Issue 83, Winter 2021 A publication by South Australian Native Title Services

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Ngarrindjeri elder Major ‘Moogy’ Sumner AM performs a smoking ceremony on the banks of the Karrawirra Parri (River Torrens) for delegates on Day 3 of the Summit. elder Jeffrey Newchurch sits to the left.

First AIATSIS Summit held in Adelaide This year the Australian Institute of The AIATSIS Summit was held from was a chance to reconnect and celebrate academics, and legal experts. It was an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 31 May to 4 June at the Adelaide Mabo Day and National Reconciliation opportunity to strengthen Aboriginal and Studies (AIATSIS) combined the biennial Convention Centre with hosts Kaurna Week as a community on Kaurna land. Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge, and governance following the isolation Indigenous Research Conference and Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC) and Over 900 delegates attended across the brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Native Title Conference to make the co-convenor South Australian Native five days which included presentations first AIATSIS Summit. Title Services (SANTS). The Summit and workshops led by community leaders, Continued on page 2

Inside: Nauo and Wirangu agree on consent determinations 4 New carbon farming Code recognises native title rights 5 Kaurna cultural burn makes history 6 Book launch: Sorry and Beyond – Healing the Stolen Generations 10 First AIATSIS Summit held in Adelaide Continued from page 1 Bunuba woman June Oscar AO, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander What we heard at the Social Justice Commissioner, shared AIATSIS Summit the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) Aboriginal Commissioner for Children Report. She said Indigenous women and and Young People and SANTS girls want systems and services to focus on Chairperson April Lawrie had many healing from intergenerational trauma, and a heads nodding when she said, “Land national plan of action to advance wellbeing. needs people and people need the land”. Ms Oscar said many Indigenous women The SANTS chair was proud to share that have told her the native title system is male 60% of is now covered dominated and that a lack of culturally by determinations of native title, with 20 safe structures for women as knowledge PBCs established and over 100 Indigenous holders and decision makers is leading to Land Use Agreements registered. destruction of women’s sacred sites. “You cannot reduce native title to a singular “This speaks to the resilience of Aboriginal Kaurna elder and chair of Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal South Australians to sustain kinship and focus on land; native title is a fundamental Corporation, Jeffrey Newchurch. Photo: AIATSIS. Rosalind Coleman, a Kaurna and Narrunga woman of the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation welcomed our cultural lives.” part of social justice – it must sit within a relationships with the South Australian delegates to her country, “may you conclude the week whole of systems reform,” she said. ahead with both memories and lessons,” she said. Ms Lawrie, a and woman, Government and South Australian Museum asked delegates to consider what they Scan the QR Code to watch through the process of repatriation. want native title to mean to their children June Oscar AO’s keynote: Mr Newchurch said he would like to see and grandchildren in 20 years’ time. more sorry camps in the future. “We don’t “We need to seriously consider what the take the time to reflect, it’s not a business impacts are for seven generations ahead, like cemeteries today, we forget the old ensuring the balance of governance and ways how we should take that time out to wealth opportunities alongside culture, reflect and to give you the spirit to heal, country, and people.” to heal together.”

Scan the QR Code to watch Scan the QR Code to watch Jeffrey April Lawrie’s keynote: Kaurna elder and chair of Kaurna Newchurch’s repatriation presentation: Yerta Aboriginal Corporation, Jeffrey Newchurch, held a workshop about repatriation and the ‘brick walls’ facing Aboriginal people in bringing their old people home.

Donning his ‘Repatriate – Return to Country’ Aboriginal Commissioner for Children and Young People and SANTS Chairperson April Lawrie. t-shirt, Mr Newchurch welcomed stronger

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2 Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 On Mabo Day (3 June) an emotional Gail Mabo spoke from the heart about growing up with her father the land rights activist Eddie Koiki Mabo.

She shared her father’s legacy and the sacrifices made by her mother Bonita Mabo, who stood by his side during his plight for land rights.

“Take parts of their lives (Eddie and Bonita) and think about how your journey is going,” she said. “When you walk forward, and you walk to achieve your goal – just remember who you have who’s got your back.”

