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[eniar] update | May 2004 ·Jabiluka victory ·ATSIC abolition + more

Welcome to the European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR) Newsletter with the lastest highlights, events and information from eniar.org

Our website will be changed over the next few months to a new, more user-friendly system. One aim is to encourage input from readers, particularly content contributuions and events updates.

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To contribute your thoughts email webmaster@eniar.org

» European clips
http://www.eniar.org/news/eclip-archive2004.html
» Australian clips
http://www.eniar.org/news/aclip-archive2004.html

Traditional Aboriginal owners signed off on a historic agreement ending their long struggle against the controversial Jabiluka uranium mine.
» http://www.eniar.org/news/jabiluka16.html

The end of self-determination? Aboriginal advocates silenced. Australian Government matches the new Labor opposition policy and will abolish peak Aboriginal body ATSIC - with no elected replacement
» http://www.eniar.org/news/atsic1.html

United Nations to hear Aboriginal plight
» http://www.eniar.org/news/un17.html

What Canada can teach Australia
» http://www.eniar.org/news/canadaoz.html

New study: Aboriginal health much worse in Australia than US, Canada
» http://www.eniar.org/news/health6.html

ANZAC Day: ATSI contribution remembered at last
» http://www.eniar.org/news/Anzac.html

Long history of failure in Aboriginal Affairs
» http://www.eniar.org/news/fraser1.html

Australian welfare support is less for Aborigines
» http://www.eniar.org/news/Mainstreaming.html

Bone-pointing curse put on PM John Howard
» http://www.eniar.org/news/curse.html

New York Times: 'Aborigines Say Australia Pushes Their Plight to Sideline'
» http://www.eniar.org/news/nyt1.html

Coming: BBC blast for 'white' Australia
» http://www.eniar.org/news/bbc1.html

Les aborigènes, peintres du temps
» http://www.eniar.org/news/lemonde1.html

Remote Scottish islanders want to keep their Aboriginal neighbour
» http://www.eniar.org/news/Koolmatrie.html

Tourists returning pilfered pieces of Uluru
» http://www.eniar.org/news/lat.html

Is the 'Moomba' Festival name a Aboriginal joke?
» http://www.eniar.org/news/Moomba.html

Prohben venta de alcohol en Australia
» http://www.eniar.org/news/alcohol.html

On European visit, aboriginal activist condemns Australian UN human rights appointment
» http://www.eniar.org/news/anderson1.html

Ancient rock art under environmental threat
» http://www.eniar.org/news/news/rockart.html

The Redfern riot: January 14, 2004: World news clippings + background
Rioters set fire to a train station and pelted police officers with gasoline bombs in an Aborigine neighborhood here during a nine-hour street battle that began after a teenager died, reportedly while being chased by officers.
» http://www.eniar.org/news/redfernriot.html

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ACTION
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From 1904 to 1987, the Queensland Government withheld or underpaid wages earned by aboriginal workers. Aboriginal stockmen and domestic workers were the underpaid backbone of the pastoral industry for much of the 20th Century.

The campaign for the return of 'STOLEN WAGES' continues with a new offer from the Queensland government drawing derision from Aboriginal groups and supporters.

YOU can help.

For more information about the campaign and the issues involved
» http://www.eniar.org/action/stolen.html
» Email: thepremier@premiers.qld.gov.au

Latest news »
http://www.eniar.org/news/stolen-news.html

This campaign has recently been extended. For decades the New South Wales Government literally stole the money of Aboriginal people who it said were under its care and protection. The sums run to millions of dollars. Nothing yet has been done to fix this scandal.

» http://www.eniar.org/news/antar8.html
» Email: bob.carr@www.nsw.gov.au

HEALTH
There is a hidden health emergency in Australia that demands our immediate attention. Indigenous people now have a life expectancy more than twenty years less than other Australians, and Indigenous infants are dying at the same rate as babies in some of the most impoverished developing countries.

What can I do? Find out in our new health
information section
» http://www.eniar.org/news/health.html

PROTEST
Reversing a century of progress in the recognition of human rights, the UK government has now decided that collective human rights do not exist. If allowed to become official policy, this threatens to harm tribal peoples around the world.

