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 Beattie
sustains 100 years of Queensland
racism
The Queensland Native Title laws recently submitted by
Premier Beattie to the federal Attorney-General for approval
are the culmination of a century of official racism against
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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 Traditional
owners join council in wetlands
plan
Brisbane City Council is developing a sustainability plan
and management plans for the north-east Brisbane wetlands
region for the next five to seven
years.
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 Geneva
declaration on the health and survival of Indigenous
peoples
The Geneva Declaration on the Health and Survival of
Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the Indigenous caucus on
the last day of the World Health Organisation's
International Consultation on the Health of Indigenous
Peoples on Friday 26 November
1999.
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 Under-award
wages settlement
FAIRA has started visiting communities to talk to people
about the under-award wages settlement process and the
rights of workers who were
underpaid.
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 Linking
Indigenous Peoples
The newly formed Commonwealth Association of Indigenous
Peoples was officially launched at the Commonwealth People's
Centre associated with the Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting (CHOGM) recently in Durban, South
Africa.
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Working
group welcomes support in battle for
protection
Indigenous
leaders throughout Australia have welcomed the stand by ALP,
Democrat and Independent senators to fight the Federal
Government's proposed legislation that is threatening the
protection of Indigenous cultural heritage.
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WA
Provisions Bill cuts claim rights
The Aboriginal communities of Western Australia are once
again faced with a reduction of our native title rights,
through the enactment of legislation in the State
Parliament.
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Royalties
paid for essentials others take for
granted
Although Stuart Rintoul (The Australian, Tuesday November 9)
is right to point out that "Aboriginal people in Kakadu
remain among the poorest indigenous communities in the
country", blaming the Gagudju Association and its members
for this appalling state of affairs is misplaced.
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Cultural
heritage laws make mockery of
reconciliation
The Howard Government has refused to listen to Democrat and
Labor concerns that its proposed cultural heritage
legislation is too weak and places precious sites of
Indigenous heritage in jeopardy.
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World's
first Labor premier implicated in
massacre
Due to a
series of complicated political manoeuvres the first Labor
government in the world came briefly into office in
Queensland on 1 December 1899, under the premiership of
Anderson Dawson.
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Hopevale
draws up dugong, turtle hunting
guidelines
Hopevale Community hopes new guidelines for Indigenous
hunters of dugong and turtles will ensure the future
sustainability of the species.
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Fish
charge adjourned following Yanner
case
A Torres
Strait Islander man charged with breaches of the Fisheries
Act had his charges adjourned while lawyers reassessed the
alleged offence in light of the recent Murrandoo Yanner High
Court hearing.
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Women's
historic report on violence
The Queensland Government says it plans to respond to the
Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's
Task Force with a "whole of Government" strategy early in
2000.
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Legislation
makes international pariah of
Australia
The Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (the Wik legislation)
amounts to an extraordinary expropriation of property rights
and interests for one section of the community with no
compensation on just terms, says a paper published by The
Australia Institute last month.
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ANTaR
News...
ANTaR QLD supports the call by the Queensland Indigenous
Working Group for a federal government rejection of the
proposed state native title legislation.
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Cartoon
By Kevin Lindeberg
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Queensland
Indigenous Working Group calls for federal rejection of
state native title legislation
The Queensland Indigenous Working Group used a
meeting with Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams on
December 2 to raise concerns about both state and
commonwealth native title legislation.
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Mabo
of the Seas
The Northern Land Council expects that native title holders
will appeal against a Federal Court decision relating to the
Croker Island Seas native title case.
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Preamble
to the Geneva declaration on health
WE, the representatives of Indigenous communities, nations,
peoples and organisations attending the International
Consultation on the Health of Indigenous Peoples, held in
Geneva from the 23-26 November 1999, and organised by the
World Health Organisation, reaffirm our right of
self-determination and remind states of their
responsibilities and obligations under international law
concerning health, including the health of Indigenous
Peoples.
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Racism
and The Courier-Mail newspaper
The letter at the end of this article was sent to The
Courier-Mail, which has refused to print it in the 'Letters
to the Editor' section. The letter was addressed to the
chief reporter, Tony Koch, who attacked QIWG for opposing
the Queensland Native Title laws.
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Beggars
can't be choosers or a window of
opportunity?
Asking for an apology from the Prime Minister was, as
has been stated many times, asking for the highest level of
government to admit that white privilege in this country
owes its existence to dispossession of Indigenous people.
Fresh calls from Indigenous leaders were triggered following
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu's references to his
own country and international apologies for atrocities.
Tutu, speaking on the ABC's 7:30 Report, proclaimed: It is
the strong that can say sorry - not the weak.
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National
call for sea rights
Aboriginal people from across Australia have called on all
Australian governments to recognise Indigenous ownership and
management of the sea, inland waterways and their
resources.
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New
directions for local government
elections
Statement made by the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Policy, Judy Spence, to Parliament on
November 26.
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Straw
men of Opposition
The Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Policy, Judy Spence, said last month the Coalition had
proved it wanted to relive the decades of oppression of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders by past
National Party Governments.
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Mapoon
gets a council
Community councils have the tools for greater financial
accountability, following the passage of legislation through
Queensland Parliament last month.
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Past
approaches to loss of value
Earlier articles in LRQ in this series have
considered the evolving contrast between Indigenous values
and anglo-Australian concepts of value. However, it is not
generally acknowledged that the question of the value of
property rights adversely affected by public works has been
the subject of extensive inquiry in land and valuation law
and practice for many years. These historic inquiries may
have relevance to native title.
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World
conference against racism
The
office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights is hosting a world conference against racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance at a date
to be decided in 2001.
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Cybertracker
Capes
LAST week I had the opportunity to see the outcome of
5 years work by a group of Pitjanjatjara elders. They have
been writing their stories and have matched them with video
clips and voice-overs of past events. All this was then
placed on computer by those elders and a final CD-ROM disk
has been produced.
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Bookmarks
Links to interesting places on the internet.
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Book
Reviews
Book reviews on Our Culture: Our Future,
Guide to the Design of Native Title
Corporations and Environmental and Natural Resources
Management by the Maori in New Zealand.
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Remember
our furry friends at Christmas
Murries have always loved animals, particularly dogs.
Unfortunately, around Australia after Christmas, large
numbers of our best friends and other animals will be dumped
or abandoned by cruel, careless people.
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