The sacrifices made by the Mabo family have paved the way for native title in Australia. Ms Mabo asked important delegates in the room to put status aside Gail Mabo. Photo: AIATSIS. Minister for , Noongar and to use the summit to “humble yourself man the Hon Ken Wyatt AM launched the AIATSIS to be in the presence of elders”. Education Strategy which aims to develop further resources for educators to support their teaching about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures Scan the QR Code to watch (more info at aiatsis.gov.au). Gail Mabo’s speech:

AIATSIS CEO Craig Ritchie said, “Native title is a classic example of the complexity of the intersection of Aboriginal and white worlds, but Aboriginal people adapt and use the system to their advantage.”

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Joshua Warrior and Rikki Lee Milera-Wilson were A dance group led by Anangu Senior Law Man Murray George from the (Fregon) community captivated the MCs for the gala dinner on Wednesday 2 June. delegates at the gala dinner as they performed the Seven Sisters inma.

SANTS would like to thank the hosts Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation and members of the conference organising committee: Glenice Sumner, Rosalind Coleman, George Taylor, Tania Taylor and Madge Wanganeen. Thanks also to AIATSIS for their work behind the scenes to hold a successful Summit amid COVID-19.

Tania Taylor and Madge Wanganeen from Kaurna Delegates from the Indigenous Women’s Talking Circle workshop on day 4 of the AIATSIS Summit. Photo: AIATSIS. Yerta Aboriginal Corporation.

Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 3 Nauo and Wirangu agree on consent determinations On 15 July, Nauo and Wirangu Nauo elder, Jodie Miller, acknowledged community members came together his late Aunty Marlene Weetra-Height who at Mallee Park Football Club in started fighting for recognition in 1981. Port Lincoln to consider potential “This acknowledges who we are and consent determinations of native title where we’re from, to have the Nauo stemming from mediation with the name put up in places where people can state and federal governments. understand that this is our country and Nauo and Wirangu peoples have native what we’ve fought for.” title claims over the western Eyre Wirangu and Kokatha elder, Jack Johncock, Peninsula region including Venus Bay, said it’s an opportunity for both groups to Elliston and Coffin Bay, that were listed look after country together. for trial commencing on 2 August 2021. “It was a very special day for both Nauo The Federal Court has now adjourned and Wirangu, we’ve been working towards the trial to allow the parties to finalise a joint claim, and we came to a mutual the determinations with the state and agreement that we both had interest in Commonwealth Governments. that particular part of our lands.”

Two of these native title claims were first It is hoped a consent determination on submitted in the late 1990s and both country will happen later this year or early communities are relieved to finally reach in 2022. Aboriginal Way will keep you up a resolution. to date as negotiations continue.

Jody Miller, Pauline Branson, Cynthia Weetra, Jason Ramp and Brenton Weetra.

Estelle Miller, Jack Johncock and Cecelia Cox.

4 Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 New carbon farming Code recognises native title rights

The Indigenous Carbon Industry Network (ICIN) members gather at the inaugural ICIN Meeting in Darwin, 2019. Photo: CDU – RIELICIN.

Native title groups will need to give “The carbon industry has positioned Indigenous rights and interests to realise Australia, but this will change with a free, prior, and informed consent to itself as a sustainable and ethical these remarkable opportunities – but review of the Pastoral Act according carbon farming projects following a industry which will support outcomes the industry has some way to go yet.” to Primary Industries and Regional new Code of Conduct by the Carbon that are good for country and good for Development Minister David Basham. In northern Australia where carbon Market Institute. communities,” Ms Boustead explains. farming has taken off, Indigenous- “At this point in the pastoral rangelands “It is important that business practices Carbon farming involves changing land owned carbon projects are delivering area, we only have three projects that are of carbon project developers, brokers management and agricultural practices multiple outcomes including better fire in operation, that’s in relation to about and agents which seek to profit from to reduce the green-house gas emissions management, protection of cultural sites, 300 nationally, so we’re 1 percent of the from livestock, soil, or vegetation (known the production of carbon credits reflect improved biodiversity, infrastructure, opportunities (that have) been taken up,” as avoidance), or by storing additional these high standards. and investment in community programs. Mr Basham said. carbon in vegetation and soils (known “We want to see the carbon industry South Australia’s number of carbon as sequestration). South Australian Native Title Services become a shining light in recognising farming projects is behind the rest of (SANTS) CEO Keith Thomas recognises Keeping carbon in the ground generates the potential of carbon farming in South carbon credits which can be sold Australia and says the Code fills in the through federal government auctions. gaps of the Carbon Credits (Carbon The Australian Carbon Industry Code Farming Initiative) Act 2011 (Cth). of Conduct will ensure farmers share economic opportunities, including the “I would like to commend the Indigenous Emissions Reduction Fund/Climate Carbon Industry Network for their Solutions Fund, without excluding commitment to incorporate best practice native title groups. guidelines in the Australian Carbon Industry Code of Conduct,” Mr Thomas said. As carbon farming is a specific non- pastoral land use, it comes with separate “SANTS is helping one native title holder regulatory requirements including native negotiate their involvement in a carbon title consent. The Carbon Credits (Carbon project with a South Australian pastoralist Farming Initiative) Act 2011 (Cth) does and the Code will be an important guide not say how carbon farmers should in this process.” seek consent from native title groups. Currently pastoral leases last for 42 years The Indigenous Carbon Industry Network in South Australia, however that could be (ICIN) noticed this gap in the Act and expanded to 100 years under the state collated best practice guidelines on government’s review of the Pastoral Act. seeking free, prior, and informed consent This is more reason for native title holders from native title holders that have been to be included in carbon farming projects included in the Code. taking place on their country. ICIN Coordinator Anna Boustead says Find out more about Indigenous the Network enables and empowers Carbon Industry Network: icin.org.au Indigenous carbon producers and traditional owners of carbon projects to Read the Australian Carbon benefit from carbon markets through their Industry Code of Conduct: Indigenous rangers manage fire in the West Arnhem Land, where the first Indigenous-owned carbon project land and sea management practices. began in 2006. Photo: Warddeken Land Management. carbonmarketinstitute.org/code

Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 5 Kaurna cultural burn makes history

The first cultural burn on Kaurna Yerta and clear fuel which could start bushfires. As Kaurna integrate their knowledge into since colonisation was significant and The smoke helps with the germination of the management of the Adelaide Park emotional for the traditional owners seeds and regeneration of plants, while Lands, it provides the opportunity for of the Adelaide plains. the fire provides spiritual connection. elders to share practices with their young people. The City of Adelaide is learning For thousands of years, the Aboriginal “It’ll awaken those seeds that have been too, from the traditional owners who know people used small, controlled fires to lying in the ground for many years,” how to protect natural ecosystems. benefit people and land. It was missing explained Allan Sumner, a Kaurna and from Adelaide CBD for 200 years. man involved in the burn. “Over the years, our native grasslands “In fact, the term , which is used and grassy woodlands have come under Three years of collaboration between for the arts festival here in South Australia increasing pressure from human settlement, the Kaurna people, City of Adelaide, and means to arise, like a seed growing up urbanisation and a changing climate,” the Department for Environment and from the ground. explains Gemma Bataille, Biodiversity Water led to the historic cultural burn Leading Hand for the City of Adelaide. at Tuthangga Carriageway Park in the “For us as Aboriginal people, just the Adelaide Park Lands. smell of fire and smoke connects us In the past, the council’s horticulture team back to the country. There’s something have used hand-weeding, mowing and brush- Planning started in 2019, with the City that touches our senses, and it gives cutting as methods to maintain Tuthangga of Adelaide’s Horticulture Team and us a sense of belonging.” Carriageway Park. The aim of the cultural members of the Kaurna community burn is to increase total native cover, Kaurna elder Jeffrey Newchurch and learning from traditional fire practitioner which is expected in the coming months. the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Victor Steffensen, a Tagalaka man. Natural Resources Management Board, The cultural burn was reconciliation in “When we see little projects like this, now Green Adelaide, proposed the idea. action – a project led by Aboriginal people it’s not insignificant, because it gives Mr Newchurch was pleased to camp in the with the aim to heal country, the theme of the people in cities an opportunity to park lands on the eve of the cultural burn. NAIDOC 2021. be exposed to the knowledge, and to “To have a campfire in the heart of your “As an Aboriginal man, I can’t heal understand,” Mr Steffensen said, who city is important,” he said. “To do a cultural alone,” Mr Newchurch said. “I have to has shared knowledge of cultural burns practice program around a cultural burn is work with the wider community, the non- for the past 20 years. highly significant and it’s emotional for me Aboriginal community to heal together. Cultural burns target dry ground-level because people don’t understand all the We heal the country, we heal ourselves plants – posing no danger to wildlife – brick walls you’ve got to go through.” as human beings.”

