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The fallout from the rape case in Aurukun is continuing and the new Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister says she is now considering the possibility of extending the controversial Northern Territory Indigenous intervention into Queensland. Noel Pearson has long argued passive welfare is to blame for a complete breakdown in social norms in Aboriginal communities. He spoke to Ali Moore.

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Sadly it comes as no surprise that the Queensland Department of Child Safety was directly involved in the case of the 10-year-old girl so brutally abused at the hands of young people in her community of Aurukun.

That the ‘justice’ system then compounded the violation of this child by ignoring her right to expect that her abusers would be appropriately punished is also of no surprise.

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Four men have revived a Tasmanian Aboriginal tradition, building the state’s first bark canoe in 170 years.

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Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has conceded that alcohol management plans are not working in all Aboriginal communities.

The pack rape case of a 10-year-old girl on Cape York has prompted former premier Peter Beattie to call for the Federal Government to take control of Indigenous welfare.

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The Alice Springs-based Centre for Remote Health says Indigenous health in the bush will suffer more if a $100 million Commonwealth funding promise does not go ahead.

In September this year, former Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough pledged the money to go towards improving remote health in the Northern Territory as part of the Commonwealth’s intervention.

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The Northern Land Council has won the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Community Organisation Award.

Established in 1973, the Northern Land Council represents traditional owners in the Top End. The organisation has been at the forefront of Aboriginal rights in the Territory, including its recent involvement in the Blue Mud Bay case.

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The Federal Government says it will today begin the formal process of formulating an apology to the Stolen Generations.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has launched a magazine to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report in Sydney this morning.

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There are concerns the redevelopment of a housing estate at Minto, in Sydney’s south-west, will create social problems for the local Indigenous community.

The Housing Department has started work on a project to redevelop about 1,000 houses in the Minto Public Housing Estate by 2014.

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United Nations Development Programme- Asia Pacific Devlopment Information –

The Workshop addresses the use of the Media as well as Information and Communication Technologies in realising the human rights for development that have been denied to indigenous peoples for too long. The Workshop aims to formulate the e-Bario Agenda on e-Inclusion for Indigenous Peoples as a supplement to the UN Declaration, as well as develop a global network of Indigenous Peoples’ telecentres.

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CAAMA Radio Manager , was in Barrio , last week to present The speech below about indigenous peoples and media, check out Jim’s Speech BelowIndigenous

Media in Australia

Article 17 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:

Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their own media in their own languages. They also have the right to equal access to all forms of non-indigenous media and, that Nation States shall take effective measures to ensure that State-owned media duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity.

The principles of Article 17 in many regards have been met in Australia.

 Indigenous people involved in the media hold the view that Australia has not reached the full potential and aspirations of its founding members; this is largely because of ad hoc policy by Government and its overall past history on indigenous policy.

An example is the previous Australian Government refusal to sign along with Canada, New Zealand, and the United States of America the UN declaration on indigenous rights.

The declaration was signed by 143 other countries on September the 13, 2007

The previous minister for indigenous affairs Mal Brough (who lost his seat in the recent election) said the “declaration would provide one group with the power to veto Government decisions”

This statement is incorrect according to the indigenous law center of New South Wales, who said it was wrong to suggest the declaration will override sovereign law, and as it is an aspirational declaration it creates no new rights in international law.

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A peak indigenous medical body wants legislation that it says violates human rights removed from the Commonwealth intervention in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities.

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the Northern Territory is one of a number of organisations to speak out against the intervention in today’s Medical Journal of Australia.

AMSANT’s John Boffa says he supports some aspects of the intervention but says the decision to make the legislation exempt from the racial discrimination act was wrong and should be overturned.

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