Issue 7 | Barayamal Digest

Ambling across an expansive and endless Kimberley plain in a dusty haze is a large mob of cattle. Here traditional owners and Indigenous people are taking back the reins, creating jobs, protecting country and forging a promising future, all while running a profitable and sustainable station according to Nyamba Buru Yawuru CEO Peter Yu. abc.net.au

Rossingh is a Kamilaroi man from northern New South Wales and one of only around 50 known Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians with a professional accounting designation. His decision to study accounting opened doors that ultimately allowed him to contribute to improved outcomes for Indigenous Australians both in and out of the profession, and advocate for once-in-a-generation change. businessinsider.com.au

Eighty-two per cent of tourists to WA want an Aboriginal cultural experience when they visit, but only 26 per cent get one, according to Tourism WA. www.abc.net.au

The Queensland government has agreed to pay $190 million in stolen wages to Indigenous workers. The agreement settles a long-running dispute with lawyers representing about 10,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who had their pay given to the state under the Protection Act. crikey.com.au

Two Indigenous communities thousands of kilometres apart, living in squalor in the shadow of some of the country’s richest mines, face an uncertain future. abc.net.au/news

Lack of self-determination – In effect, the tribunal found the state fails because it does not stand aside to allow Māori self-determination to prevail. Self-determination is a right that belongs to everybody. Under the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which New Zealand accepts as an “aspirational” document, self-determination means that: http://theconversation.com

The paper also provides vital historical context. Perhaps the most significant and resonant for me is the contention that Sir Arthur Lewis’ vision for economic development, involving industrialisation by invitation and a hoped-for parallel emergence of an indigenous entrepreneurial class that would learn the tricks of the trade from foreign entrepreneurs, has not been fulfilled. http://jamaica-gleaner.com