[recoznet2] Arrabunna vs Adelaide City Council
Move to restrict aboriginal protest The Adelaide City Council hopes to persuade aboriginal protestors outside Government House, to pack up each night.The group is protesting against mining at Olympic Dam, but some members have come under fire for their behavior.Last night, the council voted to take action, and Chief Executive Officer, Jude Munro, says she's confident a compromise can be found."The lord Mayor will be leading a negotiating team with the leaders of the protest group to see whether or not we can achieve the outcome we are wanting to achieve which is a daytime only protest.""And for people to pack up at the end of the day and move on home, or move to other accommodation options."
[recoznet2] Arabunna vs WMC
"Acts of Genocide" action struck out by Supreme Court The Supreme Court in Adelaide has struck out a statement of claim by a representative of the Arubunna aboriginal people, who is attempting to sue the head of WMC for acts of genocide.Aboriginal elder, Kevin Buzzaccott, is suing WMC's Managing Director, Hugh Morgan, over the effects the mining of Arabunna lands, in the north of the State, has had on his people.Justice Bleby today gave Mr Buzzacott two months in which to issue an amended statement of claim.The Arabunna lands house WMC's new $1.94 billion Olympic Dam expansions, opened earlier this year.
[recoznet2] Re: ABC News: Adelaide Council refuses to allow Aboriginal camp to...
irene wrote this front page story is partiuclarly nasty piece and may pre-empt the police clearing of the camp, i have attached a letter to the editor i drafted in response ,...iw -- > From: Trudy Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: news-clip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ABC News: Adelaide Council refuses to allow Aboriginal camp to... > Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:49 AM > > Thur, 23 Dec 1999 7:09 CDT > LOCAL NEWS : South Australia > > Adelaide Council refuses to > allow aboriginal [sic] camp to > continue > > Adelaide City Council has rejected an appeal by > one of its own members to allow an aboriginal > protest outside Government House to continue. > > A lawyer representing the group says he will > test the council's vote in court, claiming one > member had a conflict of interest ... > > A group of aborigines set up camp a week ago > on North terrace to protest against uranium > mining in the State's north. > > Council met last night amid concerns that they > were breaking the law. > > When a motion by Michael Harbison that they > should be able to stay was lost by one vote, > their lawyer, Len Linden, challenged Councillor > Richard Hayward from the public gallery. > > "I think you should disclose you have shares in > Western Mining." > > "I think your vote is invalid and should be > disqualified." > > "I think the council should rescind the motion > until you declare your interest in Western > Mining." > > Councillor Hayward admits he's a shareholder, > but maintains that was irrelevant to this debate. > > Earlier, the Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax Smith had > disqualifed herself on a potential conflict of > interest involving her partner. > > And Councillor Harbison was left disappointed > that council could not be more accomodating. > > "I think we just have to face facts that there are > many different faces to society." > > "Especially at Christmas time, I think we should > be a little bit forgiving." > > © 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation > > > > > * > 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." > > > letter to editor dec 23 1999 genocide corner.doc (Microsoft Word Document)
Undeliverable: Fwd: [recoznet2] Northern Territory maintains highest jailing rate
Your message To: O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: [recoznet2] Northern Territory maintains highest jailing rate Sent:Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:15:53 +1030 did not reach the following recipient(s): c=AU;a= ;p=SAUGOV;o=BACKBONE;dda:SMTP=O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; on Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:48:34 +1030 The recipient name is not recognized The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=AU;a= ;p=SAUGOV;l=SAGEMSBB0059912230418ZDLD1NQB MSEXCH:IMS:SAUGOV:BACKBONE:SAGEMSBB005 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Recipient ** Forwarded Message Follows *** >To: RecOzNet2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Trudy and Rod Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:40:54 +1100 > >ABC News >Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:59 CDT >LOCAL NEWS : Northern Territory > >Northern Territory maintains >highest jailing rate > >The Northern Territory continues to have the >highest imprisonment rate in the country. > >Figures from the Bureau of Statistics show the >rate of imprisonment for Australia's indigenous >population for the September quarter was 15 >times the non-indigenous rate. > >Sixty-nine per cent of all prisoners in the >Northern Territory were from indigenous >backgrounds. > >Overall the number of prisoners in Australia was >more than 20,500, a small increase on the June >quarter figures. > >Tasmania continues to have one of the lowest >imprisonment rates in the country. > >According to the Bureau of Statistics there were >352 prisoners in the State in September, up >slightly from the previous month. > >© 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation > >--- >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%40paradigm4.com.au/ > >
[recoznet2] Indigenous doctor to deliver Australia Day address
ABC News Thu, 23 Dec 1999 0:19 AEDT Indigenous doctor to deliver Australian Day address Doctor Lowitja O'Donoghue will be the first indigenous Australian to deliver next month's Australia Day address. The Australia Day Council of New South Wales says Doctor O'Donoghue is one of the nation's most high profile Aboriginal community leaders, contributing to health, welfare and human rights. Doctor O'Donoghue says she plans to use the opportunity to give an indigenous perspective on Australia, describing her presentation as "thought-provoking". © 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation --- 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%40paradigm4.com.au/
