= November 2015 VOLUME 5. NUMBER 3. PG. ## BUSH EDUCATION WHAT FUTURE? INCOME MANAGEMENT KINTORE BELL KATITI PETERMANN SPREADS BEYOND NT TOLLS AGAIN IPA DECLARED PG. 2 PG. 10# PG.PG. 4# ISSN 1839-5279ISSN NEWS EDITORIAL Land Rights News Central What to expect from the new PM? Australia is published by the Central Land Council three and respect for women and peo- government plans to push ahead times a year. ple of different racial or religious with using s.28A of the Land Rights The Central Land Council backgrounds. Act to ‘delegate’ or hand land coun- One of his first announcements, cil powers to small organisations for 27 Stuart Hwy a $100 million package to deal with good. Alice Springs domestic violence, includes $21 mil- A breakthrough on the proposed lion to help Aboriginal communi- changes, which were previously re- NT 0870 ties and had been prepared by Tony jected by the Senate, now appears tel: 89516211 Abbott. within reach. The new PM may have taken a And for now the PM is also keep- www.clc.org.au long time to phone NT Chief Minister ing Tony Abbot’s adviser Warren email [email protected] Adam Giles but unlike Mr Giles he Mundine and the Indigenous was quick to call out NT Attorney Advisory Council. Indigenous affairs Contributions are welcome General and former White Ribbon will remain in the Department of ambassador John Elferink’s “slap” Prime Minister and Cabinet. remarks as “unacceptable”. Mr Turnbull has put Josh Mr Turnbull was elected on a Frydenberg, a cleanskin from SUBSCRIPTIONS promise of change. He has sacked Melbourne’s richest electorate, in Land Rights News Central poor performers but Indigenous charge of mining and developing the Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has North. Australia subscriptions are New Prime Minister Malcolm Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Turnbull Scullion survived and hung onto his portfolio. We don’t yet know where the PM $20 per year. LRNCA is distributed free It is way too early for a report card claim, remains to be seen. for the man who removed Australia’s One of Mr Turnbull’s early deci- The good news is that Mr Scullion has to Aboriginal organisations self-declared ‘Prime Minister for sions has been to appoint Western and communities in Central Indigenous Affairs’. Australian Liberal MP Ken Wyatt been willing to negotiate about plans to Australia New Prime Minister Malcolm as the first Aboriginal (Assistant) push ahead with using s.28A of the Land To subscribe email: Turnbull is a little known quantity Commonwealth Minister. The men when it comes to Aboriginal affairs. disagree about proposals to weaken Rights Act to hand land council powers to [email protected] He is said to be closer to the Paul the Racial Discrimination Act (see Keating of the famous Redfern pages 5 and 6). small organisations for good. Speech than the John Howard who The new PM supports the welfare couldn’t bring himself to say sorry. card trials about to start in Ceduna It is still unclear whether this stands on NT statehood and the mis- ADVERTISING But whether he will overturn but nobody knows where he stands means the controversial and chaotic use of Commonwealth funds ear- the government’s paternalistic re- on the rest of the recommendations Indigenous Advancement Scheme marked for Aboriginal Territorians Advertise in the only lationship with Aboriginal people of Andrew Forrest, especially his re- (IAS) and the rebranded work for the by the Territory’s dysfunctional mi- newspaper to reach or whether there will be no policy view’s attack on land rights. dole scheme are also here to stay. nority government and the previous change, as former Prime Minister Since becoming PM Mr Turnbull The good news is that Mr Scullion NT Labor government. Aboriginal people Tony Abbott and the Labor party has talked much about tolerance has been willing to negotiate about Continued p.5 in remote Central Australia. Next publication date: March 2016 Rates are available online at www.clc.org.au/land-rights- news OR email: media@clc. org.au OR call 89516211 Drop the IAS, say Aboriginal women Women leaders have asked Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to abandon Tony Abbott's chaotic Indigenous Advancement Scheme (IAS). Green light for June Oscar, who heads Aboriginal women's organisation Marninwarntikura in Fitzroy Crossing, said the “disastrous” policy had brought many child welfare and family centres to the welfare card trials brink of closure. She told an Aboriginal childcare Social Services Assistant Minister Alan Tudge is spruiking the almost cashless welfare card. Photo courtesy Timothy Stevens, ABC conference in Perth the time for government policy on the run was Ceduna will be the site of the first The Ceduna