PROMISED LAND FORGETS THE VISION SPLENDID: The Oz media & Curnow

A story today(19 May 2009) by Stuart Rintoul ‘The Promised land’ has The Australian newspaper playing catch up on its past journalistic failures exposed in Now Public relating to Kevin Curnow, Balangarri, the EG Green station purchase and the ILC.

(http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25502817-28737,00.html)

On 17 May 2009 Cletus published on Now Public ‘Kevin Curnow and the Vision Splendid’ the summary of the tragic story of the loss of the purchase of the EG Green cattle stations in the East Kimberley in 1999. Valued at over $26 million and with ILC funding already secured for $18 million, this purchase was set to become the biggest ever acquisition of aboriginal land in Australia’s history. It crashed as a consequence of the actions of the then Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations supporting his corrupt investigator after a fraudulently negligent report had to be covered up.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/kevin-curnow-and-vision-splendid

While the ILC is willing to engage in talks over the issue of Roebuck Plains, the ILC should also reconsider its actions in respect of the EG Green cattle stations. The Promised Land is one cattle station for a few people; the Vision Splendid was five cattle stations for an entire people.

The Australian’s journalistic catch-up on this story has also been playing out on the web and not noticeably in The Australian. Way back in 2001, the now Australian reporter Sally Neighbour ‘missed’ the story of the destruction of the EG Green purchases in her rush to personally attack Kevin Curnow. Eight years later, it came back to bite her when she was duped by a Pakistani fraudster to re-run the same baseless allegations in The Australian which were used to support major fraud in Pakistan against a US think tank.

Neighbour’s failure to pick up on the story of the destruction of the EG Green purchase is the subject of substantial adverse comment and is being dealt with in a book currently under production.

The destruction of the purchase of the EG Green cattle stations is an Australian tragedy of biblical proportions, while divesting of a single cattle station is a matter of regional interest. Questioning the news values of The Australian is not the point; that is plain to see. The point is that failure of the ILC to complete the EG Green acquisition must be remedied or the tragedy will continue to play out as each generation of aboriginal people in the East Kimberley face the same bleak and barren future. The Vision Splendid is far more than the Promised Land.

http://gmartingates.newsvine.mobi/_news/2009/05/06/2781121-sally-neighbour-four-corners-well-past-the-use-by-date

http://www.hancock.forests.org.au/docs/06oct.htm

http://gmartingates.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/05/2779015-australian-hack-sally-neighbours-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-us-and-allied-interests-in-af-pak-region-

http://gmartingates.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/05/2780507-australian-four-corners-just-cant-deal-with-criticism

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/australian-reporter-embroiled-pakistan-fraud

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/four-corners-19-03-2001-catch-me-if-you-can-lies-exposed

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/kevin-curnow-sally-neighbour-and-george-clooney

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/04/dc-nonprofit-accuses-pakistani-company-of-trade-libel.html

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/australian-reporter-face-us-court-over-trade-libel

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1723156/us_think_tank_attacked

_by_pakistan.html