About 200 people are expected to attend a gathering of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus in Savannah next month.
The Sept. 11-12 gathering will also include a forum with all four 2010 Democratic candidates for governor, said state Sen. Lester Jackson, D-Savannah.
The gubernatorial hopefuls are due to appear at a forum on the second day of the conference at Savannah State University, Jackson said.
Jackson said the event's theme is the "State of Black Georgia." He added the seminar will focus on health, education and employment issues common to all Georgians.
Such gatherings are usually held in Atlanta, but Jackson said he persuaded Sen. Emanuel Jones, D-Atlanta, chairman of the 52-member caucus, to hold this one in Savannah.
"It's a good way for the caucus to get exposed to viewpoints outside the capital," Jackson said.
A tentative agenda calls for the event to kick off at noon with an executive board meeting.
Scheduled for later in the day are talks by Commissioner Mike Beatty of the Department of Community Affairs and Commissioner Frank Shelp of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.
Also planned for the first day are a Lowcountry boil and cookout, as well as a dinner cruise on the Savannah River, followed by a reception.
On the agenda for Sept. 11 are presentations on the "State of Black Georgia," and by candidates for governor and other offices.


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MMIC Low Noise Amplifier
Noise figure: 1.5 dB at 4 GHz (see Figure 10)
16.5 dB at 1 GHz to 6 GHz
14 dB at 6 GHz to 11 GHz
Output power for 1 dB compression (P1dB): 18 dBm
at 1 GHz to 6 GHz
Supply voltage (VDD): 5 V at 55 mA
Output third-order intercept (IP3): 30 dBm at 1 GHz to 6 GHz
50 Ω matched input/output (I/O)
24-lead lead frame chip scale package (LFCSP): 16 mm2
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6 GHz, while requiring only 55 mA from a 5 V supply.
1 GHz to 11 GHz, GaAs, HEMT,
HMC753
FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM
GND 1
RFIN 3
18 GND
16 RFOUT
The P1dB output power of up to 18 dBm at 1 GHz to 6 GHz
enables the low noise amplifier (LNA) to function as a local
oscillator (LO) driver for balanced, I/Q, or image rejection
mixers. The HMC753 also features I/Os that are dc blocked and
internally matched to 50 Ω, making the device ideal for high
capacity microwave radios or very small aperture terminal (VSAT)
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white canvas. There are three locks, and arrangements for two padlocks besides. At either end is an iron ring, attached by two long iron loops. The next is a few inches smaller every way, is not lined, and has no end rings. It is plated with iron outside like the last, and has in the lid four coin-slits placed over four compartments into which the chest was divided by three partitions now gone ; the grooves in which they were fixed remain, as also grooves for saddle-backed contrivances, one under each coin-slit, to make it impossible to get the coins out by means of hooked wires or anything of that sort. There are two locks, and provision for three padlocks. The four compartments may have been for the separate funds of the Bursar, the Sacrist, the Almoner, and the Hostillar, and the five keys for the Prior or Subprior and those four officers, The third chest is little more than half the size of the largest one. It is made of fir boards 2 1/2 to 3 inches thick, and is not iron plated. The lid is coved and crescent-shaped in section, 3/2 inches thick in the middle, and made of a single piece of wood. On the top is an iron plate, five or six inches square, with a coin-slit in the middle. This chest has one lock, and provision for two padlocks. There is at the Castle an ancient iron-bound chest similar to those above described, and which has long been said to be "the chest in which St. Cuthbert's body was deposited"; there is a woodcut of it in Allan's " View of the City of Durham," etc., 1824, p. 199. It was probably a chest made to contain the charters, plate, or other valuables of the bishops, and it is very unlikely that St. Cuthbert's body was ever
placed in it. There are two other ancient chests at the Castle. a fair great stall, etc.). All these arrangements have disappeared. on their bookes). There is a list of the books found in the common almery
of the novices within the cloister in 1395, in Catalogi Veteres, 81. the same use and purpose). Hunter, p. 99, here adds " A little South of the
Treasury is a convenient Room, wherein is established the Songschool, for the Instruction of Boys, for the Use of the Quire ; the Song-school in the South Isle of the Lanthorn, being decently furnished with a reading Desk, convenient Seats, and all other laudable Decencies, is appropriated to the Service of God; where Morning Prayer is daily celebrated at Six in the Morning throughout the whole Year, except on Sundays and Holydays." With regard to these 6 a.m. prayers, the following notices have been found. At the end of the Treasurer's book of 1633-4 is a list of stipends, etc., newly granted pro beneplacito, afier 1620, and paid annually. Among these we find : Minoribus Canonicis pro lectione Matutinarum ad Hor. 6, 51. 45. od." There is a Chapter Order of 1621, "That the prayers at six of the Clocke in the morning shall benceforth be redd in the Quire of this Church." In 1630 it was objected to Cosin and other members of Chapter, You have built a new payre of gorgius organes, which have cost at least 700li., which you command to be played upon not only at the 6 o'clock prayer in the morning (wherby you have driven away from the church all schollars and artificers, which were wont to frequent that morning prayer, when it was short, and playnly said, so that they might understand it), but
also," etc. ; and again, "as yf you could never have chaunting ynough, you and your fellows have taken away the plain morningprayer at 6 of the clocke, ordained by the Statutes for scholars and artificers, and have turned it all in a manner into chaunting and piping." There is no such order in the Statutes. In 1633-+ we find the £5 45. paid "Minoribus Canonicis Matutinarum Lectoribus Hebdomadariis extra Chorum," so that the order of 1621 had been rescinded. The payment of two minor canons as Readers of the Morning Prayers continued until 1854 and 1864, when, the service having long ceased to be held, the offices of the two last readers were not filled up. In the eighteenth century there were payments to the vergers, or to the sub-sacrist, "pro præparatione oratorii pro prec. matutin., 1l." There is a good deal of information on this subject in Walcott's Traditions, etc., of Cathedrals, 1872, pp. 97-102. See also a letter of Dean Whittingham in Strype's Parker (1821), I, 267-8, or Camden Misc., VI, 23n. Walcott's statement, that "in Defoe's time 500 people attended the 6 o'clock service," relates not to Durham, but to Exeter. " It is no uncommon Thing to see 500 People here in a Morning ; which is at least five Times as many as usually attend at St. Paul's, or any other Six o'clock Chapel I was ever at ; and it is commendable, that the Reader doth not here curtail the Morning Service, by leaving out any Part of it, as in other Places they do. Here are two Morning Lectures preached weekly ; viz., Tuesday and Friday Mornings."-Daniel Defoe, A tour, etc., 7th edition, 1769, Vol. I, p. 370, note, referring to the "daily Prayers at Six in the Morning."
