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Aborigines to push for more land handovers | Print |  E-mail
International Indigenous Issues
Saturday, 10 December 2005

Aborigines to push for more land handovers

Tasmanian Aborigines say they will continue to press for more land to be returned to the Indigenous community.

Community members yesterday travelled to Risdon Cove, in the south of the state, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Groom government's land transfers.

The state secretary of the Aboriginal Centre, Trudy Maluga, says there are still plenty of sites Aborigines would like to have returned.

She says those sites include Parks and Wildlife-controlled areas such as Mount William.

"There's a place at Sundown Point that we'd really like to have back," she said.

"Also Eddystone Point ... we would be looking forward to the day when we receive that title."

Earlier this year, the Lennon Government returned Cape Barren Island and Clarke Island to the community.

50,000 Aborigines face eviction | Print |  E-mail
International Indigenous Issues
Saturday, 10 December 2005

AT least 50,000 Aborigines in tiny Outback communities may be forced to uproot and move to larger settlements under a plan by federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone.

Senator Vanstone says more than 1000 communities with fewer than 100 people are unviable and government funding cannot solve poverty, unemployment and health problems caused by isolation.

She said the Government could not go on supplying money to suit the whims of chardonnay-sipping commentators who wanted to keep the "cultural museums".

The only way to provide a proper education and chance of a decent job was in a larger community, she said.

Hundreds of tiny Aboriginal communities are dotted across the north and west of Australia; most have fewer than 50 people each, according to the minister.

Land councils in the Northern Territory estimate more than 50,000 people would have to be moved under such a plan.

Victoria has one such tiny community - Framlingham, near Warrnambool - home of ex-ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark.

Mr Clark said Vanstone's plan was an example of "kicking blacks".


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Unapproved GM corn found in US food chain | Print |  E-mail
Health and Enviornment
Saturday, 26 November 2005

Unapproved GM corn found in US food chain

13:04 23 March 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Kurt Kleiner

A Swiss company accidentally sold unapproved genetically modified seed corn in the US for four years. The mistake resulted in about 133 million kilograms of the corn making its way into the food chain.

Officials for the company, Syngenta, and the US Environmental Protection Agency insist there is no danger to human health. But the EPA and the US Department of Agriculture are investigating to see if any laws or regulations were broken. The EPA confirmed the investigation was underway in a statement to the journal Nature.

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