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&21)(5(1&( )25$/,&( $OLFH6SULQJVZLOOKRVW WKH1DWLRQDO1D New Chairman WLYH 7LWOH &RQIHUHQFH UXQE\$,$76,6 &/&'HSXW\&KDLUPDQ 0LFKDHO /LGGOH DF FHSWHG WKH LQYLWDWLRQ WRKRVWWKHFRQIHUHQFH RQ EHKDOI RI &/& DQG WKH /KHUH $UWHSH $E for the CLC RULJLQDO &RUSRUDWLRQ 3,7-$1-$7-$5$/ Fortunately the Aus- ZKLOH KH ZDV DW WKLV Yankunytjatjara man tralian Electoral Com- \HDUåV 1DWLRQDO 1D Phillip Wilyuka finally mission was in already WLYH7LWOHFRQIHUHQFHLQ fulfilled his ambition to in attendance to conduct 7RZQVYLOOHLQ-XQH become the Chairman of an election for the post of the Central Land Council Deputy Chair, vacated by .,:,55.855$+2676 when council members Gina Smith some months :20(1å60((7,1* elected him to the posi- before. Mr Michael Liddle was .LZLUUNXUUD MXVW tion at a meeting in Ten- nant Creek on 23 May. elected Deputy Chairman. ZHVW RI WKH :$ ERU He is an Alywarre/Ar- GHUKRVWHG D İYHGD\ “Since I’ve been a delegate for Titjikala, rernte man living in Alice ZRPHQåVODZDQGFXO I’ve been trying to get to Springs. WXUH PHHWLQJ WKDW DW where I am now because “I look forward to WUDFWHGPRUHWKDQ I knew about the Land working with Phillip and ZRPHQIURPFRP Council since I was about PXQLWLHV 17 years old,” he told the ç6LQFH ,åYH EHHQ D 7KH PHHWLQJ ZDV meeting after his elec- GHOHJDWH IRU 7LWML SDUWLDOO\ IXQGHG E\ tion. NDOD ,åYH EHHQ WU\ WKH $XVWUDOLDQ *RY “On a black and white LQJ WR JHW WR ZKHUH HUQPHQW DQG RUJDQ TV I’ve seen you mob go , DP QRZè 3KLOOLS LVHG E\ IRUPHU 13< down to Canberra fight- :LO\XND :RPHQåV&RXQFLO&(2 ing for land rights. 0DJJLH.DYDQDJK “For this reason I the Executive and Mr wanted to be in this posi- Ross and people,” he told the members. 6,1*,1*35$,6( tion because I’ve been to Darwin to get an educa- “I’m here to keep peo- :HVWHUQ$UUHUQWH tion and I’ve lived in the ple honest, and at the end FRXQWU\PXVLFVLQJHU bush and heard a lot of of the day, we’re here to VRQJZULWHU:DUUHQ+ stories from my old man help Aboriginal people :LOOLDPVKDVZRQWKH and he give me the time to move forward with what $XVWUDOLD&RXQFLOåV go to school and learn.” we’ve got.” 5HG2FKUH$ZDUGIRU Mr Wilyuka, 55, lives A Council member KLVRXWVWDQGLQJFRQ in Titjikala. He has said the outcome was a WULEXWLRQWRWKHPXVLF worked in a number reminder of the need to LQGXVWU\ of jobs including stock maintain the CLC’s bipar- :DUUHQ SODQV WR XVH work, building houses tisan approach. KLV SUL]H and as a teacher’s aide. PRQH\ WR UHFRUG He is currently a Luther- DQ DOEXP LQ 86 $ an pastor at Titjikala. FRXQWU\ PXVLF FDSLWDO “I do everything I 1DVKYLOOH can, with the best of my knowledge, to fight for :LOOLDPV KDV DOVR our rights,” he said. IHDWXUHG UHFHQWO\ RQ Mr Wilyuka replaces :LQDQMMDUUD D FRO Lindsay Bookie, who ten- ODERUDWLYH WUDGLWLRQDO dered his resignation on ODQJXDJH DOEXP UH the first day of the meet- FRUGHGZLWKVRQJPHQ IURP7HQQDQW&UHHN ing. The following morn- 3UHYLRXV ZLQQHUV RI ing he offered to stay on, WKH DZDUG DUH -LPP\ but members voted to &KL %RE 0D]D DQG hold an election for the -LPP\/LWWOH position. $ERYHOHIW 'HSXW\&KDLU0LFKDHO/LGGOHDQG$ERYH &/&&KDLU3KLOOLS:LO\XND At last! Five year leases finished for good &217529(56,$/ ment kept the five-year for the benefit of their five-year leases that leases in place but community. the Howard Govern- promised to pay ‘fair’ The first payment of ment took out over all rent. five-year lease money major communities in For the past two has been received and Central Australia will years the CLC has been the CLC is hopeful that expire on August 18 negotiating with the the next and final pay- this year. Australian Govern- ment will be distrib- The ‘leases’ were ment over the way this uted around October compulsory acquisi- rent is being calculat- 2012. tions for five years, tak- ed, and this process is The Minister for en without the consent almost finalised. Families, Community Winter chill set to end of traditional owners, In the meantime, Services and Indig- According to weather in- to get colder and colder – the most five-year lease enous Affairs, Jenny and strongly opposed 0LQLVWHU0DFNOLQ ternet site Weatherzone it’s coldest it’s been since 1977. by landowners and the communities have had Macklin promised not been an unusually frosty win- More than 30 days have Central Land Council vention or Northern one meeting with the extend the five-year ter for Alice Springs and Cen- been below zero and a few They were a cen- Territory Emergency CLC to discuss distrib- leases. tral Australia. minus five degree mornings tral part of the Howard Response in 2007 . uting and using the The clear and calm weath- have been especially tough on Government’s Inter- The ALP Govern- five-year lease money er has apparently allowed it campers and early starters. $XJXVW News Land handbacks for traditional owners
6,=( didn’t matter to the tional Park rather than face established in 1896 and has handful of Warlpiri and An- a drawn out legal battle. been used to run cattle for matyerr traditional owners The Tyurretye Aborigi- more than 100 years. who travelled several hun- nal Land Trust immediately Despite this, its Eastern dred kilometres to a cere- leased the park back to the Arrernte traditional own- mony at Simpsons Gap near NT Government to be joint- ers have maintained strong Alice Springs. ly managed with its mainly cultural links with the While other tra- country. Some ditional owners ç,NQRZWKDWWKHLUODQGLVYHU\VSHFLDOWRWKHLU still work on the were being handed KHDUWVDQGPDQ\RIWKHPKDYHIRXJKWIRU\HDUVWR property. back a national park KDYHWKDWRZQHUVKLSDFNQRZOHGJHGè The claim and two pastoral &/&&KDLU3KLOLS:LO\XND covers 3760 sq stations, they were km, and more happy to get just 26 hectares Central and Western Ar- than 2000 cattle are current- of their precious country at rernte traditional owners. ly agisted on it by the G&C Crown Hill. The park’s daily opera- Pastoral Company. Indigenous Affairs Min- tion will not change. This arrangement will ister Jenny Macklin also The handback of Alcoo- be formalised with a lease handed back the West Mac- ta to its traditional owners after the handback . Donnell National Park and ended one of the longest The Arletherre Aborigi- pastoral properties Alcoota land claims. nal Land Trust accepted and Loves Creek , to the east It is estimated it cost tax- the Deed of Grant for Loves of Alice Springs payers more than $2 million Creek and the Irrinjirrin- The land claims were in legal costs when the NT jirri Aboriginal Land Trust lodged by the CLC before Government unsuccessfully accepted the Deed of Grant the ‘sunset clause’ came fought the claim. for Crown Hill. into effect in 1997. The land claim hearing CLC Chairman Phillip was finally completed in Wilyuka congratulated tra- 2004 and it was recommend- 7UDGLWLRQDORZQHUVFHOHEUDWH ditional owners . ed for grant in 2007. The WRS $OFRRWDPREZLWK-HQQ\ “I know that their land is Alkwert Aboriginal Land very special to their hearts Trust accepted the Deed of 0DFNOLQWKH:HVW0DF'RQQHOOV and many of them have Grant for Alcoota. DUHOHDVHGEDFNWRWKH17 fought for years to have that Loves Creek, 60 kilome- *RYHUQPHQW PLGGOH WKH ownership acknowledged,” ters east of Alice Springs %ORRPİHOGDQG:LOVKLUH Mr Wilyuka said. became inalienable Aborigi- IDPLOLHVFHOHEUDWHWKHUHWXUQRI The Northern Territory nal freehold land under the /RYHV&UHHN Government handed back Land Rights Act. the West MacDonnell Na- Loves Creek Station was 0RUHSLFVSDJH
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+81'5('6 of Warl- piri people turned up at a remote campsite in the Tanami Desert early in July to celebrate the dec- laration of more than 100,000 square kilometers of their country as an In- digenous Protected Area. The declaration, at Sangster’s Bore, made it the biggest protected area on the Australian main- land. The Tanami Desert, to the west of Alice Springs, has some of the highest densities of Australia’s most threatened wildlife species, including mul- gara, bilbies and the great desert skink. The IPA will be man- aged and maintained by the Central Land Coun- cil’s Warlpiri Rangers and traditional owners, with funding from the Depart- ment of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Pop- ulation and Communities and the Nature Conser- vancy group. The declaration also means the area will be managed to international standards. It will create precious employment, education and training opportu- nities, and other social :DUOSLULWUDGLWLRQDORZQHUVFHOHEUDWHGWKHGHFODUDWLRQRIWKH6RXWKHUQ7DQDPL,QGLJHQRXV3URWHFWHG$UHD benefits for the three Ab- ancestral spirits needs looking people away,” he said. original communities of people are still after both ways “The ranger program Nyrripi, Yuendumu and living today and ç,WåVRXUODQGRXUOLIHDQGRXUODZ7KDWåVZKHUHZHJHWRXU now , with dif- is really popular and it’s Willowra, where most of we respect that. FXOWXUHSDVVHGGRZQIURPJHQHUDWLRQWRJHQHUDWLRQ:HQHHG ficult challenges the job that most young the traditional owners “We are real- WREHDEOHWRORRNDIWHURXUFRXQWU\ZHOOEHFDXVHWKDWåVZKHUH like weeds and Aboriginal people on com- live. ly proud of our camels these munities want to do now. Traditional owner Lot- young people, RXUDQFHVWUDOVSLULWVSHRSOHDUHVWLOOOLYLQJWRGD\è days,” Mr Wily- “They all love it. It’s tie Napanangka Williams- our rangers, /277,(1$3$1$1*.$:,//,$0652%(57621 uka said. real work and they get Robertson said she felt because we can He said that great training and lots of “really happy” about the see they are do- the declaration skills and it makes the old declaration. ing a really good job look- “For me as a ranger, Central Land Council of the IPA was a valuable people really happy with “It is really important ing after it now. going out bush with other Chairman Phillip Wilyuka investment by the Austra- them.” for us,” she said. “When you look after rangers, we just feel really congratulated the tradi- lian Government and a The Southern Tanami “It’s our land, our life the country it look after good, just going out,” she tional owners, scientists boost to the Warlpiri com- IPA is the single largest and our law. That’s where you.” said. and land management munities. contribution to the pro- we get our culture from Senior Warlpiri Rang- “Being on country we experts for the extensive “This is really good for posed Territory Eco-link, passed down from gen- er Madeline Napangardi are trying to look after work that led to the decla- the people who live there, a globally significant 2000 eration to generation. We Dixon said it was essential those endangered ani- ration. and it gives them hope and kilometre-long conserva- need to be able to look to use both cultural and mals, get rid of the ferals, “The traditional own- support to stay on coun- tion corridor that will pro- after our country well be- contemporary methods to look after waterholes and ers are pleased because try when so many other vide ecosystem resilience cause that’s where our protect land. manage bushfires.” they feel that this country things pulling their young in a changing climate. More town camps Big money for outstations get mail delivered in NT election promise
7+( '$,/< round Now postal ser- and letterboxes when 7+( 17 *29(510(17 the Territory Government’s from the Territory Govern- for posties in Alice vices have been ex- postal deliveries be- says it will spend $300 million new Homelands Policy. ment,” said McCarthy. Springs is growing, tended to Mount Nan- gan. on outstations over the next Indigenous Development “Importantly, homelands with regular mail cy, Palmer’s Camp, The community ten years if it is re-elected. Minister Malarndirri Mc- will benefit from three-year deliveries extended Karnte and Little Sis- named the streets Of that, $200 million will Carthy said that during 2012 funding agreements which to another four town ters. after family mem- come from the Australian the Government would work will give certainty to both camps. Mt Nancy will re- bers and people who Government. with residents and service residents and service provid- The first postal ceive door-to-door had been an impor- The money will be in- providers to move to the new ers.” deliveries to a town mail delivery, while tant part of their his- vested in the management arrangements which will The minister said home- camp were made to the others have asked tory at Morris Soak. and maintenance of existing commence on 1 July 2013. lands dwellings used as a Morris Soak last Oc- for delivery to clus- They came up with homeland infrastructure, in- “Homelands funding in- principal place of residence tober as part of the tered letter boxes. the street names of cluding houses, roads, and es- cludes $200 million from the or for a recognised communi- Alice Springs Trans- Morris Soak re- Lechleitner, Miller sential services, at homelands the Australian Government ty program would be eligible formation Plan. ceived street names and Glenmon. across the Territory under and at least $100 million more for funding. $XJXVW News Who will you vote for in the NT Election? Land Rights News Central Australia rounds up the partie’s policies for voters in the bush seats of Barkly, Namatjira and Stuart
