Australian Politics Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlPuIzTr1Y

Triumph Of the Silverback.... as I've been telling yez for ages now - that's how the 'culture' works.... the man with the biggest fists and the smallest heart wins all and does as he chooses.

I've seen it in north western NSW towns and in south coast towns - the big man controls whatever source of income there is - grog, drugs, royalties etc - and disburses it at his whim and woe betide anyone who opposed him. Often the 'trade' is in young girls ..... 15 yo for drugs etc ...

As I said to Warren Mundine ages ago - listen to the women at the bottom of the totem pole(s) - they know it all full well.... he knew already but it doesn't hurt to remind people.

Albo is either a total fool or he actually believes in this stuff and is an even worse fool.

Either we, as a nation, leave them to it and give them nothing - or we do an Abbott and 'mainstream' them.

What makes anyone think a voice will be any different once it gets its hands on money and disbursing it? Who do you think will be on the staff of every single member of The Third House?

I sense another book in this... but I'm too low in energy

LOL...

University dropout and climate change denier
Andrew Bolt is the equivalent of Tucker Carlson,
so any/all of the drivel he spouts on FOX can
safely be ignored.

He's just another Murdoch hack sucking on
the red cordial.

Anything that Keith Windschuttle falsely
propounds can safely be ignored—as per
this example.

Boris of course sucks it all up like a sponge LOL.

AusGeoff wrote on Aug 8^th, 2023 at 1:21am:

Perhaps, grasshopper, you should consider carefully both the baby and the bathwater before throwing both out...namaste.

Devastating expose` on Yunupingu - and fits perfectly with what is known about every such 'venture' ... across decades. Corruption vile and deep and savage disadvantage to the many while the few ride the crest of the money wave since they control it.

Couldn't be any better if it were a Central American dictatorship... imagine if they had their hands on a percentage of GDP.....

AusGeoff wrote on Aug 8^th, 2023 at 1:21am:

Nonsense, Guff. Nonsense.

Royalties divide Yunupingu family
Jennifer Sexton
11jun05

GALARRWUY Yunupingu, the Northern Territory's most powerful black leader, is at the centre of a deep family rift over millions of dollars in mining royalties.

Many of his own clan, in their remote coastal homelands 600km east of Darwin, live in squalid and impoverished conditions while Mr Yunupingu has the use of a helicopter, four houses and a fleet of cars, including a Range Rover.
His fourth son, Sammy Yunupingu, sister Gayili Marika (nee Yunupingu) and cousin Dhanjah Gurruwiwi say that only some members have benefited from Mr Yunupingu's distribution of up to $5million a year in royalties, grants and rents.

Audit reports obtained by The Weekend Australian have, for the past four years, warned that there is no evidence to prove that "clan distributions" have been properly allocated through the Gumatj Association, which receives royalties and other funds and is chaired by Mr Yunupingu.

While the Northern Territory Justice Department, which administers the Gumatj Association, has failed to act, the Howard Government launched an investigation last week.

Traditional Arnhem Land owners say that they are missing out because the money is supposed to be shared.

Instead, many live a subsistence existence devoid of hope and filled with alcohol and physical abuse.

By contrast, Mr Yunupingu is regularly piloted in a helicopter, which cost the Gumatj Association $169,949 in "repairs and maintenance" last financial year. The chopper absorbed $20,592 in fuel and is used to reach one of four houses at Mr Yunupingu's disposal, at Ninyakay outstation in western Arnhem Land.

The accounts also reveal income from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and other grants worth $2.09million, plus rents and royalties worth $2.05million.

Of that, clan distributions worth $1.822million and "community support" worth $5,345 were paid last financial year.

In an independent audit report dated October 14 last year, chartered accountants JC Smith & Associates said: "The recipients of some payments for 'clan distributions' and 'ceremonies and community culture' were not identified in the association's transaction records. Therefore (we are) unable to determine if all these payments were made in accordance with the objects of the association."

When The Weekend Australian caught up with Mr Yunupingu at the Gove Yacht Club this week he laughed at suggestions that his people were unhappy and were asking questions about royalties and other grants worth up to $50million.

Mr Yunupingu initially said he had "nothing to do with royalties", but then said: "It's family money. How we break it up is our business ... It's none of your bloody business. And as far as we're concerned, it's peanuts."

He said he owned no houses and had not misused funds.

"You can hunt as much as you like, but you won't find rope to hang me on."

Sammy Yunupingu says in a statutory declaration that at worst it is unclear how almost $50million worth of grants and royalty payments have been allocated in the past decade. That declaration has been sent to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Amanda Vanstone and the Northern Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin.

Sammy says the situation has been allowed to fester through a cultural reluctance to question elders, a fear of reprisal and an inherent lack of accountability in the distribution system, which has implications for both Ms Vanstone and Ms Martin, whose governments are intertwined in a complex network of funding provision and monitoring.