[recoznet2] Call to review mandatory sentencing laws
ABC TV The 7:30 Report Transcript 22/12/1999 Call to review mandatory sentencing laws MAXINE McKEW: The Northern Territory and Western Australian Governments came under new pressure today to review their mandatory sentencing laws. The Law Council, Australia's peak legal body, urged federal politicians to support a private member's bill [Dr Bob Brown of the Australian Greens - Trudy] which would override the laws as they relate to juveniles. And a Senate committee will sit in Alice Springs and Darwin in February to hear submissions. The Territory and Western Australia now have record imprisonment rates attributed to mandatory sentencing. In the Territory, young Aboriginal men especially are being jailed for seemingly trivial offences. Murray McLaughlin reports from remote Groote Eylandt. MURRAY McLAUGHLIN: It's known as Gemco, one of the richest manganese mines in the world, on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It's part of the Northern Territory, which makes property offences here subject to mandatory sentencing. A smoko room at the Gemco mine was broken into last Christmas day. Biscuits and cordial were stolen. Value -- $23. In the Magistrates Court at Groote Eylandt yesterday, 21-year-old Jamie Wurumarra pleaded not guilty to charges of breaking and entering and stealing. Because he's got two previous convictions for property offences, he faces mandatory jail for one year if convicted. JON TIPPETT, NT LAW SOCIETY: Mandatory sentencing has had a severe impact upon young Aboriginal people, in particular, and more particularly, young Aboriginal people living in remote communities in the Northern Territory. More of those people are going to jail than ever before and for more trivial offences than ever before. What we're doing in the Northern Territory is we're jailing a generation of Aboriginal children. MURRAY McLAUGHLIN: The monthly court session at Groote Eylandt is a casual affair. The magistrate strolls easily among the locals. The legal aid lawyer takes instructions under the court verandah and Aboriginal mothers ponder why so many of their sons are being sent to jail in Darwin -- two hours to the west by aeroplane. The fact is three-quarters of those being caught by the NT's mandatory sentencing regime are from remote communities and overwhelmingly Aboriginal. GORDON RENOUF, ABORIGINAL LEGAL AID: Aboriginal communities have been seriously affected and disproportionately so. One of the reasons is that most crime in those communities is solved. It's a small community and people know who did what. So people who ride in the back of a stolen vehicle -- there might be a dozen of them -- will get caught. People who steal $1 worth of petrol will get caught and people have been prosecuted for stealing $1 worth of petrol to feed their petrol-sniffing addiction. MURRAY McLAUGHLIN: When the Northern Territory Government introduced mandatory sentencing, it stressed deterrence. Burglars would be jailed, householders would sleep peacefully. But the pitch was not to remote communities, but to the Darwin suburbs and research by the North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service shows mandatory sentencing has made no difference to crime in Darwin. GORDON RENOUF: In fact, there's been absolutely no change in the rate of home burglaries and, if anything, it's gone up. One of the problems here is that only about 15 per cent-16 per cent of those sorts of crimes are, in fact, solved whereas in other areas, you've got more like 100 per cent being solved. JON TIPPETT: The Government sold mandatory sentencing to the community on the basis that it would reduce crime. In effect, the Government sold the community a lie and it was an election ploy. It was merely a political stunt. Unfortunately, it's a political stunt that puts more Aboriginal people in prison than ever before and, indeed, puts more people at the risk of imprisonment for trivial property offences than ever before. MURRAY McLAUGHLIN: Jamie Wurumarra has another two months on bail before he knows his fate. His case was adjourned yesterday after his lawyer objected to an interview recorded when he was arrested being put into evidence. Lawyer Stuart O'Connell argued it would be against public policy, because his client had not been cautioned by police that he was up for a year's jail. The taped interview apparently revealed that Jamie Wurumarra was expecting to get only a good behaviour bond. The magistrate wants to hear more legal argument. He suggested that suspects in remote places should be made aware of their liable jail sentence before, in his words, "they waxed lyrical to police." JON TIPPETT: I think the rules have to be widened, for the reason that people have to be told this -- "You speak to us and you go to jail." There is no court that will determine whether or not in terms of a property offence, you do go to jail. If you speak to police and you confess to committing a minor property offence, your words s
Re: [recoznet2] Y2K (pst shouldn't that be Y40K to Y100K)
Great subject line, Rod! Rod Hagen wrote: > Happy summer solstice, Saturnalia, or whatever takes your fancy everyone > > Cheers > > Rod > > At 10:19 PM 22/12/99, tdunlop wrote: > >Just a quick note to wish everybody the best for the season and to thank > >Trudy for running the most enlightening list on the net! And also to > >thank her for her work in maintaining the newsclip service which I find > >invaluable. Looking forward to next year. > > > >Cheers > > > >Tim > > > > 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/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/ --- 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%40paradigm4.com.au/
Re: [recoznet2] Y2K (pst shouldn't that be Y40K to Y100K)
Happy summer solstice, Saturnalia, or whatever takes your fancy everyone Cheers Rod At 10:19 PM 22/12/99, tdunlop wrote: >Just a quick note to wish everybody the best for the season and to thank >Trudy for running the most enlightening list on the net! And also to >thank her for her work in maintaining the newsclip service which I find >invaluable. Looking forward to next year. > >Cheers > >Tim > 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/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