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He said the owner even- ment is under pressure to fuel in endangered areas. “The overwhelming tually left and after the new force roadhouses to stop Federal member for Lin- message is could you please owner brought in Opal and selling ‘sniffable’ petrol giari Warren Snowdon said get on with it,” she said. stopped selling ordinary spent to in areas affected by petrol the law would provoke legal Senator Siewert said unleaded fuel there was a sniffing. challenges and it would be the claims that Opal could dramatic reduction in the A Senate Inquiry held better for states to intro- damage engines had been number of petrol sniffers. in Alice Springs last month duce their own separate proved to be “absolute non- “If legislation had exist- save lives heard that the roll-out of laws. sense” and accused some ed, we would be five years Opal fuel in Central Austra- But Senator Siewert roadhouse managers of further forward in a com- /$-$0$18 is quicker and more lia has led to a big drop in said it would be confusing “pigheadedness” in refus- munity like Warburton,” spending $200,000 in effective. the amount of petrol sniff- to states to in- Mr Ray told compensation from The same ing in the past few years. troduce their 6HQDWRU 6LHZHUW VDLG WKH FODLPV WKDW 2SDO FRXOG ABC Radio. the Granites Mine amount has gone to But some roadhouse own legisla- GDPDJH HQJLQHV KDG EHHQ SURYHG WR EH çDEVROXWH “We've to improve emer- the Centre for Ap- owners are still refusing to tion particu- known for years gency services and propriate Technol- stock Opal, claiming that it larly in the QRQVHQVHèDQGDFFXVHGVRPHURDGKRXVHPDQDJHUV that Opal works respond better to ogy to install five damages engines. tri-state area RIçSLJKHDGHGQHVVèLQUHIXVLQJWRFKDQJHWR2SDO very well. road accidents. reliable emergency There have also been of South Aus- “Unneces- Northern Ter- hand pumps at out- reports of problems with tralia, the Northern Terri- ing to change to Opal. sarily, these kids have been ritory Emergency station bores and sniffing at the Lake Nash tory and Western Australia. Tristan Ray from the allowed to keep melting Services (NTES) roads in the Laja- community, where young “To have a hotch-potch Central Australian Youth their brains for five years will receive $100,000 manu region or people have been going of laws would be very dif- Link Up Service in Alice because the Common- to build a training to repair existing across the border to get ficult,” she told ABC radio. Springs said that up un- wealth Government doesn't and storage shed for pumps. sniffable petrol, and also in She said people were til recently as many as 60 have the teeth to make sure its Lajamanu volun- The Lajamanu Western Australia. concerned about how long children had been sniffing this essential public health teers. GMAAAC commit- Greens Senator Rachel it would take for the states around Warburton, WA, measure could be imple- The new shed tee hopes both ini- Siewert introduced a bill to introduce legislation, where for five years one mented in a region like will help make tiatives will add up which would enable the and would prefer one law roadhouse owner had re- that.” search, rescue and to fewer deaths on Government to force road- made by the Federal Gov- fused to stock Opal. recovery operations Tanami roads. Royalties fund old peoples home 7KHYLEUDQWFRORXUVRIWKH 0,1,1* payments set with wheelchair lifter, aside by Yapa are fund- washing machine, fridge ing more and better facil- and freezer. ities for the Yuendumu The latest GMAAAC Old Peoples Program supported project was to (YOPP). renovate the End Stage YOPP began with wing of the centre. Meals on Wheels and “There used to be a Community Care pro- little tiny veranda all the grams more than a de- way along – no glass, no cade ago and continues cooling or heating, very to grow with investment unusable,” Ms Harvey from the Granites Mine said. Affected Areas Ab- “We had a situation original Corporation here last year where (GMAAAC) Project. there was someone al- GMAAAC supports ready in for end of life community-based com- and we didn’t have the mittees using their ‘af- space for another patient fected area’ monies so they weren’t able to flowing from mining for stay here. community benefit proj- “We had a cold little ects. room with 30-40 people YOPP On Site man- visiting their sick fam- ager, Julie Harvey said ily member. Some fam- the centre’s needs were ily had to stay in other “ identified by the local rooms or outside, but people, built by the local now they can all be to- people and still run by gether. the local people.” “We took the whole In the past few years roofline out but didn’t the centre has been fund- want to spoil the look of ed for the painting of the the building – it’s quite interior and exterior of historic. the building, landscap- “People normally like ing of the grounds, bath- to see what’s going on, room tiles, boiling water so now they have light unit and a Hilux Ute. and windows all the way In 2008, GMAAAC around.” funded a 10-seater bus $XJXVW News )$0,/<3+272*5$3+(56 Kungkas check out career paths %HZDUHRIIDPLO\SKRWRJUDSKHUVYLVLW LQJ \RXU FRPPXQL $ +81'5(' young women from 13 WLHV communities came together with their 6RPH RI WKHVH teachers and senior women for the 2012 SKRWRJUDSKHUV Kungka Career Conference earlier this VD\ WKH\ DUH year. VXSSRUWHG E\ “I learnt to speak for myself and to WKH&/& be strong and proud,” was a typical com- ment from women who took part in the 7KLV LV ZURQJ conference, which has been run by the 7KH &/& GRHV QRW Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankun- VXSSRUW WKHVH EXVL ytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council since QHVVHV 1997. 6RPHRIWKHVHSKRWRJUDSKHUVFKDUJH The Kungka Career Conference takes YHU\KLJKSULFHVOLNHIRUMXVWRQH a positive approach to some serious is- SKRWR sues. It offers a big range of possibilities, opportunities and success stories. %H YHU\ FDUHIXO LI \RX GHFLGH \RX During the conference, women heard ZRXOGOLNHWKHPWRWDNH\RXUIDPLO\åV from 12 different local Aboriginal role SLFWXUHEHFDXVH\RXPD\JHWFKDUJHG models and sampled some of the 70 dif- WRRPXFKPRQH\ ferent workshops on offer. ,I \RX GRQåW KDYH WKH FDVK WKH SKR Aileen Shannon from Fregon com- WRJUDSKHUVPLJKWDVN\RXWRVLJQDQ munity talked about starting up her own DJUHHPHQW WR SD\ E\ &HQWUHOLQN GH business and the importance of educa- GXFWLRQV3D\LQJWKDWZD\FRXOGWDNH tion and family in achieving goals. QHDUO\D\HDUDQG\RXZLOOQRWJHWDQ\ Emma Stubbs from Amata first at- SKRWRVXQWLODIWHUWKHODVWSD\PHQWLV tended the Kungka Career Conference PDGH as a 12 year old participant. Now 27 years old, Emma works for $ERYH $OOWKHNXQJNDVWMLWMLVDQGZRUNHUVHQMR\HGWKHWKDQQXDO.XQJNDV&DUHHU ç,I \RX GR VLJQ DQ DJUHHPHQW WR SD\ NPY Women’s Council Domestic Vio- &RQIHUHQFH IRUSKRWRJUDSKV\RXKDYHWKHULJKWWR lence Service and spoke at the Confer- she said. health and looking after your body, job FDQFHOWKHDJUHHPHQWZLWKLQGD\V ence, encouraging other young women Emma also delivered workshops on opportunities (including ranger work, LI \RX GHFLGH \RX GRQåW ZDQW WR JR to think about their futures and believ- respectful relationships to small groups making bush medicines and basket DKHDG2I\RXGRFDQFHOLWGRQåWIRUJHW ing in themselves. at the Conference. weaving with the NPY Women’s Council WRWHOO&HQWUHOLQNWRFDQFHOWKHGHGXF “Being ‘shame job’ isn’t the way to be Other workshops dealt with mental Tjanpi Desert Weavers), understanding WLRQVè - wiya kuntaringinyi- don’t be shame!” health, nutrition and cooking, sexual the law, sports, music and arts. Mutitjulu pool on the way Anamarra school gets a day out E\-HQ +DPLOWRQ READER’S CONTRIBUTION 7+( sound of giggling pre- school children echoed through the bush, as they immersed them- selves in a cul- ture lesson. The group was made up of the children of Anamarra, their teachers, a couple of moth- ers and me, the community en- gagement police officer at Papu- nya. We headed out to a place I -HQ+DPLOWRQDQGWKHNLGVRI$QDPDUUD $ERYH 0DO\D7HDPD\DQG0DULR*LXVHSSHRQWKHVZLPPLQJSRROVLWHORRNLQJDWSRRO naively thought GHVLJQVZLWK&$73URMHFWVDQG&/&VWDII was no differ- bushes with a gaggle of handfuls of sticks and ent from the kilometres children merrily follow- offer me advice on stick 6800(56 are look- opment of this multi- awarded in August. of bushland we passed on ing. placement. ing a bit cooler for resi- million dollar project, Traditional owners our way. To our experts, I was left with the im- The hunters emerged dents of Mutitjulu, with working closely with directed rent money however, though we had portant job of making the from the scrub with their the construction of the Mutitjulu Working from the lease of the arrived at Mother Na- fire. I don’t believe the ample quarry of maku, the community’s long- Group and the CLC’s Uluru Kata Tjuta Na- ture’s kitchen pantry. children thought I was up (witchetty grubs. The awaited pool to begin Community Develop- tional Park to the pool The women disap- to the task unassisted as great catch was cooked in soon. ment Unit. project, with more fund- peared, digging sticks they continued to check the coals of our fire and CAT Projects has The contract to build ing from the Aboriginals in hand, into the mulga on my progress, bring me the meal was enjoyed by the pool is expected to be Benefit Account . guided the design devel- /51&$ORYHVUHDGHUFRQWULEXWLRQVQRPDWWHUKRZELJRUVPDOOVHQG \RXUSLFVDQGVWRULHVWRXVDWPHGLD#FOFRUJDX 09+:,@,=0,> 7KLVPRQLWRULQJFDPHUDVHWXSRQDVSHFLDOO\FRQVWUXFWHGZDWHULQJSRLQWIRUFDPHOVFDXJKWPRUHWKDQWKHSHVN\IHUDOVRQİOP([DPLQDWLRQRIWKHVRISKRWRVWDNHQE\WKH FDPHUDVKRZHGGLQJRHVWKRXVDQGVRIELUGVDQGHYHQSHRSOHXVLQJWKHZDWHUWURXJK7KLVZDWHULQJSRLQWZDVVHWXSWROHVVHQWKHLPSDFWRIODUJHIHUDODQLPDOVRQZDWHUKROHVDQG VRDNDJHVZLWKVLJQLİFDQWFXOWXUDODQGELRGLYHUVLW\YDOXHV $XJXVW News 30*,7905.:5(;0=,;0;3, ;/,-09:;-69(;6>5 (5@>/,9,05<:;9(30( The Alice Springs Native Title deci- sion in 2000 was a victory for the Arrern- te people. It marked the first time native title had been granted in an Australian town. Nearly 130 years after European set- tlement began in Central Australia, the common law of Australia recognised the native title rights and interests that Ar- rernte people have exercised as the own- ers of the Alice Springs area for thou- sands of years. 20 year anniversary It took six years from when the Ar- rernte people lodged a claimants’ appli- cation with the Native Title Tribunal for 7KH Aboriginal Land Rights ActIRUWKH1RUWKHUQ7HUULWRU\ZDVSDVVHGLQWKH)HGHUDO3DUOLDPHQW it to be finally granted by Federal Court. LQ EXWWKLVZDVDODZRQO\IRU$ERULJLQDOSHRSOHOLYLQJLQWKH1RUWKHUQ7HUULWRU\ The Court heard from the native title claimants about how they and their an- 7KHRWKHUVWDWHVDQGWHUULWRULHVPLVVHGRXW cestors had consistently continued to 6RLQ Eddie Mabo WRRNWKH4XHHQVODQG*RYHUQPHQWWRFRXUWEHFDXVHLWGLGQ·WUHFRJQLVHWKDW live in and around Alice Springs, hunt- LQGLJHQRXVSHRSOHKDGDV\VWHPRIODZDQGRZQHUVKLSEHIRUH%ULWLVKVHWWOHPHQW ing and gathering and looking after their High Court country, and exercising their rights to (YHQWXDOO\DGHFDGHODWHULQ WKH GHFLGHGWKDWLQGLJHQRXVWUDGLWLRQDOWLWOHWRWKH make decisions about it. ODQGKDGVXUYLYHG%ULWLVKVHWWOHPHQWDQGLWZDVFDOOHG native title. 0DERGLHGEHIRUHWKHGHFLVLRQZDV In May 2000, six years and several KDQGHGGRZQ hundred thousand dollars later, the Fed- eral Court handed down a determination $VDUHVXOWRIWKDWGHFLVLRQ0DER·VSHRSOHWKH0HULDPKDGQDWLYHWLWOHWRWKHLULVODQGV that: decision • recognised coexisting native title 7KH PHDQWWKDWQDWLYHWLWOHFRXOGVXUYLYHDQ\ZKHUHLQ$XVWUDOLDVRORQJDV rights and interests on most reserve, ,QGLJHQRXVSHRSOHKDGPDLQWDLQHG$ERULJLQDOODZDQGFXVWRPVRQWKDWODQGDQG park and vacant Crown land and waters 1RRWKHUWLWOHVDOORZLQJRZQHUVKLSRIWKDWODQGKDGH[WLQJXLVKHG RUILQLVKHG WKHQDWLYHWLWOH within Alice Springs; • confirmed that native title is protect- ed by the Native Title Act, and also that KEATINGS FAMOUS REDFERN SPEECH the “future act” provisions apply to all land use, land management and acqui- (5+;/,9,/(=, sition activities the Government might wish to undertake on reserve, park and ),,56;/,95(;0=, vacant Crown land; and • required the setting up of a native ti- ;0;3,>05:05*,5;9(3 tle body corporate to act as the agent and representativerrepressentatiive ofof AliceAlice SpringsSpriingn s nativennativee ti-ti- (<:;9(30(;66(<:;9(30(;66 tlettle hold-hoholld- ers.erss. TheThee ArrernteArreernte setset upu Lh Lherehere AArArtepetepee toto SinceSincce thethe AliceAllice SpringsSprrings claim,cllaim, therethhere makemakke thosethhose havehave bbeeneen a nunumberumber ooff nnativeativve ttitleitlee vivic-c- dedecisionsecisioons toriestories forfoor AboriginalAboriginal peopleppeople inin CentralCenntral aboutabout Australia.Australlia. futurefutuure TTennantennnant CreekCrreek becamebecame thethe firstfirrst landlandd towntown inin AustraliaAustraalia to havehave a nativenativve useuse in titletitle determinationdetterminaation mademmade byby consentconseent tthehe ratherrather thanthan litigationlitiigationn . totown.wwn. KEATINGS FAMOUS PaPartrtt ooff thethe victoryvvictory involvedinvolvved beingbeiing grantedgranted freeholdfreehoold titletitlee to KunjarraKuunjarraa or thethe Devil’sDevvil’s Pebbles,Pebbles, a sitesite veryveery deardeaar to thethe WarumunguWarrumunggu REDFERN SPEECH TThereherre havehave beenbeen a numbernumbeer ofof otherotther determinationsdetermiinationss inin whichwwhich nativennative titletitle .RRUL0DLOHGLWRU.LUVW\3DUNHUUHPHPEHUVEHLQJDW5HGIHUQDWWWKKHH hashas beenbeeen recognised,recoggnised, includingincluuding somesome WLPHWKHWKHQ3ULPH0LQLVWHURI$XVWUDOLD3DXO.HDWLQJPDGHKLLVV pastoralpastoraal leasesleases wherewherre theythey onceonce saidsaid JURXQGEUHDNLQJVSHHFKZKLFKVDZKLPSXVKWKH1DWLYH7LWOH$FWWFWWKKURXJKURXXJK nativenative titletitle couldcoould neverneever bebe claimed.claimmed. 