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John Haton: Shoalhaven Vision P3 | Lake Wollumboola P3 | Bomaderry Creek P7 Late Summer 2008 | Edition #99 | Circulation 4000 copies John Haton: Shoalhaven Vision p3 | Lake Wollumboola p3 | Bomaderry Creek p7 We have had sufficient audacity of faith to advance a pathway to that future, page together: indigenous and local fishermen and there were with arms extended rather than with fists still clenched. So let us seize the non-indigenous Australians, such mutterings and complaints government and opposition, about that that our people were day. Let it not become a moment of mere sentimental reflection. Prime Commonwealth and state, and brought out to Wreck Bay, and Minister Kevin Rudd 13 February 2008 write this new chapter in our a school was established there. nation’s story together. “ We wait [Note again the first imposed to see how indigenous people priority: “Let us resolve today to are to be represented, to have begin with the little children.”] elected representatives. Locally, It was a government policy we need to be sensitive to what to move the Aboriginal fami- Aboriginal people want. Even a lies.” (Jean Carter “A Big Dose very materially generous white of Social Justice.” Steppin’ Out NEXT… man, late at night – indeed last and Speakin’ Up, Older Women’s night, as I write this – can say: Network, 2003, p 57.) Dennis Argall justifies cruelty towards those language), to learn our world “What our [Koori] friends have Sorry about losing your not like us.” view as so contrary to their own to learn is...” Sorry mate, no, home brother... Sorry not REACHED across the table • Hard for all decent people deeply-rooted sense of country, start again please. enough? Take it to the Land to the tall dark handsome who hesitate to know where to of symbol, of meaning.” In just the immediate region and Environment Court maybe, young man on the other start on an intractable issue, to Why didn’t the Prime of Nowra there are four different brother? Sorry. Can’t. side of the mosaic we were know whom to embrace, what Minister say: “we will change Koori mobs: Jerrinja at Orient On 12 February The Iworking on, at the Aboriginal way to express regard or care, school systems to support and Point, the mixed-origin popula- Australian reported that “the Embassy. how to act in any concrete way. respect all cultures, especially tion in Nowra, Wreck Bay and Prime Minister ... was confi- “Sorry” I said. He smiled and In the Prime Minister's indigenous culture, so that when Injagunji in Tomerong. They dent the apology would not took my hand. wonderful, urgent and neces- a tiny child comes to school it is evade the sight of most. How are trigger a frenzy of litigation.” “New world,” I said. His hold sary speech to the parliament meaningful and supportive of these communities to work out How soon does he say this after, on my hand strengthened and on 13 February there are, alas, the core of their lives and does their differences among them- in his poll victory speech on 24 stayed. He smiled and said, seeds of new problems. He said: not demand rejection of culture selves and among themselves, November, heaping praise on “Yes.” Let us resolve today to begin and assimilation to another the Koori people, and to have Bernie Banton for his coura- “Where are you from?” I with the little children, a fitting man’s good design”? Didn’t he “…sufficient audacity of faith geous fight for compensation asked. “Moree,” he said. place to start on this day of know in some places they still to advance a pathway to [the] for asbestos victims. It seems a “Moree is a hard place,” I apology for the stolen genera- are told not to speak their own future?” How are they enabled popular wisdom to suggest that said. tions. Let us resolve over the languages in schools? Didn’t he to have the audacity, courage, the dispossessed lack financial “Yes, Moree is a very hard next five years to have every think about it? Didn’t he know hope, space and time to find wisdom, waste their money, are place. That’s why I’m here in indigenous four-year-old in a that the best and brightest out strength together... rather than unfit for personal compensa- Canberra,” he said. remote Aboriginal commu- there can go off to secondary be called into political offices tion benefits and should accept The Shoalhaven is a hard nity enrolled in and attending boarding schools and often run and told how the white world nobly the expertly designed place too. a proper early childhood educa- home, just weeks later? knows the best, how the white community projects proposed • Hard for indigenous people tion centre ... The focus of the rhetoric, in