http://onemiledam.net One Mile Dam Archives | One Mile Dam photo gallery One Mile Dam residents have welcomed film makers, journalists, academics and human rights activists from all over the planet to their community, in order to publicise their concerns   One Mile Dam Community under siege! The Kumbutjil Association invites all supporters to the One Mile Dam 30th Anniversary 1979 – 2009 26th March 2009 12 noon - 2 pm Dinah Beach Road, Darwin On 26th March 1979 after a long struggle Aboriginal campers at One Mile Dam won land rights to 3.12 hectares of inner-city land in Darwin. At the hand-over ceremony the NT Minister for Lands and Housing, Marshall Perron, stated: ‘The people can now move to make improvements to their surroundings confident they have secure title to the area.’ However, since 1996 the community has lived under threat of eviction by successive CLP and Labor NT Governments. In addition, One Mile Dam (OMD) is now subject to discriminatory federal government powers under the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (the ‘NT Intervention’). In January 2009 2 representatives of Darwin town camps, with 18 other NT Aboriginal People affected by the NT Intervention, presented the United Nations with a ‘Request for Urgent Action under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination’. Please join us on March 26th to show your support for One Mile Dam and all Aboriginal People living in similarly Prescribed Areas. No dispossession of Aboriginal Land! Restore the Racial Discrimination Act! Consultation, engagement and partnership, not compulsory intervention! Defend the rights of the OMD Community! Contacts: David Timber, One Mile Dam, Dinah Beach Road, Darwin, NT Bill Day 0408 946 942

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