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I thought it was QRGHPHULWSRLQWV six kids and five adults in different for troopies,” Mr a troopie,” Patrick said. Oliver said ì$GXOWSDVVHQJHUVQRWZHDULQJVHDWEHOWV “The adults got $420 “My message to people QRGHPHULWSRLQWV 7KHODZXVHGWRVD\WKDWLIWKHYHKLFOHGLGQåWKDYHVHDWEHOWV ew’s car key from the po- $ERYH &/&ODQGPDQDJHPHQW ì)DLOWRSURGXFHFDUU\OLFHQFH QRGHPHU WKHQ\RXGLGQåWKDYHWRZHDUWKHP7KHQHZODZVVD\ lice station. ZRUNHU7UDFH\*XHVWZLWKD LWSRLQWV HYHU\RQHPXVWKDYHDVHDWEHOWRQ “I showed my licence JURXSRIODGLHVLQWKHEDFN 6HUJHDQW&RQDQ5REHUWVRQIURPWKH6RXWKHUQ7UDIİF RIWKHWURRSLHDERXWWRJR and he said ‘“you are dis- 2SHUDWLRQV8QLWVDLGWKDWDVDUHVXOWRIWKHFKDQJHV qualified” because you KXQWLQJ on-the-spot fine each for is make those kids wear 7UDF\VD\VDVHDWEHOWVDYHG WRWKHODZLWLVQRZHIIHFWLYHO\DFDVHRIçQREHOWQR not having seatbelts on seatbelts or else you’ll lose haven’t paid your fines. “I didn’t know that. KHUOLIHUHFHQWO\DIWHUKHU ULGHè and I lost three demerit your licence. Keep the WURRSLHUROOHGRQWKH'RFNHU So I went next door to the points for each kid. kids safe. Wear your seat- 5LYHU5G ç '580 Atweme was in year 12 and wants to go happen that way but it set up to give town camp to Uni. She was the shyest did. The boys come in and youngsters a chance to kid in the group out of it, but a lot of them explore music and learn “Even the school said are doing footy and other new skills, but as founder she’d never get anywhere. things – which is great.” When she joined eight Pete attributes the suc- Pete Lowson says it’s done $ERYH 7KH'UXP$WZHPHJURXSVKRZWKHSRZHURIPXVLFDQGOHWWKHGUXPVGRWKHWDONLQJ much more. years ago, everyone said: cess of Drum Atweme to “The idea was not to ‘How can you be playing the fact that drums are Drum Atweme has many as 60 times a year, ing able to say yes or no keep them as musicians when you can’t even talk?’ more accessible than most had great support from in festivals and special oc- to a situation. Instead but so they would have She just said: ‘The drum instruments, and a great familes in town camps, casions in Alice Springs of everyone telling them the confidence and social talks for me.’” way of letting off steam. says Lowson. and interstate, with re- what to do, they can start skills to be able to do a lot Drum Atweme has 50 “It’s really therapeu- “There’s been this big cent gigs including a per- having the confidence to of things,” Pete said. members, 45 of them girls tic,” he says. connection with beat, formance for 30,000 peo- make choices.” Some of the original ranging from age six or “If you bang on a drum, and when you talk to the ple at the Adelaide Fringe Drumming has also drummers, now in their seven to teenagers. you can get rid of a lot of grandmothers and the Festival. helped kids with school- late teens and still per- “We’ve got a lot of girls frustration. It’s easy to families they absolutely “Their self-confidence work, with teachers point- forming, seem to be living now who are mad drum- connect and put rhythms connect to it. There’s a has grown tenfold and ing to improvements in proof of the power of mu- mers. Some of them have together. very close connection to that has spread into their literacy and numeracy sic in young people’s lives. been doing it for seven “And when you’re their culture. They’ve got lives in general,” he said. says Lowson. “We’ve got 28 kids from years now and they love getting 20 kids together, a close connection about “They’re more confi- Drum Atweme in colleges it, absolutely love it,” says drums are a lot more that rhythm and hitting it dent about how they ap- in Adelaide,” says Pete. Pete. transportable than key- in to the earth.” proach people, and things, “There’s one girl who’s “I never set it out to boards or guitars.” The group performs as and most importantly be- $GYHUWLVHZLWKRQO\QHZVSDSHUWRUHDFK &HQWUDO$XVWUDOLDåVUHPRWH$ERULJLQDO FRPPXQLWLHV &$//8672),1'287+2: $XJXVW News Yapa funding Op Shop for Watarrka the last cold snaps 7+( &22/ win- been really high,” ter has heated up said Women’s Cen- park handback sales at the Yuen- tre Manager Ann dumu Women’s Putt. Centre Op Shop. The op shop has GMAAAC funds now begun to cater about half of the for the men too. wages of Yapa and Men can use a Kardia op shop side access to buy workers and pays winter woollies for cheap clothes and save money. and blankets to Meanwhile, the supplement dona- GMAAAC-funded tions. bush garden at the Profits from the Women’s Centre is business go back thriving with the into the Women’s bush tomatoes, Centre. bean trees, desert “With winter oaks and desert upon us, the sales roses local women of last year’s win- bought with the ter donations have GMAAAC money. Pederson named advocate of people with disability 5(12:1(' disability. Aboriginal televi- His experiences sion and film actor were showcased in Aaron Pedersen the 2006 documen- has been named tary My Brother Patron for Interna- Vinnie, which fol- tional Day of Peo- lowed the extraor- ple with Disability dinary relation- and the National ship he has with Disability Awards his brother and his $ERYH &/&&KDLUPDQ3KLOLS:LO\XNDHYHQW0&6LG0DORQH\6WHSKHQ&O\QHDQG0LQLVWHUIRU&HQWUDO$XVWUDOLD.DUO+DPSWRQORRNRQDV for 2012. journey as a carer. ODGLHVSHUIRUPDQ,QPDWRFHOHEUDWHWKHKDQGEDFNRI:DWDUUND1DWLRQDO3DUN Mr Pederson is The National an Arrernte and Disability Awards /85,7-$ traditional emony in the Park on Northern Territory Traditional own- Central Land Council Arabana man who recognise organi- owners are celebrat- July 25 Government for 99 ers will be involved in (CLC) and the North- grew up in Alice sations and indi- ing the handback of The Watarrka Park years. The park will be all aspects of manage- ern Territory tourism Springs and is a viduals who make 1052 square kilome- Land Trust was grant- jointly managed by the ment, especially the industry. positive contribu- passionate advo- tres of land within ed NT Park freehold NT Parks and Wildlife park’s cultural heri- CLC director, Da- cate for people tions to the lives the Watarrka National title under the NT Gov- Service and the Luritja tage. vid Ross congratulated with disability of people with dis- Parks and Wildlife the Luritja traditional The star of ability. Park. ernment’s Parks and traditional owners. The Circuit and The award re- The land, which in- Reserves (Framework The park is visited Service will facilitate owners on their pa- Double Trouble is cipients will be cludes world-famous for the Future) Act by up to 215,000 visitors training, employment tient approach and well-suited to take announced on 28 tourist landmark 2003. a year, attracted by its and commercial en- mutually beneficial on the role of pa- November and the Kings Canyon, was Traditional own- spectacular scenery terprise development outcomes. tron, having cared International Day handed back by the NT ers immediately leased and rich Aboriginal for traditional owners for his younger of People with Dis- Government at a cer- back the land to the cultural significance. with the support of the brother, who has ability is celebrat- cerebral palsy and ed on 3 December a mild intellectual each year. Yuendumu art becomes Bush TV back on air a hit on fashion runways 7+( )('(5$/ casting projects, Government an- including those 7+( <$3$2:1(' War- Ms Alfonso said the ef- “Roopa has worked nounced funding broadcast into re- lukurlangu Artists Ab- fects of the economic down- in the past designing for a new Indig- mote Indigenous original Corpora- turn were felt in the com- clothes using Indian enous satellite TV communities. tion has found a munity. traditional artisans, channel, to be car- “These proj- vibrant way to “You can’t eat art, it’s a but now she’s living ried by Central ects provide an es- promote Warlpiri luxury item,” she said. in Australia she re- Australian Indig- sential service to artwork in an “Tourism – which we ally wanted to work enous broadcaster Indigenous com- art market that’s rely on – is down and we’re with Indigenous de- Imparja. munities, helping gone colder than not doing as well as we have signs,” she said. Communication to maintain Indig- a desert winter in the past. Fashion de- Minister Senator enous language night. “That means less money signers and critics Stephen Conroy and cultural devel- Warlukur- to give out canvasses, the had raved about the announced $15.4 opment, as well as langu manager activity levels are down, clothing range. million in funding promoting impor- Cecilia Alfonso and the painters don’t get as Ms Alfonso said for the Indigenous tant health and ed- said the Yuen- much income.” the images were Broadcasting Pro- ucation messages,” gram (IBP). Senator Conroy dumu centre Despite the gloomy fi- licensed to the de- The funding said. has had to nancial climate, the art cen- signer, with royal- covered the cre- Meanwhile, the explore and tre won a Northern Territo- ties going back to ation of an Indig- Federal Govern- branch out ry Export Award (Arts and the community. enous Community ment is also fund- as art lovers Entertainment category) “People Television satellite ing SBS to carry across the last year. agree to their channel on Viewer National Indige- globe tighten After the awards, Ms images being Access Satellite nous Television. their purses. Alfonso made contact with used, it makes Television (VAST). “NITV will great- Indian-born fashion design- them proud and The IBP was ly expand the avail- /HIW -DQ\LQNL'UHDPLQJ er, Roopa Pemmaraju, who it creates income established in 1987 ability of indig- VKLUWDQGVNLUWDUWZRUNE\ was interested in adapting for them,” she and supports indig- enous information %HQ-DQJDOD*DOODJKHU Aboriginal designs to de- said. enous broadcasters and content for all signer clothes. across Australia Australians,” Sen- $ERYH $VWXQQLQJVKHDWKGUHVVE\-XG\:DWVRQ through 55 broad- ator Conroy said. $XJXVW News Government finally pays rent to Aboriginal land owners )257+( first time, David Ross said he Centrelink office for they are not getting es.” ment infrastructure, lease, so construction Governments are pay- thought the leases example? In Alice new houses when they Nearly all commu- based on the Govern- has yet to start there. ing rent for buildings were a good thing. Springs they would are so overcrowded,” nities have had meet- ment agreeing to pay Construction at Her- such as offices and “It’s really hard pay a lot for that lease, Mr Ross said. ings to talk about rent for the land. mannsburg is due to houses on Aboriginal for people , because I think.” “But they are still whether traditional The only commu- begin soon, while the land – as they do else- they see it as a land The Government choosing to enter owners will consent nities offered newnew houses at Laja- where in Australia. grab but really it has also said it wants the housing lease in to leases for NT and houses in return for manu are finished. Rent payments brings everything traditional owners to return for money to Commonwealth gov- a housing lease were Hermannsburg began when tradi- into line with the way agree to leasing land upgrade houses – ernment infrastruc- Lajamanu, Yuen- and Lajamanu have tional owners agreed it’s done in the rest of for housing before it around $7000 in re- ture. dumu and Hermanns- signed 40-year leases, to lease areas to the Australia,” he said. will build any com- pair and maintenance So far, 13 commu- burg. with 26 new houses to Government for its “Why shouldn’t munity houses on it. money per house per nities have said yes to Yuendumu has be built in Hermanns- buildings. the Government have “A lot of commu- annum, and housing leases over Northern only recently con- burg and 17 built in CLC Director to pay rent for their nities are angry that management servic- Territory Govern- sented to the housing Lajamanu. Willowra invests in families and learning 7+( Willowra ucation and Train- community “so the tor them through the of Families, Hous- community is invest- ing Trust (WETT) kids can see the