XLIII, pp. 85--86. ye Dorter). There was an earlier dormitory in Norman times on the east
side of the cloister-garth ; the cellarage under the Dean's hall and dining-room probably represents the original Common-house with Dormitory over it ; some blocked Norman windows, and the cloisterdoorway and remains of the stairs of the latter may still be seen. Early in the twelfth century these were found to be too small; the new Chapter-house not only occupied much of the space, but cut off direct access from the dormitory to the church, and the Prior, wanting a great house, worked into it what was left of the old dormitory and cellars, adding to them eastward, notably by the erection of the thirteenth century Prior's Chapel and its crypt. The western range would usually have the great cellar below and the cellarer's hall above, and this may have been the case here in Norman times. The great doorway of the later dormitory, perhaps that of the original Parlour, and other Norman portions remain, but that dormitory was almost wholly rebuilt in the thirteenth century as the Great Dormitory, for which purpose it would be secluded enough after the Galilee had cut off access from the north. The cellarage was then reconstructed as Treasury, Common-house, Great cellar,
Nothing is left of the superstructure first placed over the present cellarage, unless some portions of the walls, and a shouldered doorway that opened into the church under the S.W. tower, on a level with the dormitory floor, belonged to it. This
doorway may have led to wooden stairs for access to the church by night. The dormitory referred to in the text, and still existing as the New Library, was begun in 1398 and finished in 1404. The contracts for the work are printed in Scriptores Tres, App. Nos. clx, clxiv. For notices of it, and of contributions to it, see Rolls, Index, under
Dormitory. a litle chamber of wainscott). All the original fittings have disappeared, but
some idea of the arrangements may be gained from the present
windows, which, to a great extent, occupy the places of the old ones. there was no windowes). There are still no windows on the east side
towards the south end, because there the Loft abuts on the Dormitory wall. On the opposite wall some part of the Infirmary probably abutted in like manner, the modern windows there having
apparently been inserted where none had existed previously. a dosen cressetts). Cavities wrought in the four-square stone. See above,
ch. I, note ; ch. Xiii, and note. a faire large house).
This was
a substantial building found in all monasteries, constructed with no attempt at concealment. The plan of or for St. Gall in the ninth century (Arch. Journal, Vol. V, p. 85) shows six of these necessaria provided for different places in that great monastery, besides some smaller ones, and the chief or Great Vecessarium connected with the Great Dormitory. The seven large ones are shown as isolated buildings connected by narrow passages with the apartments that they served. The Necessarium had many different names. At Canterbury it was called the Third Dormitory to distinguish it from the Great and from the Second (officers') dormitory, "Dormitory" probably in playful allusion to the monks dozing in its recesses ; see Lanfranc, quoted in note below on "privy searche." Elsewhere the Privy Dorter, the Rere Dorter, or, as here, the Privies, or as in Rolls, 603, Secretum Dormitorii. Wherever it could be managed, a watercourse flowed through the pit below, or was held up and occasionally allowed to rush through for Aushing purposes.
This could not be done at Durham in the usual way, owing to the peculiarity of the site, and some method of Alushing from the conduit must have been adopted. There are considerable remains of the Rere-dorter at Kirkstall, St. Agatha's by Richmond, Castle Acre, Netley, Canterbury, Worcester, and at Lewes, where it was 158 feet long, with 61 compartments, in a row against the south wall, over the watercourse. The pit exists at Westminster and elsewhere. For Canterbury, see R. Willis, Conv. Buildings, p. 82 ff. ; for Castle Acre, Hope, in Norfolk Archæology, XII, 132-4; and for Lewes, Hope in Sussex Archæol. Collections, XXXIV, 98, and Arch. Journal, XLI, 26. At Worcester much has come to light since Willis wrote in Arch. Journal, Vol. XX, 83-133. At Durham the pit remains, with an outlet westward, but it has not been fully explored, else the two great pillars might have been seen. The south wall is standing up to the sills of the little windows, and now forms the north wall of the stables over the Lying-house (ch. XLVI); these have a hayloft over them, in which the window sills are visible. In an oil-painting at the Castle, probably of the sixteenth
seventeenth century, the Rere Dorter and a larger building to the south ("the Master of the Fermerey's chamher") are shown as standing in juxtaposition at right angles to the Dorter, roofed, and with windows of late character, as if they had been adapted to later
uses.
litle wyndowes). See the last note. At Worcester, a stretch of the south
wall of the corresponding building is standing, with five very narrow Norman slit windows widely splayed inside. Between the windows are the holes where the wooden partitions were fixed, and on the floor-level, over the pit, holes for joists. A small piece of the front
wall of the pit remains. there is iij fair glass wyndowes]. Both these and the original "litle
wyndowes" appear from this passage to have remained till about
1593. a privy searche). Here the Subprior performed the duty assigned to the
Circa or Circumitor in Lanfranc's Constitutions, in accordance with a direction in the Rule of St. Benedict, ch. xlviii, that one or two seniors "circumeant monasterium horis quibus vacant fratres lectioni," lest any should be slothful or a hindrance to others. In later times it was found desirable that these rounds should be extended thus : accensa candela in absconsa, unus eorum in dormitorio debet circumire lectos omnium, et omnia sedilia in necessariis, solicite considerans ne forte aliquis frater dormiens ibi remanserit ... vero cum dormientes invenerit non eos quocunque modo tangat, sed modeste atque ordinate sonitum tantummodo, quo
excitentur, faciat."-Lanfranc, c. 1072. paved wth fyne tyled stone). If any of this pavement remains, it is concealed
by the present boarded floor of the New Library. The Supprior dyd alwaies dyne, etc.). The Prior commonly taking his
meals in his own hall or private apartment. praier & deuocion). " Mox ut surrexerint a cæna, sedeant omnes in unum,
et legat unus Collationes, vel Vitas Patrum, aut certe aliud quod ædificet audientes."—Reg. S. Bened., cap. xlii. These conferences may have been held in the chapter-house at Durham, and they may
be what the writer is referring to. they went to ye Salvi). The meaning probably is that they went to
Compline, and that this office was sometimes called the Salve from
the antiphon Salve Regina, the earliest antiphon of the Blessed
Virgin commonly recited in the Church. In the Roman Breviary it
is directed to be said after Lauds and Compline from Trinity Sunday
to Advent. According to Zaccaria, it had no place in that Breviary
till Cardinal Quignon introduced it, and it has often been said
that it was transferred from Quignon's Breviary to that of Pius V.
