passing this on - please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have answered the questions, but if you want to respond also, just cut and paste the questions cheers susanne ______________________________________________________________________ Year 12 Aboriginal Studies PAS Major Research Assignment My name is Marco Ranauro and as part of the successful completion of my year 12 PAS Aboriginal Studies course I'm required to complete a Major Research Assignment. My Assignment is focusing on the draft document for reconciliation between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals which was created by the Council of Aboriginal Reconciliation. This survey is a part of my assignment so the completion of it is much appreciated. 1. What do you know about the Draft Document for Reconciliation? If you know nothing why do you think this is so? I know about the document because i am connected to the internet and subscribe to lists that circulate this sort of information - without email, i would be less informed - i know people who are uninformed yet they read newspapers, watch tv etc - If people don't know about the document which has turned into a movement, then the government is remiss in its unbiased public ed programmes 2. What is your understanding of the word Reconciliation? reconciliation my definition: (check the dictionary for the differences if a hyphen is added) re-conciliation is a federally funded assimilationist platform, hopefully subverted by locally devised and enacted policy and process, involving an exchange of human understanding, resulting in mutual and individual healing, in preparation for a mutually thriving co-existence reconciliation is a healing process between citizens, not a political process for governments to subvert into national documents that attempts to bind indigenous peoples to 'british' law and custom, instead of the choice of their own sovereign laws and traditions 3. Why do we need a document for Reconciliation? we don't - politicians are desperate to appear 'reconciled' with our indigenous citizens because very soon there will be global eyes on Oz - also the government wants to appease CERD which is complaining about the government's ongoing genocidal practices - the colonial war is still going we need a sovereignty movement - where all peoples, young and old are sovereign selves who determine their own lives through choice - this document represents late 90's assimilationist practices by individuals who are predators upon theignorance, trust or powerlessness of many australian people 4. Do you believe Australia needs a National Reconciliation document to help aid reconciliation? Why/Why not. No - because the document is not about healing or co-existence - it is about assimilation and more of this we don't need - it has already cost indigenous peoples and migrants their language, culture and customs - not to mention their lives for 7 generations so far 5. Please circle what sources have given you information about the draft document? TV/film Newspaper radio news/Current affairs other internet and some tv but manily protest meetings and speeches at rallies etc 6. Explain what relevance this document has for: a) yourself none, other than to hopefully alert 'our' citizens to the genocidal practices that many of 'our' population practice - but i fear that it will influence uncritical ozians as it is the only platform funded b) An Aboriginal person you cannot reduce indigenous australia to one group - there are 66 countries in NSW alone - homogeneity has been debunked now for decades and its failings are well documented - everyone is different so no group usually speaks for all of its members as consensus is a rare commodity indeed - only seen it once myself with a group of 300 - this goes for political parties, groups, families, schools, classes etc compare aden ridgway and isabell coe - both indigenous - but one is a recognised and paid politician and one is not - why is this so - both are doing the same thing - isabell comes from the aboriginal tent embassy and aden from the democrats - but isabell is not given the credibility that aden enjoys - the reason is the crux of the problem - one system is privileged - the coloniser's system - the debate could almost be reduced to the arguments of these two people with additions to cover some other points not yet raised c) The Australian Society it is clear that those citizens who support assimilation are publicly backing the document however it is equally clear that many indigenous australians and many non indigenous australians do not support reconciliation as a political process and certainly not as something that needs to be 'signed by anyone' - in fact, tomorrow 1/9/99 an historic federal court case will be heard in sydney - the 'issue' - whether genocide is admissable under 'our' common law - in this situation isabell and aden become opponents because the government will not admit to genocidal practices - hopefully after tomorrow, the government will finally become accountable i believe that the reconciliation movement sweeping the country, are those people who in a referendum vote to do the right thing by indigenous ozians - i can only hope that 'we' subvert this movement into a sovereignty movement - once and for all and for us all cheers susanne martain ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." 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