(see below for a petition)

To: The Legislative Council of the Parliament of South Australia

The Honourable the President and Members of the Legislative Council in this present Parliament assembled:-

The humble Petition of the undersigned residents of South Australia Respectfully sheweth:-

PROLOGUE
The Googatha peoples are reaching out to the world to expose the wrong process that the South Australian State and the Federal Governments’ Native Title regime have implemented to the detriment of their sacred lands and waters.

The Yellabinna Regional Reserve, the Yumbarra Conservation Park and the Pureba Conservation Park are, as a result, in more danger than ever with mineral and …

The following is an article about “shared responsibility agreement” (SRA) toolkits, a scheme that encourages Indigneous Communities in Australia to hire various individuals to act on their behalf. Following is a discussion from an Australian Mailing list about the article.

The Australian, by Patricia Karvelas — INDIGENOUS communities are being advised to use professional “brokers” and threaten going to the media when negotiating shared responsibility
agreements which require them to sign behavioural contracts in exchange for funds.

A new toolkit urges indigenous communities to be “more political” and limit the power of governments through threatening to make the negotiations public.

“For …