There are, however, early printed Roman Breviaries with this
anthem in them at Compline. It is not in the Old English Breviaries,
but nevertheless it was recited after Compline by the Franciscans as
early as 1249, and by the Benedictines earlier than 1343.
ordered to be sung with special solemnity, and so might easily give
its name to the whole of the service at which it was used.
indeed, the great musical effort of the quire, sung in pricksong in
It was
It was,
many parts, even a dozen or more. It was sung in the richer parish churches and was very popular. Il lent its name to other anthems similarly used, and was the parent of the anthem now sung after Mattins and Evensong. In a modern monastery the Salve sung at the end of Compline commonly impresses the lay mind much more than the office itself. See a constitution in Reyner, Appendix, 153 ; B. Gavanti, Comm. in Rubr. Breviarii, s V, cap. xxii, 5; Addis and Arnold, Cath. Dict., 742 : J. Wickham Legg, Principles, etc., of
Prayer Book, 33. vj of ye clocke). After Compline and Salve, the monks went to bed, but it
must be remembered that they rose at midnight for Mattins. See ch. XIII, at the end.
XLIV, pp. 86---88. The Lofte). So called in Durham as being on a higher level than the
Frater. It corresponded with the Misericorde at Westminster and elsewhere, called Deportum at Canterbury, a subsidiary Frater where certain monks dined who for infirmity or other reasons were allowed to take their meals outside the Frater proper, and with indulgences that could not be permitted there. Hence it may well have been called, as it appears to have been in Durham, Solarium Caritatis, under which head see the Index to Rolls. At the beginning of the fourteenth century Winchelsey's Statutes provide for the additional masses to be attended by those who in their turns were taking their Deportum. See further in R. Willis, Conv. Buildings, 59–61, and, with reference to St. Agatha's by Richmond, Hope, in Yks. Arch. Jrnl., X, 144. It appears that at Durham, in the sixteenth century, all the monks regularly dined in the Loft, and the novices only in the Frater, except on festival days (ch. XXXIX, XLIV). In a statute of 1444 it is strictly forbidden that any but growing youths dine in the Frater from September 13 to Ash Wednesday, save on Sundays and festivals. See Reyner, Appendix,
129. Cf. Reg. S. Bened., cap. xli. The mounckes dyd all dyne together). This is perhaps not quite accurate.
We find some of the obedientiaries having their "meat," which may have included their dinner, served from the kitchen to their checkers (ch. XLIX). And according to MS. H. 45, L., and Davies, it was the old monks that dined and supped in the Loft. The old discipline
may have become much relaxed at the last. aboue ye seller). The small cellar, that is, under the northern portion of the
Loft. It has a square opening in the centre of the vault, as if for letting down and drawing up vessels, and beside the door leading to it from the covey or pantry is a small opening which has had a little door and fastenings, as if for serving drink from the cellar to the covey without opening the great door. The internal dimensions of this cellar are about 28 ft. by 10 ft. Between it and the cellarage under the Dorter, "the great cellar," was another doorway, now
blocked. ye said great kitchinge seruinge, etc.). Nevertheless there may have been
smaller kitchens for minor cookeries, as in the Infirmary, Guest-hall,


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Because there has been a major shift from watching terrestrial and digital television to online and on-demand video streaming, those who are in the business of the former now have to look for additional revenue streams and also a way to still be relevant to the consumers. Comcast is one of those companies and they have confirmed that they will be launching a new mobile phone service sometime in 2017, with the product relying heavily on WiFi and their subscriber-based hotspots.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts himself confirmed that the company will be going in that direction next year. They will be looking to utilize the more than 15 million WiFi hotspots that are being facilitated by Comcast customers themselves. But for those areas where WiFi will not be available, the service will switch to the Verizon Network. They have been working on a technology that will seamlessly toggle between WiFi and cellular connectivity, without breaking the connection.
There are also reports that Comcast will be bidding for wireless airwaves, paving the way for their own network eventually. But Comcast Mobile (name tentative) will eventually function as an MVNO or mobile virtual network operator, wanting to compete with the likes of Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless and the more than 300 operating in the US.
Other than that, we don't know much about their plans for this mobile phone service, like when is the exact month they plan to launch or how much the service will actually cost. We'll probably know more in the months to come of course.
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Bangladeshis have taken a stand against moral policing after a Hindu headmaster was made by an elected member of parliament to do squats while holding his ears on the false accusations of making disparaging statements about Islam.
Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, a principal in Narayanganj District near the capital city Dhaka, was initially suspended by his school as well following the public shaming. After a committee formed by the country's education minister found no evidence of the allegations against him of speaking against Islam, he was reinstated to his position.
The incident, which took place on 13 May, was captured on mobile phone video. The footage along with photos showed being shamed in front of a cheering crowd that included the local Member of Parliament AKM Salim Osman.
What led to the humiliating scene were accusations against the educator that he had punished a student in his class on 8 May and made a derogatory comment against Islam. However, Shyamal Kanti Bhakta denied making any negative remarks and said members of the school's managing committee held a grudge against him for not going along with their directives.
Subsequently, the boy's family lodged a complaint with the school managing committee, alleging corporal punishment, but they did not mention anything about a derogatory comment against Islam. The school managing committee then suspended the teacher.
I don't feel any necessity to apologise to the headmaster who was punished as a nonbeliever, not as Hindu.
The population of Bangladesh is overwhelmingly Muslim, but Hindus represent about 9% of the country's religious make-up.
Osman's own party, however, called his behavior as "embarrassing" and having "tainted the party's image". The country's education minister also condemned the incident and formed a probe committee to investigate the incident.
Bangladeshis on social media expressed their disgust as well. Corporal punishment in schools was banned a few years ago and generally is widely criticised. Applying it to not only an adult, but a teacher as well has been regarded as unbearably humiliating.
To show their support, people took photos of themselves in the same position that Shyamal Kanti Bhakta was made to adopt by the politician and posted them online. The trend eventually evolved into the #SorrySir campaign, attracting prominent online influencers and going viral.
#sorrySir# That we live in a society where politicians are more powerful than the head Principle in the very school campus.
#sorrySir# For those students who cheer up in the misery of their teacher who gave more than a decade giving knowledge to them.
#sorrySir# Because religion will mostly come up anywhere to end up a discussion.
People also protested in the streets and burned an effigy of the member of parliament.
On 18 May a High Court in Dhaka asked why Member of Parliament Osman and others should not face legal action for the headmaster's humiliation.
After feeling the pressure, Osman recently expressed his regret for the incident.