Native title claims update Claims listed/or in trial the Wirangu Part A claim area and First Nations of the South East Malyankapa New claim filed and Streaky Bay golf course full court No.1 and No.2 and Ngarrindjeri Trial undergoing mediation. Walka Wani No.1 appeal is being heard in August. commencing September 2021. Mediation and No.2 and Arabana No.2 between the groups continues. Far West Coast (FWC) Sea claim Nauo/Nauo No.2/Nauo No.3 Trial concluded 12 March 2021. Matter listed for trial commencing in Community has agreed in principle to Other claims Wirangu No.2, Wirangu No.3 2022. Mirning have filed an overlapping a consent determination offer. Trial has Nation Compensation and Wirangu No.4 (sea claim) claim on 10 May. been adjourned to a date to be fixed. Community has agreed in principle to matters continue to be negotiated. First Peoples of the River Murray a consent determination offer. Trial has No.2 and Wilyakali and Barngarla Groups are been adjourned to a date to be fixed. Ngadjuri and Wilyakali have now been negotiating consent determination with and Mallee Native Title Report provided New Mirning claim now also overlaps offered consent determinations. the State. to the State in June.

6 Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 In Focus: Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation Far West Coast (FWC) Acting CEO What educational and Far West Mining and Civil is one of our Jason Wild spoke to Aboriginal Way employment pathways have enterprise arms. We dry hire machinery to about the success of their corporation been possible since the Iluka Resources and receive a benefit back since the consent determination from that. A monthly lease payment covers consent determination? in 2013 that gave them rights and the cost of the loans that we get for those interests to parts of their traditional The Far West Coast has a memorandum machines and then there’s a profit margin land and waters. of understanding with the Smith Family as well. We sell the machines at the end to run the Indigenous Youth Leadership of the lease (normally 3 years) and make a What achievements are you Program (IYLP) for students from remote small profit. proud of as a corporation? areas. We support 12 students to attend How is Far West Coast planning The Far West Coast Trust purchased the high-performing schools in Adelaide and office at Ceduna and has donated it to the the Smith Family runs that process in to support members in the Corporation. We run our own charitable partnership with the government through future? Is this sustainable? trust for member services all run locally on the IYLP program. We recognise that Iluka won’t be there country. Before that, it was run by Equity The Smith Family run the application forever. I think the original lifespan of the trust and ANZ trustees. Applications would process and FWC is involved in the mine was around 20 years. The Far West be assessed against the criteria, be sent interviews and decision making. The criteria Coast needs to have provisions made to to them and then they’d make a decision Far West Coast Acting CEO, Jason Wild. includes having to be from remote area manage for life after the life of the mine, that’d be relayed back to the office to – the intent of the program is to support help members out. Whereas now that’s so seven generations down the track another way that we’re diversifying into the students from remote area to come to all done on site and that’s something the our kids, grandkids, and their grandkids different streams of income, but it’s the school, learn about the boarding experience community wanted. that can still access the same sort of long-term plan for that is to get Far West and obviously meeting aspirational targets services that their current Far West Coast members employed in the industry for education, independence and to FWC is the majority shareholder in Coast membership base can. and get them managing the industry, partnership with CedRent, in the Enterprise complete year 12. Part of the boarding running the boats themselves. So, that’s rent-a-car franchise. We have locations in experiences is learning independence, What plans does the a long-term vision and this is just the start Adelaide, regional SA, NT, and recently as well as the structured tutoring and corporation have for the future? of getting into that industry. partnered with Yindjibarndi Wealth in Port assistance after school. Hedland airport. As far as I’m aware, we With the commercial side of things, Obviously, the planned growth of the We’ve had some really, really good are the only Aboriginal owned car rental we’ve recently entered into a joint venture CedRent Enterprise franchise is exciting success out of that program. The majority business that specialises in mine spec with the Stehr Group. The Stehr group and we also want to attract government of the students who have completed year vehicles, a lot have dabbled in it, but are major players in the tuna industry funding to help run the FWC Ranger 12 are working at the moment. We’ve got we’re specialised in it. We’ve got huge in Port Lincoln. Last year the Far West program to carry out activities on country. one young lad on the investments board at plans for expansion over the next two Coast investments invested into the the moment, who’s got his own company. Find out more about Far West years to increase the fleet by a thousand JV and received a $3 million grant from He was one of the first kids to go through. Coast Aboriginal Corporation: vehicles, which will in turn generate a fair Indigenous Land and Sea Council to We’ve got plumbers, apprentices, we’ve fwcac.org.au bit of profit coming back into the Far West purchase a 25-ton quota of tuna. Obviously got teachers, students going into university, Coast as well as providing employment COVID had an impact on revenue, but Follow FWCAC on Facebook: and they all started at remote places like opportunities for FWC people. things are on the improve. That’s just facebook.com/farwest.coast Penong, Yalata, Ceduna, Port Lincoln, How are you preserving and moved down to the city to access the protecting cultural heritage? program. Now they’re moving on to bigger and better things, which at the end of Last year with Independent Heritage the day, we hope they can come back to Consultants (IHC) a cultural heritage community and be role models within the management policy was developed. Now community and also share the skills that we’ve got a full script of the things that they’ve learned along the way. we need to go through when something happens. Whether that’s a clearance, We have a workforce development like a participant survey where a mining program in the office where people can company will want a particular piece of come in with their resumes and Iluka and ground looked at when they’re going to their contractors can ring up the office start drilling or exploring. and say, we need a worker to cover this shift, we can go through our database, find We’ll have a clearance team go out and out who’s qualified, get them medical, get assess the area and come back to the them inducted on site and give them work board for clearance. The policy spells out opportunities out there. the steps that we need to take and also covers artefact discoveries. If explorers We run a small labour hire program through find anything on site that may be classed Far West Mining and Civil and we’ve had as an artefact, there’s a process in place something like 30 people go through that for notification which is all in line with the and have either gained employment out Aboriginal Heritage Act (1988) to make on the mine site or gained experience on sure that everyone’s covered. machines and then gone elsewhere.