YOU can help by writing to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and your local MP
» http://www.eniar.org/news/survival2.html

PRO BONO lawyer sought for British reparations test case
» http://www.eniar.org/news/byrt.html

ENIAR is now accepting donations, which will help support our website and other activities. For donation information as well as details on further campaigns and other suggestions on how you can help
» http://www.eniar.org/action/

CONTRIBUTE your help to eniar.org: We welcome contributions of clippings, particularly from Europe in languages other than English - we are also looking for translation assistance with Spanish, German, French and Italian. translate for us? ¿traduzca para nosotros? traduisez pour nous? traduca per noi? übersetzen Sie für uns? If you can help then email webmaster@eniar.org

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UPCOMING EVENTS
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For contact details and web links
» http://www.eniar.org/index.html#events

UK
Ongoing: details of Didge events in the UK
» http://www.eniar.org/events/didge.html
» 19 March - 9 May: Thomas Keneally's "powerful and disturbing" Aboriginal-themed play, Bullie's House. Touring UK. LYON
» 2 March - 30 May: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon. Aborigènes, les couleurs du Rêve.
UTRECHT
» 25 March - 12 September: Aboriginal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands. Brenda L. Croft - Images.
KLOSTERNEUBURG, AUSTRIA
» 2 April - 29 August: Essl Collection: Spirit + Vision - Aboriginal Art REUTLINGEN, GERMANY
» 4 April - 6 June: Städtisches Kunstmuseum. Picture worlds in Utopia, Woodcuts and paintings
of Aborigines.
LONDON
» 22 April - 15 May: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Aboriginal prints COPENHAGEN
» 4 + 6 May: Australian movie festival - Rabbit Proof Fence + Australian Rules LONDON
» 4 May: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies - John Landy, Governor of Victoria, will speak on
'Sport/Business/Government: Finding the Common Ground'.
LONDON
» 12 May: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Nicholas Brown (Director, Australian Studies
Centre, University College, Dublin): 'The changing resonances of "the international" in Australian politics and culture'.
LONDON
» 17-18 May: Institute of Commonwealth Studies. 'The Architecture of the Commonwealth'.
LONDON» 18 May: Royal Institution. 'Human Remains: Objects to study or ancestors to bury?'
AUSTRALIA
» 26 May: Sorry Day: Journey of Healing Events KöLN
» 28 May: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Ausstellung australischer Aboriginal Kunst und Objekte. Mit Autorenlesung aus dem Buch Lyrische Austalien unserem Stand (Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art and objects).
STUTTGART
» 4+5 June: Didge - Days Stuttgart im Kulturwerk BERLIN
» 18-20 June: Dreamtime Berlin SANKT AUGUSTIN, GERMANY
» 24 June - 31 July Haus der Völker und Kulturen. Different Vision. LONDON
» 1 July - 31 July: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. David Whitaker, Aboriginal prints.
ATHENS
» 1 July - 30 August: Benaki Museum. 'Our Place - Indigenous Australia Now', Australian Indigenous art and cultural artefacts (part of Cultural Olympiad). WIEDLISBACH, SWITZERLAND
» 2 - 4 July: Swizzeridoo BEDFORD, UK
» 3 + 4 July: Bedford River Festival: Didje meeting area, workshops and performances.
GENEVA
» 19 - 23 July: UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP).
BARCELONA
» 27-31 July: Didg Week BARCELONA
» 1-3 August: Tribales Festiva LONDON
» 5 August - 4 September: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Ampilatwatja flowers.
AUSTRALIA
» 6-9 August: 2004 Garma Festival. EISENBACH
» 6 - 8 August: Australien Weekend im Schwarzwald AUSTRIA
» 27-29 August: Austria Didge- Festival GENEVA
» 30 August - 26 November 2004 - International Labor Organisation. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Fellowship Programme
GENEVA
» 1-4 September: International Conference on System Science in Health Care DORSTEN, GERMANY
» 3 September: Down under im Pott: Didgeridoo und Weltmusik Festival. LONDON
» 9 September - 9 October: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Maningrida burial poles.
ICELAND
15 September: Yolngu performance and yidaki course LONDON
» 6 November: Development Studies Association annual conference