‘Protesters at a government-backed housing project in Adelaide’s north have condemned the way Aboriginal ancestral remains have been treated at the site, after what the premier conceded was “one of the largest findings of this type” in the country.’ The remains of at least 29 people have been uncovered in a burial ground across the site. A good overview from the ABC here.
The vote in the referendum on 14th October was NO.
On 22nd October a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, community members and organisations who supported Yes released an open letter to be circulated to the Australian public and media, The Statement for our Peoples and Country.
From the statement: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are in shock and are grieving the result. We feel acutely the repudiation of our peoples and the rejection of our efforts to pursue reconciliation in good faith. That people who came to our country in only the last 235 years would reject the recognition of this continent’s First Peoples – on our sacred land which we have cared for and nurtured for more than 65,000 years – is so appalling and mean-spirited as to be utterly unbelievable a week following. It will remain unbelievable and appalling for decades to come.
‘All Australians should read this statement from Indigenous leaders, regardless of how they voted’.
Read the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and about the Voice Referendum.
Australia’s Arts & Disability Associated Plan – cartoons from a series of online consultation workshops with people with disability and others to shape the plan, run by The Science of Knowing .
Diagram for a research paper from the Stockholm Environment Institute offering, ‘for the first time, an evaluation … of agreements between Sámi reindeer herding districts and developers in Sweden. The evaluation was conducted from a Sámi perspective…‘
See an earlier related post here.
Pro Bono news finishes today. Here is the last cartoon.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 