world will intervene—with by the enlightened successful. trapped in poverty and in the Who has determined this any case, was still on remote either smiles, schools or police. In Sweden Kylie’s swimsuit shellacked wisdoms of gener- priority, what is this word communities, not on the young When people campaign to is auctioned to buy cows for ations of imposed policies of ‘proper’? I asked this question man from Moree or the Koori keep Huskisson unchanged are women in Asia. Some people welfare, or shell-backed with on Radio National a year ago: woman in Shoalhaven who they aware of the grand irony? know how to spend wisely. ingrained hatred or despair. “What happens if you dump a said to me half a year ago: “I am Have they read Aunty Jean’s Clack, clack, clack go the • Hard for those people who, national literacy test on kids like sick of hearing about all these words: dominoes of decency. Can we, in the words of Barack Obama, this [in remote communities]? remote communities, don’t they “The history of Wreck Bay is for a moment, take all our domi- “would seek, under whatever How can it respect the fact that see what we face?” that Aboriginal fishing families noes and cards off the table and flag or slogan or sacred text, a they arrive at school to learn The Prime Minister went that lived around Huskisson were certainty and simplification that English (as most likely a third on to say “Let us turn this getting more fish than the other CONTINUED ON PAGe Late Summer 2008 #99 L E T T E R S WELCOME SUPPORT IraQ TrageDY COMMUNITY Her Majesty that this ‘honour’ many submissions from the local would in fact do wonders for the community. It had nothing to do I’ve been meaning to write this On the 24th Nov, John Howard I was discharged from Wol- republican cause in Australia. with the water supply agreement. for many months. Well done for and the Liberals were defeated longong Hospital’s Alkira Lodge Times have changed since any all the hard work in getting the and I, like most Greens, am a few weeks ago. I shall soon such honour was last bestowed It is difficult to identify what cred- Bush Telegraph out and with such happy to see them depart. The be notified if the cancer that is on an Australian. Mr Howard is it can be attributed to the Greens interesting articles. Green vote is on the rise and it bothering my prostate has been not to be compared with Sir Nin- Councillors. They played no role seems our message is reaching halted. ian Stephen or Sir Edmund Hillary in the Community Reference Chris Nobel more people. With this in mind, but has come to be reviled by a Group (CRG) set up to advise the Kangaroo Valley I believe it is of vital importance I am concerned, but not to the very significant proportion of the Government on river manage- that we are careful with what we degree that you would expect. Australian population who in no ment, nor were they evident in say and do. I am, however, trou- This is because of the marvellous general respect hold the United the public campaign against the GM CANOLA bled with Adam Bonner’s letter support that the staff provides to Kingdom in disregard. Government’s plans for the river. (new Bush Tele Summer edition its cancer patients. Canola is not just an oil seed crop. 2007) titled ‘Iraq Viewpoint’. It is a matter of record that this Specifically, credit must be given It is also a major animal fodder It is a support shared by doctors, Most Noble Order of the Garter is to the Southern Bass Fishing crop fed to cattle, sheep and dairy While I agree with some of nurses and general staff and one allowed “to excel all other institu- Club for the fish lift and multi- cows. Historically, dairy cows in Adam’s letter, I find some parts that goes beyond the excellent tions of honour in the whole level off-take outcome, to the the Shoalhaven have been fed on objectionable and not in keeping medical service provided. It is a world.” Kangaroo Valley community for Canola stubble and, in drought with the tolerant and humane support that creates optimism, a achieving retention of high water years, the whole plant of failed message of Green philosophy. great help in coping with this Sir Edmund and Sir Ninian bound levels in Lake Yarrunga and to the crops, which has been transport- their countries together and Shoalhaven River Alliance (SRA) ed from Western NSW. In those Adam states ‘But the cost in US particular problem. A kind of were commended for their many for achieving a better outcome for areas where Canola is grown, lives grows each day thanks to family has been created that we wonderful acts of generosity and the environmental flows regime.
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