Saturday, April 18, 2015 11:23:00 PM
A guide to Australia’s Stolen Generations
Read why Aboriginal children were stolen from their families, where they were taken and what happened to them.
The horrific abuse they suffered in institutions and foster families left thousands traumatised for life.
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/a-guide-to-australias-stolen-generations
This feels a fair place to reproduce the "Shark-eating shark snapped in Australia"
.. of yours ..
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What was Australia's Stolen Generation?
by Alia Hoyt Page 1 2 3
Aborigine Image Gallery
Aborigine Image Gallery Aboriginal women show this young child how to make a turtle design out of string. Members
of the Stolen Generation weren't privy to aspects of Aboriginal customs and culture. See more pictures of Aborigines.
Belinda Wright/National Geographic/Getty Images
History is rife with examples of flagrant human rights violations, and even picturesque Australia is not immune to the occurrence of these injustices: Between 1910 and 1970, roughly 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes [source: European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights]. Known to many as the Stolen Generation, these children, most under the age of five, were taken from their birth families because the Australian government decided that their race lacked a solid future. .. more with links .. http://people.howstuffworks.com/stolen-generation.htm
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Aboriginal women on why Australia needs a treaty
Thursday, April 9, 2015
By Rachel Evans & Richard Fan
Aboriginal women dicuss a treaty for Australia’s first people. Photo: Mara Bonacci
More than 150 people filled the Redfern Community Centre on March 20 to discuss a treaty for Australia’s first people.
Organised by Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS), the event was hosted by veteran journalist Jeff McMullen and televised by National Indigenous TV. As coverage of female Aboriginal voices are rare among mainstream discourses, their retelling of their pasts and hopes for the future captivated the room.
Natalie Cromb, a Gamileraay woman, said that a treaty “would help the Australian government keep its word to the Aboriginal people”. She noted the ongoing debates between treaty and constitutional recognition and argued that the British colonisers fashioned three legal ways to justify their occupation: “First it was settlement, second through conquest, then third through succession — where sovereignty was ceded and agreement was reached between the parties.”
Cromb observed that Britain occupied the land, declared terra nullius and declared that Australia’s Indigenous people were an absent, fading race. “Terra nullius was deliberate and the average Australian does not know about this history of rapes, murders, and genocidal policies, and that it was also used to deny compensation,” she said.
Cromb said that a treaty “is vital to our solution. It would be a first meaningful step. A treaty is the insurance policy we need to hold the government to account. But we are still at the bottom of the social pyramid. We are having water switched off in communities. We know constitutional change won't stop the removal of our people.”
.. more .. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58715
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Our invitation to Facebook: Come and learn cultural sense at NITV
By Andrea Booth
Aboriginal Australian women in traditional dress, painted with ochre across their bare chests in traditional ceremony has been branded offensive by social media site Facebook.
8MMM
In an action described as "utterly ridiculous .. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-13/indigenous-video-pulled-facebook-nudity-rules/6388090 ", Facebook this week pulled the television show trailer for the ABC’s 8MMM program citing potential "offensive nudity".
The video, which featured Aboriginal women painted with ochre across their bare chests in traditional ceremony, may have breached the social media platform's nudity guidelines.
NITV has sought comment from Facebook and on Wednesday evening was informed that it is looking into the matter.
That is welcome news indeed. Perhaps Facebook is learning some cultural and common sense. But rather than just looking into it, NITV News' Executive Producer Malarndirri McCarthy encourages the social media platform to go even further.
"I invite Facebook to come and learn about the First Nations of Australia" - Malarndirri McCarthy
"I invite Facebook to come and learn about the First Nations of Australia," she said. "Talk to the well-respected producers of the 8MMM program, and come to NITV to see for yourself the strength, beauty and diversity in Indigenous culture."
Facebook says its nudity policy, which prohibits users from publishing nipples of breasts, genitals and buttocks, enables its teams around the world to apply uniform assessments to limit the risk of offending particular groups. As such, its policy may be considered, "More blunt than we would like", as it states in its Community Standards .. https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/ .. explainer.
