ABORIGINAL RIGHTS

Native title was given to our desert nations in the 8o's. Now the Australian government wants it back as the Northern Territory has the richest source of uranium in the world and they want the land back to become the world’s nuclear waste dump. Our desert tribes fiercely protest this and refused to sign the land leases. They gained support from various groups organizing rallies, protests and raising awareness. So our government conspired to brand them violent alcoholic pedophiles who neglect and abuse their children! They called this report "Little Children Are Sacred" and demanded an Intervention. They sent in the military and ordered every child to have medical checks for abuse. This in itself was a gross intrusion on the little ones and a form of sexual abuse. They dragged children from their mothers screaming in fear. The only cases they found were young girls under the age of sixteen who have boyfriends. Yet 3 years later the intervention remains


In order for the Federal government to implement the Northern Territory Emergency Response suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 was required making it legal to force communities to sign over control of Aboriginal land in 5 year leases, prohibit alcohol consumption and distribution in Aboriginal communities, control spending patterns through income management and store cards and take-over Aboriginal service-providers, ban them from speaking and learning their language in school, (English is their 2nd language) refusing them housing, medical, transport assistance until they sign over 40 year leases of the land. They have broken 20 something of the 46 covenants of the UN's declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples. There is much more to this story that I will post in my notes. – Judith Stubbs