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I'm really fed up hearing anymore of the NT Intervention. Its been going on for far too long with both the federal and Nt governments. There are 6 elected Aboriginal politicans in the NT government. There are the Yunipingus in Arnhem Land and many more powerful Aboriginal people, including Tom Calma, Indigenous Commissioner for Human Rights that come from the Northern Territory which Redfern_Waterloo website has seen the amount of information coming through and still the leases on land in the NT cannot be solved or come to closure until Jenny Macklins have those traditonal blacks sell there souls away on this issue. Why should Aboriginal people on the eastern seaboard states care anymore about their issues when we read media articles condemning the federal government over this intervention. Some blackfellas in the NT must want the intervention badly and selling their souls for 30 pieces of silver for trinkets and mirrors seem to be the flavour of the day.
What has been achieved in my father and my life time has long gone now and as described the 60s 70s and I would include further to my experience the 80s and 90s until racist John Howard appeared in the late 90s onwards until now Kevin Bloody Rudd and Jenny Macklin acting to Save those poor blackfella's Me. I wouldn't waste my spit on either one of them. Kevin07 is a fraud and We all got sucked in because of Sorry! What for!
Aborignal Affairs is recognised by the chosen few, aptly described in Shambles. The current generation will dig Aborignal culture deeper into the ground and therefore is already embedded into mainstream society. This can be measured by the high standards of education and the Noel Pearsons, Macia Langtons and the Warren Mundines who the white governments and capitalist society want to hear more from. In my opinion "what am I fighting for! Why are we whinging? The mainstream media is full of these reports everyday whether they are sensationalised or real. They are being reported. There tall poppy sydrome of Aboriginal bureacrats aare fast emerging with a complete new rhetoric are fast coming to the forefront, using the community grass roots people for status, power-mongering, give strength to the CVs and giving 40 years land leases for 30 pieces of silver and not gold. In other words Aboriginals are subtly still worthless
The grass roots level of our community will suffer more in this afflience then previous generations who fought for these basic human rights. I measure these facts by the funerals that I attend on a weekly basis over the last 12 months. The greater majority that we bury are 50-52 years and much younger. And the amount of youth that have deep mental problems and sucide is far beyond my comprehension of Aboriginal religious ceremony and cultural protocols and alcheringa (the story of dreaming and dreaming tracks).
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:59:15 +1000
Subject: Re: [Redfern-W] CAAMA - not allowed to attend Macklin meeting
From: Graham MooneyTo: Redfern-WaterlooSent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:19 PMSubject: RE: [Redfern-W] CAAMA - not allowed to attend Macklin meetingI'm totally amazed in Alice Springs after reading this story that our mob in these Alice Spring Town Camps are taking part in these federal government consultations with the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and not boycotting such consultations. CAAMA radio receiving this confrontation from Jenny Macklin media advisors is confirming that their are one rule for White Media outlets and another rule for Aboriginal Media outlets. There is the conspiracy theory over the dumping of nuclear waste dumps in Central Australia and that Aboriginal people are selling themselves out in these negotiations.
Marcia Langton recently was confronted on You Tube over the nuclear issue that tarnished her reputation even more in Aboriginal society. What is even more amazing how many other high flying blackfellas (Dr. Professors and the Warren Mundines and others are involved in these dirty deeds.
It is genocide and trusting Kevin Rudd and his government on Aboriginal Affairs adds further suspicions to many of our communities that live on the eastern seaboard. If this was in Redfern, Brisbane or Melbourne we'd surely all have boycotted the meeting and walked out in protest. I can no longer support the idea that (They) are Traditional Aboriginal people and we are urban or regional Aboriginal people when I read these kinds of articles.
If these kind of mishaps happen in White Australia (They) all be still whinging for blood for hours after. I'm afraid I loose faith in any political rhetoric when I read these sorts of articles.
It is getting worst and not better from the time I was born under the Aboriginal Protector Act in Queensland. Witnessing what has occured in the Howard years with the Reconciliation Policy and the aftermath of the NT Intervention how can any of those blackfellas in Alice Springs participat in any forms of consultation and sell their souls for 40 years land lease.
I don't allow myself to get upset anymore. Its too shameful for me when I see such stupitity of our people not taking these political situations into task for the sake of 30 pieces of silver.
I am highly criticial today of Aboriginal Affairs, which has been in my blood bone since my birth to see the "sell outs" what is occuring today when I read these articles.
