Re: [recoznet2] SMH article re anthropology
draft of letter to SMH (slightly shorter version currently being considered by them) The Editor The Sydney Morning Herald GPO Box 3771 Sydney 2001 Fax 02 9282 3492 Wednesday, 7 July, 1999 Dear Sir / Madam, The difficulties which Australians, black and white, must confront if we are to resolve the problems resulting from the last two hundred and eleven years of our continent's history, are too great to allow room for articles as ill informed and inaccurate as "Trouble in the myth business" to pass without comment (SMH Saturday, July 3rd). Hills' portrays Dr Ron Brunton as a maligned whistleblower, shunned by his peers because he dared to be critical of indigenous interests. If, as Ben Hills claims, Dr Brunton left academia became he had become"tired of the "politicisation of anthropology" he had an unusual way of showing it. His next job, after leaving Macquarie University, was as research officer for the Victorian branch of the Liberal party! He followed this up with stints with two right wing think tanks, the Institute of Public Affairs and the Tasman Institute, both of which are funded by Western Mining company and other mining interests. (Brunton has difficulty with the description "right wing". He prefers to describe the Institute of Public Affairs (with whom he worked from 1990 to 1994 and from 1995 to at least August, 1997) as a body "committed to a free market, a free market philosophy in a classical liberal sense". (Yorta Yorta Native Title Claim transcript, 13 August, 1997, p 7942)) Hills examination of the Yorta Yorta Native Title claim beggars belief. Far from attacking the "credibility of various expert witnesses", Justice Olney specifically indicated that his decision should not be seen as in any way disparaging "the qualifications, experience or integrity of the witnesses concerned." (para 54 of the judgement). Even Hills description of the claim itself is misleading. Neither Shepparton nor Wangarratta were subject to claim, and the area of land actually involved amounted to approximately 10% of the total traditional lands of the groups concerned, not the "enormous piece...of 20,000square kilometres" referred to in the article. As the anthropologist who bore the brunt of the process of undertaking field work and presenting expert evidence on behalf of the applicants in the Yorta Yorta Native Title claim I was somewhat bemused to find that Hill saw fit to focus on the role of Dr Deborah Rose. The involvement of Dr Rose (an anthropologist of the highest repute, with wide ranging experience in Aboriginal Australia) was sought to deal with various important theoretical issues raised in the claim. It was never intended that she deal with local ethnographic issues. Nor does Hill note that both anthropologists called by opponents of the Yorta Yorta claim lacked first hand experience, not just in the claim area, but in the region as a whole. Ken Maddock, referred to elsewhere favourably by Hills, agreed that he had not undertaken field work in south eastern Australia. The other of the two , in fact, went further than this. Despite his high profile in the Australian media as a commentator on Aborginal matters, Dr Ron Brunton admitted that he had "not done anything that I would call fieldwork" anywhere in Aboriginal Australia. (Yorta Yorta Native Title Claim transcript, 13/8/1997, p 7939). One might have thought that this would have placed him at something of a disavantage when discussing such matters! Yours sincerely Rod Hagen Anthropologist Rod Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hurstbridge, Victoria, Australia WWWhttp://www.netspace.net.au/~rodhagen --- 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." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
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[recoznet2] Fw: Fwd: Australian Humanities Review: July 1999
Hi all, I don't know how many of you receive the KooriNet email list, but I thought this information may be of interest to some of you. Don Don Clark President Indigenous Social Justice Association PO Box K555 HAYMARKET NSW 1240 This message has been sent from the national Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander tertiary education mailing list sponsored by the KooriNet project at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:36:01 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Diane Caney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Australian Humanities Review: July 1999 Hi, I thought you might be interested in some of the articles in this month's AHR. We welcome and publish responses of up to 500 words, Regards, Diane Caney The July 1999 issue of Australian Humanities Review is now uploaded at: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/ j u l y 1 9 9 9 Sue Stanton's "Time for Truth: Speaking the Unspeakable -- Genocide and Apartheid in the 'Lucky' Country" is a combined article/review of _the stolen children: their stories_, edited by Carmel Bird. "Re-membering and taking up an ethics of listening: a response to loss and the maternal in 'the stolen children'": Brigitta Olubas and Lisa Greenwell look at ways of hearing the _Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families_, and some responses to date. In "Cracking Up", Hannah Fink writes on the photographic art of Destiny Deacon, Brenda L Croft, Michael Riley, Leah King-Smith and Brook Andrew whose works are currently being exhibited in the 1999 Venice Biennale. An excerpt from McKenzie Wark's _celebrities, culture and cyberspace: the light on the hill in a postmodern world._ _Australian Humanities Review_ welcomes responses to the all essays/reviews/e-musings uploaded on _AHR_. As always, in our "good oil" section, see the latest in conference details; and please contact _AHR_ if you'd like to have your conference advertised. A u s t r a l i a n H u m a n i t i e s R e v i e w http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/ John Hobson, on behalf of KooriNet the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Internet Development Project at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. Koori Centre Old Teachers College, A22 University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 Phone: (02) 9351 6994 Fax: (02) 9351 6924 http://www.koori.usyd.edu.au/ ** Information about this and other KooriNet mailing lists is available at http://www.koori.usyd.edu.au/lists.html --- 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." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
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[recoznet2] oh no
