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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Brisbane Aboriginal community meeting Oct 6


COMMUNITY NOTICE
URGENT COMMUNITY MEETING
AT JAGARA HALL
MUSGRAVE PARK
AT 12 NOON
ON FRIDAY / 06TH / OCTOBER

AGENDA
(*) The Palm Island Police Murder
(*) Hurley must be suspended and charged immediately
(*) Any other police officer who played any role in the murder of
Mulrunjie must also be suspended and charged
(*) The police minister must be sacked
(*) The police commissioner must be sacked
(*) The state government must implement all the 40 recommendations that
were handed down by the state coroner

THERE IS TO BE A RALLY AND MARCH ON STATE PARLIAMENT ON TUESDAY 10TH.
OF OCTOBER

(*) This will be the first sitting day of the new parliament
(*) We need to confront Beattie and his new government, and demand that they reinstate the minister for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Affairs
(*) The state government must reinstate the Department of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Policy
(*) We need to confront Beattie and demand that he pays all Stolen Wages claims
(*) We demand an immediate whole-of-government task force to address Aboriginal unemployment, housing, health, education and living standards.
(*) We want an urgent national conference in Brisbane to workshop the 40 recommendations that were handed down by the state coroner in the Mulrunjie case
(*) That conference must also work-shop the 339 RCIADIC recommendations that were handed down in 1991
(*) That workshop must work-shop every Aboriginal death in custody that has occurred since 1991
(*) Why have the state police departments failed aboriginal communities?
(*) Police must have cross cultural training
(*) Any Police officer displaying racist attitudes or behavior, must be sacked
(*) Every Aboriginal community must have a diversionary program or a cell
visitor program operating within their communities.

ALL WELCOME TO THE MEETING

(*) BRING A PLATE FOR SMOKO !!

SAM WATSON

There is currently a blog discussion about these issues on "Larvatus Prodeo"

posted by John Tracey @ 9:33 PM  

5 Comments:

  • At 5:14 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hope it goes well - I'm surprised bartlett hasn't mentionee dhtis one - must be part of that centrist timidity.

     

  • At 6:59 AM, Blogger John Tracey said…

    thanx ken.
    for all Bartlett's timidity he is the only politician anywhere in Queensland who is even bothered to include Aboriginal issues amongst their campaigns except in a very negative way such as Beattie etc.

    As I recently declared him on his own blog, he is the leader of the opposition in Qld.

    And Robert Shwarten's slinging mud at him has annointed him as such. Never that much venom even for the Greens.

    however,

    I know he is cautious to keep a distance between his own campaigning and grass roots Aboriginal stuff such as this meeting so as not to exploit it.

     

  • At 4:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    For my sins i used to be an advisor on managemetn issues to Greiner back in the late 80's here. (welfare doesn't pay enough).

    If I was advising Bartlett I'd tell him to go all out on this issue. He's got not much choice - either sink slowly into the democrat mire or go down fightin. Stuff the Democrat head offce if he wants 7 more yeasr its goota be as a QLD senator first.

    You should encourgae him to focus on issues like a fair go, be anti government, be anti tyhe minister and bureacrats ansd govenrment and how aboriginees arent getting a fair go.

    I would steer clear of the watrermelon approach to aborigninal affairs and steer clear of problems of health, welfaer, sniffers and the like becasue the red nceks you lot are up there don't want to hear about that, its switch off material, they want to be pissed off about something - like Xureb ibn SA

    In my view all the big ticvket wide community support for aborginal issue has been on those sort of notions, eg the ferendum support, the reconciliation marches etc.

    While I acknowledge their importacen they dont want to hear about land rigths and picutres of grotty tent embassies and the like do the casue untold harm.

    Anyway thats my view, for what its worth. Probablt won't matter - I suspect he's doomed wahtever happens.

     

  • At 4:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Dont know what happended thought I lost the first one so retyped

     

  • At 11:52 PM, Blogger John Tracey said…

    Yes, the 67 referendum which got over 90% yes was framed as simply giving Aborigines a fair go.

    This approach can gloss over the hard issues, but then again public debate is not necessarily the place to work out the hard issues any way, if it becomes a bun fight about ideology. Clever back ground activity taking advantage of the momentum of shallow, general campaigns is how I see it.

    On Bartletts blog I play a devils advocate , but such provocation is certainly very limied.

     

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