Walter Shaw, Geoffrey Shaw and William Tilmouth at Tangentyere Council. Picture: Sam Mooy

AhHa! Now we know!
The current Australian Aboriginal crisis is all about a LAND GRAB!  Soon, the developers will be able to get their hands on indigenous lands!!
Related: a few weeks back we heard that the Australian Federal government is behind the Uranium mining industry plan to take out a 200 year lease on Aboriginal lands in the Northern Territory to build a DEPLETED URANIUM storage facility! The indigenous people are promised they will get their lands back in
200 year, in exchange for 12 million dollars in funds and "services"!  Why do they need industry to provide funding for "services"  when multi-millions worth of services have been paid for the citizens of
Australia? Where are those tax-payer funds going, if not to the people they are meant to support? But the BIG questions is, Who will manage the DU storage for the next 4.5 million years?


I think it was two years ago, the John Howard government managed to strip away the Northern Territory government's rights to veto Federal government access to the Territory. Haliburton built the rail service across the continent, with a view to gaining access to the interior -– for mining and storage of DU in pristine native lands. Of course, 63% of Australia's GDP comes from mining! The Queen owns something like 62% of Rio Tinto, and we're worried because foreign investors are taking their profits out of the country.
It just goes on and on!

Read Ricardo's Law by Fred Harrison! You won't be sorry! This book explains how this works, and shows the alternative. Read up on Georgest economic theory.


Communal land up for grabs

• Patricia Karvelas and Sean Parnell
• June 30, 2007

ABORIGINES
in the Northern Territory will be given the opportunity to buy their
own homes when the federal Government's emergency intervention ends in
five years.

• Special report: Indigenous

  welfare

Indigenous
Affairs Minister Mal Brough told The Weekend Australian that indigenous
people in Territory communities would be told they need not return to
communal title -- the existing system under which all land is jointly
owned by the local community.

They would instead be given the chance to buy their homes on 99-year leases.

John Howard yesterday fiercely denied the current emergency was
being used as a "land grab", or a smokescreen, to end indigenous land
rights, accusing opponents of the Government's plan of desperately
trying to find fault.

"We're offering a guarantee that we're not taking anything from anybody. We're trying to give things back," he said.

Mr Brough, who has long promoted the concept of private home
ownership among Aborigines, said he would "guarantee 100 per cent that
each community will decide what happens itself".

"If they want it to go back to them under the trust (communal
ownership), that's what will happen, but people like the Nguiu (on the
Tiwi Islands) have decided they want to go down a different path. Those
options will be theirs to choose," he said.

The Government's emergency response plan to end child sexual abuse
in Aboriginal communities, outlined last week by Mr Brough and the
Prime Minister, involved the commonwealth buying five-year leases over
"prescribed indigenous communities with just-terms compensation".

The requirement for non-residents to obtain permits to enter public areas of indigenous communities was also lifted.

Mr Brough's plan has split Aboriginal leaders.

National Indigenous Council member Wesley Aird backed private
ownership, while former ATSIC chairwoman Lowitja O'Donoghue said the
move would force indigenous people to sign up to 99-year leases
thinking it is the only way to obtain tenure over their properties.

In the first sign of a fracturing of bipartisan support for the
plan, Labor yesterday questioned linking land issues to the important
matter of combating child abuse.