Noel has taken a stance which is so commendable. I guess
as a social worker I would feel the need to have an aboriginal social system in
place.
Recently in our lecture we have been spending a great deal of
time talking abvout activism and how to do that.
Our concepts of change are as happ
Thanks to Graham for this response. Seems to me that
this issue (as raised by Noel Pearson) should be occupying the list, more
so than arguments about who said what to whom in a chance meeting and what they
might have meant. Which is not to say the discussion re Karyn's
bio is not importan
Rosemary Neill's articles seem to express a similar sentiment to a report
in this morning's CM about a paper that Noel Pearson has written.- Our
Right to Take Responsibility.
Full text follows from the CM's web site:
Pearson hits welfare "poison"
30apr99
PROMINENT Aboriginal le
PREAMBLE AS A PETIT-BOURGEOIS MONOLOGUE
The Preamble phenomenon can be seen as involving
an attempt to define the Way(s) of First Peoples in terms
which reproduce the Western world, to recruit First Peoples
into an ideology which is not only not theirs but which allows
not space for the core val
ATSIC
29 April 1999
JOINT STATEMENT
NEW ATSIC CEO WELCOMED
The Board of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission looks
forward to forming a productive working relationship with the new Chief
Executive Officer, Mr Mark Sullivan.
The Board is anxious to begin work with Mr Sullivan to
this following extract quotes are taken from a piece i am currently working
on 'raw law' to be published later on sometime...these are some quotes i
have taken from ward churchill an aboriginal creek from the usa, sometimes
it is helpful to look back at ourselves from the outside, as a reading a
how you learn is not simply reliant on how good we are as your teachers.
how you learn is also dependent on you ability to undress yourself of
non-aboriginal and understand you have an obligation here also. you cant
just sit back and take knowledge as student, nungas have never had that
luxury.
no but kevin is an elder that i have known for many years of my learning
and that is what i know what do you?
is not a matter of logical interpretation that was something that iris
stevens did in the kumarangk hearing in weighing up the evidence so i dont
really want to get into it at your level