I suppose that is practical, given Facebook's needs for a single policy to cover the huge arrange of standards of all the cultures and subcultures in our rich and varied world.
But if its policy must be so bluntly applied in order to minimise the risk of causing offense, why don’t the Facebook censorship police pick up images of Kim Kardashian's breasts sopping with oil or her bare-butted body holding the phallic shape of a champagne bottle erupting liquid?
Maybe Facebook should consider an international document that enshrines a global standard that forbids the restriction of Indigenous peoples from practicing their cultures. Article 11 of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples .. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf , says "Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalise their cultural traditions and customs."
"This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature."
Kudos to Facebook for revisiting its nudity policy .. http://qz.com/363280/facebook-redefines-nudity-to-exclude-breastfeeding-shots-but-rear-ends-are-still-off-limits/ .. in order to allow photos of women breastfeeding or showing their breasts with post-mastectomy scarring. It also allows artistic depictions of nudity. But why did it stop short of culture?
In practising the traditional ceremony that is depicted in ABC TV's 8MMM program, these Aboriginal women are helping to continue their culture for the next generation amid a context of oppression upon their own land.
But maybe Facebook's double standard is a symptom of something more broad.
Maybe it's not just Facebook and it's not just the digital space, but fundamentally, we live in a society that endorses the flaunting of superficiality, narcissism and sexualisation, yet fails to embrace the lesser-heard, oldest cultures – abundant with wisdom and the sacred.
http://www.nitv.org.au/fx-story.cfm?sid=8CB685AE-9768-07F6-200BFD3BF576166E
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Jessica Mauboy - Gotcha, live on Australian TV's Sunrise Show
See also:
Aboriginal Australian music: Kick up Your Heels - Jessica Mauboy ft. Pitbull
2 more music videos .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94322345
Ballarat Orphanage: Digging resumes for children's bodies
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=112774773
What does it mean to be a 'nationally designated' protected area?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=110237830
Old Aboriginal stockman --- Gus Williams
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106298228
Archie Roach - Song to Sing
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106298023
Australian Aboriginal Music: Song with Didgeridoo
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103925683
The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=84528006
Read why Aboriginal children were stolen from their families, where they were taken and what happened to them.
The horrific abuse they suffered in institutions and foster families left thousands traumatised for life.
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/a-guide-to-australias-stolen-generations
This feels a fair place to reproduce the "Shark-eating shark snapped in Australia"
.. of yours .. ===
What was Australia's Stolen Generation?
by Alia Hoyt Page 1 2 3
Aborigine Image Gallery
Aborigine Image Gallery Aboriginal women show this young child how to make a turtle design out of string. Members
of the Stolen Generation weren't privy to aspects of Aboriginal customs and culture. See more pictures of Aborigines.
Belinda Wright/National Geographic/Getty Images
History is rife with examples of flagrant human rights violations, and even picturesque Australia is not immune to the occurrence of these injustices: Between 1910 and 1970, roughly 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes [source: European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights]. Known to many as the Stolen Generation, these children, most under the age of five, were taken from their birth families because the Australian government decided that their race lacked a solid future. .. more with links .. http://people.howstuffworks.com/stolen-generation.htm
===
Aboriginal women on why Australia needs a treaty
Thursday, April 9, 2015
By Rachel Evans & Richard Fan
Aboriginal women dicuss a treaty for Australia’s first people. Photo: Mara Bonacci
More than 150 people filled the Redfern Community Centre on March 20 to discuss a treaty for Australia’s first people.
Organised by Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS), the event was hosted by veteran journalist Jeff McMullen and televised by National Indigenous TV. As coverage of female Aboriginal voices are rare among mainstream discourses, their retelling of their pasts and hopes for the future captivated the room.
Natalie Cromb, a Gamileraay woman, said that a treaty “would help the Australian government keep its word to the Aboriginal people”. She noted the ongoing debates between treaty and constitutional recognition and argued that the British colonisers fashioned three legal ways to justify their occupation: “First it was settlement, second through conquest, then third through succession — where sovereignty was ceded and agreement was reached between the parties.”
