Issue 44
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Reconciliation: Healing the past, shaping the future
Cathy Freeman’s grandmother had been taken away from her mother. When the Bringing them Home report was presented the then minister for Aboriginal Affairs, John Herron, actually denied the existence of the stolen generations. No wonder that Cathy was angry.
 
 First contemporary Aboriginal school textbooks launched
Broadcaster and actor Rhoda Roberts said a series of texts launched this week had empowered the Aborigines who had written and illustrated them. "We are oral storytellers. It's been a big process for our people to put our stories down." - Sydney Morning Herald
Call for compassion from the Deane of G-Gs
Mutual respect and acceptance are particularly important to Australia at a time "when public opinion polls sometimes seem to be more important than principle", former Governor-General Sir William Deane said last week. - Sydney Morning Herald
Reconciliation on local level in SE NSW
A meeting was held in Bega last week to discuss the renewal of the historic Memorandum of Understanding signed between council, all three Local Aboriginal Land Councils (Bega, Eden and
Merrimans) and Native Title holders in June 2001. - Bega District News
 
South Australian youth on a bus to reconciliation
Armed with resources including a map of Aboriginal Australia identifying the hundreds of nations which existed before European settlement, and accompanied by an Aboriginal elder, 20 young people left the Barossa Valley earlier this month on a reconciliation pilgrimage to
Uluru. - Barossa & Light Herald
 
Academic heat ignores evidence and restores conflict
In accusing a generation of historians of exaggerating the number of Aborigines killed by Europeans, Keith Windschuttle has ignored more vital - and subtle analyses of cross-cultural relations, and returned us to an old language of conflict. - Tom
Griffiths, ANU, in Eureka Street
 
 VIBE
Here you can meet Aboriginal superhero Deadly Wes, and browse features on Indigenous sport, music and entertainment. Of particular interest is Celebrity Vibe, which includes dozens of profiles of Aboriginal success stories in fields as diverse as bodybuilding, netball, dance and filmmaking.
 
The past cannot be undone, but ...
honest recognition of past injustices can lead to measures and attitudes which will help to rectify the damaging effects for both the Indigenous community and the wider society.
- Pope John Paul II 'Ecclesia in Oceania' 2001, from liturgy in collaboration with NATSICC (Caritas website)
 
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith ABC TV, 9:30 pm, Thursday 29 May
Fred Schepsi's classic feature film based on an actual case in NSW. A portrayal of the hatred and brutality that characterised race relations in early colonial Australia.
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Caritas Latest
Staff from Caritas Australia arrived in the Solomon Islands Friday, August
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Mr Jack de Groot, National Director of Caritas Australia, said Caritas Australia supports the regional intervention in the Solomon Islands, while expressing caution that a blanket amnesty is not introduced which allows offenders to go unpunished.
Caritas Australia has released a position paper calling on the Australian government to rethink the proposal to ignore serious crimes committed in the Solomon Islands before its intervention commences.
"Justice is a precondition for permanent reconciliation and peace. Amnesties do not provide justice," Caritas Australia spokesman, Jamie Isbister, Acting National Director said today.
The paper also highlights the growing crisis caused by the increasing number of small arms concentrating in Melanesia, particularly in the Solomon Islands. See the Policy
The objectives of Australia's intervention in the Solomon Islands need to be clarified. For Australia's aims to be justifiable, there should be commitment to the Solomon Islanders which includes the elimination of guns and the flow of weapons, says the latest Caritas Policy brief.
See the Policy
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