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Northern land Territory. rights, home ownerThe Minister for Education, Mr. "That is because of State mi ship, education and Peter Jones, has announced 1 laws and because the States the appointment of Dr. Peter Wellock unity were among subas curriculum officer for 1 and the Governments are jects discussed at the not as prepared to take 1 religious studies in the Education Deportment. recent Queensland that stand as was the Fed\tr. Jones said that conference January 31. attended eral Government," he said. partment's Superintend =Dr. Wellock's appointby 200 members of the that he had been "a little "But there are some areas ent of Teacher Develop "And it wasn't just one PLANNING ROLE ment was in line with the black community from disillusioned and disap- where it can happen and Government ment and he will be re it was two E recommendations of the He has qualifications Queensland, Northern pointed at the lack of sup- has happened. sponsible for the overal governments. in both education and :inquiry into religious "I believe that if Govplanning to implemen Territory and N.S.W., port" he had received on education theology in and was "The government awardprevious Labor some of the issues he had ernments will the recommendations o accept my Government sponsored by the Abor- raised in ed a doctorate in phi, started the ball pschools which was held the inquiry. iginal and Islander Ca- liament. the Federal Par- motion and act on it, then rolling when it introduced Illast year. losophy from Murdoch we Mr. Jones said tha the dispossessed and University for his study tholic Council. the first piece of legislaIt was high time, he said, almost destroyed the appointment of mem Dr. can be tion. Wellock, an Anof religious education in hers of art advisor Iglican minister, is at pre Among resolution, ap- that Aborigines realised that compensated for all the W.A. the greatest forum "It in was the the committee losses proved were those on land present Gov- W ent executive director of relating to our lands would b As curriculum officer ernment, made later. and othe which rights, compensation for country was tending to go and heritage." finally lithe Churches Commishe will take part in debrought about land rights full-time education ap dispossession and the man- to waste. Far too often on Education which partmental planning
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ufacture of Aboriginal artifacts overseas. In addition to Archbishop Rush, who opened the conference and other visiting bishops, prominent among those taking part were the Aboriginal Senator Bonner and Father Patrick Dodson, Australia's first and only Aboriginal
sympathetic whites had done more of the leading and pushing. "Father than leading and pushing, how about coming alongside so that we can work together, sharing the knocks and the responsibilities?," he said.
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Senator Bonner said his tions. He was co -secretary of motion read: He will work in asNO DISUNITY inquiry and will take "That the Senate accepts sociation with Mr. E. GUIDELINES Father Patrick Dodson, pup his new position on the fact that the indigenStyles, who is the de The advisors commit ous people. now known as M.S.C., a Darwin delegate 11111111 tee would include peopl, Aborigines and Torres to the conference, denied rom the departmen, Strait Islanders, were in that there was a lack of cache, and parent or. and possession of this entire na- unity community Mnisations, teacher educa tion prior to the first fleet among his people. :non institutions and re CRUCIAL MOTION He said that while Aborlanding in 1788 at Botany litigious bodies. priest. He spoke about a motion Bay. Then introduce legis- igines had differences of 1 It would recommen. stract of Aboriginal lore. he had introduced in the lation to opinion and sometimes Uguidelines and model!! compensate the Senate without fanfare. wi- said indigenous people "FULL" LAND RIGHTS religious studies an, for found it difficult to work It is built around the real thout causing any ripples the loss of their lands." with one another, they also voyage of discovery that an Ilwould advise on teaches One resolution said that on this whole nation, with"Virtually, what that had unity and strength as Prime time on Channel Aboriginal youth makes in :preparation and in -eery the conference reaffirmed out the importance and far- means is little more than a group of people. ice education. Nine this week is to be de. the 1970's. its demand for full land reaching implications He urged Aborigines to voted to what to is actually happening at the 1 The committee wool( the Klurber. rights in Queensland and Aborigines and have a spirit within their ley missions Islanders moment," he said. N ulungu bso encourage and oasis College, the are doing to that the land rights in- and to this nation as a the evaluation of pro "Governments now set hearts which helped them help the Aboriginal leap tire Christian Brothers school in clude: whole being fully realised." aside a certain amount search within is ciammes that would fa. Broome, themselves central focus for of chassis between Isis desert Freehold title to all He added: for the persons they were. litate a the developmen leap money that must from span from their budgets ancestry and the modern existing reserves. "The motion was