December 9-10 Human Rights Symposium

2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People - Indigenous Survival
Where to from here?

The symposium '2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People - Indigenous Survival: Where to from here?' will be held at the University of South Australia. An international symposium, it will be a gathering of indigenous community members, international lawyers, academics and activists who have worked in the area of international law and the rights of Indigenous Peoples from the 1970s up until the present.

Download the Brochure and Registration Form - (PDF 311kb download Adobe Acrobat).

Aboriginal Girl Might Not Look Indigenous Enough For Job!

From ABC Online, Saturday 6 November, 2010. A YOUNG Aborigine was ''shocked'' and ''humiliated'' to hear she might not look ''indigenous'' enough for a job promoting the Aboriginal employment initiative GenerationOne, founded by the mining entrepreneur Andrew Forrest.

Tarran Betterridge, 24, a Canberra university student, applied for the post through an ACT company, Epic Promotions, which had been asked to find five people of ''indigenous heritage'' to staff a stall at Westfield in Canberra handing out flyers for GenerationOne. Ms Betterridge was interviewed for 20 minutes on October 20 and told she was ''perfect''. However, the interviewer, Emanuela D'Annibale, said she first had to check with her client, an agency called Let's Launch, because of guidelines specifiying it wanted ''indigenous-looking'' people for the job. Ms D'Annibale then took Ms Betterridge's photo, but denies forwarding it.

Ms Betterridge's mother is white and her father is a Wiradjuri man from the Dubbo area.

When Ms Betterridge phoned the next day, Ms D'Annibale told her she was not needed as Let's Launch had already found enough casual employees. Yesterday Ms D'Annibale confirmed working to guidelines that required at least some recruits to ''look'' indigenous. Ms Betterridge was ''lovely'', she said, but ''if you're promoting Italian pasta, and you put Asians there, how's that going to look? Wouldn't you pick an Italian to promote the Italian pasta?''  She would have liked to hire Ms Betterridge anyway because ''she was really nice, she had so much knowledge and background … but the reason we needed at least one person who looked indigenous [was] so that it would be friendlier to indigenous people''. ''I wouldn't have picked her for Aboriginal at all … to me she looked like an Aussie girl.'' She said Ms Betterridge hadn't been hired because the agency didn't need five people.

Ms Betterridge is ''shocked a company that wants to increase indigenous employment would question hiring a person because they do not meet the colour standard''.

The chief executive of GenerationOne, Tim Gartrell, expressed repugnance at the claims last night. He said he instructed those responsible to apologise, and would no longer use the recruiting contractor's services. ''The comment made by a recruiting contractor is completely inappropriate and doesn't reflect the views, practice or ethos of anyone in GenerationOne,'' he said. Despite this, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council seized on the episode to attack GenerationOne, accusing it of abetting ''staggering'' discrimination against Ms Betterridge. ''For them to deny an Aboriginal student a job - a real job - because of the colour of her skin shows that GenerationOne is not interested in walking the talk,'' its chairwoman, Bev Manton, said.

Let's Launch was not available for a formal response last night, but unofficially denied issuing the guidelines quoted by Ms D'Annibale

Twelve Good Reasons to Study Australian Studies & Aboriginal Studies at UniSA in 2011

If you or someone you know is looking to study Australian Studies or Aboriginal Studies in 2011 apply to transfer by completing an Internal Transfer form available from Campus Services on your campus. Those interested from outside of the University will need to apply through SATAC at http://www.satac.edu.au/

Your Indigenous Student Services Academic Adviser is available to answer all your questions.

Programs available in 2011:

Bachelor of Arts (Australian Studies) SATAC Code: 424411 Length: 3 FT, equiv PT TER: 55.9 (Feb 2010 cut-off) STAT Test /TAFE at Cert IV or above considered Program information:

Bachelor of Arts (Aboriginal Studies) SATAC Code: 424401 Length : 3 FT, equiv PT TER: 55 (Feb 2010 cut-off) STAT Test /TAFE at Cert IV or above considered Program information

Bachelor of Arts (Aboriginal Studies)/Bachelor of Social Science (Human Services) SATAC Code: 424421 Length : 4 FT, equiv PT TER: 63.15 (Feb 2010 cut-off) STAT Test /TAFE at Cert IV or above considered Program information

Bachelor of Arts Aboriginal Studies/ Bachelor of Education (Middle Secondary) SATAC Code: 424491 Length: 4FT, equiv PT TER: 60.30 (Feb 2010 cut-off) STAT Test /TAFE at Cert IV or above considered Program information

Bachelor of Arts Australian Studies/ Bachelor of Education (Middle Secondary) SATAC Code: 424501 Length: 4FT, equiv PT TER: 60.30 (Feb 2010 cut-off) STAT Test /TAFE at Cert IV or above considered Program information 

Bachelor of Arts Aboriginal Studies/ Bachelor of Social Work SATAC Code: 444151 Length: 5 FT, equiv PT TER: 69.05 (Feb 2010 cut-off) STAT Test /TAFE at Cert IV or above considered Program information  

Bachelor of Arts (Indigenous Studies) Program Code: DBIS Open Universities Australia Apply online at: http://www.open.edu.au/public/future-students  Program Information  

