By: mdoinit
19/11/2008
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"nt news" reporters are shyte, the weather is being blamed for collisions/crashes fancy that... they probably go with guns killing people too..
hahaha what a load of crud is the blame game..
people kill people and people's lack of attention, driving skill/awareness cause accidents..
people in Darwin are terrible drivers, they are inattentive and wreckless, they speed any chance they get and are impatient. usually (really everytime on the road)I am doing the posted limit and still every car behind me some distance will catch-up and attempt to over-take.
More speed traps for darwinites(losers) |
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By: pol_pak
19/11/2008
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Doctor's parting shot at town and system that lets it rot
Paul Toohey | November 18, 2008
The Australian
WHEN Queensland doctor Pat Rebgetz rang the Northern Territory Health Department 3 1/2 years ago, offering to take up a residency at Wadeye, he had no concept of the levels of violence, bullying and intimidation he would encounter. He did not expect to find women too terrified to speak to him.
Nor could he have predicted that he would be used in a political game, which has prevented him seeing some of the sickest patients. He says NT Health does not really want doctors in Aboriginal communities at all.
With his tenure to end next month, Rebgetz, 57, is speaking out, despite departmental warnings to stay away from journalists.
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By: pol_pak
16/02/2009
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/16/2492 369.htm
The main service provider in the remote Aboriginal communities of outback South Australia has gone into special administration.
A Federal Government investigation has found AP Services on the APY Lands in the state's far north has been losing money for some time.
It also found the organisation breached corporations law and the board was wracked by a factional dispute.
AP Services is a major player in the lands, providing municipal services and maintaining roads and infrastructure.
The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations says the administrator will tackle the problems, addressing the organisation's financial position.
A lawyer for AP Services has vowed to appeal against the decision.
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By: pol_pak
16/02/2009
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Federal Indigenous Affairs Ministers - Mal Brough and Jenny Macklin, planned to fairly compensate Northern Territory traditional owners for resumed land under the NT Intervention.
They asked NT's Valuer-General to provide valuations concerning levels of "just compensation" to be paid to "Traditional Ownwers" for these 5 year leasehold lands.
Jenny Macklin confirmed this request recently.
Many are interested in what NT Valuer-General determines as "just compensation".
Certainly it will provide some indication as to what may be reasonable for others, and for where longer leases are sort.
Anyone hearing what values being considered for this "just compensation" or similar ?
Many it seems still awaiting answers to correspondence...
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By: sixteen.tonnes
17/02/2009
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blame it on........
Rio? |
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By: pol_pak
7/03/2009
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School hours to short ?
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Watch commander Gary Smith said 27 police officers were called to break up a series of fights involving up to 300 youths.
"It was certainly a disappointing incident and police are calling on parents to ensure they know what their children are up to after school finishes," he told ABC radio.
"Police will be taking a zero tolerance approach to these incidents, and we will issue trespass notices and infringement notices."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5372495/300-br awl-homemade-bombs-hit-da rwin/
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By: pol_pak
7/03/2009
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Thanks for last info to: steven.keran
who posted in '300 in brawl,'
in 'Northern Territory'
http://au.messages.yahoo.com/news/localnews-nt/260 8/ |
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By: dallone.ranger
7/03/2009
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Some of what Dr pat Rebgetz said.
"I hadn't followed politics and thought all this bullshit was sorted out 20 years ago. I found myself walking into a scene from 1980. I just can't believe the acceptance of dysfunction. There are no facilities, there's ratshit housing, there's a school but no one goes.
"I've got 25-year-old blokes who have to come in with their grandmothers because they can't speak English. They've never even been to Darwin.
"If a boy like that needs to see a specialist in Darwin, he could not negotiate his way to an appointment. He'd need an escort, like a three-year-old. This is Australia in 2008.
It's bullshit."
Wadeye's school has a bilingual education program that has tended to educate children in their mother tongue before teaching English. The problem, Rebgetz says, is that when the time comes to learn English, the kids are no longer going to school. |
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By: pol_pak
7/03/2009
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Dr pat Rebgetz was wrong to say "found myself walking into a scene from 1980"
is more like 1950.
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By: dallone.ranger
7/03/2009
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is more like 1950.