his- process. ing, Community ing in the future with backed the project tory, culture and lan- The directors of Services and Indig- a new Early Child- after it was chosen guage of Willowra.” WETT, which uses enous Affairs. hood and Learning by the Willowra “It’s also to keep royalties from the During a site Community Centre. community in 2006. them busy and out Granites Gold Mine meeting and celebra- Construction The Central Land of trouble,” she said. to set up education tion of the beginning began in June, and Council, as agent “We were waiting programs within the of construction on community mem- for WETT, has been for so many years for Warlpiri region, have 22 June, CLC Chair- bers will help build working with the this learning centre allocated almost $1m man, Mr Philip Wily- the centre, which Willowra commu- to be built.” toward construction, uka thanked the peo- will include a train- nity since then to Tangentyere maintenance and op- ple of Willowra for ing and computer make the vision a Constructions won eration of the centre “asking, asking, ask- space, a library, cul- reality. the construction ten- over the next three ing” and for spend- tural materials stor- WETT Advisory der and is employing years. ing royalty money age, and a 15 place Committee member community mem- The remaining “from mining from crèche with outside and Willowra resi- bers and a builder funds were provided your country” on play area. dent Maisie Kitson with a history of by the Aboriginal such a good project. $ERYH :(77PHPEHU0DLVLH.LWVRQDQG(PLO\IURPWKH The Warlpiri Ed- said the centre was working in Willowra Benefits Account, &/&&RPPXQLW\'HYHORSPHQW8QLWORRNDWDPRGHORIWKH essential for the to support and men- and the Department IXWXUHFRPPXQLW\FHQWUH Shannon wins 2012 Ranger of the Year $ERYH 6KDQQRQZLWKKLVDZDUGDQG170LQLVWHUIRU3DUNVDQG:LOGOLIH.DUO+DPSWRQ &/& 5$1*(5 Group Coordi- non oversee involve hard manu- nator Assistant Shannon Lander al labour, often in harsh weather is 2012 Ranger of the Year - Cen- over extended periods,” she said. tral Australia. “Regardless of the challeng- The award recognises Shan- es, his colleagues always seem to non as a leader and mentor who walk away from the job with an works above and beyond the call immense sense of achievement of duty, travelling more than and a drive to take on new chal- 2500km a month in his job. lenges. Ranger co-ordinator Jade “Shannon achieves this Kudrenko said Shannon’s en- through his down-to-earth ap- thusiasm and commitment for proach and an ability to treat all the job affected everyone around rangers as individuals, acknowl- him. edging each person’s strengths “Many of the projects Shan- and weakness.” NT roads deadly $1(: report says the rate of Health and Welfare report of serious injury from road ac- found that nearly six per cent cidents in the Northern Terri- of people involved in road ac- tory is close to double the na- cidents in remote areas of the tional average. NT suffered life-threatening The Australian Institute injuries. $XJXVW Despite economic growth, food insecurity lingers in Africa (9(5/<1( Wan- It finds that more cans still live jiku, a single mother than one in four Afri- in extreme pov- of five, has earned a cans are undernour- erty, with fam- living selling vegeta- ished. ine affecting 9.5 bles in the sprawling “The spectre of million people Kibera slum in Nai- famine, which has in the horn of robi, Kenya, for more virtually disappeared Africa last year. than three decades. elsewhere in the According Though her earn- world, continues to to Tegegnework ings were meagre, she haunt parts of sub- Gettu, the head was able to provide all Saharan Africa,” says of the UNDP her children with a the report. Africa bureau, tertiary education. The report blames governments Now, she can bare- Africa’s food woes on must spend less ly support her family. poor governance. on the military “On a good month, “Sub-Saharan Af- and more on ag- I would make over rica has abundant ag- riculture. 6,000 shillings (67 dol- ricultural resources. “Why should lars). But shamefully, in all Africans be un- “But things are bad corners of the region, able to afford now,” she says, point- millions of people the technology, ing to the few vegeta- remain hungry and tractors, irriga- bles outside her shack. malnourished — the tion, seed vari- Such challenges result of glaringly eties and train- are being faced by uneven local food pro- ing needed to be all Africans, as high- duction and distribu- food-secure?” lighted in a new re- tion and chronically he asks. port by the United deficient diets, espe- The report Nations Develop- cially among the poor- calls for “smart =LPEDEZH 0RUHWKDQSHUFHQWRI$IULFDQVâWKHPDMRULW\RIZKRPDUHZRPHQâUHO\RQIDUPLQJIRUVXUYLYDO ment Programme est,” says the report. subsidies,” &UHGLW 0DUNR3KLUL,36 (UNDP),which paints It says that despite to encourage It also states that new energy and ideas enticing and profitable young people have a gloomy picture of a decline in poverty in smallholder farmers attracting young Afri- to its development. openings and enter- come to denigrate as a the food situation on the 2000s, almost half to shift to high-yield cans to participate in “Technology and prises along the value backwater,” it says. the continent. of sub-Saharan Afri- crop varieties. agriculture will bring innovation can create chain of a sector that Back from New South Africa: Pit toilets York UN trip fertilise green crops 7+(&/&å6 media offi- cluding rights to water, cer Steve Hodder attend- food sovereignty, con- South African ed the 10th anniversary stitutional recognition, scientists have of the United Nations implementing the Decla- found a way to Permanent Forum on ration on the Rights of use waste from Indigenous Issues (UN- Indigenous Peoples into pit toilets to grow PFII) in New York, USA domestic (national) law fruit trees and in May this year. and addressing violence other plants. The UNPFII is one against women and chil- Nearly 11 mil- of three United Nations dren,” Steve said. lion South Afri- (UN) bodies assigned to “Seeing so much di- cans have been deal with Indigenous versity of Indigenous served with basic peoples’ issues. It focuses peoples from across the sanitation since on economic and social planet interacting and 1994, but by 2008, development, culture, sharing was an experi- more than 13.3 the environment, educa- ence that I hope more million people tion, health and human Aboriginal people from still lacked sim- rights. Central Australia get to ple toilets. As part of its man- participate in , especially Meanwhile date, the Permanent young future leaders, South Africa’s Forum provides expert “I’d encourage any- pit latrines have advice and recommenda- one, especially from out been filling up bush, to find out more tions on issues relevant faster than their to the UN. about the diplomacy expected design It also seeks to raise training offered by the life, according $ERYH 6PDUWHUVDQLWDWLRQQRWPRUHVDQLWDWLRQ9LOODJHDEOXWLRQEORFN.HQ\D&UHGLW ,VDLDK(VLSLVX,36 awareness of informa- University of New South to the Water Re- tion and promotes in- Wales. search Commis- corporation and coor- “It definitely makes for fuel or paper produc- it contains, especially ground here and citrus dination of activities you realise that while sion (WRC). tion?” if it is used for surface and peach trees were related to indigenous is- there are many ongoing “Only one third of The result of these spreading and where planted on top. sues within the UN sys- problems in our country municipalities have a questions was a project edible crops are culti- “The fruit grows tem. that need to be sorted budget to maintain on- called What happens vated. There is also a much faster and it seems Mr Hodder said the out, we can take stock of site sanitation,” says when pit latrines get full? risk it could contaminate to be tastier and juicier forum had one of the big- knowing it’s a lot harder WRC researcher David Human excreta con- groundwater. than fruit bought at su- gest Aboriginal and Tor- for some other peoples. Still. tains valuable nutrients Still and his team permarkets,” Khoza res Strait Islander con- “I’m not trying to “If pits fill up, all such as nitrogen, phos- discovered that by bury- said.”We now enjoy fruit tingents to ever attend, excuse how much work the hard work that was phates and potassium ing the waste in pits from our own garden.” with over 40 participants is left to do, but more done to address the sani- and the average person and planting on top of According to Still, from across Australia. so to highlight that our tation backlog will be excretes enough of this it, pathogens were con- providing sanitation is “The Indigenous peoples are pretty much wasted. Why not use fae- per year to sufficiently tained and eventually not about building more Peoples Organisations leading the way for oth- cal sludge to address the fertilise 300 to 400 square died off. toilets. (IPO) Network Austra- ers in many areas includ- growing problem of food metres of crops. Lindiwe Khoza’s “It is about managing lia presented statements ing in health, law, land insecurity by planting But using it as a fer- house in Umlazi was se- sanitation smartly,” he related to key issues management, diplomacy fruit trees? Or use the tiliser can be hazardous lected as a test site. The said. raised by the forum, in- and advocacy.” sludge to cultivate trees because of the pathogens sludge was buried in the $XJXVW Energy plantations can power India $*5283 of wom- material into syngas able for tree growing, en working in a tree- (synthetic gas). including biomass shaded nursery in the The power derived plantation. arid southern Tamil from burning the gas The ‘side effects’ Nadu state is help- is considered to be re- of planting for energy ing to manage India’s newable energy. include improvement first biomass energy The 300-acre bio- in the microclimate plantation. mass plantation now of the region and a About 20 women has trees that stand regeneration of biodi- take care of daily seven metres tall on versity. maintenance work degraded lands that The reservoirs while another 45 have been contoured have becoming water- work seasonally. for watershed con- ing holes for deer and The women come servation, with res- birds on once degrad- in at daybreak and ervoirs constructed ed, arid lands. leave at 2pm, earning to enable drip irriga- “A small forest of a decent 150 Indian tion. this size, with its two rupees (approximate- “The groundwa- Mw power plant, can ly three dollars) for ter has risen from 90 power several of the half a day’s toil. metres in 2007, when cell phone transmis- The women plant we started the plan- sion towers in the and tend saplings, tation, to 25 metres area,” said Venak- make shade-nets and now,” says C. Lalram- tesan, a former Mo- take care of other mawia who manages torola executive who nursery essentials. technology at the oversees the planta- Grown with seven plantation. “Rain- tion. indigenous biomass- fall has similarly in- producing plant spe- creased from 250 mm cies, the plantation is annually in 2007 to 5LJKW :RPHQKHOSUXQ one of the first of its over 800 mm in 2011.” ,QGLDåVİUVWHQHUJ\ kind in the world. India has 60 mil- SODQWDWLRQ Controlled heat- lion hectares of de- &UHGLW .H\D$FKDU\D,36 ing or “gasification” graded non-forest converts the plant and forest lands avail- El Salvador: constitutional recognition for Indigenous people $)7(5 decades of territory starting of indigenous speaking Náhuatl, their struggle, Indigenous in 1524. peoples as native language, which people in El Salvador are However, the such began to was banned by the dicta- being recognised in the constitutional re- be lost, and a torship. country’s constitution. form “puts things false concep- The poverty rate The constitution will to right, because tion of ‘civili- among native communi- be modified to acknowl- now El Salvador sation’ began ties in El Salvador stood edge native languages will define itself to reign,” at 38 percent in 2009, com- and other expressions of as a multicultural Lara said. pared with less than 19 Indigenous culture. and multiethnic “It was percent among the gen- “This country has ig- country,” Lara necessary to eral population, while 67 nored the existence of the said. be very mod- percent of native house- Indigenous population, According to ern and ci- holds had no piped water, and as a result of that the 2007 census, vilised, and to against a national aver- denial, all of the rights native people rep- be that, peo- age of 39 percent. that they have as origi- resent just 0.2 per- ple couldn’t Shandur Kuatzín, nal peoples have been cent of the popula- be Indige- president of the Union of eliminated,” Carlos Lara, tion – a figure that nous.” Indigenous Communities an anthropologist at the was immediately In 1932, of Guacotecti Cushcatan, University of El Salvador, rejected by Indig- dictator said that after native com- said enous organisa- Maximiliano munities were officially