
	Where results make sense

Topic: Jawoyn

In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	[recoznet2] Jawoyn answer to 'myth making'
		Jawoyn success in protecting the “sickness country” around Coronation Hill was not based on fabrication, as implied by Mr Brunton.
		It is our cultural strength that allows the Jawoyn - despite the Guratba experience - to engage positively with the mining industry to the point where we hold equity in exploration on our traditional lands and are represented on the NT Minerals Council executive.
		Robert Lee is executive director of the Jawoyn Association, Katherine, Northern Territory.
	www.mail-archive.com /recoznet2@paradigm4.com.au/msg01100.html (665 words)

	Jawoyn People, Land and Country - Stories - People's Health Assembly - December 2000 - People's Health Movement PHM
		This “invasion” by outsiders was accompanied by introduces diseases, to which the Jawoyn had no or little immunity to, and disruption to the local subsistence economy, particularly in pastoral areas, where Jawoyn people were forced away from traditional hunting and fishing areas.
		Jawoyn people, along with many other groups, worked for the army during the war.
		The purpose of the study was to identify barriers to achieve improvements in nutrition, and to assess the current capacity to monitor health impacts that may result from the implementation of our project.
	www.phmovement.org /pha2000/stories/jawoyn.html (1684 words)

	Media / Publications : Land Rights News : October 2003
		Heavily involved in the project, the Jawoyn Association has welcomed the collaborative approach, and is working hard to formulate ideas and strategies to prevent the escalation of incidents.
		The Jawoyn Association is under no illusions about the enormity of the task confronting it and other organisations involved in the project.
		It is something the Jawoyn Association and other Aboriginal groups in the Katherine region have wanted to see for some time, and it’s also a viewpoint that’s been taken up by a whole lot of community groups.
	www.nlc.org.au /html/wht_lrn_2003_oct05.html (431 words)

	Australian Immigration - 1995 Global Cultural Diversity Conference - Mr John Ah Kit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During the period of the Jawoyn Land Claim, the same lies were told, with equal ferocity.
		The simple truth is that the Jawoyn people had acted in good faith in undertaking sacred site surveys to allow the development of a $1.5 billion gold mine.
		The Jawoyn people, even before they were able to realise some economic advantage from the mine, demonstrated that they were neither anti-development nor mere "gold diggers", inventing sacred sites for commercial benefits.
	www.immi.gov.au /multicultural/_inc/publications/confer/11/speech50a.htm (2734 words)

	bula and budgalaun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was mined in the fifties and sixties for uranium, after the Jawoyn of the area had been taken away to camps by the government during World War II.
		The Jawoyn, now politically organised and aware, fought the proposal because of their concern over Budjalung and the Bula spirit.
		The nation's attention was on these subtle, semi-secret beliefs of Jawoyn elders which threatened billions of dollars in export earnings for the nation.
	www.bushwalkingholidays.com.au /html/info-kak-budjalung.htm (272 words)

	Australia's National Local Government Newspaper Online >> Editions > 1997 > March > Gold
		The Jawoyn people of the Katherine region of the Northern Territory have recently launched their first five year plan.
		In the early 1980s, the Jawoyn people began to pursue land claims with the objective of establishing an independent economic base to sustain their community.
		At the launch of the Plan, the Jawoyn Nation expressed the view that while land rights are essential for religious and cultural reasons they are also essential to establish a livelihood.
	www.lgfocus.aus.net /editions/1997/march/gold/modern.shtml (449 words)

	Australian Journal of Anthropology, The: The regimentation of customary practice: from Northern Territory land claims ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I believe it did not occur to him that counsel was asking him questions about his background and his clan in order to produce information that could be disabling with respect to the present claim.
		For someone of Peter's life experience there was no question of his not belonging to Katherine and to the Gorge area on the basis that he was Jawoyn: he had lived a form of life, with other Aboriginal people, that left him in no doubt about that.
		Though he knew as much as any older Jawoyn did about clans, he had no strong adherence to the notion of those constituting a form of historical identity against which he should measure himself and his attachments to Katherine, and find himself wanting.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2472/is_n1-2_v6/ai_17757612/pg_6 (1324 words)