I'm ashamed of my behaviour with Shyamal Kanti Bhakta on May 13 last.
It wasn't all rosy, however. Shyamal Kanti Bhakta has received threats online. Also, in a rally on 20 May, radical Islamist platform Hefazat-e-Islam demanded his punishment, saying he hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims.
Allegations of hurting religious sentiments have become a weapon for extremists in recent years in Bangladesh. Actual violence isn't uncommon, either. A series of planned attacks devastated several Buddhist monasteries and houses in Ramu in 2012, and assaults on other religious minorities are alarmingly becoming frequent.
Meanwhile, the government has been cracking down on accusations of blasphemy, although blasphemy is not criminalised in Bangladesh. In April 2016 a court in southwestern Bagerhat jailed two Hindu teachers for blasphemous comments against Islam, invoking a colonial-era law that makes insulting any religion a crime.
Several secular bloggers have been murdered in Bangladesh over the last few years, and authorities haven't taken any significant measures to deter the trend. After Niloy Neel was assasinated in August 2015, a police chief warned bloggers about their speech. He said, "Free-thinkers and bloggers should not cross the limit of tolerance while expressing their views on religion". Who needs a blasphemy law when there are so many who are eager to impose it in practice?


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Beauty Point is a small riverside town that's a hotspot for mariners and fascinating underwater creatures.
Sitting on the northern reaches of the Tamar River in the middle of sheep, cattle and wine-growing country, Beauty Point was originally established as the first deep-water port in the area. The port is still the heart of the town and hosts Australia's National Institute for Maritime Studies.
Seahorses are a star attraction in Beauty Point with the world's first seahorse aquarium, Seahorse World, dedicated to breeding and protecting these fascinating creatures.
The unique Australian platypus and echidna can also be seen next door at Platypus House.
For creatures in the wild, try nearby Narawntapu National Park, one of the best places to view free-ranging wildlife in the state. Listen for the growls and screeches of Tasmanian devils.
For a more human interaction, there are more than 20 award-winning wineries and cellar doors to explore in the area around Beauty Point and plenty of hidden gems in the quaint towns dotted throughout the picturesque countryside. Many are small, family-owned vineyards where the growers will greet you and happily tell how they make their wine.
Beauty Point is a 40-min drive (40 km) from Launceston.
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Q: Multi-currency: how to insert a currency with non-default currency type I am new to multi-currency. Suppose I have used Australia Dollar and Japanese Yen in the system. And when I am executing the below code:
Merchandise__c mer = new Merchandise__c();
mer.Name = 'Sample Product2';
mer.Price__c = 1000;
insert mer;

It appears to me that whether this means 1000 AUD or JPY totally depends on my current currency setting. So this result will vary depending on the user who runs the code. Is there a way I can make this more fixed?
Also, when I do a SOQL on these merchandises, it only tell me the price number, without the currency type. So I can't tell the difference between 100 AUD and 100 JPY based on the SOQL result. Is there a way I can query this?

A: The values in Apex are always the organization's default currency by default. This means that when you specify: mer.Price__c = 1000;, you're saying that the product's price is 1000 of whatever currency is the default for the organization. This means that you need to do some math if the values originate within Apex Code.
To do this, query the CurrencyType object for the ConversionRate where the IsoCode matches your intended currency (the CurrencyIsoCode field). If you use Dated Conversion Rates, you'll need to query the appropriate DatedConversionRate table instead. The system can't do this automatically because it doesn't know how to handle that on custom objects (you may as well call it unsupported, because it gets incredibly messy to try and figure this out in reporting).
This question gives some more concrete data to work with, but basically, as long as you're not using dated conversion rates, it's just:
SELECT Id, ConversionRate
FROM CurrencyType
WHERE IsoCode = :mer.CurrencyISOCode

If you want the results from a query to be in the user's currency, there is a SOQL option for that:
SELECT convertCurrency(Price__c)
FROM Merchandise__c
WHERE ...

This works in Apex Code. Please note that because of aliasing rules, you can't query the organization default value and the converted value in one query. This notation is also not supported in aggregate calls, such as GROUP BY, SUM, AVG, etc.
Note that values entered in through an apex:inputField should show the correct value to the user, but will internally be converted to the organization's default currency before your controller methods are called.
To specify the record's currency, use the CurrencyIsoCode field:
mer.CurrencyIsoCode = 'JPY';

Note that even though you put in some other currency, the value itself should still be in the corporate currency. The UI will translate the value for you automatically when displayed in reports and the UI, but not when using the Data Loader or Apex Code.

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We've already seen the launch of Sony Ericsson's limited edition James Bond Casino Royale silver K800i Cyber-shot camera phone, but Sony has another stylish tie-in available too – the Casino Royale Spy Gear Set.
Unfortunately, I've not been able to find this for sale (as yet) in the UK, but if you're in North America, you can get your hands on a stylish attaché case complete with the "007" logo, along with matching Sony VAIO VGNTX007C notebook and a Cyber-shot 7.2 megapixel digital camera. The laptop has an 11.1″ WXGA widescreen display, Core Solo processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 1GB memory, 80GB storage and multi-format drive. The camera is a Cyber-shot DSC-T50 with 7.2 megapixel Super HAD CCD, 3-inch LCD and Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens.
They're even throwing in a privacy filter to stop anyone seeing your top secret plans. It's priced at $4,299.99 (around £2,290) and is available for pre-order with a November 15th launch date.
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Indigenous adults must 'grow up' so that Indigenous children can depend on them, says Alison Anderson
By KIERAN FINNANE
Minister for Indigenous Advancement Alison Anderson (at left, during her election campaign) has challenged the "culture of entitlement and welfare dependency" in the Territory's remote communities, calling on Indigenous adults to "grow up", to become real adults "so that children, real children can depend on you". She said she sometimes despairs at "the reluctance of some Indigenous people to take the jobs that are already there", for instance in the "long-running mining boom". Work is "not just about the money although the money is good", it is "about status and respect, about responsibility and dignity".
The Minister was speaking in the NT Parliament on November 1, the last day of the first sittings since her party, the Country Liberals, came to power. Her unsparing analysis was made during a Ministerial Statement on "The Status of Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory".
In far too many remote communities "nothing gets done, no toilet is unblocked, no child taken to school unless someone from outside does it". There is a dangerous but common "conversation of endless complaint" where "a person offers to do nothing for themselves and demands everything be done for them" and the rest of the world is wondering why: "They see remote communities covered in litter and able-bodied men complaining about lack of maintenance on the houses they live in, they wonder why Indigenous people in these communities will not do things themselves."
