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 Invasion
Day 2000
In his Invasion Day address the first elected chair of
ATSIC, Geoff Clark, said he would be guided by consultation
with Aboriginal peoples in determining his approach to
Olympic protests and to reconciliation.
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Rep
body status: re-recognition
begins
The Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Affairs, Senator John Herron, has begun making
re-recognition decisions and informing native title
representative bodies of their status under the 1998
amendments to the Native Title
Act.
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 Going
Home Camp
The Keepers of Lake Eyre, who have been working with
Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott for the past year, tell their
version of the story of recent events behind the Arabunna
Going Home Camp.
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 Year
2000 signals focus on Indigenous
justice
January 26 2000 has really set the scene for Indigenous
activism in this coming year. Not only were Invasion Day
events well publicised by the national media but stirring
speeches by Lowitja O'Donoghue, Geoff Clark and Gus Nossals
ensured that the issues of land justice, Indigenous rights
and reconciliation provided close scrutiny on the direction
of Indigenous policy.
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 Sites
in need of Protection
Aboriginal peoples in south-east Queensland are concerned
that cultural heritage sites are not being cared for
adequately.
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New
hurdle for registration tests
A
Federal Court decision made in Western Australia last year
sets a new precedent for registration tests in native title
claims. The decision means information given by native title
claimants now has to go to the state if it is to be relied
on by the registrar when doing a registration test of a
claim.
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Arabunna
resume going home camp
The Arabunna Going Home Camp will be resumed on 26 March
2000.
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Native
title corporations and prescribed bodies
corporate
Native title holders across Australia can take little
comfort from the recent National Native Title Tribunal
workshops regarding prescribed bodies corporate.
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Cartoon
By Kevin Lindeberg
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ANTaR
News.....
- ANTaR
Queensland calls on Attorney-General to disallow State
native title provisions
- True
Stories: The 1999 Boyer Lectures
- Justice,
equality and native title
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Homeward
Bound
The Yumba means river camp and there were several Yumbas
around Australia in the mid-1900s.
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CERD
inquiry kicks off
On to more
political matters, and the parliamentary inquiry into the
Federal Government's Wik legislation will start hearings in
Canberra this month.
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Movement
at the station: cultural heritage
laws
The Howard Government's proposed cultural heritage
legislation is expected to return to Parliament in 2000
after it was rejected by the Senate last year.
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Letter
to the Editor
After some "shock-horror" media coverage of the registration
of a native title claim in south-east Queensland, FAIRA
Aboriginal Corporation general manager Les Malezer wrote
this response to local newspaper The Reporter.
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Gaining
a voice at local government level
Democracy works best when people in government are
representative of the voters who put them there. Ideally,
the make-up of our governments should reflect the diversity
of the voting public in terms of gender, ethnicity, social
background, life experience.
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Grants
for NAIDOC week
Indigenous community groups throughout Queensland are
being encouraged to apply for grants to help celebrate
NAIDOC week.
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Cairns
deal to net jobs
A Cairns Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA)
benefiting all parties concerned was the outcome of 12
months of negotiations, says Yirrganydji elder George
Skeene.
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Update
on cultural heritage legislation...
The chair of the Queensland Indigenous Working Group,
Terry O'Shane, native title representative bodies and other
lobby groups recently submitted documents to the federal
Attorney-General, Daryl Williams, on the proposed Queensland
Alternative Provisions.
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Can
cultural and spiritual attachment be
valued?
John Sheehan continues his series of articles dealing
with the developing accommodation between compensation law
and valuation practice, and native title.
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In
Brief
- In the United States the Government is handing back
34,000ha to the Northern Ute peoples following a deal to
clean up millions of tonnes of uranium waste along the
Colorado River south-east of Salt Lake City.
- ATSIC commissioners in the Northern Territory have
called for the Commonwealth Parliament to support
proposed legislation that will invalidate state/territory
law that requires courts to impose mandatory detention
for offences committed by juveniles.
- Young Aboriginal people are less likely to drink
alcohol than other Australian youths.
- Message from a concerned reader: "Thought you should
know and might like to spread the word - the Queensland
Government has plans to water down the official visitor
program in the prisons."
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Cybertracker
Capers
Just in case you have missed it, there is a stack of
tools on your Windows 98 CD. You can find them if you open
your Win98 CD using Explorer. Here is a list and a short
explanation of what each one does. You should also be aware
that some of these tools will kill your hard drive. So be
careful with the programs and if you cannot afford to be
without your system, don't use the tools.
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Bookmarks
Links to interesting places on the internet.
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Book
Reviews
Book reviews onLake Eyre is Calling, The
Indigenous World 1998-99 and Indigenous Land Use
Agreements (ILUAs).
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