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 ATSIC
chief to tackle unfinished
business
The first fully elected chairperson of the Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Commission, Geoff Clark, said his
priority is "to return land to Indigenous
people".
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 Cultural
heritage legislation fails all
Queenslanders
PREMIER Beattie's proposed new Indigenous heritage
legislation fails all Queenslanders, the Queensland
Indigenous Working Group (QIWG)
says.
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The
man wants to kick goals, not
heads
The new chairman of ATSIC, Geoff Clark, expresses some of
his opinions and the agenda he seeks to
follow.
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 A
defining moment in Indigenous
affairs
An edited transcript of the press conference following the
election of ATSIC chairman, Geoff Clark, and deputy chair,
Ray Robinson, on 16 December 1999. The conference canvassed
such issues as prioritising rights as well as overcoming
disadvantage; the significance of having an elected rather
than an appointed chair; the Olympics; Murrandoo Yanner's
position on the board; cricket; turning ATSIC into a peoples
movement; and funding.
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 Historic
report amplifies grassroots
voices
History will surely prove the final weeks of the 20th
century a significant time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Queenslanders.
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No
radioactive dump in our country
Billa
Kalina is the region that has been chosen for the siting of
a national radioactive waste dump. All the radioactive waste
from around the country will be dumped somewhere inside
Billa Kalina.
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Healthy
signs in housing trends
The number of Aboriginal families living in overcrowded
houses has dropped by 10 per cent in five years, an ATSIC
analysis shows.
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In
Brief
- A
native title claim encompassing lands in South-East
Queensland has passed the registration test of the
National Native Title Tribunal.
- The
management of Gurang Land Council in Central Queensland
is to be handed back to its Aboriginal
members.
- WMC
Ltd has agreed to meet Aboriginal protesters who have
been demonstrating against the company's Roxby Downs
uranium mine.
- Hindmarsh
Island bridge developers are suing former Aboriginal and
Islander Affairs minister Robert Tickner and the two
academics who wrote the secret women's business reports
for more than $20 million in damages.
- An
appeal against a sentence of community service for two
teenagers - one of whom boasted of having "smashed a
coon".
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Cartoon
By Kevin Lindeberg
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ANTaR
News.....
ANTaR QLD
has written to Premier Peter Beattie expressing concerns
about the shortcomings of the Queensland Government's native
title legislation and its implementation.
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Whitefella
business
Most readers will be aware of what ANTaR is and how it came
into being. Briefly, in the wake of the first Howard attack
on Wik, the National Indigenous Working Group (NIWG) called
for white supporters throughout Australia to organise
themselves into one body so that there would be just one
point of communication for the native title campaign. ANTaR
was the result, and for the first time there was a national
organisation that non-Indigenous people could join to show
solidarity with Indigenous people in their
struggle.
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Indigenous
peoples lash out at WTO inequities
Protests in
the streets of Seattle outside the recent World Trade
Organisation ministerial meeting were so severe and feelings
ran so high that proceedings were almost aborted. The
Indigenous Peoples' Seattle Declaration makes it abundantly
clear why so many concerned people were compelled to make a
stand.
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Prisoner
amnesty call - the view from the
inside
Strong arguments regarding an amnesty for all Aboriginal
prisoners in 2000 were presented in the November edition of
Land Rights Queensland.
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The
dilemma for infrastructure bodies
This is the tenth article in a series by John Sheehan
dealing with valuation and native title issues.
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Time
to take off the blinkers on housing
With most attention in the 20th century paid to native title
and cultural heritage, Democrats Indigenous affairs
spokesman, John Woodley (right), says it's time to look at
an issue that underscores all others within Indigenous
affairs &endash; homelessness. Recent figures show this is a
major problem for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people. As we enter the new millennium, Senator Woodley says
it's time to bite the bullet.
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Britain
to write off poor countries' debts
Britain is to write off debts it is owed by some of
the world's poorest countries.
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Cybertracker
Capers
So what happened? Where are the blackouts, the
computer crashes, the failing banks and all the other
doomsday predictions that were to happen on the first day of
the last year of the twentieth century?
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Bookmarks
Links to interesting places on the internet.
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Book
Reviews
Book reviews on Holding up the Sky, Eseli's
Notebook and Hard Yards.
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Michael
follows path to cultural rediscovery
North Queensland talent Michael Geia is moving to
Sydney to take up a position with the prestigious National
Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association
(NAISDA) for the Year 2000 intake.
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