"Most people are afraid to speak out, but I want the information out because I think (that's) what my grandfather wanted for the future and what will happen to my sons and the next generation," Sammy says.

Senator Vanstone said she was aware of the allegations, and deemed them serious enough to last week launch an investigation through the Office of Indigenous Policy Co-ordination, the new body which steers Aboriginal policy.

As Ms Martin heads for the polls next Saturday, her retiring Minister for Community Development John Ah Kit says he too has received the allegations and has recommended the aggrieved parties call in the police.

"We have received a fax that contains serious allegations. Minister Ah Kit has advised that they should refer the matter to the police as they are the proper authority to investigate these matters," a spokesman for Mr Ah Kit said yesterday.

Mr Yunupingu has fathered eleven children by four women but it is the family of three with his second wife, Margaret Kantawarra, who live the most privileged lifestyle. They occupy the newest of about 40 houses on Ski Beach, on the turquoise waters of the Gove Peninsula.
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/news/2000s/2005/woz11jun05b.html

Galarrwuy Yunupingu: lord of the manor

Not only will the Big Men of clans remain dominant over many communities in remote Australia but the Voice will embed new generations of these indigenous oligarchs. Their constitutional protection will make them a law unto themselves, no matter how badly they serve their dependent constituents. So let me outline here, and in our following edition, aspects of Yunupingu’s career that the mainstream media coverage of his death largely omitted or got completely wrong.

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/galarrwuy-yunupingu-lord-of-the-manor/

Worth studying, as the poet said.

That's right his name is JAMES GALARRWUY Yunupingu.

Not just Yunupingu... wherever that BS came from?

The whole family are Yunupingu.

Add to that list of conveniences at least 2 40ft Game Fishing boats that he sank at one time or another.

His traditional home is at Yirrkala with the rest of the clans but when he got his hands on the Gove mining royalty monies he set up a new home area at Gunyangara on the Drimmie Peninsular for his family clan. Even installed another airstrip there as well.

And talking of "drop outs" Geoff .... this bloke had little formal education at the mission school & 2 years at a Methodist Bible School in Brisbane from 17 to 19 yrs old returning to Gove in 1967.

He was awarded(handed) an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the woke Melbourne University in 2015 just for recognition of his work in Land Rights.

Seems the Land Rights & royalties were more about his & his clans rights than anyone elses.

And then not all of his clan either. ::)

AusGeoff wrote on Aug 8^th, 2023 at 1:21am:

What Windschuttle says about Yunupingu & what he has done with all the money is 100% correct.

ATM - Another Total Mess ...... intervention needed.

Pingu.

Arse covering.

Frank wrote on Aug 8^th, 2023 at 10:03pm:

https://twitter.com/GregWoo36283273/status/1688565118291054592

Never liked the woman but she is correct.

The Northern Territory Chief Minister says she has known about corruption allegations against the high-profile Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu for several weeks.

The allegations appear to relate to the distribution of royalties from mining on Aboriginal land.

Members of Mr Yunupingu's extended family have reportedly complained that he has misappropriated millions of dollars a year as chair of the the Gumatj Association.

They say Mr Yunupingu, a former Australian of the Year, is living a life of luxury while other members of his clan exist in abject poverty.

A spokesman for the Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone says the serious allegations are being investigated.

The Northern Territory's Chief Minister Clare Martin says she received a letter a few weeks ago, and the Government is looking into the claims.

But she says it is not the Territory's responsibility.

"Royalties come under the Land Rights Act, which is federal legislation," she said.

The ABC has been unable to contact the Yunupingus.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-06-11/yunupingu-corruption-allegations-probed/1590430

The Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council
specifically identified the role of leading Aboriginal men in violence against
women and children.11 Henry Councillor, Chairman of the National
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
warned that victims are likely to be assaulted if they complain and that ‘we
have to face the fact that the perpetrators are leaders of the community, and
people are too often afraid to say this’.12 Two prominent West Australian
Nyoongar ‘Big Men’, Robert Bropho and Fred Collard, have been convicted
and jailed for sexual attacks on young women.13 William Brown, Chairman
of the Central Land Council, was given a sentence of two and a half months
in jail when he threw a tomahawk at a woman, injuring her. The Alice
Springs Magistrate, Melanie Little, suspended the sentence, so that he
walked away free.14 Galarrwuy Yunupingu, a powerful Northern Territory
leader who was a long time Chairman of the Northern Lands Council,
conceded in Nhulunbuy Magistrate’s Court in opposing a domestic violence
order in June 2006 by his fourth wife, Valerie Ganambarr, that he had
punched her in the cheek, tried to strangle her and dragged her along the
floor by her hair. The Magistrate granted Ms Ganambarr’s plea.15 But in
October 2006 in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Chief Justice
Brian Martin, accepted an agreement by the parties to concede an appeal
on the basis that Mr Yunupingu gave a written undertaking not to ‘assault,
threaten, intimidate or harass’ his wife for six months. Justice Martin, who
was concerned by inconsistencies in the evidence of the wife which stemmed
from her apparent difficulty in understanding the proceedings, noted that
this was a ‘very sensible resolution of this matter’. Unfortunately to the world
it confirmed that in the Northern Territory Indigenous women do not have
the protection of the law, particularly if the assailants are well connected ‘Big
Men’, and that, as noted in the media, enabling Mr Yunupingu to keep his
guns for hunting was apparently of equal importance.
The Northern Territory passed legislation in 2003 to protect girls under
16 against sexual predators despite the protests of Mr Yunupingu.
https://www.cis.org.au/publication/lands-of-shame-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-homelands-in-transition/
Helen Hughes, Lands of Shame