The prevailing view tions and academ- Hernández recognised, they would is that Indigenous peo- ics. Martínez begin to fight for real ple have disappeared or Indigenous as- crushed a change, such as the recov- merged with the general sociations cite in- $ERYH (O6DOYDGRUåVQDWLYHSHRSOHUHSUHVHQWHGE\WKLVVWDWXHKRQRXULQJD3LSLO peasant re- ery of their communally- population, he said. stead a 2005 survey ZDUULRULQ$WHFR]RO3DUNZLOOİQDOO\JDLQRIİFLDOUHFRJQLWLRQ&UHGLW 'DYLG6WDQOH\,36&& volt in the owned lands. According to this view, by the Economy west of the The land taken from El Salvador’s population Ministry, which Lenca and Cacaopera in – native-born white elites country, kill- indigenous communities of 6.1 million is “mestizo” put the proportion at 17 the east. who governed the coun- ing between 10,000 and was used to produce ex- – an ethnic mix of Indig- percent of the popula- Native peoples were try after it gained inde- 30,000 people. port products like indigo enous people and the de- tion, mainly Nahua-Pipil enslaved and exploited pendence in 1821. After the massacre, and coffee, the foundation scendants of the Span- Indians in the centre and by the Spanish colonists “In the middle of the indigenous people hid of the wealth of the crio- iards who colonised this west of the country, and and later by the “criollo” 20th century, recognition their roots, and stopped llo oligarchy of the time. Australia joins in global Indigenous ranger network 35,0( Minister Julia with Brazil, Norway and tionally-focused network manage over 1.5 million “Over the past few “It’s some of the best Gillard and Minister for New Zealand to form the of Indigenous land and square kilometres of land years through Working work our Environment the Environment and Sus- Indigenous Peoples and sea managers. and sea country. on Country, the number Department is involved tainability Tony Burke to- Local Communities Land It will draw on exist- Mr Burke said it took of indigenous rangers has with and it’s a credit to ev- day announced a new pro- and Sea Managers Net- ing networks, such as Australia a long time to now built up to around ery ranger that this sort gram to link indigenous work. Australia’s Working on recognise that indigenous 700, he said. of expertise is now being expertise and modern The program will help Country program which rangers were often the “That’s 700 additional recognised international- technology to improve the share ancient environ- funds almost 700 Indige- best-placed people in Aus- people engaged in envi- ly.” More information on way we manage our envi- mental traditions with nous rangers to use tradi- tralia to provide environ- ronmental management the network can be found ronment globally. communities across the tional knowledge, as well mental management of with all the benefits of at www.nrm.gov.au/in- Australia has joined globe to create an interna- as cutting-edge science to land and sea. traditional knowledge.’ digenous/network $XJXVW News Alcohol plans CLC’s horsemanship course 72:1 camps and Barbara Shaw has communities are helped develop an looking at Alcohol AMP for Mt Nancy Management Plans with the NT Depart- offers life of adventure (AMPs) to control al- ment of Justice cohol abuse. “Basically what AMPs are designed we’ve done is put com- to address the serious munity safety first,” health, social and eco- Ms Shaw said. nomic effects of alco- She said the pro- hol misuse. cess had involved They have been better community en- in place in Central gagement. Australia since 2007 “A government when the Interven- department talking tion (NTER) was to one person is not launched, but were ‘engaging with the imposed without con- whole community’,” sulting communities. she said. The Federal Gov- “The difference ernment has since with the Justice de- admitted it needs to partment is that work in partnership they’ve actually come with people and com- and sat in the dirt munities to under- with us and engaged stand and address the with the community underlying causes of members one on one. the demand for alco- “Even the heavy hol. drinkers had their say Government rep- with them, agreeing resentatives have to certain conditions been asking residents like allowing them 7(1 young men and es that they had to look tarf boys, who were cho- of communities and to drink but only on women from around after while they were sen because they were town camps what they certain days, not hav- Central Australia lived there. interested in agricul- think are the prob- ing kids around grog, a life of adventure on “All the young wom- ture and had good atten- lems and and if they drinking in your own horseback for a few en had jobs before they dance,” Ms Mack said. want to develop their yard. weeks on Aboriginal- went, and it was just a “They loved it. They own AMPs. “ It helps everyone owned Mistake Creek look into the pastoral did five days horseman- Five town camps to be aware of it be- Station recently. industry for them. ship, three days low- and four communi- cause they’ve all been CLC Project Offi- “Some do a lot of stress stock handling ties ( Titjikala, Lara- part of setting it up cers and keen horse horse stuff at home and with one of the top cat- maba, Hermannsburg and can really know riders Becky Mack and wanted to update their tlemen in Australia and and Amoonguna) and own the system.” Gina Bennett took five skills on the last day a muster wanted AMPs. Ms Shaw said it young women and then “They loved it. They on horseback. Town camp resi- was up to the minister five young men for two went to the yards and “They were out all dent and Aboriginal to sign off on the AMP. weeks each on the prop- cleaned the troughs day, missed lunch and Rights campaigner erty. out, helped brand did it tough, but they “They were all awe- calves, bangtailed cows were fine 7HUULWRULDQV GULQN DW WLPHV DQG some,” Ms Mack said. and took fences down “Now they are back “The girls went up and put them back up at school and have ,QGLJHQRXV7HUULWRULDQVGULQNDW for a week of horseman- again.” promised us they will WLPHVWKHQDWLRQDODYHUDJHZKLFKLV ship and a week of work The boys were all finish year 12.” experience and they en- from Tennant Creek and 7RS %R\VZHHNDW WKHKLJKHVWSHUFDSLWDFRQVXPSWLRQ joyed it,” she said. enrolled in Certificate 0LVWDNH&UHHN6WDWLRQ “They had a lot of Two in Agriculture in RIDQ\VWDWHRUWHUULWRU\ YLVLWRUVDQGVWDWLRQ fun, took a lot of photos their schools. KDQGVWRJHWKHU RIDVVDXOWVDQGRIGRPHV and had their own hors- “They were all Clon- $ERYH 3DWULD&RQZD\IURP6DQWD7HUHVD WLFYLROHQFHLQFLGHQWVDUHDOFRKROUH ODWHG $OFRKROUHODWHGFULPHFRVWVWKH7HU Congress childcare graduates ULWRU\PLOOLRQD\HDU±RUDURXQG ),9( local indig- enous people have be- IRU HYHU\ DGXOW 7HUULWRULDQ come qualified early FRPSDUHGWRDERXW QDWLRQDOO\@ childhood educators thanks to a mixture of on-the-job training and on-line distance educa- tion. CAAMA opens new studio In a graduation cer- emony held at Congress 7+( country’s pre- enous Health Minis- Childcare, students mier Aboriginal me- ter Warren Snowdon, Erica Adams, Desmond dia organisation has with NT ministers McGrady, Narcissa celebrated the open- Karl Hampton and Sailor, Ruth Furber and ing of new training Malarndirri McCar- Rowena Corby were facilities for young thy present. recognised for the suc- Aboriginal people. A written state- cessful completion of The Central Aus- ment read at the cere- their studies in Cer- tralian Aboriginal mony on behalf of the tificate III in Children’s Media Association Prime Minister, Ju- Services. (CAAMA) officiallylia Gillard, acknowl- Training was provid- opened the John Ma- edged the significance ed through a partner- cumba Media and of Indigenous broad- ship between Congress Training Centre and casting.. and Coonara Commu- launched the CAAMA “Indigenous nity House, a non-profit, Radio Mobile Broad- broadcasting is a crit- community-based Reg- /5 &RRQDUDWUDLQHU'DQL&DPSEHOO1DUFLVVD6DLORU(ULFD$GDPV'HVPRQG0F*UDG\5RZHQD&RUE\ cast Unit on 17th ical tool that enables istered Training Organ- 5XWK)XUEHUDQG&RRQDUDWUDLQHU/\QQH*LEE April. culture, language, isation (RTO) based in The Youth Media music and local mes- Victoria. er than traditional work- hopes to continue. “I’d real- year’s membership to Ear- centre and the Mo- sages to be distrib- The course emphasised books. ly like to be able to go on to ly Childhood Australia, bile Broadcast Unit uted effectively by In- practical skills and verbal For graduate Desmond further study from here,” the peak industry body for launch were opened digenous people,” the interviews to share learn- McGrady, working in child- he said. childhood education and by Federal Indig- Prime Minister said. ings and knowledge, rath- care was a career change he Graduates received a care. $XJXVW News Camel musters in full swing $%25,*,1$/ people But you still need luck to in Central Australia are get plenty of camels into learning the skills they a yard without damaging need to manage feral cam- panels or the camels. els and stop the damage Any money made from they are causing to their musters will go into a Land land. Trust muster account to After more than thirty keep the work going. meetings with traditional Other work done on Ab- owners, the Central Land original land to control fe- Council Feral Management ral camels includes creat- Program is under way, tar- ing camel watering points geting up to 250,000 camels and fencing off waterholes on Northern Territory Ab- to stop camels fouling original land. them. People talked about In the future, CLC will how traditional owners work with rangers on: could help the Government • training in firearms and the CLC to shoot cam- and butchery skills for els from helicopters and re- ground-based shooting duce the numbers to what with Wulaign, Muru- they used to be twenty warinyi Anukul, Ltentye years ago. Apurte and Atitjere rang- Already 15,000 camels ers; have been shot, and the • Ground-based shoot- shooting might go on for ing to protect rockholes another two years. with Nyirripi Yirinti and Aboriginal Rangers Yuendumu rangers and Pa- have also taken part in the punya Anangu Luritjuku first two musters of cam- rangers; els on their land this year, • mustering with Anan- working with camels in gu Luritjuku and Kaltukat- areas where they can’t be jara rangers; shot. • installing more wa- The musters were a ter points in the Pmer Ny- training exercise to find entyte, Petermann and $%29( $FKRSSHUWDNHVRQ the best way of organising Hassts Bluff AboriginalVRPHUHOXFWDQWIHUDOV musters in the future. Land Trusts; %(/2: &DPHOVLQWKH\DUGV The first, at Haasts Bluff • a trial of remote radio DWWKH8QGXUDQDPXVWHU in April, led to the sale of cameras to check when 64 camels, but lost a lot of camels are on water. 5,*+7 &DPHO&RZER\VQHDU money, partly because of 0W/HLELJ the cost of transporting so few camels 510km to Alice Springs. In the second muster, 164 camels only had to be transported 240 km, and the project made $3,873 from the sale after wages and expenses were paid. The exercises showed musters can be expensive. People can save mon- ey if they pick up camels quickly, keep the equip- ment needed on the com- munities and get just a few people to do the work. Government boost to Jaru Pirrjirdi Winners of the Young People’s Government has picked up the tab for a successful youth development program Bush Stories Project Warlpiri people have been funding with their mining compensation money. 5HPHPEHUEDFNLQRXUODVWLVVXH Run by the Warlpiri Youth Develop- ment Aboriginal Corporation (WYDAC), RI/51&$ZHKDGDFRPSHWLWLRQ Jaru Pirrjirdi started in 2003. WRZLQDQL3DGRUDYRXFKHU It used small government grants to IRU6SRUWV3RZHUGRQDWHGE\WKH strengthen the skills and confidence of young people and to support them to &/&LI\RXFRPSOHWHGDVXUYH\E\ become leaders in Yuendumu. &'8UHVHDUFKHU-RVLH'RXJODV" Program participants have found jobs with the Warlpiri Rangers, the Yuen- -RVLH KDV İQLVKHG KHU VXUYH\ dumu QRZDQGVKHJRW&/&&KDLUPDQ Swimming Pool and the Yuendumu 3KLOOLS :LO\XND WR SXOO WKH WZR GMAAAC Committee. In recent years Warlpiri Education OXFN\ ZLQQHUV QDPHV RXW RI D and Training Trust (WETT) and the KDW0RUHWKDQ\RXQJSHRSOH Yuendumu GMAAAC Committee have UHVSRQGHGWRWKHVXUYH\ helped pay the wages of young Jaru Pir- rjirdi workers. 7KHZLQQHUVDUH “The program could not have achieved its successes without the extra )LUVW 3UL]H RI DQ L3DG 7KHUHVD WETT and GMAAAC funding,” said WY- 'URYHUIURP+LGGHQ9DOOH\ DAC manager Susie Low. This year, the government has boost- 6HFRQG3UL]H 6SRUWV3RZ ed its funding for Jaru Pirrjirdi, allowing HU YRXFKHU ZLQQHU /HHDQGD GMAAAC funds to be put to another good community project (EDWDULQMDIURP7UXFNLQJ 352-(&76 aimed mothers’ support build two new training at boosting employ- groups, mentoring and rooms for staff, such $%25,*,1$/6%(1(),7$&&2817$33529('352-(&76,1&(175$/ ment opportunities life skill coaching and as rangers and night $8675$/,$ and improving health mental health services patrol workers. 