More News 100826 Indigenous leader at ends with miner over consultation Police receive valour awards for Aurukun riot - ABC News ... 24 Aug 2010 ... Eight far north Queensland police officers have received awards for their efforts during a riot in a Cape York ... Around 300 people, many armed with sticks and knives, participated in the disturbance, smashing the local police station, several vehicles and the community's only store and tavern. ...
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Aboriginal elder leads police to body -- but wrong oneReuters Africa
An Aboriginal elder who claimed to have seen the location of a missing child in a dream has led Australian police to a body...
... was at a loss to explain what led to the shocking discovery, except that it was "Aboriginal dreaming".
Headless body found in Doonside by woman looking for Kiesha Blacktown Sun Psychic's dream's grisly end Herald Sun
 Jul 16, 2010
Aboriginal elder studies bronze statueAn Aboriginal elder studies the bronze statue of 19th century Aboriginal warrior Yagan near Perth. The remains of Yagan, a tribal warrior who famously led resistance to the British settlement of Australia, have been laid to rest in a traditional ceremony after his skull was recovered from Britain.(AFP/File/Greg Wood) PERTH, Australia (AP) – The remains of 19th-century aboriginal warrior Yagan have been laid to rest in western Australia, nearly 180 years after he was killed and his severed head was displayed in a British museum. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/Tribe-reburies-aboriginal-warrior-killed-in-1800s-98609759.htmlhttp://www.bigpondnews.com/articles/National/2010/07/10/ Aboriginal 170 jaar na dood begraven 11 - 12 Jul 2010
March 27, 2010
AS SOMEONE working in Arnhem Land before the federal government's intervention, Sinem Saban said she found its focus on paedophilia and abuse didn't match ''the reality on the ground''....''There was a lot of demonisation of Aboriginal culture and it just didn't feel right,'' she said. Rather than smart over what she saw as the injustice of the pretext given for the intervention, she has used her skills and her good relationships with the people of Elcho Island to challenge that portrayal in a film.
''It is like the last frontier out there,'' Mr Curtis said. ''That is one thing that our film will show Australian audiences that they've never seen before - the really powerful and colourful ceremony and life that still goes on in remote Australia.''
''It is the towns that are dysfunctional,'' Ms Saban said. ''That is where you have those issues that the intervention brought to a head, whether it is child abuse or alcohol abuse.''
The intervention has disempowered traditional authority figures, she said, replacing them with white managers, dismantling cultural laws that held the social fabric together and tying housing to 40-year leases. ANDRA JACKSON http://www.theage.com.au/ ***
Shady Beach looks to clean up at awards March 25th, 2010 IT'S the Northern Territory's cleanest beach and it's a great place to swim - as long as you're not a whitefella. Shady Beach at Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land is the NT finalist in the Australian Clean Beaches Awards. The beach is home to the Yirrkala Surf Life Saving club and is popular with local indigenous children - despite the threat from crocodiles and jellyfish. "The (Gumatj) clan owns that piece of land and their totem is the crocodile," he said. "(They say) our kids can't be taken by a crocodile, only you guys."... MATT CUNNINGHAM http://www.ntnews.com.au/
Workers axe sacred tree for NSW bypass Dec 23 2009 A tree sacred to Aboriginal people on the NSW mid-north coast has been felled after an experienced climber was plucked from its canopy and other protesters were cleared away. The Guardian Tree at Bulahdelah was cut down on Wednesday afternoon as work proceeds on the Pacific Highway's Bulahdelah bypass project. An experienced climber who made his way high up into the tree two days ago was removed with the use of a cherry-picker before being arrested about midday (AEDT), the Indigenous Justice Advocacy Network says. Workers with chainsaws, backed by police, then moved in to cut down the 25m-high old-growth Sydney peppermint tree. "A lot of distraught people, a lot of tension, a lot of people crying," advocacy network legal representative Al Oshlack told AAP. "It's almost cultural genocide. There was no need for them to cut that tree down." Aboriginal traditional owner Worimi Dates has described the tree as "the most sacred site of the Worimi nation", the advocacy network says. The tree was described as an Aboriginal healing tree that carried "Aboriginal scars", protest group spokesman Malcolm Carroll told AAP on Wednesday. Mr Oshlack said the protesters were not objecting to the highway upgrade, only to the route chosen for it. "The whole thing is just gross racism as far as we can see," Mr Oshlack said. [Breaking News,National]  | BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Delays hit Aboriginal homes plan 5 Sep 2009 ... A report into an ambitious housing scheme for Australia's Aboriginals has found that not one dwelling has been built in the year since it began... Australia's original inhabitants often suffer squalid and over-cramped living conditions which contribute to the 17-year gap in life expectancy between them and their non-indigenous counterparts. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8239402.stm -
Aboriginals of Australia have been pleasantly surprised as Australia has formally adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, after voting against the adoption in 2007....It is the latest in a series of symbolic moves from the government of Kevin Rudd, which last year [2008] issued a long-awaited apology to indigenous Australian for past injustices. But Mr Rudd been criticised by indigenous leaders for emphasising symbolism over substance. They have accused his government of not doing more in the fields of health and education, and in particularly closing the gap in the life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Gallery accused of selling indigenous fakes Kelly Burke Consumer Affairs Reporter
July 29, 2008 The artist signs his name as Duk Duk - "agile wallaby" in the local Aboriginal dialect - and on the internet auction site OZtion he cites the work of noted Yirrakala painter Wanjuk (sic) Marika among his strongest influences.
But Stephen McLean is careful to describe his work as "a stylised version of Arnhemland Aboriginal art", created out of "love of Aboriginal people and their culture". So, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is pursuing the gallery that sells his works as "authentic aboriginal art". Farzad and Homa Nooravi, the operators of Doongal Aboriginal Art and Artefacts, stand accused of misleading and deceptive conduct by misrepresenting three artists, including McLean, as indigenous. The other non-indigenous artists involved in the Brisbane Federal Court proceedings are Diane Sharp and Paul Whiteman, who uses the tribal name "Kulangu Balanda". The commission alleges the Nooravis sold the works of the artists under the banners "Aboriginal Fine Art", "Aboriginal Artefacts", "Authentic Aboriginal Art" and "Aboriginal Art in the traditional sense" on their website, which was closed down temporarily yesterday, and at their three Queensland galleries, in Kuranda and Cairns. The gallery also stamped certificates declaring "Authenticity of Original Aboriginal Art" on the artworks of McLean, Whiteman and Sharp. A statement from the ACCC said it was seeking declarations of misleading and deceptive conduct, injunctions restraining the Nooravis from engaging in similar conduct in the future, costs and orders for the couple to contact purchasers and declare the artworks' non-indigenous origins. The allegations come as the indigenous art community awaits a Government response to a Senate inquiry into the Aboriginal art industry, which was completed more than a year ago. The inquiry's recommendations included an increase in funding "as a matter of priority" to the ACCC to investigate widespread illegal practices in the industry, and the completion of an Indigenous Art Commercial Code of Conduct. **********************************
Dealers exploit aboriginal Australian artists, TV show reportsCritics liken working conditions to sweatshopsJuly 28, 2008Australia's booming aboriginal art market is open to manipulation, and artists and consumers are being exploited, the Australia Broadcasting Corp. reports.
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