 Premier gets cultural heritage rights message
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from across Queensland met for three days last month in Brisbane City Hall to examine the state Government's draft legislation for Indigenous cultural heritage. At the end of the forum, participants marched to Parliament House to present a statement and a traditional bark painting message to the Premier.
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 Cultural Heritage Conference Report
The conference was held over three days in Brisbane, with over 100 participants attending daily from throughout Queensland, gathering to discuss and assess the Queensland Government Draft Model and other models, and to develop our Indigenous strategies to deal with this vital issue.
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Political motives behind funding cut
Acting general manager of FAIRA Aboriginal Corporation, Charmaine Carroll, says the decision by the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Herron, not to recognise FAIRA as a native title representative body came as a shock . . . and delivers a huge blow to the local Aboriginal community. |
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 UN statement on human rights
ATSIC, the National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title and the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action made the following statement to the 56th Session of the Commission on Human Rights from March 20 to April 28 2000, under Agenda Item 15.
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 Sooner or later, justice must prevail
After nearly ten years of public deliberation, reconciliation in Australia consolidates in a final proposal to be presented at Corroboree in the Sydney Opera House next month.
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 DOGIT communities demand apology
The Aboriginal Coordinating Council has renewed calls on the Federal Government to apologise for the stolen generations.
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| Rep body status: confusion prevails
The Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator John Herron, has formally notified five existing Queensland native title representative bodies (NTRBs) that they are not to be recognised for - in the case of FAIRA, Goolburri Land Council, North Queensland Land Council and the Cape York Land Council - amended NTRB areas, and in the case of Gurang Land Council, for an existing area.
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| Regurgitating the old lines
A native title representative bodies legal conference was held last month in Melbourne. The conference was essentially the gathering of this country's native title "experts" for the purposes of networking and exchanging information, with a view perhaps to coordinating and harmonising the native title process across the country.
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| ANTaR News... - Racial discrimination and human rights on menu at Brisbane dinner
- Populist obstinacy the constant in media tsunami
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| Cartoon
By Kevin Lindeberg
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| Smoke and mirrors can't hide reality of native title
Isn't it funny how state leaders always roll out the old line that 'we must extinguish native title and reduce native title rights or the economy will collapse' whenever their plans are challenged from the point of view of Indigenous people?
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| In Brief - SArabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott says WMC Resources should restore water supplies the company's security guards cut off last month.
- The seventh annual ATSILIRN conference will be held from 16-18 October 2000 at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
- Human rights group Amnesty International is reserving the right to end the membership of the Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock.
- The Northern Territory's federal member, Warren Snowdon, has called on the Federal Parliament to respect the intellectual property rights of Indigenous people.
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| Labor promises to remove racist Wik amendments
A federal Labor government would amend the Wik native title legislation, Opposition leader Kim Beazley told his party caucus on April 11.
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| The extra-territorial nature of native title
This is the 14th in a continuing series by John Sheehan dealing with compensation law, valuation practice and native title.
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| New industry standard for the valuation or management of land subject to native title
The Australian Valuation and Property Standards Board of the API decided in early 1997 that industry guidance should be prepared for the valuation or management of land subject to native title claims. After three years work, a special publication of the API entitled The Valuation or Management of Land Subject to Native Title was published by the Institute on 16 March 2000.
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| Call for responses on policies and service-delivery plan
The Queensland Government is about to invite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander citizens to have an unprecedented say in the way we develop policies and deliver services to them.
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| Race relations abysmal, says senior judge
Australian's current race relations were 'abysmal' and would not improve until a strong leader truly embraced reconciliation, a senior judge said last month
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| Cybertracker Capers
The last 6 weeks at the cafe have been all go. There are a number of changes that have happened and there has also been some new software to check out. Let's start with the major changes first. After an association with QaNTM CMC for the past 18 months, that association has ended.
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| Bookmarks
Links to interesting places on the internet.
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| Get ready now for the new tax system
Community organisations, businesses and enterprises have been urged to take steps to get ready for the new tax system that begins on 1 July 2000.
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| Bureaucrats and mining interests driving government policy
The Queensland Indigenous Working Group believes proposed changes to Queensland's legislation on environmental and mining legislation reflect the priorities of bureaucrats and mining interests rather than Government policy.
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| Book Reviews
Book reviews on Social Justice Report 1999, Native Title Report 1999 and Canada's Tibet - The Killing of the Innu.
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