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John Howards anti-aboriginal laws: a white grab for black land |
| by Elliot K - Perth Indymedia |
2006-08-13 11:50 PM +0800 |
Aid agency Oxfam is warning that generations of Aboriginal people could lose control of their land if contraversial changes to NT land rights laws are passed this week in the Senate.
The amendments severely weaken Indigenous people’s control of their land in the NT and have been dubbed the most significant attack on Indigenous rights in decades.
The amendments, forced to a vote in the Senate on Wednesday, will alter the 1976 Northern Territory Land Rights Act, which gives Aboriginal Australians control and communal ownership over their land in the NT... |
Under the new regime, NT Aboriginal people will be offered loans and leases on their land in an effort to force private ownership and economic development.
The proposed lease provisions will effectively take away the rights of the traditional owners to decide who and what takes place on their ancestral lands for 99 years.
Companies, services and non-traditional owners will be able to lease land from the government rather than obtaining consent from the land owners on a case-by-case basis.
In what has increasingly become a Howard legacy, the federal government has again been criticised for failing to consult indigenous communities.
Oxfam Australia's public policy director James Ensor described the legislation as deeply unpleasant. Oxfam worries that the Government may tie certain basic services, such as education, to the 99-year leases. "This could pressure traditional land owners to hand over their land," Mr Ensor said. Oxfam is concerned the legislation is being rammed through Parliament with no consultation and little scrutiny, he said.
The NT Land Rights Act was the first Australian law under which land title could be claimed by Indigenous people. The law allowed control over mining and development on that land. The act also established four land councils to represent Indigenous people in the NT.
The Howard coalition argues that the amendments are designed to encourage an "enterprising" culture in Indigenous communities by giving them the power to lease their land to business. It also states that breaking up communal land titles will encourage individual homemaking and that giving the federal government the power to break the NT land councils.
The National Indigenous Times has described the amendments as "a white grab for black land, pure and simple. They are not in the interests of Aboriginal people, they are in the interests of government, developers and mining companies." (NIT, July 27)
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (antar) state on their website: "Under the guise of promoting economic development, the legislation could see Indigenous people lease back their land for 99 years in exchange for securing basic services — such as housing and schools... this has the potential to lock generations of Aboriginal people out of effective control over their land." ANTaR say a getup.org online petition to stop the bill was signed by more than 25,000 people in four days.
Labor's Chris Evans has said: "the government’s actions... represent another paternalistic attempt to tell Aboriginal people what’s good for them" - (The Age, August 8).
The Greens, Democrats, many human rights organisations and individuals have also criticised the bill. The HREOC's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma says: "My concern about the amendments is that they will do the opposite of what they intend. They have the potential to create poverty rather than lead to its alleviation..."
The current attack coincides with the Coalition’s push for expanded uranium mining. Such an expansion would be facilitated by giving mining corporations greater access to resources on Indigenous land without the need for negotiations with or compensation to Indigenous owners.
Sean Brennan, the Director of the Indigenous Rights, Land and Governance Project at the University of NSW, highlights the importance of the Land Rights Act:
"This is Australia’s high water mark in land rights legislation. Whitlam introduced it in 1975 and Fraser ensured it went through the following year. For a long time it enjoyed bipartisan support and both sides of politics are rightly proud of what the law has achieved, including the return of half the Territory to traditional ownership.
"The Howard Government wants to make some of the most dramatic changes to that law in its 30-year life. Some of the amendments reflect the public policy process at its best. Some show a government using parliament like a doormat. It is ignoring advice on all sides to slow down and bring people on board over issues that everyone can agree on.
"The terms of the leasing deal are stacked against traditional owners, in favour of the government... other restrictions on the ability of traditional owners to get a fair deal remain. Why tie the hands of traditional owners in lease negotiations...?
"The NT Government, which is central to the whole plan, had only three days to comment on the legislation. Like all cases of policy on the run you have to wonder what the rush is really about.
"The Government used the guillotine procedure to cut off debate in the lower house, after less than three hours. A Senate committee had a one day hearing and a few days to write a report.
Government Senators said the process was "totally inadequate" and "such fundamentally important legislation should have bipartisan support with broad consensus among stakeholders affected."
A parliamentary committee says the time it has been given to scrutinise laws overhauling land rights in the Northern Territory is "totally inadequate".
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2006 was introduced to federal parliament in May. The government-dominated committee lent its guarded support to the bill, designed to usher in individual home ownership on communal land and change the way land councils operate.
Separate dissenting reports by Labor, the Australian Greens and the Australian Democrats recommended the bill be rejected. All reports made mention of the lack of time available to the committee to scrutinise the legislation.
The Democrats said the inquiry was a "grossly inadequate, truncated" examination of the proposed changes. According to the committee every non-government submission had opposed the changes.
Indigenous Affairs minister Mal Bough has denied the bill drastically changed the land rights of top end Aborigines. "There is nothing in the bill that alters the inalienable title rights of indigenous communities in the Northern Territory," he said.
Get Up has a campaign:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign.asp?campaign_id=36
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Update |
| by Elliot |
2006-08-15 12:45 AM +0800 |
Monday, August 14, 2006. 5:03pm
The ABC reported that:
A Federal Opposition move to delay proposed amendments to the Northern Territory Land Rights Act has been defeated in the Senate today.
Labor wanted controversial changes to the legislation delayed to allow more time for consultation with Indigenous people.
Consideration of the amendment Bill itself will proceed later tonight.
