i come from kintore nt 0872

am a indigenous person with no family rights as the clc is very adamant on denying me the right to have my father live with us without having to get a permit from them wich is basically permision off them

the clc says that traditional owners have no rights other than to stand or sit where they tell us to thats from their mouths in the supreme court in alice springs .

the permit system does not allow us positive growth properly and the clc wont issue leases so that we can have security to run a buisness or luive in our own home over 17years we have been fighting for our rights . is anyone actually willing to put there money where their mouth is and help us in the homelands please give us legal aid or order the clc to fix the problem up asking for help

please feel free to reply to me as all my other letters to government went unanswered...think can help me fight for my basic rights ?

paintingpintupi@yahoo.com.au
katherine napaltjarri parker
kintore nt 0872

Yes, the whole sorry saga has turned my stomach since that time when Peter Charley allowed Lateline to whored for government propaganda purposes meant to get Howard re-elected.
Truth of the matter is that underneath the bland myth of "civilised" modern Australia, there exists as rapacious a mentality as ever practiced overt outrages a century ago.
As for the ALP, well given its gormless performance on environment, the ABC, student unions, education, ASIO laws retained and a raft of other issues, can the disillusion setting in now be just the deserved backhander for daring to hope that, just once, Labor might have acted on the basis of principle rather than that of populist opportunism, after winning an election.

John Pilger has the same extremist left-wing view on everything. I'm glad that he saw fit to leave Australia and live overseas.

Unfortunately, like his fellow Marxist Germaine Greer, he is still able to visit Australia as he wishes.

If Australia really was the type of country he paints it as, he would not be allowed to return to Australia - ever.

I find Ms. Greer a tolerable, often amusing, pain in the backside; but Mr. Pilger is a disgrace, no matter where he lives.

Paul, mate, Labor, & principle are two words that just can't be worked into the same sentence.

Any principles they had, that Whitlam didn't trash years ago, Richardson sold for a couple of hundred votes, just a few years later.

I think we miss the point here, seeing it published as it is online in Australia; we mistake it as a piece written for an Australian audience. To most Australians it would appear to be just this side of rubbish?

I would suspect that this is meant for non-Australian customers of Pilgers, to show them how he is exposing terrible deeds of evil back in his home country, and thus worthy of publication in the sensational pages. It could be meant to show his awesome connections and access to "secrets" that no one else has, uncovering conspiracies.

It seems to be what he would like to believe rather than what is actually happening in Australia, sure we struggle with how to help some parts of the community - every civilised society does that.

There will always be people who need help, and we do that, we help. Each government does what the society at the time thinks is best, different times are reflective of different solutions - today it is intervention. We don't have intervention everywhere though, only the NT.

As far as Uranium mining goes, NT is not the only source; I think he has swallowed a red herring there.

John,

You cite several alledged failings. What are your solutions? What must Australians do, in your view. A direction is not clear from your post. Can you articulate an apt response to the situation?