She warned that the government cannot fix everything that is wrong with remote communities: "There are not the resources and everything should not be done by government because adults are not children."
She also put her finger on the tragic significance of the Territory's Indigenous population being very young, that there are simply not enough Indigenous adults to look after each Indigenous child – the missing adults are dead.
She pointed to some significant features of her government's program, such as their support for Indigenous homelands with an asset management program funded by the Commonwealth including for future repairs and upgrades. She was critical of the performance of many non-government organisations (NGOs), and urged a greater role for Indigenous organisations, that nonetheless need to be judged by the same high standards that apply anywhere else. (On this at least Ms Anderson would seem to agree with the former Coordinator-General of Remote Services, Olga Havnen, whose position she terminated.)
But the great emphasis was again on "real education for real jobs", with Ms Anderson promising "more boarding school places, more School of the Air, more experienced teachers everywhere", laying the foundation for greater independence of Indigenous Territorians. "Even if we only made progress in the schools it would be something to be proud of," she said.
At right: Alison Anderson (far left) visiting Ntaria School in August 2007. At the time we reported that Gwen Inkamala, standing, was working as the school's home liaison officer, was the mother of four, all of them secondary-educated. She had also fostered 20 other children. An adult on whom children could depend. There are too few of them, says Ms Anderson.
What follows is an edited version of Ms Anderson's speech (source: Daily Hansard):
"Even those of us with deep knowledge [of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory] have to admit how little we know because of the diversity of language and culture across this great landscape, so we approach the figures cautiously. Even so, the figures can be interesting.
"In Australia, 3% of people are Indigenous. In the Territory that rises to 30%. It does not just rise; it explodes and creates a whole new society, one this nation is still coming to terms with. Anywhere else [doesn't come] close …
"What does it mean to be Indigenous here? Many things, of course, but some of the raw averages are interesting. It means we are young. For every non-Indigenous child in the Territory there are 4.5 non-Indigenous adults aged 20 to 59. To put that another way, over four adults to look after each child.
"However, for an Indigenous child there are only 1.5 indigenous adults. In other words, there are far fewer adults to care for our children, to protect and inspire them, to feed and look out for them. Where are the missing adults? There is no way to put this gently: they are dead.
"This is like the reverse of the old story of the Pied Piper where the children were taken away. Here it is the adults who have gone in places like Lajamanu where 29% of people are younger than nine years old. Something has spirited away many of the parents, the uncles, and the aunties.
"As I say, we are different. We are also remote. In all Australia 24% of Indigenous people live in remote or very remote areas. In the Territory that proportion is 81%.
"When I speak of remoteness, I mean not just remote from Darwin or Alice Springs, but remote from each other. There are 527 homelands and outstations funded by my department. In many ways, this is a wonderful thing, and this government is committed to homelands and outstations. However, the extent of our remoteness is unusual, not just at the national level, but internationally.
There will never be enough money
"In service delivery, remoteness makes everything harder – everything. Take transport, with road cuts during the Wet Season and expensive public transport. A return trip from Katherine to Lajamanu costs $320 and runs just twice a week. There will never be enough money to change this, not here or anywhere else in the world. That is something we ignore, but we ignore it at our peril, again and again. I see programs that do not factor in the true cost of remoteness: the travel time needed to reach communities, and the cost of planes to access them during the Wet.
"We are different, and it is time to admit difference has consequences. It has benefits and it has costs. I can put a price on those costs. According to the Commonwealth Grants Commission's 2011 update, the cost of delivering welfare and housing services in the Northern Territory is 3.4 times higher than the national average. That is the price of remoteness. It is a price the government cannot afford to pay – not fully – which is why those services are usually deficient. That is one of the reasons for the problems we have in most communities of inadequate infrastructure and housing, poor health, and education. I point to these problems because there is no sense in denying them. There is no sense in denying our difference from the rest of Australia.
"However, it is not all bad. … I turn to how difference can become strength if it is treated with respect. This government respects the importance of cultural connections to land. We support the right of people to live on their country. One of the things this means is housing. At the moment, about 10,000 Indigenous people live in around 2400 houses in homelands and outstations. Statistically not overcrowded but then, people are not statistics. The reality is very different.
At left: Alison Anderson explains the Intervention to women at Papunya in August 2007, saying the concern was not only with sexual abuse, it was also with children not being looked after, being unhealthy, not being sent to school, nor given opportunities: "We have to change our thoughts," she said then, essentially the same message as now.
"Under Labor, they were often forced off their country into larger communities and even towns, with disastrous results. We support their right to live where they choose, in decent housing. We also want to progress economic development in the bush. This is why we will begin our conversation with the Australian government to establish if housing programs that fall under the national partnership agreement on remote Indigenous housing will be administered through local organisations or councils. If so, they will be expected to develop an asset management plan to include setting aside funds for future repairs and upgrades. These plans will be audited by the Department of Housing to ensure compliance. My dream is to see the day housing in these places are built, occupied, and maintained by their owners.
"Of course, it is not just about housing. Another major problem is education, starting with language. In 2008, 64% of Indigenous people in remote areas of the Northern Territory spoke an Aboriginal language as their main language at home. There is nothing wrong with that; it happens with many cultures around Australia. The problem is that many of those children fail to learn to speak and write English properly at school. That meant they could never get mainstream jobs. That meant they could never have access to opportunities for travel and living in other places, for getting better jobs in their places. It denied them choice, it meant they did not have the choices that most Australian young people do have. That is something else that shows what it means to be Indigenous in the Northern Territory: to be denied choice. It does not have to be that way, you can be different and still have choice and that means that being different and strong, not different and weak.
"This government intends to make our Indigenous children stronger, not by providing stronger crutches, more interpreters and welfare workers and police and jailers, but by making them more independent. The first step in independence is education and the first step in education is language. All Indigenous people will be taught English just like the children from all other cultures in Australia. This government is committed to making education normal for all children, no matter where they live. Real education for real jobs.
"There will be more boarding school places, more School of the Air, more experienced teachers everywhere. We are different to the rest of Australia in where we live, but we have to be identical in what we learn. That sort of difference builds strength not weakness. It creates choice not limitations.
The jobs are there
"The jobs are there or they could be. They are there in the market gardens that existed decades ago in communities around the country and could exist again. They are there at this moment in the national parks. Anyone with dark skin has to have a head start going for a job in the Tourism industry in the Northern Territory. Let us face it, the tourists have not come here to go to the opera or for shopping. They are here in large part because of Indigenous culture, the landscape and art, animals and plants that our people know intimately. Who better to share it with them than us? Some Indigenous people work in that industry already and there could be so many more.