In 2003, he clashed with the Northern Territory Labor Government after it passed laws that removed traditional marriage as a defence against having sex with underage children. At the time, Yunupingu accused the Clare Martin government of interfering in Aboriginal law. "Our traditional systems of promised marriage have nothing to do with abuse in any form," Yunupingu argued at the time. "Marriage systems which have existed for thousands of years must be dealt with separately to serious issues like child abuse or violence."

In her book A Fatal Conjunction: Two Laws Two Cultures, Kimm tells a story from 1969, which played out in the same court Yunupingu faced last week, that cast into sharp relief the divide between white and black law and culture. A Yirrkala girl, Rita Galkama, 14, was assaulted for refusing to be the third wife of Jack Milirrpum Marika, 42. He "belted her, tore her clothes off and tried to break her right leg". He was charged with aggravated assault.

Nhulunbuy magistrate's court accepted his defence that his traditional cultural rights be preserved.

"It is incredible that the magistrate describe the situation as 'a storm in a teacup' and said he would not record a conviction against Marika for aggravated assault," Kimm writes. "Marika was merely fined $5 for resisting arrest. It was Rita Galkama who suffered for her defiance."

Galkama knew that to resist the marriage and to press charges meant she would no longer be welcome to live with her family. She had to leave the area.
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/news/2000s/2006/july/aust12jul06.html

Marvellous our Judiciary & leftard numptys here defend this sort of so called cultural behaviour/violence/sexual violence & abuse by Aboriginal men yet have so much venom for anyone white accused of same.

One law for all - all laws for one.... there can be no peaceful co-existence in a nation divided against itself. either be part of the solution or be part of the exodus... at least get into the 20th century, then we'll bring you on slowly.

Primitives....

Although the local clan members were born, grew up and lived for decades alongside a major multinational mining and smelting enterprise, and although managers of the industry tried time and again to employ and train them, the Aborigines were not interested in white man’s work. When journalist Paul Toohey of the Australian Financial Review was at Nhulunbuy in 2014, he asked how many of its employees had been recruited from the local clans. “In all the years that Rio had mined bauxite and refined alumina on the Yolngu lands,” he reported, “the operation has produced only one qualified Aboriginal apprentice.”

The consequences of this lethargic culture were described frankly in 2012 by Steven Etherington, who spent twenty-three years as an Anglican vicar at the Oenpelli community in Arnhem Land:

Tribal Aborigines are a “kept” people: they are no longer required to grow or find their own food, are never required to become educated, never required to build their own homes, or buy their own vehicles. They are never required to accept global human rights standards, or even to adhere, in practice, to many of the laws of the state … The vast majority of adults are never required to learn anything, or to do anything. Erosion of the capacity for initiative and self-help are virtually complete. Most adults spend a large part of their time drinking or playing cards, paid by some form of unemployment or social security benefit. Most buy food from take-away sections of the community shops. The majority do not cook meals any more. They are not under any pressure to learn English beyond the basics needed to interact as dependants of the state.

This is the real legacy of Galarrwuy Yunupingu, the purported hero of the movement for land rights. The economic system he has installed in the Gove Peninsula will come to a dead end once the mine shuts down. Unlike the white miners, managers and tradesmen who can move on to other projects with their skills intact, the Aborigines will be tied to the existing land by their traditional culture and habits.

The Yunupingu view of how to manage economic affairs was based on using politics to gain the right to charge rents to big corporations. He persuaded politicians and the news media to influence the judiciary to support his view of Aboriginal economic activity. Of the rents paid to community organisations under his charge, very little was ever spent on investment and very much on conspicuous consumption by the local Aboriginal elite. Yunupingu acted like an aristocrat from a feudal society, the Lord of the Manor doling out morsels to his grateful tenants.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/galarrwuy-yunupingu-lord-of-the-manor-2/

Frank wrote on Aug 21^st, 2023 at 11:00am:

Exactly..... the same has happened on Groote Eylandt.

But it looks like some are heading to jail.

And I wonder who's minding the $royalties store in Weipa????

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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl General Discussion >> Aboriginal Affairs >> Yunupingu http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1691412902 Message started by Boris on Aug 7^th, 2023 at 10:55pm