Except that there was no 'self determination' back then. Take out 'self determination' and I believe things may well have been better now. Following the natural order of things. Being taught how to do everything properly the first time. Not letting people who did not know make the rules. The blind following the blind. And some said, isn't that cute, look, Aborigines teaching other Aborigines how to do things. What will they think of next. |
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By: pol_pak
8/03/2009
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Some believe 'self determination' was a policy designed to fail.
Personally not so sure. Leave it to historians to look back and discuss; However for honest discussion, not ideological attitude defending, we probably need wait another decade or two.
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By: pol_pak
8/03/2009
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Trying to recall the title.... soon as posted remembered...
Was thinking of William Golding's [Nobel Prize] novel 'Lord of the Flies'
Golding's Novel presents the conflicts around developing attitudes as to civilizations (live by rules, peacefully and in harmony) and the tensions between group thinking and individuality, how these range between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.
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By: dallone.ranger
8/03/2009
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Some believe 'self determination' was a policy designed to fail.
Some may, but I expect those who thought it up had no such thoughts at all. I have no trouble believing that they thought that in the years ahead they would be held up as saviours of the Aboriginal race.
It has just happened that hindsight showed they got it all wrong. |
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By: pol_pak
11/03/2009
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/11/2512 898.htm
Public housing policy failing indigenous people
A policy analyst says Federal Government housing schemes are failing Aboriginal people in remote Northern Territory communities.
In a report released for the Centre for Independent Studies, Sara Hudson says public housing schemes can't keep up with the demand.
She says Indigenous people are still being denied the chance to own a home because they don't have private property rights.
"They're land rich but dirt poor, because without being able to realise the value of their land, the community's wealth can't grow," she said.
Ms Hudson believes this could be solved by changing government controlled lease schemes to community run 99 year lease agreements for indigenous people.
"Those communities that want to have individual pots of land available for people to build their own houses, should be able to negotiate with the government, with the land councils, with the local councils to have that happen.
"That way they can actually realise the value of their land."
The Federal Government is offering new public housing to remote communities which agree to 40 year land leases.
But Ms Hudson says public housing isn't enough for community residents.
"I've got an example of a guy saying, in the Tiwis you can die before you can get a house, cause the waiting list in the Tiwi islands is like fifty years for a public house, and the average life span of a Tiwi islander is 48 years," she said.
Ms Hudson also says public housing has been poorly maintained, with buildings lucky to last 10 years.
She says there's a chronic shortage in most communites with as many as 35 people under one roof in some houses.
"People are saying that they can't lock the doors," she said.
"They know of their daughters having showers with their clothes on, because there's no lock or door handle.
"Anyone can walk in to the shower.
"So that's just how bad the house ... |
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By: pol_pak
11/03/2009
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Sara Hudson's paper "From Rhetoric to Reality" was released by the Centre for Independent Studies
From her article in "The Australian"
"Aborigines shut out on home front"
AMONG the multitude of policy failures in Aboriginal communities, public housing is poorly designed and constructed, with few of the amenities that most Australians take for granted.
The Rudd Government has talked about promoting Aboriginal homeownership and closing the gap but until land tenure issues are addressed, indigenous people will have little choice but to subsist in public housing.
During the past 30 years, billions of dollars have gone into building public houses, but not into maintaining them. Few houses last more than 10 years before they need to be replaced.
This has created a vicious circle of unmet need. Construction rates can't keep up with demand. As a result there is a chronic shortage of housing in most indigenous communities with as many as 35 people under one roof. Not surprisingly such living conditions increase the risk of infections and a host of social ills including child neglect and abuse.
The failure to improve living conditions through public housing suggests that alternatives need to be considered.
Private homeownership provides many benefits and responsibilities. Research shows that having a home may provide the incentive to get a job, stay in employment or look for a better paying position. But lack of private property rights on communal title land has prevented Aborigines from becoming homeowners. Without individual title over land, banks will not finance home loans.
Whether Aborigines living on communal title land can afford to become homeowners or will live long enough to pay off the mortgage is beside the point. Under the present land tenure system even Aborigines with good jobs cannot buy a house or build on their own land.
