FREE November 2016 VOLUME 6. NUMBER 3. PG. ## MARLENE’S FUTURE P.22 IS IN HER HANDS ROYAL COMMISSION WATARRKA POKIES? BREAK OUT YEAR FOR WORRIES WIYA! PRISONER TEAM P. 4 PG. # P. 5 PG. # P. 26 ISSN 1839-5279ISSN NEWS EDITORIAL Want our trust? This time, keep your promises. Land Rights News Central Australia is published by the Central Land Council three We’ll hold you to these election promises: times a year. Aboriginal Hand control to local organisations, develop The Central Land Council workforce training plans and leadership courses with 27 Stuart Hwy organisations them and provide “outposted” public servants to help. Alice Springs Housing $1.1 billion over 10 years for 6500 “additional NT 0870 living spaces”, locally controlled tenancy management and repairs and maintenance, tel: 89516211 capacity development support for local housing www.clc.org.au organisations. email [email protected] Outstations Increase Homelands Extra funding and work with outstation organisations to provide jointly funded Contributions are welcome new houses. As opposition leader, Michael Gunner pleaded with CLC delegates to give Labor a chance to regain their trust. Education Create community led schools with local boards, plan education outcomes for each school region SUBSCRIPTIONS THE MOST extensive return recognises the critically with communities, back community decisions about bilingual education, expand Families as Land Rights News Central of local decision making to important role that control Aboriginal communities since over life circumstances plays First Teachers program, $8 million for nurse Australia subscriptions are self-government, overseen by in improving indigenous home visits of pre-schoolers, support parent $22 per year. choice about secondary education, $80 million for Aboriginal leaders, is some peoples lives,” the Labor Herald more teachers, $32 million for behaviour support, It is distributed free of pledge to live up to. announced after the election. $8 million for recreation and health curriculum charge to Aboriginal Aboriginal voters are putting The newsletter committs Divert offenders with drug and alcohol and mental organisations and Chief Minister Michael Labor to “put the Intervention Justice Gunner’s pre-election plea to and its top down policy making health problems or disabilities to treatment communities in Central and rehabilitation, bring back the banned Australia. give Labor another chance to approach well and truly where regain their trust to the test it belongs: into history”. drinkers register, invest in early childhood, To subscribe email following the party’s landslide The promised shift is as huge youth engagement and primary health services [email protected] win. and welcome as the details are and address the underlying causes of crime, or call 08 8951 6215 Labor promised to hand scant. scrap paperless arrests and mandatory alcohol control over housing, local Some of the government’s treatment. clearest commitments relate to Jobs Expand Aboriginal business grants and skills “Put the Intervention Aboriginal rangers: training in schools, use schools for adult ADVERTISING education, develop an Aboriginal-driven economic and its top down policy • $4.1 million for ranger jobs prospectus for regions, fund Aboriginal enterprise Advertise in the only on country; newspaper to reliably making approach development, give infrastructure contracts to local • $2 million per year for a organisations, support Aboriginal rangers, employ reach Aboriginal people where it belongs: new land management more Aboriginal health and education workers. in remote Central and conservation fund for Australia. into history.” Aboriginal lands and sea Sacred sites No change to the Sacred Sites Act without agreement from the land councils and the board country; government, education, of the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority. Next publication date: • $500,000 per year for a new training, health, child April 2017 government unit delivering welfare and justice to remote carbon abatement and more funding security for the He offered to share the lessons communities, guided by a 10 Rates are available online economic development on successful program (see p. 18). the CLC has learned through year “road map”. at www.clc.org.au/land- Aboriginal land; and CLC director David Ross has its successful community Bush voters expect the new rights-news OR email: • Legal changes such as written to Mr Gunner offering to development program (see p. government to hit the road [email protected] OR enforcement powers for work with the new ministers on 10 – 11). fast and to let their peak Aboriginal rangers. the shared goal of empowering “We have been implementing call 8951 6211 organisations keep it on track. Aboriginal communities. our community development “Labor will be guided by The Central Land Council is “Achieving this vision requires framework for 10 years now the principles outlined in the keen to join forces with the new sustained and considered and have developed a