Funding
for online indigenous art project
approved
ABC
INDIGENOUS NEWS
Tuesday
April 3, 2001
Two
central Australian-based consortiums are among 16 projects
to share in
a $1.2 million national program to boost e-commerce.
KU
Arts Online, combining Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media,
Aboriginal
Australia, Ananguku Arts and Craft Committee and
NEC
Australia have been given $75,000.
The
project will see information moved online from isolated
indigenous
art and craft centres to other sites and trading
partners.
Remote
Business Australia, a consortium of seven organisations
including
the Central Australian Producers Action Group and the
Territory
Internet service provider OCTA-4 has received
$110,000.
The project should benefit businesses in central Australia and
help them
deal more efficiently with suppliers.
http://www.abc.net.au/message/radar/ab-3apr2001-5.htm
Wednesday
April 4, 2001
Research
finds indigenous Australians at
higher
risk of meningococcal
New
research has found the risk of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders
developing meningococcal disease is four times higher
than in
other community groups.
A
study conducted in the New England area, in the north-west of
New South Wales, also reveals that indigenous youth are more
likely to
contract the brain infection.
Clinical
nurse consultant and researcher, Peter Massey,
collected
the data over eight years to 1999 and says medical
treatment
rather than prevention is the short-term solution.
"As
new public health strategies develop which will include a
vaccine
hopefully in the not too distant future that I'm proposing,
that those
strategies [should] be targeted at the group that suffer
the most
from this disease and from our research and New
Zealand
experiences as well...it's the indigenous people who
suffer the
most," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/message/radar/ab-4apr2001-1.htm
Jabiluka
traditional owners highlight
contaminated
water fears
The
traditional owners of the Jabiluka mine lease surrounded by
Kakadu National Park have rejected claims there is no threat
from
contaminated water stored on the site.
The
office of the supervising scientist, the Territory Mines and
Energy
Department and Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill
have all
given assurances there are no problems at the mine site.
But
a spokeswoman for the Mirrarr traditional owners, Jacqui
Katona, says
they do not have sufficient information to make
those claims.
"We
understand that there are vast amounts of water...currently
being stored
in the mine decline and we also understand there is
a high level
of contamination taking place," she said.
http://www.abc.net.au/message/radar/ab-4apr2001-2.htm
Aboriginal
refuge in doubt as residents
complain
On New South Wales' far south coast, the future of a refuge for
young
Aboriginal people is in doubt because of opposition from
people in
the area who fear their children will be at risk from
people
staying there.
There
have been public meetings, newspaper editorials and
petitions
organised against the proposed refuge at Mogo, near
Batemans
Bay.
The
State's Housing Department has offered to provide units
from the
Sydney Olympics village site to accommodate the young
people.
But
locals at Mogo say the site for the refuge, near the town's
primary school, poses an unacceptable risk and yesterday they
convinced
the Eurobodalla Shire Council to again defer a
decision on
the issue.
Aboriginal
church minister Tom Slockee says time is running out
and the
project may now be shelved.
"Some
of the people have been told the wrong ideas about the
type of
people that will be here," he said.
"They're young people who have a lot of potential to contribute to
the
community and become leaders even."
http://www.abc.net.au/message/radar/ab-4apr2001-3.htm
KKK
threat rocks Casino Aboriginal
community
A
Casino woman says the local Aboriginal community is living in
fear after a
person wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and carrying a
baton
threatened them on Monday night.
Dena
Duncan says the man, who claimed young Aboriginal boys
had
attempted to break into his car, said he was going to "take
matters into
his own hands".
She says the local Koori community does not know where to turn.
Casino police say they are investigating the incident.
http://www.abc.net.au/message/radar/ab-4apr2001-4.htm
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