As the mining company digs the product We’re also in partnership with Iluka and out of the ground, they leave a big hole. other service providers in Ceduna and A requirement of the mining process is just started a work experience program clearing the area to start with and keeping where four young people have basically all the seeds, all the trees, and basically been skilled up on what to expect when everything to try and get it back to as they go out on the mine. It’s an eight to natural looking as it was before the mine. 12 week program where they do a lot We’ve also got a ranger program that of groundwork before they actually go we’ve self-funded through Far West Coast on site. And then there’s the opportunity Investments and they’ve had the opportunity to do three swings at Iluka paid work. to go out there and help with seed The participants can decide whether the certification and collecting the seeds Iluka mine life is for them or not and there are

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Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 7 Aboriginal elders village First Nations to be built in Adelaide place names on A $10 million dollar project owners we still do not own our own announced in June 2021 will create homes,” Mr Agius said. drivers’ licences a purpose-built village for Aboriginal “KYAC is appreciative for the support elders living in Adelaide. shown from all the funding partners to The Aboriginal Independent Living allow the Aboriginal elders village to Village project will be built on part of a proceed. The cultural safety of our elders 5.8-hectare property purchased by the and their wellbeing is our highest priority Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and is well supported by the tailor-made (ILSC) on behalf of the native title design on land of cultural significance to holders of the Adelaide plains area. the Kaurna people. It is with tears of joy The proposed development will include that KYAC will see elders well cared for 40 individual homes to be built on into the future.” 1.3 hectares of the property that is ILSC’s Group CEO Joe Morrison is proud located 13km south of the CBD close of the project which will provide culturally to Warriparinga, a culturally significant appropriate independent living solution for site near the Warriparri Sturt River in Aboriginal people in South Australia. Bedford Park. “The ILSC believes the joint approach The elders village is a partnership between between native title holders, Indigenous the South Australian Government, Kaurna There is now the option to include to country and having that made available community organisations, the state Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC), the the First Nations place name next to through a broad extension is important.” Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation government and a federal government the address on your South Australian Whose country am I on? (ILSC), and Aboriginal Community Housing entity is the key to successfully delivering driver’s licence. a project which will provide long term Limited (ACHL). Many people and organisations want to know social and cultural benefits for Aboriginal The Department of Infrastructure and whose country they are on to recognise and Kaurna Nation Pangkarra Property Trust elders on Kaurna country,” said Mr Morrison. Transport says it’s an option available Chair Garth Agius said the Aboriginal on the driver’s licence application and a show their respect for traditional owners. ACHL will oversee construction and provide request which can be made by contacting Independent Living Village is a welcome To check whose country you are on in native opportunity for both the Pangkarra Trust tenancy management services once the Service SA. title terms, you can check an interactive map and the Kaurna Nation. village is built. Culturally inclusive features tool, Native Title Vision, maintained by the include an outdoor fire pit and homes Gomeroi woman Rachael McPhail calls “Adelaide has been our home for the option a massive step forward in the feature mobility aids, allowing residents Native Title Tribunal at www.nntt.gov.au. thousands of years,” Mr Agius said. Reconciliation process “acknowledging to remain in their homes as they age. Search for your address, then click on the “This is still our traditional lands, our that every place in Australia has an surrounding area to see the determined country Pangkarra, but as the traditional Construction of the village will begin in 2022. original name”. or claim land.