	Jawoyn People, Land and Country - Stories - People's Health Assembly - December 2000 - People's Health Movement PHM
		Owning Jawoyn country is through connections to sacred sites, through Jawoyn descent and from knowledge of our lands, law and ceremony.
		In the 1950s uranium miners came into the northern areas of Jawoyn land.
		The formal signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Fred Hollows foundation and the Jawoyn Association on May 2,000.
	phmovement.org /pha2000/stories/jawoyn.html (1684 words)

	Bringing them Home - The effects on family and community
		The ability of Jawoyn people living on or near Jawoyn traditional lands, and whose lives are completely integrated in Jawoyn society, to determine what happens on those Jawoyn traditional lands.
		Recognition and an acknowledgment of and respect for the Jawoyn heritage of those people stolen from their kin and country, and their descendants.
		What is clear from the Jawoyn experience is the imperative that each community exercising its right of self-determination must be empowered to resolve the matter for itself.
	www.gwb.com.au /gwb/news/sorry/stolen23.html (3617 words)

	The Australian: Respected NT Aboriginal leader dies [October 24, 2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1989, the Jawoyn Association negotiated a groundbreaking joint management agreement with the Northern Territory Government over Nitmiluk National Park, which includes the Katherine Gorge.
		His death, of a cancer-like disease, was announced yesterday by former Northern Territory housing minister John Ah Kit, the acting executive director of the Jawoyn Association, who said Mr Lee would be greatly missed by his large extended family.
		"Jawoyn people are deeply saddened by the passing of Mr Lee, who was an inspiration to us all," Mr Ah Kit said.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,17011153^421,00.html (299 words)

	Bulletin 3
		The agreement outlines the development of a nutrition strategy to improve the health of the Jawoyn and other Aboriginal people in the Katherine East region of the Northern Territory - and is an important first step in the development of the Foundation's Indigenous Health Program.
		Robert Lee, Director of the Jawoyn Association, said he had requested the involvement and assistance of The Fred Hollows Foundation to develop a nutrition strategy as part of their overall Nyirranggulung Health Strategy.
		Nyirranggulung is a Jawoyn phrase meaning "all together as one mob".
	www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au /html/html_bulletin/bull_3/bulletin_nutrition_program.htm (378 words)

	Oceania: Shifting sands: Towards an anthropological praxis
		This was the case, for example, when the Jawoyn were invaded by a multitude of consultants in the lead up to the Resource Assessment Commission's inquiry into mining at Coronation Hill, and over which they had become factionalised.
		Initially, our team, the Jawoyn Research Group, which was employed to prepare the Jawoyn Association for the Inquiry had also intended to survey individual Jawoyn opinion (Jawoyn Research Group 1990).
		But, as we observed the unease with which individual Jawoyn approached this idea, and one Jawoyn man commented that he saw the repeated 'consultations' with different Jawoyn groups and individuals which were taking place, as 'a sort of a backbiting', we decided against it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200103/ai_n8952801/pg_11 (1315 words)

	Living Black
		Senior Jawoyn elder Mr Lee the founding member of the government's National Indigenous Council.
		He was also the founding chief executive officer of the Jawoyn Association, which represents the Jawoyn community in Katherine.
		ALP indigenous affairs spokesman Chris Evans said Mr Lee would be remembered as a man whose life's work was for the good of his people and the good of Australia.
	news.sbs.com.au /livingblack/index.php?action=news&id=123780 (365 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1985 the Jawoyn Association was formed to represent the interests of the Jawoyn people.
		The Association was keen to establish business enterprises on Jawoyn-owned land in order to provide employment for local Aboriginal people and minimize their dependency on government funding.
		In 1988 the Jawoyn Association established Jawaluk Pty Ltd. to develop an Aboriginal-run cultural tourism venture in the area.
	cullin.org /cbt/index.cfm?section=chapter&number=3 (2587 words)

	Jawoyn official welcomes Kakadu victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The decision by the Hawke government on June 17 not to allow mining at Coronation Hill in Kakadu National Park is a victory for the traditional owners, the Jawoyn, and for the conservation of the region.
		The Jawoyn believe that Bula, the creator, rests and is lying dormant under the Sickness Country and is sort of wired up to these sites, so that if one site is destroyed then it has a chain reaction that will destroy the other sites within the Sickness Country.
		The Jawoyn are not opposed to any development on their traditional land as long as they're involved in the process of consultation.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1991/18/18p3.htm (1059 words)

