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The annual Survival Concert and Festival is a rational celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander survival, celebrated through performance, culture, visual arts and music. As an alternative celebration to the official Australia Day calendar of events, it showcases a huge range of Indigenous Australian talent, with traditional and contemporary music and dance, bush tucker, face-painting, and other activities for all age groups.
The Survival Day Concert and Festival is organised by the National Indigenous Arts Advocacy Association Inc. Performers at this year's concert will include Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu, Tiddas and Troy Cassar-Daley.
Survival '97 will be held on Sunday, 26 January 1997 at Yarra Bay Oval, La Perouse, Sydney. For more information, contact:
Joanne Brown/Jeffrey Samuels
National Indigenous Arts
Advocacy Association Inc
Suite 401, 4th Floor
60-62 Foveux Street
SURRY HILLS NSW 2010
Phone (02) 92812144
Fax (02) 92818920
Redfern is the last stronghold of Indigenous land in inner-city Sydney, and is a haven for its people from oppression in the outside world. The stories of the community life of Redfern are told in a new photographic exhibition curated by the Museum of Sydney, 'Guwanyi Redfern'. Through images of football matches, protest marches, and portraits of its inhabitants, the exhibition attempts to show a side of Redfern too often ignored by negative media coverage.
The exhibition will be officially launched at the Museum of Sydney (corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney) on Sunday, 19 January 1996 at 1pm. The opening will be followed by performances by Bah to Bah and the Shady Players, as well as films. Admission will be free.
During Education Week 1997 (17-21 March), there will be videos, performances, and story-telling sessions as part of the Aboriginal Studies Education Festival. The activities are designed for students in Years 4 to 10. (Bookings are essential; for more information phone (02) 92515988.)
The exhibition will run until 4 May 1997, at a cost of $6 adults, $4 concessions, $15 families. For exhibition and festival details, phone:
Mos on (02) 92515988 or
Gadigal Information Services on
(02) 9310 4968
The Aboriginal Law Centre has acquired a new part-time coordinator in the form of Peter Brock. One of Peter's major duties will involve finding funds to have a full-time coordinator at the ALC.
Peter grew up in Western NSW, and developed his concern for Indigenous social justice through his contacts with Aboriginal people in and around Deniliquin, Griffith and Wilcannia. He was involved in campaigns for land rights and against deaths in custody during the 1980s, and served as Secretary on the National Committee to Defend Black Rights from 1984 to 1986.
Peter has also worked as for the World Council of Churches from 1989 to 1996, based in Geneva, Switzerland. During his time there he was responsible for developing programs to ensure greater access to World Council of Churches programs by Indigenous youth, young women, racially oppressed groups, and the differently abled.
Through working for the Aboriginal Law Centre, Peter hopes to make a contribution to building justice for Indigenous people, and repay the debt of gratitude to the people whose support and community have contributed so much to his own growth.
The Aboriginal Law Bulletin is planning on a special issue focusing on Indigenous lawyers and law students. If you have any suggestions for people who might like to be interviewed, please contact the editors by phone, fax or email to let us know how to get in contact with them!
The Aboriginal Law Bulletin has changed its timing: it will now be coming in the middle of the month, instead of towards the end of each month. This January issue is the first one in the new circulation timetable.
In the December 1996 issue of the ALB we announced that the February 1997 issue will be focusing on Indigenous people's intellectual property rights. The intellectual property special will now be coming out in March 1997. People interested in contributing are invited to send papers of no greater than 3,000 words in length to the ALB by 3 February 1996.
If you know of any indigenous artists who are interested in having their work featured in the Aboriginal Law Bulletin, please ask them to get in contact with us. We are always on the lookout for new talent, both for our front covers and for illustrations within the ALB itself.
The Aboriginal Law Bulletin is considering putting old back issues on the world wide web, to enable news and reports about Australian Indigenous legal rights to be spread around the world. If there are any issues concerning this move which you think we should consider (especially if you are a previous contributor), please let us hear your views.
On Monday 23 December 1996 the High Court of Australia handed down its long awaited decision in The Wik Peoples & The Thayorre People v the State of Queensland.
In a judgment of over 200 pages the court decided with a 4:3 majority to uphold the appeal of the Wik & Thayorre peoples.
In short, the court decided:
1. that pastoral leases granted under Queensland legislation do not confer exclusive possession and therefore do not necessarily extinguish native title.
2. where native title co-exists with a pastoral lease, the pastoral lease will prevail over any inconsistent native title.
Further analysis of this major case will follow in the next issue of the ALB.
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