New info on
Income Management,
updates on the
2011 NT Consultations,
Walk With Us,
Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Barbara Shaw’s Speaking tour,
&
Support for Muckaty,
Aboriginal Rights events in Sydney, Nov 11
1. New info on Income Management
SPECIAL ISSUE Journal of Indigenous Policy
EVIDENCE - FREE POLICY MAKING?
The Case of Income Management by Eva Cox
http://www.jumbunna.uts.edu.au/researchareas/journals/specialissue.html
Please download and distribute the document.
Eva Cox
Research Fellow, Jumbunna IHL UTS.
For Eva’s comments & further info, please see:
http://stoptheintervention.org/facts/income-management
2. More updates on the Consultations, Walk With Us, Convention
on the Rights of the Child, Barbara Shaw’s Speaking tour
Updates on the 2011 NT Consultations
Media Release by STICS of 21 Oct 11 - Stop the Intervention campaign blasts sham
consultations and more at
http://stoptheintervention.org/facts/consultations-mid-2011
Walk With Us book launch and review
http://vimeo.com/28813885 and
http://www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au/?p=3713 or
http://www.asgmwp.net/ElimattaSpring2011.pdf
Australia is failing the children of the Northern Territory
http://stoptheintervention.org/facts/united-nations/convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child
Barbara Shaw’s Sydney speaking tour October 3rd-9th:
Info about Barb’s tour incl video clips from Amnesty’s events and Banktstown forum
http://stoptheintervention.org/3-9-oct-2011-barbara-shaw
3. Support sought for Muckaty
Hi everyone,
Beyond Nuclear Initiative is collaborating with photographer Jagath Dheerasekara and
Muckaty Traditional Owners on a photographic exhibition titled "Manuwangku, Under the
Nuclear Cloud". The exhibition presents the country and community in the Northern Territory
targeted to host a national radioactive waste dump.
Photographer Jagath Dheerasekara (http://jd.photoshelter.com/) is of political refugee
background from Sri Lanka and specialises in social documentary and social justice
reportage. Jagath received the Amnesty International Human Rights Innovation Grant 2010 to
begin work on this exhibition and was a finalist in the prestigious Bowness Photography Prize
2011 with one of the images.
The exhibition is supported by Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (UTS), Australians
for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR), Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (University
of Sydney) and the Australian Conservation Foundation.
As this is a grass-roots initiative, for the project to be successful we need to raise at least
$5000 for completion of photo framing, production of the exhibition catalogue and travel for
Traditional Owners to attend the opening in Sydney on January 16.
Please consider making a contribution as an individual or from your organisation to support
this project to get off the ground and on display in cities and communities around the country.
Support can be pledged from now until December 10, International Human Rights Day.
Full details of the exhibition, how to make a contribution and a list of 'rewards' for each level of
support are available at: http://www.pozible.com/index.php/archive/index/4118/description/0/0
Please contact me if you require any further information and please circulate this information
widely.
Regards,
Natalie Wasley
Beyond Nuclear Initiative coordinator
www.beyondnuclearinitiative.com
0429 900 774
4. Aboriginal Rights events in Sydney in November 2011
2 events promoted by New South Wales Reconciliation Council
Our Place Launch
Wednesday, 2 November - 7:30-10:30pm
upstairs at The World Bar, 24 Bayswater Rd. Kings Cross
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132114313559570
The Waterloo Girls
Sat 5 and Sun 6 November 2011 - 7:30pm
http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au/waterloogirls
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Kerrianne Cox with Jacinta Tobin
SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2011
13 Potter Avenue, Earlwood 7 – 11pm
Creative Womyn Down Under invites you to a wonderful night of powerful womyn’s music.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to be part of Kerrianne’s On the Road to Sovereignty tour.
Enjoy inspiring music and activism in an Inner West Sydney home.
Kerrianne Cox is an internationally renowned independent Original Sovereign Ngombarl
performing artist of Australia. Her signature song, Beagle Bay Dreaming, has brought her
beloved home and country - Beagle Bay in the remote North West Kimberley region of WA into the hearts and minds of people all over the world. Visit her website at
www.kerriannecox.com
$25/$20, tickets at door, supper included. All warmly welcomed. RSVP to Georgina on 0406
372 142 or email georgina@creativewomyn.net
Our Generation Film Screening in Hurstville with National Director of ANTaR
Tuesday November 08 2011 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Hurstville Entertainment Centre, 16 Macmahon Street, Hurstville, NSW, 2220
RSVP: 4th November 2011
Cost:
$15
Contact: Amanda Atlee at amnesty.sutherlandshire@gmail.com
The St George and Sutherland Shire group of Amnesty International Australia will screen the
film ‘Our Generation’ at the Hustville Entertainment Centre, Civic Theatre on Tuesday 8
November 2011 at 7pm as part of its Homelands campaign.
The National Director of ANTAR, Jacqui Phillips, has agreed to speak at the event
regarding the future of remote Aboriginal communities in the NT
http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/26576/ or http://www.indymedia.org.au/our-generationfilm-screening-in-hurstville
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Joint Annual Lecture: Prof Stephen Cornell and Dr Miriam Jorgensen
INDIGENOUS GOVERNMENT: A POLICY SOLUTION IN SETTLER STATES
Wednesday, 9 November 2011 - 5:30 for 6:00 PM
UTS Building 2, Level 4, Room 4.11
RSVP: Emma Hardcastle, Jumbunna IHL
T:
+61 2 9514 1903
E:
Emma.Hardcastle@uts.edu.au
Abstract: In Australia, Canada, and the United States, there is growing evidence that
Indigenous communities themselves may have solutions to problems of socio-economic
distress that work substantially better than those developed by central governments. This
emerging finding shifts attention toward Indigenous government as a key factor in improving
the circumstances of Indigenous peoples. Yet there are competing notions of what
governance refers to, of what Indigenous governance is, and of what it might mean for
relationships between Indigenous communities and settler states. What is Indigenous
governance? What’s the evidence that it matters? Why should we care?
This lecture is jointly organised by Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning and the
Transforming Cultures Research Centre and given by UTS Distinguished Visiting Scholars
Dr Stephen Cornell, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Udall Centre for Studies in
Public Policy at the University of Arizona and Co-Director and co-founder of the Harvard
Project on American Indian Economic Development, and Dr Miriam Jorgensen, Research
Director of the University of Arizona's Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management
and Policy and of the Harvard Project.
For more information about the speakers please see our website:
http://datasearch2.uts.edu.au/tfc/news-events/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=28626
Free event. All welcome.
It might generate some interesting discussion about what Indigenous policy would look like if
it actually complied with the evidence!
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Misinformation and the Media
Guest Speaker: Chris Graham, Aboriginal Affairs Journalist
Monday 14th November 2011, 7.15pm for 7.30pm start
Mona Vale Memorial Hall, 1606 Pittwater Rd, Mona Vale (Next to Mona Vale
Library)
Cost: Free
Chris has won a Walkley Award and a Walkley High Commendation for his Indigenous affairs
reporting, and has twice won the Australian Human Rights Award –
For the flier, see http://www.asgmwp.net/index.htm