ABC
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Hard Data |
| by Polly Junk |
2006-08-15 1:07 AM +0800 |
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2006
Current bills being considered by the Parliament listed by title: http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/browse.aspx?NodeID=29
Live Senate Stream:
http://www.aph.gov.au/live/webcast2.asp
More excellent info at Getup:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign.asp?campaign_id=36
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WHATS STOPPING 25,00 PEOPLE FROM TURNING THEIR BACKS ON THIS GOVERNMENT AND WALKING OFF |
| by susan charles rankin |
2006-08-15 7:19 AM +0800 |
ESPECIALLY WITH THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAVE HILL WALK OFF COMING UP SOON HOW WEAK HAVE WE GOT AS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WE ARE STILL LETTING THIS ILLEGAL INVADING LYING THIEVING GOVERNMENT TO FORCE CONDITIONS OF LIFE UPON US THAT IS NOT OF OUR OWN CHOOSING AND IS NOT OF OUR CULTURE OR LAW.
Are we going to keep waiting on lies and broken promises for another 200 + years if we keep waiting all our people will be dead at the rate that they are dying at the moment we have to do something that will make a real impact like 25,000 people all turning their backs and make a statement to the world that we have enough of this government forcing conditions of life upon us that is resulting in the physical mental emotional harm upon our people which is in the genocide prevention act 2002.
SECTION 268.4
genocide by deliberatley inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
(1)A person the perpetrator commits an offence if:
(a) the pepetrator inflicts certain conditions of life upon one or more person ;and
(b)the person or persons belong to a particular national ,ethnical,racial or religious group as such;and
(c)the perpetrator intends to destroy,in whole or in part,that national ethnical,racial or religious group,as such;and
(d)the conditions of life are intended to bring about the physical destruction of that group,in whole or in part.
penalty:imprisonment for life.
(2)In subsection(1)
conditions of life includes,but is not restricted to,intentional deprivation of resources indispensable for survival,such as;deprivation of food or medical services,or expulsion from homes.
COME ON YOU MOB LETS THE WHOLE 500 NATIONS MAKE A STATEMENT TO THE WORLD SAY WE HAD ENOUGH NOW AND WE ARE WALKING OUT AND SITTING ON THE HOMELANDS TOGETHER THE WHOLE 500 NATIONS AND FORMULATE ONE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDANCE BASED UPON OUR LAW AND REGISTER AS A NON GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION N.G.O.THEN THIS GOVERNMENT CAN COME AND NEGOTIATE WITH US OUT ON THE HOMELANDS
MY GOODNESS IF VINCENT LINGIARI CAN WALK OFF AND SIT ON THE LANDS FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF HIS PEOPLE WHY CANT WE UNITEDLY DO IT FOR ALL OUR PEOPLE THAT ARE DYING AND ARE HAVING THESE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FORCED UPON THEM WHAT AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD 500 FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE WALK OFF AND SIT ON THE HOMELANDS WAITING FOR THIS GOVERNMENT TO COME SIT DOWN AND NEGOTIATE WITH US.
I KNOW THAT AS AN ABORIGINAL WOMEN MOTHER AND GRAND MOTHER I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF LIVING LIKE THIS NOT KNOWING WHAT KIND OF FUTURE IS AHEAD FOR MY GRAND CHILDREN SO I AM WALKING NEXT YEAR THE SACRED LIFEWALK2007-MOTHER EARTH IS CRYING FROM ADELAIDE TO ULURU CALLING ON ALL 500 NATIONS TO UNITE AT ONE TIME UNDER THE MORNING STAR AND THE SEVEN SISTERS AND I WILL KEEP WALKING IF I HAVE TO TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF THESE VERY URGEWNT TIMES THAT WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW AND THE THINGS TAHT ARE YET TO COME AND THE THIGNS THAT WE NEED TO DO AS THE HUMAN RACE TO SURVIVE THE CLIMATIC SHIFTS AND CHANGES THAT ARE TO PLACE THROUGH MOTHER EARTH AND NATURE AND CREATOR SPIRIT HIMSELF WHILE WE RUNNING ROUND TRYING TO FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EARTH HERSELF IS SELF DESTRUCTING BENEATH OUR FEET SO IT TIME TO WAKE UP.
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NO LEGAL JURISDICTION IN A COUNRTY THAT IS BEING INVADED |
| by susan charle srankin |
2006-08-15 7:36 AM +0800 |
UNDER EVERY LAW SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL LAW, DOMESTIC LAW, MARITIME, AND THE UNIVERSAL RULE OF NATURAL LAW AN INVADING GOVERNMENT CANNOT HAVE ANY LEGAL JURISDICTION IN A LAND THAT THEY ARE IN FACT STILL INVADING SO WHAT DID I JUST SAY HERE DO YOU GET MY MESSAGE AN INVADING GOVERNMENT CANNOT HAVE ANY LEGAL JURISDICTION IN COUNTRY THAT THAT GOVERNMENT IS STILL INVADING.
SO WHERE THEN DOES THIS CURRENT GOVERNMENT GET THEIR LEGAL JURISDICTION FROM TO MAKE AND LEGISLATE LAW FROM FOR OUR PEOPLE.TO LEGITAMISE THEIR OCCUPATION THEY HAVE TO SEEK FORMAL WRITTEN DOCUMENTS OF CONSENT OF THE FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES TO BECOME LEGITIMATE AND TO LEGALISE THEIR JURISDICTION TO BE ABLE TO MAKE LAW IN THE FIRST PLACE HAHAHA LAUGHABLE EH WHEN ARE GOING TO WAKE UP.
OH MY HOW DUMB ARE WE AND WE VOTE EVERY YEAR TO KEEP AN ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT IN PLACE HAHAHA AGAIN NO WONDER I AM GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF THE HUMAN RACE WE ARE SO DUMB.
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