"And of course there is mining. Big companies are desperate for the opportunity to pay Indigenous people over a hundred thousand a year to work for them. Of course, we need education first if we are to go for those jobs but the jobs are there and that is a huge piece of good fortune. Australia is going through some economic good times. According to the Commonwealth government's new report on Asia, those good times are likely to continue. Indigenous people need to be part of that by improving basic education. This government is determined that many more Indigenous children will be able to get real jobs and take advantage of this prosperity and break the welfare cycle.
At right: Jeffrey Matthews from Lajamanu. We reported in June that he had been working for Newmont Gold Mine for nearly three years and that the company was looking to double its intake of Aboriginal workers. Ms Anderson hopes that more Aboriginal people, especially men, will heed the call.
"I admit that sometimes I despair at the reluctance of some Indigenous people to take the jobs that are already there. I look at the men of Yirrkala and ask why they will not drive the 20km to Nhulunbuy to earn excellent money in the mine and the processing plant there. These are the kinds of questions the rest of Australia has been asking for years as it tries to connect the dots. Tries to understand why a long-running mining boom can exist literally next door to a culture of entitlement and welfare dependency.
"As I travel around with the Cabinet sub-committee I will be listening, but I will be asking questions too and that will be one of them. I will be asking why so many Indigenous communities have become welfare traps where somewhere along the way from poverty to prosperity we took a side road and got stuck in a hell from where there seems to be no escape.
"It is not good to live off welfare for ever, just as it is not good to live off mining royalties if it means you do not work. This applies to people around the world not just us. In the twenty-first century people need paid jobs, particularly men. It is not just about the money although the money is good. It is about status and respect, about responsibility and dignity. It is also about growing up and not being a child any more, about becoming an adult, so that children, real children can depend of you.
Fixing the schools
"We need more of such adults in our Indigenous communities. When I am out bush on my own and as a member of the Cabinet sub-committee I hope that this is one of the things that many people would want to talk about. How we can help people grow up. I will not just be listening. Sometimes in Indigenous matters we can despair because it can seem like we are always starting from scratch, never making any progress; but this government has policies that will work. The most important for me is fixing the schools to improve the quality of our teachers and their teaching.
"I have spoken before here, just a week ago, but the need to teach English so that the education a child receives here will be as good as that in Sydney or Brisbane. I know that the majority of kids in remote communities do not begin school with the same level of English as kids in our cities, and I know we need to work with the language that kids come into the classroom with to bring them up to the speed in English as quickly as possible.
"This is not controversial, this is common sense. This is about our kids having a proper grasp of English and receiving the same standard of education as any other kid in Australia. Real education and real jobs. This government is going to listen a lot and fix a lot. Even if we only made progress in the schools it would be something to be proud of. It would be much more than has been achieved in many decades. …
"I spoke earlier of the frequent failures of the NGOs because they do not understand the communities where they work. I spoke of the need for more culturally appropriate delivery of services by Indigenous people. I stand by that, but let me make one thing perfectly clear, that does not mean simply throwing dollars at communities and telling them to fix problems themselves. There has been some of that over the years and we know too often it does not work.
"I want to say a few words about that about how we know what works and what does not. It seems to me that despite all that has been written about efforts to help Indigenous people, all the evaluations and the reports, we do not know very much about what works. Too often we read something that tells us a real project worked and should be introduced anywhere.
Too many anecdotes, not enough data
"But why did it work well in that one place? Was it for some local reason? It will not necessarily work in other places. We are almost never told. There are too many anecdotes in public policy making for Indigenous people and not enough data. Some people have calculated that thousands of pages of evaluations, reports and submissions are now written each week on Indigenous Australia. Never has so much been written for so little result.
"The quantity is enormous, but the quality is poor. We have been let down by too many of our advisers, too many bureaucrats and academics. I will always listen but I am getting sick of the poor quality research and poor quality evaluations. There is too much noise and not enough content. As minister I am looking forward to evidence of what works. I say to all the Indigenous people, I will be talking to you over the coming years. Let us talk but let our talk be about the facts.
"Here is an evaluation that will not need a doctoral thesis. People with jobs , 100% employed. People on welfare, 100% unemployed. We have all been avoiding the facts for too long now – avoiding the evidence of thinking it was not necessary because Indigenous people were different or because we were scared of what the facts might show.
At left: Sharona Richardson. We reported in June that she works for the Aboriginal Interpreter Service and is also a mother. After her son's birth she thought, "I've got a baby, now I need a job". A native Western Arrernte speaker and fluent in English, she applied to the service, got a job and is completing a Diploma in Interpreting. Education has given her choices, a core theme for Ms Anderson.
"The time for that is over. One thing that we do know is that such an approach does not work. We have proved that by now and the rest of Australia knows it too. Government does not always get it right in Perth and Melbourne, but they have a much better track record than we do because they usually apply policies that have been tried and tested and honestly evaluated.
"I ask the NGOs and bureaucrats from those places to come here and apply the same standard to us as they apply back home. When you write your reports and your evaluations, be as tough as you would be if you were evaluating progress in your own communities.
"This is one of the reasons I spent so much of my last speech here talking about education. The evidence is in on education. The facts are clear and we know what works. What works are teachers and schools, like those in Bunbury, Port Augusta, Bathurst and Gladstone. The same approach to education works everywhere and it is time we tried it here in every school in the Territory.
"That is why I will continue to talk so much about schools. I support my colleague, the Minister for Education, because with education the evidence is well and truly in. We know what works and we know what has to be done to make it work here. Much is uncertain, but not that one.
Communities like nursing homes, full of illness, complaints and death
I travel a great deal. I have visited so many remote communities and too often they are like nursing homes, full of illness, complaints and death. Too often they are places where nothing gets done, no toilet is unblocked, no child taken to school unless someone from outside does it. I say they are like nursing homes; perhaps I should say nurseries – everyone is a child, even the adults.
"It is time to change that for the sake of our respect and our dignity. It is not as though the system we have works well. The non-Indigenous NGOs, or not-for-profits, are easy for government to deal with, especially the Commonwealth government, which takes a long view all the way from Canberra. Often these NGOs are bright and shiny, run like clockwork, and fill in all the paperwork perfectly. They are good at lobbying and writing submissions, I do not mock that; however, they are not as good at providing services because they do not understand the communities they go into. Like so many non-Indigenous advisors over the years, so many experts are cursed by the combination of noble intentions and utter ignorance.