	NATIVE-L (July-August 1991): Australia: Jawoyn official on Coronation Hill
		The Jawoyn attribute those deaths to the disturbance of Bula
		Jawoyn people to the mining which was disturbing Bula.
		The Jawoyn are not opposed to any development on their
	www.nativenet.uthscsa.edu /archive/nl/91b/0024.html (877 words)

	Fulbright: Indigenous lifeways, tourism, enterprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This issue will be dealt with through consideration of a number of case studies which will focus on the costs and benefits of cultural tourism and other forms of enterprise.
		The recent signing of the Mt Todd agreement between Dominion Mining Ltd and the Jawoyn Aboriginal Association, for instance, has shown that indigenous and business interests need not be opposed.
		An alternative option of establishing and/or maintaining separation from non-indigenous cultures also will be explored through case studies, such as the national award-winning Eva Valley/Manyallaluk tourist complex in the Northern Territory, and through the experiences and views of indigenous artists from remote areas.
	www.larryjzimmerman.com /fulbright/life.html (403 words)

	ALOR - OnTarget Vol.27 - No.24
		Irrespective of other factors, it is quite evident that the genuine interests of the Aboriginal people - the alleged reason for the political posturing - have been ignored in the end.
		Attached is a list of Jawoyn who want the mine to go ahead, also a letter I sent to the Prime Minister, "'Dear Sir, I am asked every day by my people why and who is stopping the mine at Coronation to go ahead.
		Jawoyn continue to support mining, people like Nipper Brown, Senior Custodian, people like Sarah Flora, Phyllis Winjorroc, members of the Jawoyn Working Party, and so many other ordinary Aborigines wanting work.
	www.alor.org /Volume27/Vol27No24.htm (2557 words)

	The Australian: Tributes for indigenous leader [October 24, 2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He was the founding member of the Government's National Indigenous Council and also the founding chief executive officer of the Jawoyn Association, which represents the Jawoyn community in Katherine.
		"He may not have been well-known nationally, however, this quiet achiever was instrumental in developing economic opportunities for the Jawoyn people," Senator Vanstone said.
		Jawoyn Association acting executive director John Ah Kit said the Jawoyn people were mourning the loss of Mr Lee.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,17015472^29277,00.html (272 words)

	The Fred Hollows Foundation
		The Fred Hollows Foundation has been working with the Jawoyn Association and Jawoyn communities in the Katherine East Region since 1999 on a multifaceted program aimed at improving nutrition thus addressing one of the major causes of ill health in these communities.
		In these remote communities the local Store is usually the only place where essential goods can be bought and has an especially critical role in whether people who live in the community can access quality, nutritious food at a price they can afford.
		The Jawoyn Community Stores Program is part of Woolworths commitment to rural and regional Australia.
	www.woolworthslimited.com.au /community/peoplehelpingpeople/fredhollowsfoundation.asp (430 words)

	The Mount Todd Deed of Agreement - Agreements Database Agreement
		Summary Information: A goldmine development agreement made between the Jawoyn Association, the Government of the Northern Territory of Australia and Zapopan Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, land surrounding the mine was returned to the Jawoyn Association under enhanced Northern Territory freehold title.
		While the closure of the mine had some affect on the Jawoyn, financially they had structured their businesses so that the closure of the mine would not affect their assets gained as a result of the agreement (Kauffman p107).
		Once freehold title has been granted to the Association, the deed states that the Association cannot create or dispose of any interest in land, ‘without first obtaining from the party in whose favour such estate or interest is created or disposed covenants in favour of Zapopan and the Territory’.
	www.atns.net.au /biogs/A000103b.htm (487 words)

	Aboriginal religion and Christianity: 'fundamentally incompatible'
		They recognise that their ancestral religion is incapable of reshaping Australian civilisation, and any appeal to its apparently simple virtues and beliefs, against Christianity, can only result in the falsification of its strengths and the continuing denigration of Christianity.
		He argued that the earth's resources should not be mined because the Jawoyn are convinced that the spirit Bula is in the area and, if disturbed, would visit great sickness and upon them.
		It was wrong to criticise the Jawoyn's belief that disturbing Bula would unleash destruction" (The Age, 18.6.91).
	www.ad2000.com.au /articles/1995/mar1995p10_848.html (1879 words)

