An indigenous activist/malcontent with some gripe against the country talks about an illegal camp, sacred site set up in Kings Domain, Melbourne. This though, is a home and a symbol. And that sacred fire over there is a living conduit to the Creator. You don’t mess with that. Maybe not, but someone sure as hell
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Aborigines to be paid only one-third
Annabelle McDonald in the Australian reports some shocking news ABORIGINAL cultural heritage workers in Queensland will be paid about a third of the amount white people earn for performing similar roles, under a controversial ruling by the state’s Land and Resources Tribunal. Well, on the face of it, it is shocking news but my life
Fires unearth forgotten Aboriginal settlement
AN extraordinary discovery of Aboriginal stone houses in southwestern Victoria appears to confirm that some of Australia’s first inhabitants lived in settlements, not just as nomads. Should this prove to be true then it’ll rewrite what we know of the original Aussies but I do think Matt Butt, the Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation’s land management supervisor,
Aborigines betrayed: Yunupingu
THE Northern Territory’s most influential Aboriginal leader has broken his silence to rally indigenous Australians against what he calls the betrayal of the reconciliation agenda, calling, as a protest, for the return of a symbolically important painting now hanging in Federal Parliament’s Great Hall. Galarrwuy Yunupingu said yesterday that the Barunga Statement, a painting he
The Black Prince under attack
The Australian newspaper finally catches up with kevgillett.net. Last June I posted on Gallarway Yunupingu, the Black Prince of Arnhem Land and raised several questions based on what I witnessed at Nuhunbuy in Arnhem Land. When there, I notice a chopper flying around; “Who owns it? I ask. “Well not Galarrwuy. He owns the company
Funerals and Pay Days
In June, 2004 I travelled through Arnhem Land and was priveledged to visit an outstation south of Nuhlunbuy. This came to mind this last night when watching Lateline (transcript not available yet) where one of the contributors, talking about cultural difficulties in employing young aborigines in the mining industry, mentioned funerals as a particularly difficult
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Funerals and Pay Days
In June, 2004 I travelled through Arnhem Land and was priveledged to visit an outstation south of Nuhlunbuy. This came to mind this last night when watching Lateline (transcript not available yet) where one of the contributors, talking about cultural difficulties in employing young aborigines in the mining industry, mentioned funerals as a particularly difficult
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Is Optic-Fibre Already There?
Nationals dream of new bush network The Nationals are talking about the proceeds from the sale of Telstra being used to creat a fibre-optic network in the bush When I was in the Northern Territory last year I had a lengthy conversation with a Telstra foreman who had a large crew in the Gulf country
Sugar Ray Robinson
‘Sugar’ Ray, an ATSIC commissioner, refuses to answer questions on cheque cashing as it might incriminate him. Damn right it might but he’s in court on fraud charges and the truth will out. ATSIC commissioner “Sugar” Ray Robinson took to the stand yesterday in his fraud trial and twice refused to answer questions on the
ATSIC refuses to play dead
I recall Weird Whitlam gutting the Army for having the temerity to fight his Communist mates and am saddened by the fact that us professional soldiers didn’t do something to stop the rot. It occurs to me that we could have tried to sell our Tanks, artillery pieces, APCs and M16 rifles to help fund
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