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Resetting our relationship with Aboriginal people : Comments

By Michelle Fahy, published 29/8/2011

Given the amount of debate on Indigenous issues, the absence of the voices of the people concerned is telling. Walk With Us redresses this.

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Easy enough to start vegetable gardens in communities.

Problem is without valid leases from your corporate land trust for your garden land you have NO ability to stop others coming in and taking your garden produce.

Living in houses without leases makes it hard to retain acquired assets for same reason.

Without valid leases from our corporate landowning "Trust" we have NO ability to exclude others...

Without a valid lease from our corporate landowning "Trust" we have no right to our own visitors - family, friends, tradespeople !

This is a product of Parliament(s).

Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) is the corporate owner/titleholder for 103,000 square kilometres under the South Australian 1981 Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act.

Various corporate "Land Trust" entities became owners by title shuffling under the Commonwealth's Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) Act 1976.

These acts allows these corporate "Land Trust"s to grant leases.

Exists NO requirement for them to issue leases.

Result is our corporate "Land Trust"'s amongst Australia's wealthiest and largest landlords with almost ALL their tenants living in dwellings/houses constructed and maintained using public funds, whilst almost ALL tenants denied valid leases because "...giving them leases gives them rights..."

Rarely do either APY or ALR(NT) corporate landowners issue valid leases, not even to "Traditional Owners", indeed they rarely issues leases to anyone - except governments !

This main reason development FAILS.

With leases people CAN develop themselves - despite our Taliban.
Posted by polpak, Friday, 2 September 2011 11:44:04 AM
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University statistics for 2010 enrolments have just been published today by DEEWR, 2 Sept 2011.

They show a rise of 12.5 % in Indigenous commencements (to 4,297), and 8.7 % in total Indigenous enrolments (to 10,012), in award-level courses.

Since 2005 and the demise of enrolments in Aboriginal-focussed courses, annual Indigenous commencements in award-level courses have risen by 43 %, and enrolments overall by 32 %.

There are about 8,000 Indigenous people in the median age-group, i.e. 26-year-olds. So the equivalent of more than an entire age-group is enrolled at any one time at universities.

While many on the pseudo-Left may be lamenting this sad state of affairs, the decline of culture, etc., I'm pretty sure that Indigenous students won't be :)

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Friday, 2 September 2011 5:22:46 PM
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Oh dear, fools rush in, don't they ? I made an elementary adding mistake - commencements in 2010 in all award-level courses were 4,197 (equivalent to about half of the median age-group), a rise of 9.84 %. At that rate, commencement numbers will double by 2018.

Still pretty respectable :)
Posted by Loudmouth, Saturday, 3 September 2011 11:12:45 AM
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No Joe, I don't wish you had drowned yourself... far quicker to use a gun! No, not really :)

Yes, I had been aware that many Aboriginal people are on the same incomes as many other Australians, and that the main problems are,
how to manage their money, and how to keep it for themselves and not give it away to any family member or close friend who asks for it.

It is very frustrating and is easy to wonder WHY they can't manage financially like many other ethnic groups, as a whole.

I think though that they are no different to any other family that have brought their kids up in a certain way for many generations, and are used to not saving money, not working for money and using what money they do have for the wrong items.

Again, it is only education in all these matters that will help drag them out of the poverty and despair that pervades their communities.
Throwing money at them doesn't work...
Posted by suzeonline, Saturday, 3 September 2011 3:02:02 PM
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