accept- for what is termed Aborithe Canning desert to Balgo Ma religious studies i, world of today. Freehold title to all ed without dissent, except Hills missions and on to pschools. ginal advancement. lends ever gazetted as re- in its early stages," he said. SPIRIT NEEDED On Wednesday, February Broome where black child"But, unfortunately, it is serves whether occupied or Until then, we can be I, and Thursday. February ren of today must rub shou- ;MIGOOD RESPONSE an allocation by Governnot. easily manipulated and 2, at 9.35 p.m. four parts lders with modern educaments and we have to deFull control said tha over 'LIMBO' 1thereMr.hadJones pend on their attitude and fobbed off by people." he of a two-hour colour docu- tion and yet remain true to o mining and other commerbeen an excel "It has now gone into whatever said. mentary are to be shown in the spirit of their tribes Intent sympathy they cial ventures on reserves. what I can only term response to the ins., "Until we have a strong two one-hour sessions. have on Aboriginal causes. hundreds of miles away in tation to church group!. Freehold title to all 'limbo', because the prevbelief in our own worth as the desert. and for vacant crown land. individuals corn ious and the present Fed"Tjakamarra the Boy persons, then anyone can ents on the inquiry. The re-negotiation of eral Governments have not STIGMA OF CHARITY Along with the film, a fragment and separate us. Between Tao Worlds" is The all agreements made with seen fit to raise it from the response had beer "To achieve that kind the name of a film made by beautifully illustrated 50 "In other words, it is a generally helpful and en mining companies on Abo- notice paper and discuss it form of charity with all the of spirit, we need to re-, Stellmach Films of Munich. page book reproduces the -ouraging and no churcti riginal and Island reserves. in the House of Represenstory and Germany, shots homeland of Bifrom the stigma that is attached to fleet, we need to think, we organisation had oppose, Traditional sacred tatives. charity a charity depen- need to worry about things' shop John Joint of Broome. film. lithe essence of the repor rites and burial sites to be "I am not foolish enough ding on the goodwill of in a quiet manner and not with whom they struck up the sr its recommendations. ri In easy, timeless, narrative fully controlled by Abor- to think that the white man get terribly agitated, cloud- an interest while on a film Government. All responses would to,E style, Mary Durack's fineigines and Islanders. is going to give the whole "I am asking._ Govern- ing out what we should be expedition in the Northern spun story about a 7onsidered by the depart KimberSenator Neville Bonner, of Australia back to us. ments to admit prior own- receiving from our thinking. Territory. :ment during the planniniM ley schoolboy is the answer the only Aboriginal in the "It is not possible, it is ership, to introduce legis"We are often concernThe story line for the to any parent's search for a iiperiod and by the advis Federal Parliament who not practicable and will lation to us by ed with our practical needs film, which took a year to story -time serial. compensate I nory committee that wool, was a guest speaker, said never be done. housing, setting aside u percentage education, produce, is by Mary Durtaben PICTURE PAGE 3) Im of the national budget, to health, proper representa- ack, for whom the preservaset up a statutory body tion, proper response from tion of the Aboriginal and that would be responsible the law and so forth our his culture is a labOur of to Parliament not to the very immediate needs. love. Government." She is equally staunch in He had tried to inform her support of what the his parliamentary colleag- MOTIVATION -But I would say that missions have done in the ues what the land meant "to us, the indigenous peo- one of the most basic needs Kimberleys over a century. In her estimation, the miple" which was completely we have as people is to foreign to the white man. strengthen our motivation. ssionaries have been the one "If we haven't got that bulwark against the white he added. kind of strength we'll easily predators whose activities he burnt out by the frustra- have threatened the AborTIES THAT BIND tions involved, by the lack iginal and his world with He could not explain or of support, by the too few destruction. describe the "strong ties people who have to carry Local backers of the film that bind me to the earth the load in our communiof this continent" but when ties and those who wait say that there is an entren"Where quaky comes fist" ched and false presumption he walked on "virgin land around for someone else 385 Canning Highway, Melville. to in too many quarters that untouched and unsullied by do the work. Phone 39 1711 Lic. No. 3371. the ills of the Aborigines the white man's progress The Aborigines should are the result of the efforts forces stir within me, not be sidetracked, in their forces I cannot control ." efforts towards achieving of missionaries. HONDA It was not possible for their goals by the arguthe present generation or ment that there was W'MP-7 not COLLEGE FOCUS their children or grand- unity. The film is no dream 1308 Albany Hwy, Cannington children to be in receipt of CONTINUED PAGE 2) time venture into the Phone 451 2333 5965 abo L 0591
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