"I suggest a greater role for Indigenous organisations. There is growing evidence community-based and controlled organisations can do better. We need to judge them by the same high standards we apply to non-Indigenous NGOs. However, when we do that we will find many of our own are up there with the best – local knowledge, there is nothing quite like it.
"How do we get from here to there? What is the way forward? I offer no magic solution, no silver bullets. My basic approach is to have a few core ideas which are real education for real jobs, and to keep travelling and doing what I can to make them reality, to keep visiting and keep listening to what people tell me.
At right: Alison Anderson, then an Independent after resigning from the Labour Government, joining an Action for Alice rally in March 2011. Her message then was about the welfare of children hanging around on the streets of town at night. "We don't want to continue to bury our children," she said. "We want our children to go home."
"I am honoured to head the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Regional Affairs which will crisscross the Territory over the next few years to ensure this government remains closely in touch with what is happening on the ground. I am sure the knowledge is out there to help us make all our lives better, but I am also sure this knowledge lies not in any one person's head; it is dispersed among every one of us in Papunya, Baniyala, Katherine and Darwin.
"I am here because I see myself as a leader. To be a leader is to be a listener, and to listen you have to move around. I invite everyone to approach us with ideas, including ideas for local business opportunities in the regions. If you want a hand up, come and talk to us. If you can create a job for yourself, that is good. If you can create jobs for a few other people too, that is even better. There is no reason Indigenous people cannot excel in schools and the workplace.
"We are struggling with our history and, in some cases, with obstacles in our own hearts and minds. Much of what has happened to us is deeply unfair. Much we have witnessed and suffered has been terrible, but it is a struggle we must embark on and a struggle we can win.
"I said I would listen, but that is not the same as saying I will always agree. I have been listening for a long time now to people in remote communities and I like to describe two types of conversations that are common, but dangerous. Common, perhaps even understandable, but I have come to realise, dangerous. The first is the conversation of endless complaint. They are the conversations where a person offers to do nothing for themselves and demands everything be done for them.
The rest of the world is wondering why
"In the rest of Australia, people pick up the rubbish in their yards, they fix their own blocked toilets, when they turn on their TVs and see remote communities covered in litter and able-bodied men complaining about lack of maintenance on the houses they live in, they wonder why Indigenous people in these communities will not do things themselves. Of course, in many places they do, but in many places they do not – in far too many. The rest of the world is looking and wondering why. …
"I say to these people, to those in the communities and those watching, that everything will not be done by government, everything cannot be done; there are not the resources and everything should not be done by government because adults are not children. Adults are capable human beings who need to be strong so they can care for the real children, all those kids I mentioned in the start of this speech who should be safe and warm and in school.
"I will be travelling and I will be listening, but I will not be accepting everything I am told. My friends will be glad to hear that, sometimes, I will still be arguing, especially with adults who refuse to grow up. …
"I finish on a personal note about real children. I spoke of them earlier; of how Indigenous children have far fewer adults in their lives compared with our Australian children. We owe our children everything, Mr Deputy Speaker, and if we keep them at the centre of the picture we cannot go far wrong. Children need education and they need parents – dads as well as mums. Dads need jobs, not gaols, and for jobs they need education. That is why, in my mind, so much comes back to our schools. I believe if we get them right, much else will follow – not everything but a lot. That is my plan. It is a journey I intend taking over the next year as I visit as many of those 527 homelands and outstations as possible. I promise to do everything I can to make it a journey into a better future for all Indigenous people."
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Bob K. Durnan
Posted November 15, 2012 at 6:43 pm
I see that my favourite verbal sparring partner Janet Brown (Posted November 14, 2012 at 9:43 pm) is still determined to insist that there are separate laws applying to Aboriginal people who receive welfare payments such as Newstart allowances and family payments. She seems to think they are not required by law to report all their other personal income (such as royalty payments) to Centrelink, every time they lodge an income statement.
Janet also appears to believe that Aboriginal people who don't claim welfare entitlements but do receive royalties are not required by law to declare these royalties as income when they lodge their tax returns.
Janet, not unusually, is completely wrong in her assumptions.
On the available evidence, Janet possibly also believes that up is down, black is white, day is night, the earth is flat, and space is finite, but unless she is able to show me reasons why these things are true I wouldn't be inclined to agree with her just because she says so.
However, I am quite confident that Janet and I both will be able to find legislation supporting my contentions if we want to spend the time looking up the relevant acts (I have spoken today to an expert in the field who assures me that I am on solid ground in saying this).
Thank goodness that nobody is relying on her for advice about how to conduct their personal business.
Once again, I say to Janet: If you know of anybody who has broken the law, you are duty bound to report them to the authorities. If you don't know traditional owners who have broken the law, and are making allegations against a group of people based on hearsay, simple suspicion or pure prejudice, then you need to apologise to them and stop making defamatory assertions.
There are no separate laws applying to Aboriginal people on the matter of needing to declare royalties (or anything else) as income.
Bob for someone so knowledgeable you really are playing dumb. There is no requirement for royalty payments to be reported. It is up to the federal government to ensure royalty payments are included in means testing to those on welfare payments.
David Chewings
Posted November 13, 2012 at 5:29 am
Re "Indigenous adults must 'grow up' so that Indigenous children can depend on them says Alison Anderson" by Kieran Finnane.
@ Bob Durnam Posted November 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm
@ Janet Brown Posted November 12, 2012 at 5:05 pm
People like me need people like you Bob, (and others like Russell Guy and Leigh Childs), to keep a check on certain extremities exhibited in our public lives.
Of course, I enjoy the banter which can get a little heated at certain times e.g. when the Federal Leader of the Opposition is having trouble with his popularity.
Regards from David Chewings aka THE lone dingo
Bob Durnan
Posted November 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Janet (Posted November 12, 2012 at 5:05 pm). Stop playing these snide games with peoples' reputations and self respect. Of course there are many people who declare royalty payments as income. If you know of anybody who has broken the law, you are duty bound to report them to the authorities. If you don't know traditional owners who have broken these rules, and are making allegations against a group of people based on hearsay, simple suspicion or pure prejudice, then you need to apologise to them and stop making defamatory assertions. There are no separate laws applying to Aboriginal people on the matter of needing to declare royalties as income.
Bob. Not all still confirms some. So inform us of those you know report their royalty payments to human services when there is no requirement to do so. So you confirm my statement about still being on welfare payments plus royalty payments. So why one rule for one race and other for every other race.
John Mulya Yiri of Brisbane
Good on you Alison. The ideology of the left sounds good to our ears but does nothing. Your pragmatic solutions are what we need Nampin. Sometimes tough love is the only way. Every blessing to you.