Graduate Certificate in Aboriginal Studies SATAC Code: 4GC004 Length: 0.5 FT, equiv PT Entry Requirements: Bachelor degree in Aboriginal St or related. Indigenous applicants may be accepted on the basis of relevant working history Program Information

Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Studies SATAC Code: 4GD008 Length: 1FT, equiv PT Entry Requirements: Bachelor degree in Aboriginal Studies or related . Graduate Cert in Aboriginal Studies or equiv. Special applications may be considered.Program Information

Masters in Aboriginal Studies (Coursework) SATAC Code: 4CM010 Length: 1.5 FT, equiv PT Entry Requirements: Bachelor degree in Aboriginal St or related . Graduate Dip in Aboriginal St or equiv. Program Information

Masters in Australian St or Aboriginal St (Res) University Program Code: MMDE Length: 2 FT, equiv PT Apply online at: http://www.unisa.edu.au/resdegrees/howtoapply/default.asp   Program Information

PhD in Australian Studies or Aboriginal Studies University Program Code: MPDE Length: 4FT, equiv PT Apply online at: http://www.unisa.edu.au/resdegrees/howtoapply/default.asp    Program Information

Research Matters @ The Hawke

The Hawke Research Institute presents: Research Matters Seminar series

Gender, Capacity and Education

Dating back to the 1970’s, building the capacity of institutions and communities became a key means of ameliorating disadvantage and injustice. In the 1990’s ‘capacity building’ was defined by the United Nations Development Program as ‘the creation of an enabling envi-ronment with appropriate policy and legal frameworks, institutional development, including community participation….’ Since this time, capacity building has been routinely adopted by governmental and non-government agencies to inform community and industry approaches to social and environmental problems. Education is almost universally understood as neces-sary for creating a ‘good life’ and building capacity. But what makes for an enabling environ-ment? In this Research Matters seminar, early career researchers will address the capacity building approach in four different, but inter-related, areas of education and development scholarship.

Presented by:

• Ian Davies (Griffith University): ‘To Sir with Love: Fictional Teacher Texts, Masculinity and Pedagogical Practice’;

• Rachel Outhred (University South Australia): ‘Between Postmodernism and Fundamen-talism: Building the Capacities of the World’s Women’;

• Kiara Rahman (University South Australia): ‘Culturally Responsive Schooling for Improving Indigenous Student Capacity’;  DUCIER's own PhD graduate!
• Sam Sellar (University South Australia): ‘Building Capacity for New Imaginaries in Disad-vantaged schools’.

• Professor Elspeth Probyn will act as Discussant and facilitate discussion on capacity, gender and education.

TIME: 14th Oct, 2010, 4-6.00pm

VENUE: Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, City West, University of South Australia

CONTACT : sonia.saitov@unisa.edu.au

Unesco Listings Denounced

Aug 2, 2010. The Straits Times


SYDNEY - ABORIGINAL activists on Monday condemned Unesco's inclusion of Australian convict-era monuments on the World Heritage register, saying no more 'white Australian' sites should be added.

Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Director Michael Mansell decried the weekend listing by the UN cultural agency of the 11 sites, saying none should be included while the country's indigenous heritage is in danger of extinction. 'The international body should reject any application from Australia to preserve European heritage so long as Aboriginal heritage is being neglected, or even worse being destroyed on the scale that it is,' he told public broadcaster ABC.

Mr Mansell said he had written to Unesco asking it not to approve the listings, which were announced at a meeting in Brasilia.

The listing will ensure protection for significant sites associated with Australia's convict heritage, including Sydney's famous 19th century Hyde Park Barracks and Tasmania's Port Arthur penal settlement.

Mr Mansell raised concerns however about what he said was the Tasmanian government's failure to protect Aboriginal culture, such as archaeological sites that would be overrun by a proposed bypass north of Hobart. -- AFP

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Students Graduate in Landmark Diploma of Counselling

Traditional cultural practice and modern theory have come together in a unique program designed to open up employment and educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

In a ground breaking course, 18 people from communities Australia wide, who are now residing in the ACT will graduate in a nationally-accredited Diploma of Counselling and Group Work.

The 18-month diploma validates - and enhances - existing skills, enabling graduates to get jobs in organisations that require formal qualifications

Equally important, the Relationships Australia diploma allows entry into University courses previously inaccessible because of incomplete schooling or no other qualifications.
 
For more information about courses offered through Relationships Australia go to: http://www.rasa.org.au/

NAIDOC Week 2010 - Adelaide Events

Hi All - see below for some of the main NAIDOC Week activities. For a detailed list of events go to:  http://www.naidocsa.com/ and select 'events'

See you there!

• Aboriginal Flag Raising Ceremony and Lord Mayors Morning Tea - Monday 5 July 2010, 10.00am-12.00pm to be held at the Adelaide Town Hall in the Auditorium.
  
  Please register you attendance by contacting Leann Bonner on 8203 7526 or email L.Bonner@adeaidecitycouncil.com as soon as possible.

• NAIDOC March - Friday 9 July 2010, 10.30am

• Family Fun Day - Friday 9 July 2010, 12.00pm-3.00pm

• NAIDOC Ball - Saturday 10 July 2010, 6.30pm-Midnight
  
  
  For additional information in regard to the Family Fun Day, March and NAIDOC Ball please contact the NAIDOC Committee secretariat Campbell.Simone@dpc.sa.gov.au or 08 8226 8930.