriginal community has been granted
$80,000 to set up a domestic violence service.
- Preston Resources, the developer of a nickel and
cobalt at Maryborough near Rockhampton, has referred to
arbitration its negotiations with Traditional Owners on
Native Title issues over the mine.
- The State Government has provided $148,807 funding to
the Tableland Economic Development Corporation to further
develop the Mareeba Wetlands.
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What
They Said...
The words from the people who made the headlines this month.
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Traditional
fishing rights upheld
Lawyers for Perth Aboriginal Medical Service Director Ted
Wilkes were successful last month in having Mr Wilkes'
conviction for poaching undersize marron overturned. They
argued that he had a Native Title right to fish.
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DÄR
Festival 1999
The DÄR Festival, an initiative of the Brisbane City
Council (BCC) and the Brisbane Council of Elders, was held
from 27 May to 6 June.
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Native
Elder for Masses
An elder of the Undumbi people spoke at three Masses in
Nambour parish to mark the beginning of NAIDOC
week.
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Have
your say on the Draft Document
The Council for Aboriginal
Reconciliation launched its long-awaited Draft Document for
Reconciliation across Australia on June 3, marking the start
of a six-month public consultation period.
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ATSIC's
Home Ownership Program
The ATSIC Home Ownership
Program fills a genuine need for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples. Currently less than 32 percent of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people own or are
buying their own home, while more than 65 percent of
non-Indigenous Australians own or are buying their own
home.
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Give
black voters a proper say
In 1990, property developers Farndale Pty Ltd put a proposal
to build a tourism resort on the boundary of the Lockhart
River Aboriginal community on the east coast of Cape
York
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Native
Title Representative Body Submission on the South-East
Queensland Regional Forest Agreement
Executive summary from a submission by FAIRA Aboriginal
Corporation, Goolburri Land Council Aboriginal Corporation
and Gurang Land Council to the Government in responce to the
Directions Report recently released for public
comment.
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Cybertracker
Capers
The last two weeks have been one of chaos and mayhem. No,
not in the real world but here at the cafe. Because of the
school holidays I have had a full house each week. The most
popular game has been Quake 2 networked. If you have not
seen this game, the basic idea is to shoot anything that
moves. If you cannot kill it then get a bigger gun and try
again.
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Bookmarks
Links to interesting places on the internet.
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Book
Reviews
Book reviews on Land Rights at Risk? Evaluations
of the Reeves Report, Social Justice Report 1998
and Arts, Business, Culture.
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