Ms McPhail had recent success in her Some areas in Australia are not yet campaign to include traditional place determined for native title purposes or names as part of the mailing address are the subject of overlapping native title on Australian postage labels. claims. In this case you can consult with South Australian Native Title Services CEO local Aboriginal people to consider their Keith Thomas said, “Aboriginal people are perspectives on who should be recognised proud of their heritage and their connection as local traditional owners.

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8 Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 Shane Cook is making art, miles, and dreams a reality Shane Mankitya Cook had an a bit of time, care, and love that they accident when he was 12 years old haven’t got from other parts of their life.” which left him with third degree In 2019, Shane was recruited by burns to almost 30% of his body. the Indigenous Marathon Project, While Shane’s country of heritage is Wulli founded by legendary Aboriginal runner Wulli and Guwa in Queensland, he was Rob DeCastella, to train for the New born in Adelaide and adopted by the York Marathon. Kaurna community who gave him the Determined to step out of his comfort name Mankitya ‘the scarred one’. zone, Shane ran 42.2km in New York After the accident, Shane’s tattoos helped and continues to compete in local him take back control of his body, “the and national races. The Indigenous more I got tattooed, the more confidence Marathon Foundation equipped him with I would have in myself,” he said. certifications to become a leader in his community to promote a healthy lifestyle. Shane went on to become a tattoo and aerosol artist and works with clients to ensure designs are culturally appropriate.

“Now around Australia people are Shane in front of his mural at the Adelaide Central Market. Photo: Adelaide Central Market. using tattoos to promote their identity or showcase their own art. If I can help people be strong in their identity, then that’s my job done.”

High school was tough for Shane, recovering from his accident and coping with an unwell mother who needed a kidney transplant.

During this time, Shane started to learn about his own culture and family history. “I knew my Nanna was Aboriginal and Photo: Tom Huntley. I knew we were Aboriginal, but I didn’t Shane has been able to combine his really know what that meant for me as passion for sport and art designing a young person in society.” guernseys for the Port Adelaide Football Robert de Castella embraces Shane Cook at the finish line of the New York Marathon. Photo: Supplied. “I was pretty disconnected from school, but team, the Adelaide Crows, the Adelaide I had a mentor at my high school at the time, Thunderbirds and shorts for Anthony Jack Buckskin, who I’m really close with now Mundine. His achievements motivate and consider him like my older brother.” young Indigenous people to reach their goals by using their culture as inspiration. Shane went back to school a couple of years later and finished year 12 – now “Arts connected me to my culture and he mentors young people who were in as Aboriginal people we’re great a similar position to him growing up. storytellers and great artists. There’s something that we’re doing, that we’ve “When I did the wrong thing I’d be told always done that is significant.” off, but it wouldn’t be held against me – Pirku-itya sometimes we’re too quick to write young Follow Shane on Instagram: people off and sometimes it just takes @shanekooka Our Reconciliation Action Plan community partnership program is now open for applications.

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Aboriginal Way, Winter 2021 9 Our column in review features reviews and stories on Aboriginal writers, artists and musicians. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. So i

Book launch: Sorry and Beyond – Healing the Stolen Generations About the book the truth about Australia’s removal policies and worked for healing and justice. Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family by government officials Born in Aboriginal and Torres Strait in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty Islander communities, the movement years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was joined by nearly a million non- was also taken. Indigenous Australians in the 1998 Sorry Day and Journey of Healing campaigns, Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres which paved the way for the Federal Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, Parliament’s unanimous apology in 2008. have been coping with the impact of child removal for more than a century. As the Journey of Healing campaign has shown, community initiatives have played Sorry and Beyond describes the growth a vital part in overcoming the immense of the grassroots movement that exposed damage done.