Charles, It's statements like these which make one a bit nervous - "The Government's policy is clear, absolute and won't change, we are not accepting any overseas waste and we're not accepting any high-level waste." Don't mention the Manly sewerage tunnel. Ian Kiernan is in todays paper getting stuck into Sydney Water for not paying any attention to the recommendations of the advisory board set up by SW of which he was a member. It's gone $70milion over budget AND they have cut $100 million of environmental infrastructure - so that sounds like 170 million over budget to me. I think it's time to relax - accept the fact that we live in Sydney, are run by catholics/business/politicians, and really have no chance unless we become one or all of them. So I'm getting circumsised, starting a construction company called BridgeHead, and a political party which will solve all of the northern peninsulas problems - a big fucking bridge across the heads. What are you like at pouring concrete. I'm a bit concerned at the new ato ruling that you can't claim bribes as a tax deduction anymore but I think the financials will still work. Both Belle and Jen are well. See you, Alex -Original Message- From: Trudy Bray [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 1999 15:28 To: news-clip Subject: AAP: Nuclear dump won't house overseas waste: Minchin Is that a 'core' promise? Is this denial anything like the 'guidelines' that keep changing? Or the 'never, ever' GST? --- Trudy === Nuclear dump won't house overseas waste: Minchin From AAP 7jul99 2.45pm (AEST) A NATIONAL low-level nuclear waste dump to be built in South Australia within two years would not open the door to high-level or overseas nuclear waste, the Federal Government said today. Federal Industry, Science and Resources Minister Nick Minchin said reports that United States resources company Pangea was setting up an office in Perth was a waste of the company's time and money. Senator Minchin said a national radioactive waste repository was expected to be built next year and be operational by 2001, but he said the Government's policy was clear that it would not accept overseas or high-level nuclear waste. "This site is for low and short-lived intermediate-level radioactive waste. It is all Australian - genuine, dinky-di Australian waste - and the repository itself will be about the size of a football field," Senator Minchin said. Drilling has been completed at six sites in the Woomera-Roxby Downs area of South Australia's north with up to 12 more investigation sites to be identified. A preferred site for the repository is expected to be selected late this year and once identified, that site will be subject to an environmental impact assessment. Waste to be disposed of at the site has about a 30-year half life and is currently stored at about 50 sites around Australia, including hospitals and universities. It will include medical, scientific and industrial items such as lightly contaminated soil, paper, laboratory glassware, clothing, industrial smoke detectors, compasses and instrument dials. Senator Minchin said the Government was keeping open the possibility that a storage facility for long-lived intermediate-level waste could be co-located with the repository but a decision would be reserved until a site had been chosen. "There will be no high-level waste in this repository and, in fact, there will be no high-level waste at all," he said. "The Government's policy is clear, absolute and won't change, we are not accepting any overseas waste and we're not accepting any high-level waste." His comments followed reports Pangea had moved its Australian headquarters to Perth. A project brief by Pangea, revealed earlier this year, said the company had identified the largest area of stable geology on the planet suitable for disposal of nuclear waste as being within Western and South Australia. "The only contact I've had was to write to Pangea to make it clear ... the Government's policy that we would not allow the establishment of the sort of repository they had in mind," Senator Minchin said. "They can waste their time, energy and money advocating this cause but they will not change this Government's attitude." Senator Minchin said South Australians would be silly to oppose the repository if that was the best site. "All we're talking about is low-level things like soil and clothing and gauges and things like that, stored, buried 20m under the ground in a thing that's the size of a football field and in an area which is vast and very lightly inhabited and the most geologically stable region," he said. "If South
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[recoznet2] SMH article re anthropology
Rod, I thought you might be interested in the letter appearing today(there was another, ill-informed one but it wasn't online in it's entirety.) Trudy SMH - Letters Page http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/08/text/letters.html Myth and memory The sloppiness and bias which make Ben Hills's "Trouble in the Myth Business" (Herald, July 3) so misleading is well illustrated by the ludicrous suggestion that Coronation Hill was protected because some of the local Jawoyn people "convinced consultant anthropologists that the area was occupied by a Dreamtime spirit named Bula, who would wreak apocalyptic damage if Coronation Hill was disturbed". It is Hills, not "most Australians", who suffers from the "faulty filter of memory". They will remember Prime Minister Hawke making it clear that protection was not given because the Government believed in Bula, but because it thought the religious beliefs of Jawoyn people who did, and who would be anguished by desecration of the site, were entitled to respect. If Hills does not appreciate the difference between respecting beliefs and sharing them, he is hardly qualified to comment on public affairs in a democratic country. The same applies to Ron Brunton, who, Hills tells us, based criticism of the ban on the absence of "adverse reaction from Bula" after previous mining. Such trivialisation of beliefs held in another culture is hardly the mark of a professional anthropologist, however "dissident". It adds to the piquancy of Brunton's claim that he became a consultant (to the Institute of Public Affairs) because "he was tired of the politicisation of anthropology". - Hal Wootten, Glebe --- 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." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
[recoznet2] Lees' threat
Senator Lees is starting to sound more and more like the Coalition government. The first taste of power is accompanied by a new arrogance. It may be that Senator Lees will be too busy fighting for her political life to target anyone - let alone Senator Brown. Senator Brown has yet to sell out his principles. Trudy http://www.afr.com.au/content/990708/news/news7.html Lees firm on her party's GST stance "..Senator Lees indicated she expected the party's political representation to continue to grow at State and federal levels and suggested she would be targeting Greens Senator Bob Brown's Tasmanian seat at the next federal election." --- 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." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