2UJDQLVDWLRQ 3URMHFW )XQGLQJ and education servic- as well as providing The NT AFL re- es in Aboriginal com- support to help local ceived $3,500,000 to URXQGHG munities are among 34 women get into work. establish The Michael ,QFLWH +HDOWK\/LIHVW\OH7HDPPHPEHUVWDNLQJSDUWLQWKH1$,'2&0DUFK)URP OHIWDUH5RKDQ&DUPRG\-HQQLIHU%UHDGRQ/\QQHWWH2å%UHHDQG*OHQQ&ODUNH (9(5 thought Throughout the promote good health about quitting year, the Healthy are important in smoking or trying Lifestyle Team at- ‘Closing the Gap’ in to get a bit fitter or tends events across indigenous health. healthier? Alice Springs to Chronic diseases Congress’s spread the message are often influenced Healthy Lifestyle of ‘Live Healthy, by lifestyle factors, and Tobacco Cessa- Live Strong’ and such as smoking, tion Program oper- ‘Smoking makes you nutrition, obesity ates on a mantra of sick’. and an inactive life- ‘Live healthy, live So far this year, style. strong!’. they’ve held infor- If you want to It promotes mation stalls and ac- give up smoking healthy food choic- tivities at Braitling or get healthier, es, a more active Primary School, the call the Congress lifestyle, health edu- Centralian Middle Healthy Lifestyle cation, non- smok- School health expo, Team on 89584569 or ing, regular health a mini-circuit at the 89584570. checks, learning VIBE 3 on 3 Basket- Quitline is also about chronic dis- ball Challenge, the available 24 hours ease and preven- Alice Springs Show, a day, seven days a tion, and becoming and during Alice week by calling 13 aware of the effects Springs NAIDOC QUIT (13 78 48). of smoking on your Week celebrations. children. Programs that $XJXVW News ATM fees gone NAIDOC Awards 2012 for lucky ones Winners of $8675$/,$1 banks have ting people know how much promised to provide free money they have in their NAIDOC Alice banking transactions at 76 account is the first place to ATMs in remote communi- start,” a Choice spokesper- ties. son said. Springs 2012 But ATMs run by inde- Australian Greens pendent organisations, wide- spokesperson on Aboriginal spread in bush stores, are ex- and Torres Strait Islander is- ì)UDQN&XUWLVâ3HUVRQRIWKH\HDU pected to continue charging sues, Senator Rachel Siewert ì-DPHV ç-LPè %UD\ â (OGHU RI WKH fees. said there are independent \HDU Under the initiative, 13 operators who are not yet banks will work to provide party to the lifting of ATM ì-DFNLH )RVWHU â Belt up with Arthur $UWKXU*URJDQVD\VKHOHDUQWOHDWKHUPDNLQJDVD\RXQJ IHOOD IURP KLV JUHDW XQFOHV ZKR KDG OLYHG RQ VWDWLRQV DOO WKHLUOLYHV 1RZKHåVEHHQPDNLQJEHOWVIRUDOPRVWKLVHQWLUHOLIHDQG KLVGLVWLQFWLYHSODLWHGDQGODFHGEHOWVKDYHJRQHDOORYHU WKHZRUOG ç,PDGHHLJKWRUVRIRU&DQDGDIRUWKH&DOJDU\6WDPSHGH DQGDWRXULVWLQWRZQZDQWHGWREX\DEHOWIRUKLVIDWKHULQ 6RXWK$IULFDVRWKH\åYHEHHQHYHU\ZKHUHèKHVDLGç6RPH WLPHVWKH\DVNIRUFRORXUV\RXFDQåWJHWVR,KDYHWRG\H WKHPP\VHOIZKLFKPDNHVWKHPDELWPRUHH[SHQVLYHè ,WWDNHV$UWKXUDERXWHLJKWKRXUVWRPDNHDEHOWZKLFKKH VHOOVIRUDERXW ç, FDQ PDNH D VSHFLDO NLQG IRU ODGLHV ZLWK D VHFUHW SODLW WKDWKDVQRHQGVDQG,FDQGRİYHSODLWRUDQ\WKLQJXSWR SODLWèKHVDLG $UWKXUåVPRELOHLV $'9(57,6( :,7+86 / $ 1 ' 5 , * + 7 6 1 ( : 6 & ( 1 7 5 $ / $8675$/,$JRHVWRDOOUHPRWH FRPPXQLWLHVLQ&HQWUDO$XVWUDOLD &DOO RU HPDLO PHGLD#FOFRUJDX $XJXVW News Smokes and beer out for US welfare 7+( 86 state of New have already ruled social need to go to strip clubs, vices is spent, or lose five some senators questioned cal or study of behavior,” York will stop welfare services can’t be spent on buy lottery tickets, go to a percent of Temporary As- the need for the restric- said Senator Bill Perkins, a recipients from spend- items, from beer to guns. ‘racino’ or buy alcohol.” sistance to Needy Families tions, saying they were a Harlem Democrat. ing their tax-funded ben- “I understand that peo- President Barack funding. New York risks slap at the poor. Income Management efits on cigarettes, alcohol, ple need food stamps,” said Obama signed a law in losing $125 million next “It’s a prejudice, I think, for Aboriginal welfare re- gambling, and strip clubs Republican senator Thom- February that will require year. about poor people that we cipients was introduced to under a new law. as Libousn. “What I don’t states to restrict how the Although the law had are seeing represented the NT in 2007. Ten other US states understand is why they cash portion of social ser- overwhelming support, more than any statisti- New pews make news On track for Lajamanu dialysis service /$-$0$18 is the next with royalty money, and come boost. Western Desert Commu- GMAAAC has followed New government nity in line to get its own Kurra’s lead with $78,000 funding for bores and dialysis service. towards the service. rising mains in Lajama- Western Desert Nga- The Aboriginal Ben- nu will ensure there is nampa Walytja Palyant- efit Account approved enough water for dialysis. jaku Tjutaku (WDNWPT) $2.36 million for the Laja- Thanks to the wonder- started planning for the manu Dialysis Project. ful support from the Laja- service two years ago. A recent donation of manu Kidney Committee, The Kurra Aborigi- $250,000 from the Lajama- it’s now all systems go for nal Corporation is help- nu Progress Association Lajamanu. ing fund the service gave the project a wel- $%29(OU (PLO\6FKLOOLQJ-HDQHWWH8QJDZDQDND+D]HO8QJZDQDNDDQG'DLV\&DPSEHOOWU\ RXWWKHQHZSHZVLQ7LWMLNDOD&KXUFK &RPELQHG 5(17 from the for the reserve on good decision be- who watches over Chambers Pillar eight new pews, a cause the church is us everywhere. Historical Reserve new altar rail, a so important,” said “The P.A. sys- :RPHQ¶V/DZDQG has paid for some P.A. system and six CLC chairman and tem in the church big improvements new ceiling fans. Lutheran pastor, will help people at the Lutheran The new seats Phillip Wilyuka. sitting outside &XOWXUHPHHWLQJ Church at Titji- mean no-one will “We use it for to hear the good kala. have to sit on church and funeral news.” Traditional the floor during services, and fami- Communities owners decided to church services lies get together on are required to 7KHWK&/&:RPHQ¶VODZDQG&XOWXUHPHHWLQJ spend some of the any more. singalong nights, spend rent money $18,000 a year they “The tradition- praising our Fa- on community de- ZLOOEHKRVWHGE\WKH$O\DZHUUZRPHQRI8WRSLD get from NT Parks al owners made a ther in Heaven velopment. 6(37(0%(56(37(0%(5 Lilla: Rotary volunteers 3OHDVHPDNHVXUH\RXDUULYHE\6XQGD\ WK 6HSWHPEHU lend a hand 7KHUHLVYHU\OLPLWHG&/&DQG1/&WUDQVSRUW DYDLODEOHVRHYHU\RQHLVHQFRXUDJHGWRXVHWKHLU RZQFRPPXQLW\WUDQVSRUW)XHOZLOOEHDYDLODEOHIRU FRPPXQLW\YHKLFOHV 3OHDVHEULQJ 6ZDJWHQWV 0HGLFDWLRQ &RRNLQJXWHQVLOVSRWVSDQVDQGELOO\FDQV 7DUSVFDOLFR $%29( -XOLH&O\QHWDNHVRQHRIKHUSULQWVRIIWKHSUHVVWRVKRZWKH5RWDU\YLVLWRUV :DWHUFRQWDLQHUV 0(0%(56 of a subur- Lilla decided to build an equipment, school books 6KRYHOVDQGUDNHV ban Sydney Rotary Club ablution block for visitors and stationery. have given a helping hand near the newly re- opened Twenty-two volun- .QLIHIRUNVSRRQDQGSDQQLNLQ to residents of Ulpanyali Watarrka school. teers brought the tools and Lila, raising thou- Carlingford Rotary and equipment with them sands of dollars towards Club members – among and helped to install the community projects. them the parents of for- new gear at Ulpanyali. )22':,//%(3529,'(' Ulpanyali had used Ul- mer CLC anthropolo- Then they visited Lilla uru rent money to turn old gist Rebecca Morgan – to deliver books and sta- sheds into a car workshop raised the extra money tionery to the school at &DOO*LQDDW&/&IRUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQ and an art studio, while they needed for tools, art Wattarka. $XJXVW News The Western Desert walks! E\.DWH&URVVLQJ READER’S CONTRIBUTION During the recent school holidays, families from Kintore, Mt Lie- big, Papunya and Haasts Bluff joined staff and Waltja – the volunteers from Waltja flour drum Tjutangku Palyapayi on stoves and two long walks through woks were a country. big hit, as was These community roo tail night, walks aimed to support of course. both physical and cul- At night tural health, giving peo- we’d go to sleep ple a chance to spend surrounded time out on their coun- by campfires, try and to walk and be listening to active every day. young peo- Community leaders ple chatting are worried about the into the night levels of diabetes and or the ladies other chronic diseases, singing gospel and believe that activi- songs. ties such as this help Many people to stay healthy. thanks to the Each walk took Australian around nine days, with Government’s people walking up to Department 10kms each day. of Health About 20 women and Ageing and children joined the for funding first walk near Kintore, this project and we had a crowd of through their around 60 people for the Get Active, second walk, between Mt Live Longer Liebig and Haasts Bluff. campaign. As you can see from Waltja the photo, everyone re- would also like ally enjoyed themselves. to thank eve- There were some blis- ryone involved ters and aching muscles, $%29( /DGLHVDQG:DOWMDVWDIIRQWKHZDON – participants, but it was fantastic to see volunteers and people getting stronger plenty of goanna and walked as much as they more bush tucker. As and we even had bush supporting or- as the walk progressed. even did interviews with wanted. well as goanna, people turkey one night. ganisations - for helping As people walked, they PAW Media. 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I grew up with the South Australian with a lot of cous- State Theatre Company ins and sisters in a for the musical Pinnochio. big family so I know “I miss Namatjira very about female reac- much,” Derik said. “I had tions and how they a kind of family connec- act, so I took a lot of tion with everyone in that what I’d seen grow- show. But this is some- ing up as well.” thing new and it’s some- Derik grew up thing I can grow into.” between Apatula In contrast with his and the Old Timers part in Namatjira, he’s camp, and from a the only indigenous mem- very early age began ber of the cast , and the using experiences musical has nothing to do from his life and with Aboriginal issues. In turning them into fact, Derik plays a fox. performance. He said performing in He’s been per- non-Aboriginal roles was forming since he was “somewhere I’d like to go five years old, sing- in my career.” ing and dancing in “I like collaboration various roles even and sharing, exchanging while he was at pri- $ERYH 'HULN/\QFKSOD\HGPDQ\UROHVLQ1DPDWMLUD mary school. and sharing stories, and As a student at Yira- sical mentor to other trapped in. they want to lead their “A town camp is not I’d like to be recognised ra College he formed a Yankunytjatjara men and “I wanted to be differ- lives. always a very safe place as a performer, not for my band, sang in the gospel helped teach traditional ent, instead of following In one scene in the to grow up in,” said De- colour or my race,” said what I had seen all my play, Derik plays a drunk- rik. “You grow up with a Derek. ,ZDQWHGWREUHDNDZD\IURPWKDWVFHQHDQG life,” he says. en relative of Albert’s, whole lot of drama hap- It’s not entirely new “I wanted to break humbugging for money pening around you. EHFRPH D EHWWHU SHUVRQ DQG D VXFFHVVIXO for Derik to play a wider away from that scene and from the artist. It’s a sce- “But I got to see the range of characters. In SHUVRQ DQG PDNH XVH RI P\VHOI LQVWHDG RI become a better person nario he’s well aware of. good side of life as well, in Namatjira he took on an and a successful person “I do get humbug, but a dry community. JRLQJ GRZQ WKH GUDLQ DQG HQGLQJ XS LQ WKH astonishing 15 roles – and make use of myself I stand my ground,” he “Seeing the two sides FHPHWHU\WRR\RXQJ mostly women, including instead of going down the says. made me stronger in Albert’s wife Rubina, city drain and ending up in “I tell people I did this my performances, and I socialites and even the choir, took part in drama inma on the APY lands. the cemetery too young.” on my own, by getting an learned to see the funny Queen. performances, danced in But while he has Derik beliefs the pit- education, learning all I side of things.” Derik raised gales of community events and strong ties to his family falls facing Aboriginal could learn, going on to As he grew up, Derik’s laughter from audiences travelled to Sydney to join and culture, Derik is de- artists like Namatjira are the next stage to do what talent and determination everywhere with his out- in the Spirit of Australia termined to follow his ca- still there, but the people I wanted to do – and that’s to succeed as a performer rageous female imperson- Choir. reer and “break the cycle” of today have a greater what you need to do.” became stronger. ations. He has acted as a mu- he has seen other people choice to determine how Smash hit of the Centre 1$0$7-,5$ the western MacDon- about Battarbee, who, ploys Albert as his earned standing nell ranges Albert we learn, was shaped cameleer. ovations from Alice made world-famous. by his childhood Albert is intrigued Springs audiences The story-telling friendship with an by Rex’s