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By: pol_pak
11/03/2009
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Whether Aborigines living on communal title land can afford to become homeowners or will live long enough to pay off the mortgage is beside the point. Under the present land tenure system even Aborigines with good jobs cannot buy a house or build on their own land.
The Howard government's package of reforms to encourage homeownership included the Home Ownership on Indigenous Land scheme. Under the scheme potential purchasers only need to have a small deposit to access a range of concessions, including zero interest rates for some borrowers. These concessions enable even low-income Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to buy a home.
But before the HOIL scheme can be fully implemented individual land tenure arrangements need to be in place. Three years after it was established, only one HOIL loan has been granted.
To allow individual "ownership" of land the Howard government introduced 99-year leases over communal title land in the Northern Territory. But head leases were to be held by the government, not communities. Fearing this was a ruse to steal their land, few communities signed up to one.
The Rudd Government appears to have abandoned the notion of 99-year leases, putting them in the "too hard to negotiate" basket. Instead they have focused on securing "block" or "housing" leases to establish secure title for the new public housing. Communities are being told that if they want new houses they have to agree to lease the land to the government. It is not at all clear how these leases will lead to private homeownership.
Rather than the government controlling the process, communities should hold their own 99-year leases. "Community leases" could operate like company title, with eligibility rules and conditions for membership. This way, communities could feel secure that their land is still under their control and enjoy the benefits of private homeownership.
But at the moment...
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By: pol_pak
11/03/2009
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part 3 of 3:
But at the moment, the Rudd Government is reverting to failed policies of the past with rent-to-buy schemes. Public housing may be made available for tenants to purchase as part of a rent-to-buy scheme, as is the case in Wadeye. But this is something of a Clayton's choice. Although enabling a lucky few to become homeowners, this does not give people much choice about the types of houses they can buy. Simply converting rents into mortgage repayments is unlikely to motivate occupants to become more committed to the maintenance of their homes over the longer term.
Public housing is also incredibly costly. Building two new homes in the Northern Territory costs the government nearly $900,000, far more than their market value. Houses will have to be heavily subsidised if indigenous families are expected to buy them.
In Queensland, new legislation to introduce 99-year leases involves charging traditional owners to lease their own land! This is a major disincentive for homeownership. Indigenous families are unlikely to build their own houses, as mortgage payments will be higher than rent for public housing.
Instead of putting millions of dollars into more public housing and selling these houses at below cost, the government should step back and give communities the opportunity to decide how they lease their land and what houses they want to build.
Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has the drive and vision to make positive changes for his community and lead by example. His Gumatj clan of north-eastern Arnhem are working in partnership with a Tasmanian Forestry company to learn logging and sawmilling. Eventually, the wood will be used to build houses for the community in what Yunupingu hopes will create a future for Gumatj men and women.
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By: pol_pak
11/03/2009
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Sara Hudson's paper From Rhetoric to Reality was released by the Centre for Independent Studies
Three part article : Aborigines shut out on home front
from The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 ,25168155-7583,00.html
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By: pol_pak
11/03/2009
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the Centre for Independent Studies http://www.cis.org.au/
From Rhetoric to Reality: Can 99-year Leases Lead to Homeownership for Indigenous Communities?
Sara Hudson
http://www.cis.org.au/policy_monographs/pm92.pdf
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By: pathogan70
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| I dont know who's to blame for sure, but I've narrowed it down to being either- the sunshine, the moonlight, the good times, or the boogy. I think people tend to blame the boogy straight away these days. |
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By: pol_pak
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Concerning many of the communities needing housing in the NT the terminology "building public houses" is not at all accurate, after all they are not at all public.
The land is not public, it is privately owned land, the land is owned - titles held, by large corporations.
Those land title holding corporations apparently act for other corporations with assorted interests.
However clearly tenants are denied leases for these houses, with the only clear explanation being that giving tenants leases provides both tenants and landlords with enforceable rights and responsibilities.
Can NOT have enforceable rights and responsibilities... might require recognition of status as human. |
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By: dallone.ranger
12/03/2009
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| Public housing just assures that the occupants, who have no real stake it the house as they can be turfed out for different reasons (even though this may seldom happen), will no more take care of it than they take care of themselves. |
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