useful COVER Aboriginal Peak Organisation’s government to lobby Canberra development work and capacity evidence base about what Partnership Principle, which for more ranger groups and Marlene Rubuntja from building,” Mr Ross said. works.” the Yarrenyty Arltere Art Centre won the Vincent Lingiari Art Award for her Communities are waiting for housing reform sculpture My future is in my hands. REMOTE communities have “There are a lot of problems been promised nothing less with the remote housing than self-determination when management system across the CORRECTION it comes to the management of Territory, and we hope that the THE AUGUST issue of Land public housing in the Northern Santa Teresa case will get to the Rights News attributed Territory. bottom of a lot of the issues. information about penalties Residents are waiting to This can then be applied have a say about “how housing to Yuendumu, and other for CDP participants to is to be devolved, when and communities having problems the federal Department of to whom”, as Labor said they with housing,” Mr Kelly said. Human Services. It should would if the party won the Central Land Council chair have been attributed Northern Territory election. Francis Kelly is one of the to the Department of Before the election, Labor Yuendumu tenants considering Employment. promised to replace the failed Yuendumu tennants such as Francis Kelly received some rushed repairs legal action. system with one where tenancy after they threatened to take the NT Housing Department to court. “This thing has been going management, repairs and (Photo: ABC) on for a long time,” he told the Housing, hearing, maintenance would return to ABC. “People have been singing or local or regional housing They said unless the repairs community control. out for repairs and all that.” associations,” Labor told Land were done they would take jail link Reinvigorated housing “They’ve been delaying us Rights News. the cases to the NT Civil and reference groups and local back and back all the time. It’s DID YOU know that almost “We will provide support for Administrative Tribunal housing officers were among really urgent because … some all adult prisoners in the those organisations to have (NTCAT) following the example the few details known about of these things give us sickness Territory (95 per cent) the capacity to undertake this of tenants in Papunya, Santa Labor’s plan, which came with like blocked nose, sore ears suffer from hearing loss? work.” Teresa and the Yarrenyty a very welcome $1.1 billion and especially our kids who Yuendumu tenants received Arltere (Larapinta Valley) town commitment over 10 years. want to have a shower and go The Royal Commission into some rushed repairs after they camp. It is the first significant to school,” Mr Kelly said. children in detention has threatened legal action just Daniel Kelly, from Australian injection of NT funds into Other residents told the heard there was a strong before the NT election. Lawyers for Remote Aboriginal community housing. ABC their employer, a federal link between overcrowded Lawyers acting for tenants in Rights, said Papunya and Santa “Locals will determine government agency, did not Yuendumu had served notices Teresa were awaiting the houses, chronic ear infec- housing arrangements in their allow them to talk to the media on the NT Housing Department outcome of NTCAT conciliation tions, learning problems area - whether it is to regional about their repair issues. that listed hundreds of urgent hearings in November before and jail rates. councils, local authorities repair and maintenance issues. considering their next steps. 2 November 2016 NEWS Report warns CDP does more Does the work for the dole program harm than good help or hurt the community? NORTHERN TERRITORY Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy wants an Gus George independent review of the community development Daguragu program (CDP) while fellow Senator Patrick It’s hurting communities. Dodson wants to reform it. You should work for the Former Prime Minister community or a company Tony Abbott wants to get and get full wages. That’s around accusations of why we walked off 50 years discrimination by rolling ago - for proper wages and it out to all job seekers. for working for a proper All three were reacting company and get full wages to a report showing the from that company. Federal Government slapped more than 46,000 financial penalties on 34,000 people since the Ethan Godfrey controversial work-for-the- Marlinja dole program started. A draft report by non- profit employment body It is not good enough for the Jobs Australia warned the community. It is hurting in CDP is doing “more harm a way that is not supporting than good”. any family. If we don’t get Jobs Australia reported paid, it is the whole family that it is far stricter who suffers. than similar programs in towns and cities and Elenor Dixon punishes people in remote Douglas Crowson communities more for Marlinja failing to undertake “work- Kalkaringi like activity”.