Elders Forum 7 Feb 11
From left to right: Dhanggal Guruwiwi from Nhulunbuy, George Gaymarani Pascoe from Milingimbi, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM from Utopia, Betty Pike, a Nyoonga woman from SW Australia, Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann AM from Nauiyu (Daly River), Djapirri Munurrungitj from Nhulunbuy, Rev Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM from Galiwin'ku and Harry Jakamara Nelson from Yuendumu
For the Elders statement: please click here
For the Statement on Aboriginal Rights by leading Australians:
please click here
For the Audio recording from the Elders Forum (MP3): please click here or here
13 February 2011: For the Audio: please click here
ABC Sunday night: Indigenous Australia: The Future: http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s3138353.htm
Forum:
A Further Conversation with Elders:
Bringing you up to date with the impacts of living under the Intervention
In May 2010 elders, Rosalie Kunoth Monks OAM from Utopia in Central Australia and Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM from Galiwin'ku in Arnhem Land joined in conversation with Professor the Hon Alastair Nicholson AO giving their views on the Northern Territory Intervention.
Since then they have visited Geneva and shared their concerns with the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On 7 February 2011 Rosalie and Djiniyini will visit us in Melbourne to share with us the response of the United Nations.
They will be accompanied by a number of other elders and leaders from across the Territory and together they will share with us what has been happening in the period since last May and highlight the changes that are taking place in the various communities and homelands from Arnhem Land to the Central Desert. Those who met with Rosalie and Djiniyini last year will remember their distress and despair brought about by over three years of Intervention.
Source:
http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=4B1D1CB1-B0D0-AB80-E28E8C05438EC230&DiaryID=5175
Monday 7 February at 5.45pm for 6pm, Melbourne Law School , Theatre GO8 - Ground Floor185 Pelham Street, Carlton (Melways 2B C9)
Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM from Galiwin'ku, East Arnhem Land
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM from Utopia, Central Australia
Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann AM from Daly River, south of Darwin
Yananymul Mununggurr from Yirrkala, East Arnhem Land
Harry Jakamarra Nelson from Yuendumu, Central Australia
George Gaymarani Pascoe from Milingimbi, East Arnhem Land
Introduced by Prof. the Hon. Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC
Facilitator Jeff McMullen AM
Media Coverage:
NIT - NT Intervention Coverage - 17 February 2011 - please click here
Eureka Street - Ending the Intervention - 8 February 2011 - http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=24956
ABC News - Intervention 'paternalistic and demeaning' - 8 February 2011 - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/08/3132758.htm
ABC News, The World Today - Plea for intervention into Intervention - 8 February 2011 - http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3133034.htm
Listen to the interview: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/twt/201102/20110208-twt9-interventionpetition.mp3