Archive for October, 2007
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Maningrida: The place where the intervention changed shape
As Lauredhel noted this morning, the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) will take legal action against the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention in the High Court in an attempt to stop legislative changes that would threaten the viability of Maningrida and other communities and their 32 outstations. The BAC operates one of the largest CDEP programs [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Indigenous,Land,Law,Politics,The Intervention by jangari
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
More attacks on CDEP changes
On the ABC news website’s equivalent of a front page this morning, it was reported that the Northern Territory Family and Community Services Minister denouncing the NT intervention as an election ploy. As expected, Mal Brough has come out on the defensive, saying Marion Scrymgour doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Indigenous,Philosophy,Politics,The Intervention by jangari
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Newsflash: Politician gives concise answer
How’s this for a resurgence of public debate? While the debate between Howard and Rudd was going on, Bob Brown and the Greens were holding their own ‘People’s Forum‘ in another room in Parliament House, and had asked for questions from the general public on their blog not long ago, some of which would potentially [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Indigenous,Linguistics,Politics by jangari
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Another Pseud-Apology
The Great Debate between Herr Howard and The Ruddster was tonight, and I do believe, unless I’m hallucinating, that I heard Mr Howard say he was sorry – and yes, it was in relation to Australia’s history with respect to Aborigines. Except, and this is the clincher, it was an apology that, rather than an [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Culture,History,Indigenous,Linguistics,Politics by jangari
Friday, October 19th, 2007
A Catch-Up Post
You might have noticed, or rather, I hope you will have noticed that I’ve been rather slack in writing lately. This isn’t because nothing has been happening, far from it, it’s just because I’ve had way too much stuff to do off-blog to spend any reasonable time writing posts. Here’s a quick round-up of some [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Culture,Indigenous,Politics,The Intervention by jangari
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Note to Self…
…When Google searching for certain phrase returns a very unlikely result of the form: www.DodgySoundingURL.nl/[your-exact-search-string] Don’t click it, lest you find yourself forced to spend your Saturday reinstalling Windows. Windows makes me homicidal.
3 Comments » - Posted in Nothing in particular by jangari
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Culture Warriors
The National Gallery of Australia are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with an exhibition of aboriginal art, both traditional and modern, produced in the last three years. The collection is called Culture Warriors and, according to the NGA’s website, is ‘designed to break aboriginal art stereotypes’. Here is one of the featured works, Treasure [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Art,Culture,Indigenous,Languages by jangari
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
More white exceptions to grog bans
It wasn’t long after alcohol restrictions were initially put in place in the Northern Territory that the various Recreational Fishing lobby groups threw up their arms in indignation, with the NT government firmly by their side: Look, a fisherman having a beer in the boat on the Daly River as he goes about his normal business is [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Indigenous,Politics,The Intervention by jangari
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Brough’s Logic
I just read an emotional and inspiring post at Will Owen’s blog about a speech that Mal Brough gave on Tuesday October 2, for the Alfred Deakin Lecture at Melbourne University. A recurring theme of Brough’s speech (reproduced in full at Will’s blog) is his outrage at the situation. Here is an extract of Will’s commentary: I, [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Culture,Indigenous,Philosophy,Politics,The Intervention by jangari
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Innocuous Spam
Every so often I sift through the spam that Askimet catches to make sure there’s nothing legitimate in there, and there usually isn’t. But occasionally there’ll be an interesting little one-liner, buried among all the ads for drugs I’ve never heard of, that puts a smile on my dial. Apart from the glaring ungrammatical double [...]
