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Goverment Eugenics Program

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:00:40 +0000

Australia Eugenics The policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents emerged from an opinion based on Eugenics theory in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australia that the ‘full-blood’ tribal Aborigine would be unable to sustain itself, and was doomed to inevitable extinction, as at the time huge numbers of aborigines were in fact dying out, from diseases caught from European settlers. An ideology at the time held that mankind could be divided into a civilisational hierarchy. This white supremacist notion supposed that Northern Europeans were superior in civilisation and that Aborigines were inferior. According to this view, the increasing numbers of mixed-descent children in Australia, labelled as ‘half-castes’ (or alternatively ‘crossbreeds’, ‘quadroons’ and ‘octoroons’). In the first half of the twentieth century, this led to policies and legislation that resulted in the removal of children from their tribe. The stated aim was to culturally assimilate mixed-descent people into contemporary Australian society. In all states and territories legislation was passed in the early years of the twentieth century which gave Aboriginal protectors guardianship rights over Aborigines up to the age of sixteen or twenty-one. Policemen or other agents of the state (such as Aboriginal Protection Officers), were given the power to locate and transfer babies and children of mixed descent, from their communities into institutions. In these Australian states and …

Compulsory Land Acquisitions in the NT Starting Aug ’09 (Northern Territory Intervention)

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:48:31 +0000

Intervention Update: Tangentyere under attack! Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has announced that the Commonwealth Government of Australia is going to compulsorily acquire Aboriginal Community Town Camps in the Northern Territory. This will start happening from early August 2009. The main focus so far has been on the Tangentyere Council which is based in Alice Springs. Tangentyere provides services to the 1600 people from most Central Australian tribal groups living on the 18 town camps around the town. Over the years the council has been a spearhead for the establishment of other organisations as the need arose, such as Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (medical services), Central Australian Aboriginal Alcohol Planning Unit (alcohol rehabilitation), Institute for Aboriginal Development (educational institution), Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Yipirinye School (independent Aboriginal school), outstation resource centres and so on. The NT Intervention took out compulsory 5-year leases over the town camps serviced by Tangentyere, along with outstations and other remote communities. The government said it needed powers to build housing quickly but not a single house has been built for Aboriginal people through the Intervention. Communities across the NT have been told that no housing will be built until long-term leases are signed with government. Town camps are now under threat of having their living areas compulsorily acquired permanently …

EarthSong 4 – Traditional Culture

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:42:12 +0000

Colonisation had a devastating effect on Aboriginal culture in many places, but it remained a living culture in Central Australia. Today it is a vital resource to those whose tradition had been forgotten. EarthSong Foundation helps people remember their connection to country, culture and community.

Insight into Aboriginal Issues

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:42:11 +0000

Leanne, an Aboriginal Liaison Officer at Southern Health in Melbourne Victoria gives her view on the range of issues faced by Aboriginal people

Lies & Datura (Jam)

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:41:59 +0000

Lies & Datura playing jam in Aboriginal Art And Instruments shop.