	Arnhem Land: The Race Against Time
		In the vast stretches of the Arnhem Land plateau, far to the East of the dazzling Katherine gorge, and just outside the protective embrace of the Kakadu National Park to the North, lies a wilderness of rare, brutal beauty.
		The result of an exploration deal with the Jawoyn association, representing -in theory at least - the wishes of the traditional owners.
		Robert Lee, head of the Jawoyn association, says he didn't authorise the extension of the roadbut defends the exploration deal he signed with Cameco.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/cover_stories/transcript_249.asp?MSID=33d5fa5f82d54d3eafed218f53fb255a (4123 words)

	e-Travel Blackboard: Australia's Number One Industry Newsletter
		In a joint statement today the Executive Officer of Jawoyn Association and the Managing Director of Aurora Resorts and Hotels announced this new milestone in a co-operative indigenous tourism venture.
		Robert Lee, Executive officer of the Jawoyn Association said, ”the Jawoyn Association is pleased with the outcome of the negotiations with Aurora and over the next three years we will both be working to establish a close business relationship with a view to building a full destination resort at Nitmiluk Gorge.”
		“The Jawoyn people have worked hard to establish the successful Nitmiluk Tours boat cruises and other activities; now is the time to start looking to the future to capitalise on the foundation that we have built.
	www.etravelblackboard.com /index.asp?id=40430&nav=1 (641 words)

	Voices of the Unheard - Testimonies from the People’s Health Assembly 2000 - People's Health Movement PHM
		This “invasion” by outsiders was accompanied by the introduction of diseases to which the Jawoyn had little or no immunity, and by disruption to the local subsistence economy, particularly in pastoral areas, where Jawoyn people were forced away from traditional hunting and fishing areas.
		Since its formation, the Jawoyn Association has found themselves increasingly at the cold face of dealing with primary health issues, social issues, chronic diseases, acute hospitalisations and youth suicides.
		The establishment of the Nyrrany Tribal Health Board is part of the process by which the Jawoyn Association and the communities of the region begin “rolling back” this history and take control over all aspects of what happens on our lands.
	phmovement.org /voices/unheard.html (12551 words)

	[No title]
		Formerly the manager of health programs with the Jawoyn Association, Irene was involved in establishing the SHSAC from the ground up in 2000, after becoming frustrated with the “tremendous gaps in health service delivery.”
		The Jawoyn Association competed nationally and was one of five successful proposals from a field of over 80 applicants.
		Then, as her grandmother's health declined, Irene returned to the Jawoyn region in the mid 1990s to be with her grandmother and to learn more about her Jawoyn culture.
	www.hollows.org /content/TextOnly.aspx?s=169 (409 words)

	DRS Media Release: Land for Health deal a national disgrace, says the Doctors Reform Society. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Doctors Reform Society supports the Australian Medical Association stand on the trading of land rights by the Jawoyn Association in the Northern Territory in return for much-needed renal dialysis and alcohol rehabilitation services at Katherine (The Australian 21 October 1998).
		"The DRS does not question that the decision of the Jawoyn Association was made out of genuine concern for the health of their people", said Dr Con Costa, National President of the DRS.
		Dr Costa said that the Prime Minister, if he wants to show a genuine concern for reconciliation and for improvements to the health status of the Aboriginal population, should launch an inquiry into the way in which this agreement was reached and ensure that the Jawoyn people retain their land rights.
	www.drs.org.au /media/1998/media036.htm (349 words)

	Jawoyn Association - Agreements Database Organisation
		The Jawoyn Association is a body corporate which represents the interests of Jawoyn and other people who have associations with Jawoyn country in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory.
		The Association represents and promotes the views and aspirations of traditional landowners in relation to the management, protection, control, and development of Jawoyn traditional lands.
		Providing for the general social welfare of Jawoyn clans is one of the objectives of the Association.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/41317/20040406/www.atns.net.au/biogs/A000916b.htm (120 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)