Aborigines and Conservationism. Land Rights and Green Activism Not Necessarily Aligned

The following article is written by Tyson Yunkaporta.  (his profile here)
 In it he covers issues that I have raised in previous articles such as “Terra Nullius and Ecology”  and “The Environment movement and Aboriginal Australia”.
 
I have included this article partly because it backs up controversial things that I have said in my own articles, but [...]

The Greens and indigenous issues in the 2007 election

The following is a couple of comments I posted (amongst others) on Greensblog in response to what has been the Greens only indigenous policy platform for this election, their indigenous health policy. See - “Australia’s Duty of Care”.  
The policy was released on the same day as the A.L.P.’s official campaign launch and failed to get [...]

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 [...]

Censorship by the Wilderness Society, what next?

The above headline was Tony Jones, the anchorperson of ABC’s Lateline program’s comment about the Wilderness Society refusing to allow the media into their concert in Sydney on the weekend.
 The concert was picketed by a group of Cape York Traditional owners headed by Young Australian of the Year, Tania Major.
According to Lateline “The Aborigines say [...]

A dog is a man’s (and a woman’s) best friend

 I am expanding further into the bloggoshere and am now writing for “The Dead Roo”  http://www.deadroo.com/
This is something I wrote for the Roo……..
The ABC presently has a news story “Dingoes touted as wildlife’s saviour”  http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/12/1976539.htm
a quote from the article…….
“Dingoes should be reintroduced into large tracts of Australian sheep grazing country to control feral animals that [...]

The environment movement and Aboriginal Australia – the debate heats up.

I have written a few articles about what I believe is the “Terra Nullius” notions of the environment that are held and perpetuated by many in the “green” movement in Australia.  (links below)  As the Friends of the Earth have shown below, some are tackling the hard issues and searching for an evolution of green policy [...]

Fire!

Bushfire is a very destructive thing, obviously.
As our forests burn around the nation we see on the T.V. images of destruction to homes, farms and of course animal habitat. Many people see, hear, smell and feel the fire as it comes into their neighborhoods. In this time of water [...]

Trees and stuff.

This week the “Landcare” organisation launched a program to enable farmers to be paid to plant trees by way of carbon trading.   This is, literally, a breath of fresh air as the way the carbon trading discussion has unfolded in Australia seems to be towards imposing a carbon tax on “clean coal” technology to subsidise [...]

Greenies and Murries

*”Murri” is a term often used by Queensland Aboriginal people to describe themselves and is increasingly making its way into mainstream language (even on T.V.).
The following article is the draft that I have submitted to the Australian Greens “Green Magazine”. One of the editors, Drew Hutton, asked me for such a thing.
I wait anxiously [...]

Can’t see the forest for the trees!

Sorry it has been so long since posting. A combination of no computor (still) and pressing commitments has kept me away from the keyboards.

I am presently writing an article for the “Green Magazine”, the journal of the Australian Green Party, about sustainability and development in Aboriginal communities. I will post the article here when it [...]