Aboriginal Corporation for communities taking part in the Edwards told the paper most over and called on the government trial of a new welfare debit card said children went without food trial, including an initial $1 million councillors feared the card would to “bridge the policy shortfalls of that has been described as “in- and essential clothing and missed for community services in Ceduna. make social problems worse. “It the last leadership.” come management on steroids”. out on sleep because of all night The additional money is for more could increase the crime rate in Ms Oscar said the IAS was From next year, welfare re- parties. drug and alcohol and financial town because it leaves people with suffocating early childhood and cipients in the remote South “People who don’t get educa- counselling services as well as less money in hand. You take away family programs through inflexible Australian town will be able to tions, people who can’t transition greater mental health support. money and you’ve still got prob- compliance requirements and withdraw only two out of every into work, people who can’t fund Residents of Kununurra in lems of people addicted to alcohol arbitrary decisions. ten dollars of their Centrelink pay- and maintain their own economies Western Australia, where the rate and drugs, but not enough com- Marninwarntikura's Baya Gawiy ment as cash. and look after their own families of hospital admissions is 68 times munity health workers to deal Children and Family Centre, To spend the rest – eight out of are gonna find something else to that of the rest of the country, are with it.” which also caters for children with every ten dollars – they will need a do,” community leader John Isgar still deciding whether to join the Despite supporting the law Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders debit card that can’t be used on al- told the media. trial. Neighbouring Halls Creek Labor politicians say it was rushed. (FASD), faces closure next March, cohol or gambling, or to withdraw “I mean, if you got up in the and Moree in New South Wales They are concerned that addicts according to Ms Oscar. cash. morning and had nothing to do, have said no. could trade other things, including The three year old centre, which Alcohol restrictions in Ceduna why wouldn’t you go and have a In Halls Creek they worried sex, for drugs or humbug people is internationally respected for its have had only limited success. grog?” about ATMs that break down, on the age pension for cash. work with FASD children, has lost There have been reports that in In October they travelled to leaving residents without cash and The Greens worry that people half its annual funding. 2013-2014 there were 4667 ad- Canberra to convince the Senate unable to pay for essentials. “We may have to pay fees every time Geraldine Atkinson from the missions to the sobering up cen- to vote for a law to allow the trial live at the end of a very long line they use the card or that they Secretariat of National Aboriginal tre, even though Ceduna has only to go ahead. and sometimes that line breaks. If won’t be able to use it at op shops and Islander Child Care told The 4400 residents. The Liberal and Labor senators people can’t use their card people and local markets, which often Australian: "Our message is to Community leaders are desper- and most independents supported just won’t eat,” Halls Creek CEO don’t have EFTPOS facilities. please scrap the IAS, because ate to try anything that might re- the law while the Greens opposed Rodger Kerr-Newell told The “There are so many unanswered duce the harm caused by alcohol it strongly. Australian. questions here,” said Greens sena- Continued p.19 and other addictions. Labor negotiated extra support Shire president Malcolm tor Rachel Siewert. Continued p.3 2 November 2015 NEWS Would you send your kids to boarding school? Justin Brockman, Billiluna: David Rogers, Mutitjulu, Nyinku Jingo, Mutitjulu, Ngarla Kunoth Monks, Neville Petrick, Atitjere Yes. “Some of our kids don’t like plans to send his son Elton (8) to said sending her teenage daughter Utopia: Yes. “My 13 year old (Harts Range): Not sure. “Some to go to boarding school but they boarding school when he is 13: “To Charmaine to boarding school in daughter Ruby attends board- kids don’t like it. My oldest son need to go. I don’t want my kids to keep him out of trouble, make him Adelaide has been good. She made ing school at St Phillips [Alice went to boarding school in Adelaide sit on their bum and do nothing, understand English more better the decision “so she goes to school Springs]. It’s not too far away [Wiltja] but he started getting I want them to get an education… and be strong.” every day and gets more educated.