Michael Noonan controversies continued…..

As many may be aware there have been new complaints about Michael Noonan’s film work.
I have been reluctant to publish them until now but since Noonan has now publically responded to the allegations  I am re-opening the discussion.
Background to the controversy here
Aboriginal Elder Ted Watson, acting on Behalf of May Dunne, the Aboriginal woman in Noonan’s Boulia [...]

The Carers Alliance – A new party contesting the senate election.

“Our purpose is represent, raise and monitor issues affecting unpaid family Carers through the representative participation of Carers as candidates in Federal and State parliaments. The Carers Alliance will represent the rights of unpaid Carers of people with disabilities, mental illness, chronic illness or issues of frail age who need assistance at differing times in [...]

Laughing at Aborigines now – An Aboriginal woman’s perspective

UPDATE – This post has suddenly become very popular.  New visitors to Paradigm Oz should be aware that this was posted before the new allegations against Noonan were put on youtube (post on that issue here ).  It was not written as a response to the youtube allegations. The complaint refered to was a complaint to [...]

Terra Nullius and Ecology

I have been promising for a while to write something about colonial perspectives and the environment movement. However I got caught up in critiques of socialism and the APEC demonstrations and didn’t get around to it. Then I realised that I have never put the following article on Paradigm Oz. It is an old one [...]

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Media release from the National Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Organisation – NACCHO
A TIME TO CELEBRATE?
Last night the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous peoples around the world are celebrating but not in Australia said Mr Councillor, Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation which represents [...]

Central Land Council (N.T.) -Fact sheets on the Australian Government Intervention in the Northern Territory

From the Central Land Council
The short and easy guide to the Commonwealth intervention
*alcohol,* five year leases, *bail, *buildings, *business management, *town camps, *welfare, *community stores, *permits, *publicly funded computers, *pornography

How do you stop child abuse in Aboriginal communities?

1/ Better, more appropriate and just more housing so that children have their own room with a door. At least a girls room and a boys room.
It should be noted that many perpetraters of child abuse are children themselves, often family. My guess this is more the case than adult predation.
The drunken people should be [...]

The war at home

Huey P. Newton – interview from jail.                                                                 Thanks to Whenua, Fenua, Enua, Vanua  for drawing my attention to this video.

The Late Dr. Huey P. Newton was one of the leaders of the Black Panther movement in the 1960s and 70s.
There are many differences between the situation African American people and Australian [...]

APEC protests – A symbol of Terra Nullius, foreign occupation and colonisation.

The blogosphere is now full of self congratulatory reports of the great success of the  Sydney anti-APEC protests.
I am not impressed though.
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was camped at Victoria Park for the duration of APEC but there appears to have been no connection to it or to Aboriginal Australia in any of the protest propaganda [...]

Peter Beattie resigns as Queensland Premier.

 
“If, when I leave politics, indigenous affairs in Queensland have not been sorted out, I will consider I have failed.” – Peter Beattie 2000.

Post Modernism, Structuralism and the universal truth of Dialecticism

A perspective on social change
As far as I can work out, post-modernism acknowledges the different “truths” of differing perspectives and maintains a certain detachment to be able to observe these different “truths” as equally valid in their context. There is much examination of the “discourse” within and between these independent truths.
Conversely, Structuralism appeals to universal [...]

C.D.E.P. The protection of Aboriginal children and the welfare tit.

                  Photo from Jangari’s mate Joe on matjjin – nehen 
CDEP in the Northern Territory Emergency Response
Fact Sheet—CDEP Participants
“Beginning in September 2007, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) programme in the Northern Territory will progressively be replaced with other services.
This is to support the emergency response to protect your children, make your communities safer and [...]

Peter Garrett – Whatever happened to the revolution?

“Whatever happened to the revolution?    We all got stoned and it drifted away”    So sang Skyhooks in the 1970’s about the demise of the anti Vietnam war movement.
The 70’s revolution may seem to have disappeared in a puff of strange smelling smoke but it really went “underground” into the public service and mainstream capitalism and got [...]

Sydney terror threat thwarted in lead up to APEC.

                                                                                                                           Terror suspect prevented from boarding plane at Sydney airport on Saturday.
A 91 year old pensioner with suspicious political affiliations was caught up in Australia’s front line of “The War On Terror” on the weekend. 
 The pensioner,  Mr. Gough Whitlam, was on his way to meet with Aboriginal terrorists in the Northern Territory, possibly at an Al [...]

The 2007 Queensland Senate election and Indigenous issues.

As is the practice of all us media moguls, Paradigm Oz will reveal its editorial bias in the lead-up to the Federal Election.
 Unfortunately I do not have the breadth of readership of my colleagues in the major media corporations so I cannot expect to influence the election by promoting a particular party over another. However I [...]