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Native Title Newsletter August 2016 Native Title Newsletter August 2016 edition | 1 Native Title NewsletterAugust 2016 National Native Title Launch of Torres Inaugural youth Conference 2016 Strait Land and Sea forum a success Management Strategy An interview with Jeremy Clark 5 10 16 National Native Title Conference 3 2016 Welcome!to the Native Title Indigenous rights in land use planning strengthened in Queensland 5 Newsletter The Native Title Newsletter is produced three times a year and includes feature articles, traditional owner comments, book 8 reviews, research project reports and other various articles. The Launch of Torres Strait Land and Newsletter is distributed to subscribers via email or mail and is Sea Management Strategy also available at www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/newsletter.html. We welcome your feedback and contributions. AIATSIS Research at the East 10 For more information, please contact: Arnhem Ranger Forum [email protected] Native Title Research Unit (NTRU) also produces monthly electronic publications to keep you informed of the latest Land rights & township leasing 12 developments in native title throughout Australia. You can subscribe to NTRU publications online, follow @NTRU_AIATSIS on Twitter or ‘Like’ NTRU on Facebook. Inaugural youth forum a success Report on the Indigenous youth talking circles 13 at the National Native Title Conference 2016 Project update 16 Aboriginal fishing values on the New South Wales South Coast Cover: Upai Purri Torres Strait Islander Dancers performing on Day 3 18 at the National Native Title Conference 2016. Photographer: Andrew Turner, Public Engagement, AIATSIS. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are respectfully advised that this publication may contain names and images of deceased persons, and culturally sensitive material. AIATSIS apologises for any distress this may cause. Editors: NTRU Information Services Team, AIATSIS. Design and typesetting: Amity Raymont, NTRU, AIATSIS. Printed by: Vividprint, Australia. © Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Native Title Newsletter August 2016 edition | 3 JEREMY CLARK An interviewMember of the Tjap Whurrong with / Peek Whurrong of South Western Victoria & General Manager of Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation prejudice as to how they see Native of thinking. It’s probably opened up 16 Title. But we were open to working a lot of old wounds and skeletons with whomever on our country to in the closet as people have had to achieve a good outcome for all. verify their genealogy and a lot of the Native title could actually be a time there’s one family history that benefit; traditional owners being comes through oral history; and then recognised as having native title there’s some differences when the rights could actually benefit a range research is done through records. It of people, even those who think it shows different things! Some people may not. There was some media are uncomfortable with that. interest; we happily spoke with them, so the reaction was overall I think the TO based organisations fairly positive. will ultimately be better; the GREW UP AT THE FRAMLINGHAM community structure served a Aboriginal Trust and lived there I think the hardest thing with native purpose and achieved many great I most of my life. I’m the current title, with the process, is getting things. I think we all respect General Manager of Eastern Maar the information to your own mob; where they came from but those Aboriginal Corporation. to your traditional owner group and community Co-ops were all set up ensuring that they understand what in the early ‘80’s. They achieved a In 2011 we were successful in it is and what potential outcomes lot in regards to health, housing, gaining Native Title which is a shared there may be. Our communities have community programmes and determination with the Gunditjmara; their own way of communicating with community strengthening, but over their PBC is the Gunditj Mirring and one another and there are definite the years through the funding cuts ours is the Eastern Maar. factions within our communities so a and different funding arrangements, lot of the time, coming together with they’ve all migrated to be pretty much We have a second claim lodged a common goal can raise suspicions, health services like primary health with the Federal Court but it is doubts, and the like. Native Title services and health providers. So they currently on hold while we explore a requires a different sort of mindset don’t serve the function they once did. settlement with the Victorian State as to what we’re used to. Government. This area encompasses I think it’s an ideal time for TO the Great Ocean Road down to In Victoria we had a lot of Aboriginal corporations to step into the role and Port Fairy and up to the Grampians co-operatives and people were TO organisations don’t just look after National Park. It includes the Otway taken from their land and put on traditional owners; a lot of historical National park and Twelve Apostles to missions and everything else. blackfellas on our country that are Marine National Park. There’s been a shift from community from different areas, from different based organisations to Traditional places; we want to ensure they’re able When we lodged our second native Owners based organisations. For to access services but at the same title claim it caused a bit of reaction many years traditional country was time respecting that TO’s are the TO’s. which was anticipated we arranged what co-op you were associated with a press release and other things or what community you were a part I’m also involved with Victoria’s to allay people’s fears and their of so it’s required a different type Federation of Traditional Owner 4 | Native Title Newsletter August 2016 edition Corporations which provides a are well resourced, some are but where you are. We’ve talked about this collective voice for a lot of Victorian others have no resources, so working amongst ourselves and one of the things TO’s. Victoria is not a large state together and wanting to help each is just about healing our people and at and our people have a myriad of other is very important. the same time you want to try and secure connections between different a future for us and not be dependent mobs around the state so Victorian The good thing about native title is on welfare and all those things. So that blackfellas have come together over the chance to come together and be means exploring economic opportunities. the years for common things. We recognised as traditional owners of As people say, we want jobs. were marching in the streets in the our country. We have always asserted ‘60’s and ‘70’s and ‘80’s and we have our rights on our country. Our delay I’ve always seen creating jobs as the connections through people being put in pursuing native title is because easy part. It’s getting people work on various missions and locations. we always just asserted those rights ready to take those jobs on. And it’s So we all have a connection and we anyway. Our thoughts have shifted in hard to be work ready when your family have family connections as well so that now we can see some benefits might be dysfunctional or when none of while each of the traditional owner in pursuing native title; we can see your family has ever worked before and groups are separate, we have those that there’s potential opportunities when there is a lack of role models and connections which enable us to be available to us which weren’t there leaders within your own family; and we able to work together and I think the before. If we can set up a future for have a lot of single parent families. federation is a coming together of our younger generations so they can a lot of those but not all. Traditional grow up being recognised as to who You need to heal first. So we see that owner corporations that have native they are and strengthen and reconnect at the same time you can’t lose sight of title agreements themselves are with their culture. We can provide an everything else you need to achieve as pursuing that. It was born out of economic future for them. It’s a pretty well. We’re working through ways we a want from us to come and talk big step in itself because we haven’t can achieve that and I don’t think there together about common issues and been recognised and unfortunately is any clear path but we need to heal problems, opportunities, to assist even groups that have had native title people, families, individuals. We need each other and so on. We formalised outcomes or agreements, they still to do some cultural strengthening; that a few years ago and that has struggle with that issue. a lot of younger ones particularly allowed us to have a bit of a collective are disconnected from our ways and voice in responding to government I suppose we have a fairly clear idea culture so we need to reconnect that. policy and pursuing our own policy about what agenda we want to try to We need to look after our elders and agendas and pursuing economic achieve. Native title can be different make sure that all the hard work they opportunities. There’s strength in for different people and different mobs have put in over the years, that they get numbers! Not all of our corporations around the country and depends on to see some reward.
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