art and be- as the play about the was left to Trevor Ja- old Aboriginal man gins to see painting as famous Western Ar- mieson, of Ngapatji and his traumatic a skill he could learn rente watercolour Ngapatji fame — who experiences of World and perhaps provide painter finished its also played the key War One. an income from for round-Australia tour roles of Namatjira Battarbee was left his growing family. in in May. and his mentor Rex for dead on the battle- He proves to be a Namatjira was Battarbee. ground with debilitat- quick learner and be- written and devel- Former town ing injuries that led fore long his skill and oped at the request camper Derik Lynch him to take up water- ambition bring him of his relatives and performed alongside colour painting as a fame and money, but descendants, who him, playing many of career. not fortune. helped write the his 15 roles for laughs Jamieson skil- Albert’s cultural script in workshops and belting out a few fully switches back obligations to his held at Hermanns- songs with his power- and forward between relatives and the ex- burg. ful voice. the roles of Battarbee pectations of the Aus- Western Arrernte Lynch often had and Namatjira, who, tralian public place people played a ma- the audience in meanwhile, is bal- huge and conflicting 7UHYRU-DPLHVRQLQ1DPDWMLUD jor role in the tour- stitches as he sang ancing the demands demands on him. ing production, with and danced his way of traditional life They lead to a sad sentence in Papunya, watercolourists or stage by Big hART, members of the Her- outrageously into with the influence of ending to the Namatji- but not dies not long the “dot painters” a Tasmanian based mannsburg Ladies various female roles, the Lutheran mis- ra story, when Albert afterwards. who came after the company which Choir singing and from Albert’s wife sionaries. is imprisoned for The play shows success of the Papun- works in art and so- artists Elton Wirri Rubina to Queen Eliz- The paths of the sharing alcohol with how Namatjira broke ya Tula artists in the cial change. and Kevin Namatjira abeth . two men cross when his countrymen. He new ground for gen- early 1970s. chalking up a black- Much of the first Battarbee visits Her- is taken out of jail to erations of indige- The story of his board backdrop of half of the play is mannsburg and em- spend the rest of his nous artists, whether life is brought to the $XJXVW CONISTON now a new film... 025( than 80 But as the Warl- stories years after the brutal piri people and their of sur- slaughter of 100 or neighbours tell the vival more Aboriginal peo- story, it’s also a trag- and ple in Central Aus- ic tale of Australian resil- tralia, the families contact history: dis- ience in of those who were possession by pasto- Conis- there have told their ralists and the strug- ton. story in a new film, gle over resources in The Warlpiri, War- Coniston. a drought-afflictedstrong underlying ramungu, An- More than 200 An- land. theme is of pride in matyerr and matjere and Warlpiri Coniston’s sto- the ongoing strength Kaytetje peo- people watched the ries are often pain- of people’s culture ple. first local screening ful and violent. The and traditions. It was co- of the Territory-pro- last survivor, Johnny Bullfrog’s son de- directed by Da- duced documentary Nelson, tells of his fa- scribes his father’s vid Batty and at Yuelamu in June. ther’s brutal slaying. escape, and others Frances Kelly, Known as “the The son of tracker recall Bullfrog’s use who worked last massacre”, the and horse tailer Alex of powerful magic to together on the punitive expeditions Wilson, who accom- elude capture. An- film Bush Me- that set out in August panied Constable other survivor tells chanics. 1928 mowed down in- George Murray on how, when he was a With the nocent people across the killing raids, tells baby, his mother hid use of re-en- of his father’s in- him from attackers in the traditional lands actments, his- Coniston debuted Sydney Film Festival introduce the film at volvement. a coolamon. of the Warlpiri people torical footage and at the Sydney Film and Melbourne Inter- this special one-off Family members A co-production and their neighbours. showing the com- Festival on Monday national Film Festi- screening in Alice relate that the memo- by Indigenous pro- The motive was to munity preparing to 11 June, has been val, PAW Media and Springs. ries of those times duction house PAW avenge the killing of make the film and screened at the Mel- Rebel Films present are so disturbing that Media and Rebel 7,&.(76 )8// dingo trapper Fred shooting it, Coniston bourne Film Festival Coniston at the Aral- they have never been Films, Coniston &21&(66,21 Brooks at the hands concludes that the and will screen on uen Centre, Monday able to return to the brings together the of a Warlpiri man, injustices of the past ABC television later 27 August at 7pm. 3LFWXUHG VFHQHVIURP country where the past and the pres- Bullfrog, who found must be acknowl- this year. Directors David &RQLVWRQ killings took place. ent through the Brooks taking liber- edged as part of the Direct from sold- Batty and Francis ,QVHW )UDQFHV.HOO\ But there are also story-telling of the ties with his wife. healing process. out seasons at the Jupurrurla Kelly will $XJXVW The strange tale of Martin Fernando a new book. than ‘murderhouses’. ous times an itinerant The He proposed in their street trader, a labourer, Lone Pro- place an Aboriginal state a manservant and cook, testor, by in North Australia, free an internee, a prisoner Fiona Pais- from British interference on remand, a hospital ley, tells and managed under the patient and a strident the little- mandate of a neutral Eu- commentator on mod- known ropean power. ern affairs . story of According to an ABC On behalf of Aborigi- Martin Fer- radio program broadcast nal people, he promoted nando, the in 2007, historians believe self-dependent reserves, first Aborig- Fernando went to Europe the end of violence and inal person in the early 1900s, after access to education. to protest being excluded from giv- Critical of the British conditions ing evidence in the trial Empire, Fernando com- in Austra- of white men accused of pared the Aboriginal lia from the the murder of Aboriginal situation with that of streets of people. Indian nationalists and Europe. There he believed he Palestinians who were Fer- might confront the Brit- struggling for self-rule. nando was ish, whom he accused – The Lone Protestor is born to an through the Australian published by Aboriginal Aboriginal Government – of “system- Studies Press. mother in atically exterminating” You can hear the Sydney in Indigenous people. ABC podcast about Fer- 1864, and His life of protest over- nando at http://www. died in an seas also included leaflet- abc.net.au/radionation- $XWKRU ),21$3$,6/(< 3XEOLVKHU $ERULJLQDO aged care facility in Sec- ing pilgrims in Rome in al/programs/awaye/ 6WXGLHV3UHVV ond World War London. 1925 and an appeal to the fernandos-ghost/3669326 He claimed to have Swiss people in the pages 3ULFH 5LJKW 5DM1DMLåVSRUWUDLW been taken as a child into of a Berne Newspaper. RI$ERULJLQDOPDQ$QWKRQ\ a home of a white family Fernando was a con- 0DUWLQ)HUQDQGRZKR $1 $%25,*,1$/ ac- who denied him a real ed- summate traveller in an VWRRGRXWVLGH$XVWUDOLD tivist who protested in ucation and treated him era when even middle- +RXVHLQ/RQGRQGXULQJ London more than 8o as little more than a pet. class Anglo-Australians WKH VZKLOHZHDULQJD years ago, wearing a cape In later life, writes considered a visit to Eu- FRDWPDGHRIVNHOHWRQVWR sewn with tiny skeletons Paisley, he complained rope the trip of a lifetime. SURWHVW to symbolise the exploi- bitterly about the mission During his 40 years 7KHUHZHUHQRSKRWRVRI tation of indigenous Aus- system, describing its overseas, Fernando, a de- 0DUWLQ)HUQDQGR tralians, is the subject of settlements as little more vout Catholic, was at vari- The vexed world of Aboriginal child abuse When abusers are acquit- She gives the example of the mination needs to be included One such program, the Na- ted, children suffer even more submission of the Indigenous in child protection strategies, vajo Child Special Advocacy and others are discouraged Doctors Association concern- with models that “respect Ab- Program, was formed by the from taking action. ing the NTER, “which repeat- original culture and affirm vic- Navajo people in 1990 after rev- Herself a victim of child sex edly stressed the social and tim survivors.” elations of abuse of children by abuse, McGlade says the needs emotional harms said to have She looks at models devel- teachers at the Hopi Reserva- and voices of Aboriginal wom- resulted from Intervention oped in north America, such as tion. en and children are being ig- measures.” the Community Holistic Circle The Honouring Nations nored, and the Aboriginal Hearing program of Hol- project praised the Navajo pro- rights agenda has been low Water in Canada, in gram: “Recognising that effec- dominated by the views of which people charged tive self-governance requires Aboriginal men with sexual assault are of- tribes to confront even the McGlade stresses that fered the opportunity to most highly stigmatised and not all men guilty of sexu- participate in a ‘healing difficult social problems, the ally abusing children are program’ which may take Navajo Nation acted upon its Aboriginal and that not several years. solemn responsibility to foster all Aboriginal men are If they agree to ac- a safe and healthy environment abusers. She says Aborig- knowledge their guilt, for its most vulnerable citizens, inal child sexual assault they are given immunity its children.” is linked to colonisation, from jail. McGlade says Australian racism and paternalism. The program was de- Aboriginal communities need 2XU*UHDWHVW&KDOOHQJH veloped by survivors of $ERULJLQDO&KLOGUHQDQG+XPDQ Examining the North- to work with the criminal jus- 5LJKWV ern Territory Emergency sexual assault, and only tice system to decide on more +DQQDK0F*/$'( Response, the so-called two of the 107 offender effective ways of dealing with 553 LQFO*67 Intervention, McGlade who have agreed to take sexual abuse. -XQH agrees with the view that part in the restorative In particular, she says, the it was intended to support justice process have reof- voices of children who have ,1',*(1286 people need the right of Aboriginal fended. been abused need to be heard to develop their own strategies women and children to be $XWKRU+DQQDK0F*ODGHZLWKKHUPRWKHUDQG But critics say the sys- by authorities for the first time. to fight child sexual abuse, ac- safe from violence. JUDQGPRWKHULQ$OEDQ\:$LQWKHVL[WLHV tem promotes leniency to McGlade quotes Professor cording to a new book by Noon- She also supports the offenders, who are them- Larry EchoHawk, an advisor to gar human rights lawyer Han- continuation of some of the McGlade said the submis- selves treated as victims, while President Obama and a strong nah McGlade. measures of the NTER “in a sion, however, “made no ac- not enough attention is paid advocate of Native American In Our Greatest Challenge, modified form and consistently knowledgement of the grave to the harm they have caused tribes taking responsibility for Aboriginal Children and Hu- with human right standards.” harm of child sexual assault” to the children or women they their children’s safety: man Rights, McGlade reminds But McGlade says that al- and appeared to minimise the have assaulted. “Tribal leaders must con- us how child abuse is wide- though there has been an in- issue by saying that one year McGlade also looks at mod- tinue the fight to protect sov- spread in both Aboriginal com- crease in reporting of child after the NTER was announced els developed by native Ameri- ereignty, lands and natural munities and the broader Aus- sexual abuse since the NTER, only three people had been con- cans in the USA resources, but nothing is more tralian community. the intervention has made the victed of child abuse. These involve improved in- important than protecting the She uses actual cases to issue itself “too political”. But, she says, the Govern- vestigation and prosecution health, safety and welfare of show how conventional legal She says that critics of the ment’s monitoring showed of child sex abuse cases, big- their children. approaches to child sex abuse intervention have downplayed “significant increases” in both ger penalties for offenders and “Without physically and often favour offenders and the importance of identifying the reporting and conviction of comprehensive therapy and mentally healthy children force children to go through and fighting child sexual abuse child sex offences. help for victim survivors from there is no bright future.” the trauma of reliving their and suppressed the subject be- McGlade emphasises, how- Native American counsellors sufferings in court. cause of “anti-racism.” ever, that Aboriginal self-deter- and healers. $XJXVW 3LFWXUHV $%29( /DGLHVDWWKH.LZLNXUUD:RPHQåVODZDQG&XOWXUHPHHWLQJ /()7 $QDQJXLQWKH .DOWXNDWMDUD 'RFNHU5LYHU $%29( WĂƌƟĐŝƉĂŶƚƐ͕ĨĂĐŝůŝƚĂƚŽƌƐĂŶĚƚƌĂŝŶĞƌƐĂƚƚŚĞϮϬϭϭdWͲ&,&/ŶĚŝŐĞŶŽƵƐWĞŽƉůĞƐ͕,ƵŵĂŶZŝŐŚƚƐĂŶĚĚǀŽĐĂĐLJWƌŽŐƌĂŵŝŶůŝĐĞ^ƉƌŝŶŐƐ “Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognised in the Charter of the UNITED NATIONS, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law.” Article 1, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ,QGLJHQRXV3HRSOHV+XPDQ5LJKWV DQG$GYRFDF\7UDLQLQJ3URJUDP $OLFH6SULQJV6HSWHPEHU 7KLVGD\LQWHQVLYHWUDLQLQJSURJUDPZLOOKHOSGHYHORSNQRZOHGJHFRQÀGHQFHDQGVNLOOVRIFRPPXQLW\DG YRFDWHVWRSURWHFWSURPRWHDQGIXOÀ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ÀO 7KH3URJUDPZLOOUXQRYHUÀ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wementyaye A. Peterson Apetyarr (c.1937-2012) Craig Elliot &(175$/ Australia is stone wall hide where mourning the passing of a Kwementyaye and his fa- senior Alyawarr cultural ther hid remains intact leader and true gentle- (see photo). From there man, known for his great they would go hunting knowledge and generous along the Frew River to teaching to younger gen- Athethew (Old Police Sta- erations. tion Waterhole). Affectionately known Kwementyaye worked by many as ‘Tracker’ or mustering cattle at Elke- ‘The Pope’, Kwementyaye dra, Murray Downs, Peterson was conceived at Epenarra, Kurundi and Intyerrantyer, close to the at stations in the Harts Murray Downs / Hatches Range area with Alyawarr, Creek gate. Kaytetye, Warumungu He was born at Ateyw and Arrernte people. rockhole, Elkedra station, It was then that Lame also in Atnerlelengk coun- Tommy and Sandy Nappa try. (both Arrawajin-areny), His bushname marked Tommy Beasley Akemarr his birthplace (pictured). (Arlangkw-areny) and Kwementyaye grew up Avon Willy Atywelenty try, Aharreng, within Am- sicologist Richard Moyle 2010 he provided crucial was regarded as a law- at Hatches Creek, where Akemarr (Arrewerr-are- maroo and Derry Downs documenting Aharreng cultural information for holder and ceremonial his father and mother ny) taught Kwementyaye stations, camping at soak- ceremonies and songs. the Singleton, Kurundi, leader for many countries worked in the wolfram the stories for the country. ages along the Sandover Kwementyaye’s photo ap- Ooratippra, Crawford from Barrow Creek to mines. They made him a River. pears in the book Alya- Range, Lake Nash and Lake Nash, Tennant Creek With his parents, Kwe- young man near Yethel, in Fluent in Alyawarr warre Music. Sandover native title to Harts Range, as well as mentyaye hid from cheeky Tyaw country (now within and Kaytetye, Kwementy- In 1978 Kwementyaye claims. Kwementyaye fre- his ancestral lands. whitefellas at Tharlpeng Eytwelepenty A.L.T.). Lat- aye generously shared his explained sites and stories quently shared his knowl- He knew songs and cer- (within Anurrete Aborigi- er, Kwementyaye buried vast cultural knowledge for his mother’s country edge to help others learn emonies for parts of this nal Land Trust) and Lwe- Lame Tommy at Epenar- with younger generations (Antarrengeny) in the Aly- the stories for their coun- big area. kw (on Elkedra station). ra. and researchers over de- awarra and Kaititja Land try, without any expecta- Kwementyaye was laid Both campsites are located During station work cades. Claim. Kwementyaye gave tion of personal gain. to rest at Epenarra. He is near rockholes on slopes and holidays, Kwementy- In the late 1970s at extensive evidence in the Because of his encyclo- survived by 10 children above valleys. aye went to his father’s Ammaroo, Kwementyaye Alyawarr Claim in 2000. pedic cultural knowledge, and 27 grandchildren. At Lwekw, a mounded and father’s father’s coun- worked with the ethnomu- Between 2002 and Kwementyaye Peterson Mr Tony Booth Farewell PAM LOFTS By Rob Nowak 05 721< Booth was credit for this odd expe- Around his place, the ranger will come the oldest of the re- rience. self-respect, politeness and take him away.” markable group of men It wasn’t just be- and respect for others Mr Booth was the who started the Night cause he was the oldest was the rule. There was model of a category of Patrols in Alice Springs. that everyone always never a danger of being people who live in the Like many of his col- addressed him as Mr humbugged by drunks. town camps and who leagues, he had beaten Booth and not as Tony- When Mr Booth was maintain their dignity the drink. or, his skin name. home there were al- and self-respect despite “I was a bad drunk,” He had a very pow- ways people around his everything. They try he used to say, briefly erful presence. Partly house. to stand up for what is and convincingly. He it was his deep steady And then there was right, often at personal didn’t dwell on it, be- voice, partly his intense The Elephant. risk. cause the recollection eyes. He was Mr Booth’s Against the tide of $8*867 -8/< He didn’t waste dog, so named not be- alcohol and despair they shamed him deeply. /2&$/ artist Pam In 2003 she designed 30 words. He didn’t lose his cause he was tiny, but refuse to give up. On his last day as a Lofts’ career began draw- banners to celebrate the temper. because he had lost all These are the people drunk, Mr Booth took a ing cartoons for Hanna CLC’s 30th anniversary. Like many of the first his hair and had grey, who are there in the six pack and a packet of Barbera. She went on to Their opalescent qual- band of night patrol vol- wrinkled, leathery skin. dead of night when the cigarettes down to the become one of the North- ity especially came to life unteers he made those The elephant was an ex- shouting starts, who river. He opened a beer ern Territory’s most once they were back-lit around him stronger, tremely popular dog. So have to do what they can and began to drink. It respected and prolific and they were a spectacu- taller, more confident. much so that when The to stop the trouble when tasted like water. artists, with her works lar tribute to the history You had him in the Alice Springs Post did an the people who are fund- In disbelief he drank collected by major galler- of the CLC on the night of back of your mind when issue around the theme ed are safely tucked up some more, and it still ies all over the country. its celebration. you considered your ac- of dogs, we planned to in bed. tasted like water. In addition she was The banners are much tions: would this course do a small piece about Mr Booth was the He lit a cigarette and a well-known childrens’ loved and have toured the provoke the quiet but The Elephant. kind of fellow you’d that also tasted of noth- book illustrator, most fa- region several times and incredibly stern disap- When we came to want around to look af- ing. He sampled and mously for Wombat Stew, have also been shown at proval of Mr Booth? take a photo, Mr Booth ter your interests when then threw away all six but also for many others. the National Museum of While he could be kindly but firmly put a you’ve lost all your hair cans. Pam had an endur- Australia. very critical, he could stop to it. and your skin is grey He also threw away ing passion for the desert They are another last- also be compassionate, “No, no,” he said. and wrinkled and you the cigarettes, and as and a life-long interest in ing legacy of Pam’s and and would help anyone “He’s a good dog, there’s don’t look so good. Or far as I know from that its original inhabitants, will continue to give plea- who wanted to help him- nothing wrong with him any time really. day on he never smoked which inspired much of sure to their subjects and self or herself. He was but he’s got no hair, he He was a rock. or drank again. her work for the last 30 their viewers well into the the man at Hidden Val- doesn’t look too good. 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The swans were too good Swans-ele mwerre anthurre arrkene-irreke Saints-enge. Itne The Swans were too good for the Saints, winning by 20 points-nge impeke. Nhenhe arrule anthurre itne akurne 20 points. The Swans had lost Shane Mumford to a arrkene-irrerretyarte. Swans-ele anteme Shane Mumford knee injury, but they still won the game 15.15 (105) to aparlpileke nhenhe re ampere akurne aneke. Kele anteme 10.16 (76). They are now 13-3 on the ladder. itne game renhe impeke 15.15 (105) to 10.16 (76) . Itne-anteme akertne irreke ladder-nge (13-3)-werne. Stephen Milne Saints-arenye re mwerre anthurre arrkene- Stephen Milne from the Saints played well. The Saints irreke. Saints-ele anteme impeke Swans nhenhe Etihad Sta- were the last team to beat the Swans at Etihad Sta- dium-enge round 9-enge. Saints anteme mwerre anthurre dium in round nine. The Saints hoped to get into the arrkene-irreke finals-enge akwele itne atnetyenhenge. finals but they didn’t get there. The Swans took the Swans-ele anteme arrwekeleke-irreke. Itne 4 goal arrerneke lead, scoring four goals in six minutes. 6 minutes-enge. Ruckman Mumford anteme ampere akurne aneke. Renhe Ruckman Mumford had a knee injury and was taken anteme arratelhileke coach anteme angkeke injury-akerte off the field by the coach. akwenhe re. Josh Kennedy mwerre arrkene-irreke Swans-eke. Re mwerre Josh Kennedy played well for the Swans, staying anthurre arrkene-irreke Lenny Hayes-enge. Craig Bird-ele close to his opponent Lenny Hayes. Craig Bird didn’t anteme Nick Dal Santo aparlpiletyakenhe. Nhenhe-anteme let Nick Dal Santo get away either. Adam Goodes and Adam Goodes and Sam Reid goal-atherre arrerneke. Sam Reid kicked two goals. St Kilda Sam Fisher re aneke mwerre anthurre defense-enge. For St Kilda, Sam Fisher played well in defence, while Kele Leigh Montagna 23 times-enge re pwetepale apaneke. Leigh Montagna finished with 23 touches, but the Nhenhe Saints-ele anteme game itne-kenhe aparlpileke. Saints still lost the game. They were in front in the Saints arrwekele aneke 1st quarter-nge, kele anteme Swans first quarter but then the Swans took the lead. And imerte 2nd quarter-nge mwerre aneke. Itne akwete arrweke- they were in front for the rest of the game. larle aneke. Swans-ele 6 points arrerneke 1st quarter-nge. Saints-ele The Swans scored six points in the first quarter. But arrwekele akwete aneke. Swans co-captain-ele Jarrad the Saints were still in front. The Swans Captain Jar- McVeigh-le anteme goal anyente arrerneke. rad McVeigh scored one goal. 2nd quarter-nge anteme Swans-ele arratewarreke. Itne It was a different Swans team that came out for the anteme mwerre anthurre arrkene-irreke. Saints anteme second quarter. They played brilliantly. Goodes, Ki- akurne arrkene-irreke. Goodes, Kieren Jack and McGlynn eren Jack and McGlynn all scored goals. itne goal mape arrerneke. Itne impetyeke-werne-atheke re. 3rd quarter-nge itne apwerrke-apwerrke ware itne irrkene- In the third quarter they were tired. The Swans irreke. Swans-ele anteme 16 points-nge arrwekeleke-irreke. were 16 points ahead. The Saints played well in the Saints mwerre arrkene-irreke 4th quarter-nge, itne anteme fourth quarter, repeatedly getting the ball into their 50m itne-kenhenge pwetepale kickem-ileke ayarne anthurre forward 50m, but they weren’t able to get it through itne goal arrerneke. their goals. For more information about the Arrernte Football project contact $XJXVW News WANGA WALTJA! The future of bush footy? 5(027( com- ing to resurrect a munity AFL com- bush footy comp petitions used west of Alice to be held in re- Springs in the mote communi- hope that it may ties, but for close stop young people to twenty years from getting into now they have trouble or finding been held in Al- themselves stuck ice Springs. Bush when they come to footy campaigners Alice Springs for say the current the footy. setup might suit “We just want town based teams, to get away from but not the often all the substance struggling remote abuse in town and community teams. keep our young During the fellas out in the football season, community.” lots of remote “In the 60’s we community teams, used to go around their families and to Ali Curung, supporters do a Yuendumu, Ar- lot of travelling eyonga, Hermans- to and from the burg and Papunya games. The fuel and it was really and vehicle costs good.” are expensive and Mr Anderson place an extra said the new foot- burden on already ball league would stretched fam- be called ‘Wanga ily resources. The Waltja’ which traveling can also means ‘family get be risky as the together’. roads are hard on Interest in the cars and people, comp is high and there is often no- Mr Anderson says where to stay in everyone is asking town except in al- when it’s going to ready overcrowd- start. ed houses, there “We are hoping is more risk of to start next year people becoming but we do need to involved in dis- raise some money putes or caught up to get it going.” in drinking which “There should can lead to ending be about eight up in jail or hospi- teams from places tal. like Haast’s Bluff, Luritja man Nyrripi, two from and Papunya resi- Papunya maybe dent, Sid Ander- and Kintore,” Mr son is attempt- Anderson said. )URPWKHSDVWDQGLQWRWKHIXWXUH $ERYH $XJXVW