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:

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

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.

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

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

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

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