The journey isn’t over. Sorry and Beyond is a call to continue the work of healing this national trauma. “Here is a committed history of understanding and fighting for the Stolen Generations over the last 50 years. Read of the battle for recognition in the teeth of half a dozen obdurate Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs. And the state of play today: unfinished business. You’ll find not a word of theoretical jargon in this passionate narrative by two of the leading players Brian Butler signs a copy of his new book for Aboriginal Commissioner for Children and Young People, April Lawrie. working right at the coalface. This is one ripping yarn.” of National Aboriginal and Islander Child has been a member of the Institute of Professor Peter Read, co-founder, Care. He was an ATSIC Commissioner Journalists UK. He served as Secretary Link-Up NSW Aboriginal Corporation for South Australia, and was nominee of Initiatives of Change International, for Senior Australian of the Year in which tackles injustice and works for About the authors South Australia. peace and reconciliation in more than Brian Butler is from central Australia 50 countries. He served as Secretary of He has served on the boards of many and, since his teens, has devoted himself the National Sorry Day Committee from Aboriginal organisations, and is a consultant to reuniting families separated by the 1998 to 2006 and was awarded the to South Australia’s Commissioner for removal policies, and healing the harm Aboriginal Children and Young People. Medal of the Order of Australia for his caused. He was the first Director of South work on the committee. Australia’s Aboriginal Child Care Agency, John Bond has worked in 30 countries, © The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres and for 15 years chaired the Secretariat written for many publications, and Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Co-author John Bond. The book’s foreword is by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

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De Rose Hill Eringa No. 2 and Yandruwandha/ Compensation Wangkangurru/Yarluyandi Application De Rose Hill The Wangkangurru/ Native Title Claim Yarluyandi Native Title Claim MINTABIE SC2013/001 !( Yankunytjatjara/Antakirinja Arabana No 2 Legend SC2018/002 Walka Warni SC2013/003 Native Title Oodnadatta #2 Walka Warni Oodnadatta Determination Area

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Native Title Applications !( coloured (NNTT number and name shown) No 1 - Stage 3 Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara SC2013/001 Dieri No.2 Arabana No 2 Land Tenure Native Title Claim NC2021/001 Arabana No 2 - Part 1 Part A Adnyamathanha Native Title Claim Aboriginal Freehold Adnyamathanha Group People No. 1 (Angepena People No. 1 (Stage 1)

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Reserve/Park ROXBY DOWNS !( LEIGH CREEK !( W W e s t e r n A u s t r a l i a Kokatha Adnyamathanha Adnyamathanha People People No. 2 No. 1

(Part!( A) Far West Coast WOOMERA

Adnyamathanha Adnyamathanha People No 1 - Stage 2 SC2016/001 Gawler Ranges Native Title Claim No. 3 Far West Coast Sea Claim People CEDUNA SC1996/005 !( Nukunu Native Adnyamathanha, Title Claim QUORN SC1997/006 !( Ngadjuri and Wilyakali SC2021/002 PORT AUGUSTA Wirangu No. 2 SC1996/004 !( Overlap Claim SC2012/001 Mirning Eastern Sea and Land Claim Native Title Claim Barngarla Native Wilyakali SC2019/002 !( Title Claim Wirangu #3 STREAKY BAY Nukunu SC2018/001 PETERBOROUGH WHYALLA Part A !( Nauo #3 !( POR T PIR IE JAMESTOWN SC2021/003 !( !( Wirangu Sea Claim #2 Barngarla SC2011/002 SN2019/001 Native 0 100 200 Ngadjuri Nation #2 Attorney General for Title Claim

South Australia (Wirangu) CLARE !( First Peoples of the River Kilometres SC1997/008 Murray & Mallee Nauo Native SC2013/002 Region !( Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 Title Claim Narungga BERRI Prepared by: Nation SC2019/001 PORT LINCOLN First Peoples of Geospatial Services, National Native Title Tribunal !( Kaurna the River Murray 30/07/2021 ADELAIDE Peoples !( and Mallee Region #2 Native Title !( MURRAY BRIDGE a i r o t c i V SC2016/003 Claim Nauo No. 2 Ngarrindjeri and Others Native Title Claim

SC1998/004 Ngarrindjeri and Others Native Title Claim !( BORDERTOWN SC2017/001 First Nations of the South East #2 South Australia !( KINGSTON S.E. SC2017/002 First Nations of Native Title Applications and Determination Areas the South East #1

As per the Federal Court (20 July 2021) MOUNT GAMBIER !(

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