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Not seeing what is there: in eastern Arnhem Land, Frances and Howard Morphy tap into Indigenous people's own visions for their future and the future of the homelands movement.
Magazine article from: Arena Magazine; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...a homeland settlement in eastern Arnhem Land. We will call it 'X'. It is the largest...outstation movement'. In eastern Arnhem Land this coincided with the building...in what became known as the Gove Land Rights Case. Having lost the case... Read more
All the rivers run red: the blood-soaked Gulf Country and its McArthur River is sacred land.
Magazine article from: Arena Magazine; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...through one's being. The Aboriginal river land- and waterscapes of the southern and south-weste...that I face, not only as the member for Arnhem, but also in my responsibilities as a...struggled for the strong recognition of land rights in the Gulf, rights that were hard...said that the Gulf Country was ... Read more
Sir Ronald Wilson, reconciliation and land.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...bypass reconciliation in favour of real rights -- title to land. It is not hard to say, Sorry. It is hard to say, Sorry we grabbed your land -- here's some of it back. I caught up with Sir Ronald at...expressed support be manifest? Aboriginal traditional owners of land of the North Kimberley have thrown ... Read more
Chambers, Aidan. Postcard from No Man's Land.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 5/1/2002; ; 273 words ; ...service for British soldiers who fought against the German occupation of the Netherlands in WW II. This grandfather was wounded at Arnhem, and though a Dutch girl tended him lovingly, he died in Holland. There are two alternating narratives in this intricately plotted... Read more
SAVING THE DYING WARRIORS.(Review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Aboriginal people, the Yolngu of eastern Arnhem Land, lost control of their lives and...while working with Yolngu people in Arnhem Land. Much of the thrust of the book...Milingimbi Mission off the north-central Arnhem Land coast. He then moved to help in... Read more
Elizabeth Thorn Djandilga.
Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 2/1/1999; 326 words ; ...Galiwinku or Elcho Island in north-east Arnhem Land. Nearer to the equator than the...miny'tji in the eastern part of Arnhem Land and rarrk in the western areas...designs are clan marks indigenous to Arnhem Land and they refer to stories about... Read more
FROM THE CROCODILE'S NEST.(Review)
Magazine article from: Arena Magazine; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Yolngu artists of Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land. Their eighty sea paintings on bark...whom the book is dedicated, is of his land-sea country where a person's soul...being which also act as claims to land and sea. Like the strata of a river... Read more
Native Title's disasters.(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 7/1/2005; ; 499 words ; ...because it does not facilitate individual property rights in land. We did not claim, as McDonnell suggests, that land leasing or business development were impossible under Native...Title legislation, but that the present legislation enriches Land Council members and a supporting cast of lawyers and ... Read more
Remote places.(visiting Italy)(How To Forget The Election)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/25/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...would seem an ideal place to hide from politics. In Arnhem Land especially there are wonderful jungles and dark rivers...such hazards. Furthermore, outsiders are allowed into Arnhem Land, home to many of Australia's Aboriginals, only if they... Read more
Akzo Nobel expands coatings production in North America.(Business & Industry)
Magazine article from: JCT CoatingsTech; 8/1/2006; 56 words ; Akzo Nobel, Arnhem, The Nether-lands, will expand its Automotive Plastics Coatings operations in Pontiac, MI. The company will be adding an 11,000... Read more

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