Who cares is all I say. Allow Kevin Rudd and his cronies to buy out there land leases in the NT instead of the rest of Aboriginal Australian having to suffer this humiliation. We on the eastern seaboard have no rights to interfere in their country as other Aborignal nations so why should I support this stupidity.
Why didn't everyone in that meeting walk out of Jenny Macklin and leave her there. I'm sorry but I don't feel supportive in whats happening in the NT intervention anymore when I read these types of stupidity. It seems frin the article that CAAMA media unit was all non-Indigenous people and very few blackfellas.
This is my personal opinion. I don't see any future for the next generation of our children when I see that older people are selling the next generations out. Sign your land over on 40 years leases to Jenny Macklin and Kevin Rudd. Its none of our business in the eastern states. But the Labour government wont be getting my vote in the next federal elections.
Who trust Kevin Rudd anymore and Malcolm Turnbull has never been trusted after the Republic debate. Cheers people in radio land.
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From: michelle.aleksandrovics@sbs. com.au
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:57:13 +0000
Subject: [Redfern-W] CAAMA - not allowed to attend Macklin meeting
I've been trying to get some action via journalist circles on this.
This is extremely concerning - with so many issues regarding media reportage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs - this too?
Aboriginal radio banned from Macklin town meeting
On Monday this week indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin held apublic meeting at Alice Springs to listen to the views of the towncampers whose homes she intends to compulsorily acquire in the very near future.
CAAMA Radio hasbeen providing a local news service to Alice Springs residents fornearly 30 years and now is one of the most-widely heard " in ageographical sense at least " news organisations in the country.
CAAMA was provided with ad copy by Minister Macklin’s department,FaHCSIA to publicise the meeting. As CAAMA’s Radio Manager Jim Remediotold Crikey, CAAMA broadcast that copy in order to:
“… promote the meeting … thoughout the CAAMAbroadcast area " two-thirds of the country. There was nothing in the adcopy to indicate that it was anything other than a public meeting -they [FaHCSIA] did not specify that it was a closed meeting at all " itwas a public meeting and that’s how we announced it.”CAAMA was also engaged by FaHCSIA to provide audio services to the meeting and to record it for FaHCSIA. Jim Remedio again:
“CAAMA had a contract with FaHCSIA to recordthe whole meeting for their purposes - so we were already there to dothat for them - we already had a crew and the gear there set up to dothat inside the meeting”But when the CAAMA crews fronted up to cover a public meeting ofgreat relevance to their listeners " the unprecedented seizure of theirhomes and land by the Commonwealth Government " they were shown thedoor.
Jim Remedio described the events:
“We had the crew inside to do the recordingand our radio crew and our online news crew turned up to get somefilm " background footage " and to get some grabs. Then we were told bythe Minister’s minder that we were not allowed to go into the meeting.Remedio says that the issue of CAAMA’s excluson was raised in the meeting:
“… the Minister’s very young and obviously inexperienced mediaadvisor told us we weren’t to go in to the meeting and a verbal stoushbroke out " then we were surrounded by NT Police and Federal Police whowere there as well. When the Feds started to move towards ourbroadcasters, well, we knew that if we hadn’t backed down we would havebeen told to get and would be escorted off the premises " we chose toexercise a bit of decorum and discretion and left of our own accord.”
“During the meeting at least one of thetraditional owners of Alice Springs, who had witnessed the exclusionasked the Minister, ‘Why was CAAMA not allowed inside reporting on themeeting?’.Remedio is concerned at this close management of the media.
“The Minister and her minders just said word to the effect that ‘Oh, this is a closed meeting.’
“The Minister kept saying ‘I’m here to listen’, and people in themeeting kept saying things to her like ‘Well, you are not evenlistening to what this woman is saying to you about letting CAAMA inhere so that they can tell other people what has been happening here.”
“The first thing that came to my mind were theimages that we’ve been seeing recently coming from overseas. But thisis Australia - this is not Iran or Burma or Iraq. There has always beensome manipulation of the media - we accept that - but this it isgetting worse than ever.Crikey asked Minister Macklin whether her office had ablanket policy of excluding local Aboriginal media from public meetingsbetween her and her advisors and/or FaHCSIA staff and Aboriginal peopleand their representatives, particularly in relation to meetings thatconcern the NT Intervention and related issues.
“Some questions that I’d ask the Minister are: What has she got tohide? Is she afraid of closer scrutiny of what she says and what peoplesay to her at these meetings? We know that the local people want us tobe there.”
There was no response before this morning’s deadline.
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