Cromb observed that Britain occupied the land, declared terra nullius and declared that Australia’s Indigenous people were an absent, fading race. “Terra nullius was deliberate and the average Australian does not know about this history of rapes, murders, and genocidal policies, and that it was also used to deny compensation,” she said.
Cromb said that a treaty “is vital to our solution. It would be a first meaningful step. A treaty is the insurance policy we need to hold the government to account. But we are still at the bottom of the social pyramid. We are having water switched off in communities. We know constitutional change won't stop the removal of our people.”
.. more .. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58715
===
Our invitation to Facebook: Come and learn cultural sense at NITV
By Andrea Booth
Aboriginal Australian women in traditional dress, painted with ochre across their bare chests in traditional ceremony has been branded offensive by social media site Facebook.
8MMM
In an action described as "utterly ridiculous .. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-13/indigenous-video-pulled-facebook-nudity-rules/6388090 ", Facebook this week pulled the television show trailer for the ABC’s 8MMM program citing potential "offensive nudity".
The video, which featured Aboriginal women painted with ochre across their bare chests in traditional ceremony, may have breached the social media platform's nudity guidelines.
NITV has sought comment from Facebook and on Wednesday evening was informed that it is looking into the matter.
That is welcome news indeed. Perhaps Facebook is learning some cultural and common sense. But rather than just looking into it, NITV News' Executive Producer Malarndirri McCarthy encourages the social media platform to go even further.
"I invite Facebook to come and learn about the First Nations of Australia" - Malarndirri McCarthy
"I invite Facebook to come and learn about the First Nations of Australia," she said. "Talk to the well-respected producers of the 8MMM program, and come to NITV to see for yourself the strength, beauty and diversity in Indigenous culture."
Facebook says its nudity policy, which prohibits users from publishing nipples of breasts, genitals and buttocks, enables its teams around the world to apply uniform assessments to limit the risk of offending particular groups. As such, its policy may be considered, "More blunt than we would like", as it states in its Community Standards .. https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/ .. explainer.
I suppose that is practical, given Facebook's needs for a single policy to cover the huge arrange of standards of all the cultures and subcultures in our rich and varied world.
But if its policy must be so bluntly applied in order to minimise the risk of causing offense, why don’t the Facebook censorship police pick up images of Kim Kardashian's breasts sopping with oil or her bare-butted body holding the phallic shape of a champagne bottle erupting liquid?
Maybe Facebook should consider an international document that enshrines a global standard that forbids the restriction of Indigenous peoples from practicing their cultures. Article 11 of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples .. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf , says "Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalise their cultural traditions and customs."
"This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature."
Kudos to Facebook for revisiting its nudity policy .. http://qz.com/363280/facebook-redefines-nudity-to-exclude-breastfeeding-shots-but-rear-ends-are-still-off-limits/ .. in order to allow photos of women breastfeeding or showing their breasts with post-mastectomy scarring. It also allows artistic depictions of nudity. But why did it stop short of culture?
In practising the traditional ceremony that is depicted in ABC TV's 8MMM program, these Aboriginal women are helping to continue their culture for the next generation amid a context of oppression upon their own land.
But maybe Facebook's double standard is a symptom of something more broad.
Maybe it's not just Facebook and it's not just the digital space, but fundamentally, we live in a society that endorses the flaunting of superficiality, narcissism and sexualisation, yet fails to embrace the lesser-heard, oldest cultures – abundant with wisdom and the sacred.
http://www.nitv.org.au/fx-story.cfm?sid=8CB685AE-9768-07F6-200BFD3BF576166E
===
Jessica Mauboy - Gotcha, live on Australian TV's Sunrise Show
See also:
Aboriginal Australian music: Kick up Your Heels - Jessica Mauboy ft. Pitbull
2 more music videos .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94322345
Ballarat Orphanage: Digging resumes for children's bodies
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=112774773
What does it mean to be a 'nationally designated' protected area?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=110237830
Old Aboriginal stockman --- Gus Williams
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106298228
Archie Roach - Song to Sing
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106298023
Australian Aboriginal Music: Song with Didgeridoo
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103925683
The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=84528006
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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