See also the subsequent Senate Inquiry:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=fapa_ctte/central_land_council/report/index.htm
Thanks for the advice Janet (Posted November 5, 2012 at 5:53 pm), but you are full of humbug. I'll have a go at figuring out how your cranky statements relate to the arguments I put in my comment. And, by the way, not all traditional owners 'live in squalor' or fail to support their communities.
Another thing that will be even more amazing to you: many people on welfare do not 'live in squalor', and nor are they 'welfare cheats'. Please stop inferring that 'royalty recipients' equals 'welfare cheats'. Many do declare their income to Centrelink.
Thanks William, I'll have a read. If anybody else wants to do likewise, go to http://www.anao.gov.au/uploads/documents/Performance_Audit_of_Centrecorp_Aboriginal_Investment_Corporation_Pty_Ltd.pdf
Bob, so tell us all how these traditional owners still collect the dole and live in squalor. Wouldn't it be something for tradional elders to build their communities and help their people. The one who fails to understand Bob is you. Grow a sense of empathy and understanding or step aside and you will see that aboriginal people are as smart as you and me. They can think for themselves and act. No more monies being bleed from elders for the scavengers in land councils and other entities. It is not complicated Bob. Just let those who receive royalties receive it. Why is that so hard for you to understand. That's right you don't think Aboriginal elders can deal with their money, do you Bob?
@ Bob Durnan, 5/11/12. Go google Performance Audit of Centecorp Aboriginal Investment Corporation Pty Ltd. November 2008.
Janet (Posted November 5, 2012 at 7:05 am), as usual, understands virtually nothing about the topic, but never lets her ignorance deter her from letting out a set of furious demands. Alison would know very well that it is not as simple or straightforward as Janet reckons.
The royalties to which Janet refers do not belong to governments to do what they want with them, nor to 'communities', nor do they belong to most of the individuals living in the communities.
However the traditional owners of the specific estates on which mining (or other resource extraction, such as oil, gas, sand and gravel) occurs, are entitled to receive thirty per cent of any royalties which flow from mining activity on their land.
These traditional owners are only a small sub-set of the Aboriginal individuals who are resident in the remote communities. Most Aboriginal people do not have mining occurring on their traditional lands, and so are not entitled to receive a payout of royalties in cash. As there are actually very few mines on Aboriginal land in central Australia, and not much other development generating royalties, rent or profits on most Aboriginal-owned lands, Janet's formula would not constitute a way out of welfare for the vast majority of Aboriginal people in central Australia.
Under the Commonwealth Government's Land Rights Act (NT) the Commonwealth retains ownership of the minerals that lie on or in land which has been claimed and has the status of Aboriginal inalienable freehold title. The Commonwealth, on advice from the Land Councils who act on instructions from the traditional owners of the precise pieces of land under discussion, licenses developers to undertake mining exploration, negotiate about development, and proceed to extract minerals etc, provided they pay agreed royalties to the Commonwealth, and observe other requirements, such as avoidance of disturbing sacred sites, or other requirements agreed during negotiations.
The Commonwealth is then required to distribute those royalties according to a formula: a majority of the royalties are diverted in two streams which benefit Aboriginal people more generally.
About 30% go to the Aboriginal Benefits Account for projects of benefit to Aboriginal communities, such as the leasing of township lands from the Land Trusts, and construction of youth centres, aged care facilities, swimming pools, and other capital items of benefit to the general Aboriginal population (for example, a large sum was released a few years back to help pay for the expansion of the Alice Springs swimming centre, reflecting the fact that Aboriginal people benefit greatly from the availability of this water sports complex).
The Land Councils receive around 40% to cover their administrative running costs, undertake community development activities, support Land Trusts, negotiate with potential developers, research and prosecute land and native title claims, manage huge swathes of land in partnership with the traditional owners, assist in protecting sacred sites, and many other tasks.
The remaining 30% goes to the senior people in the local Land Trusts (i.e. the traditional owners' elected representatives) to distribute amongst the traditional owner families and/or invest through entities such as Centrecorp for their families' future well-being, a responsible use of income which is a practice which seems to disgust Janet.
If Janet did get her way, and the ABA and Land Councils were abolished by act of the government, and all welfare – pensions, family benefits and Newstart allowance payments – to Aboriginal people ceased, and all the royalties were cashed out to individuals regardless of the proprietary rights of the individual traditional owners, the net impacts would include a greater impoverishment of Aboriginal people, as the quantum of royalty payouts is much less than the quantum of welfare and Newstart income. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Janet thought this to be a satisfactory outcome, it would increase individual Aboriginal poverty and alienation, whilst worsening community disempowerment and dysfunction, and achieve no actual benefits, other than making it easier for miners and other entrepreneurs to rip off the traditional owners.
It would undoubtedly ensure a massive compensation claim from the traditional owners of the land on which mining is occurring, as they would legitimately regard the reduction of their royalty shares as a form of theft that the Australian system of law would not permit.
It would also throw NT society into chaos, as traditional owners would have no incentive to agree to development or mining exploration occurring on their lands, and many people would regard others as being thieves of their entitlements.
Fully AGREE with Janet Brown. CENTRECORP NEEDS INVESTIGATION.
Now all we need is for the Feds to listen to Alison and stop funding Aboriginal misery. Next step is closing down land councils and all royalties go direct to communities to provide income and hope and get them off welfare. And Centrecorp needs investigation when they own massive properties and businesses and Aboriginal people live in squalor in our town. Even a blind man can see they do nothing for the people of the Territory.
Hal Duell
For a few years now my views on all matters indigenous have been heavily influnced by two people – Marcia Langton and Noel Pearson. I now add Alison Anderson.
I'm speechless. There is nothing in her speech I don't fully agree with. I have followed Alison Anderson over the years and I must admit I had my doubts about her. On many occasions my views differed somehow from hers but not this time. For the first time I have some hope that things can actually change. I vividly remember a conversation with an older (white) lady many years ago who was working at Hermannsburg at the time. I asked her: If I would be in a position of influence what are the three most important things you would want to change that would improve the dire situation of indigenous people? Her answers: Stop the dependency on welfare – make decisions based on facts and not rhetoric and spend the most money on education, education, education. I hear similar comments from Alison now. Let's hope enough people are listening to make a change.


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What happens when you don't get enough sleep?
Sleep is not optional. Getting only six hours a night is a form of slow euthanasia
Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 06:00
Jennifer O'Connell
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, hasn't been having a great few weeks. There was the bizarre – and totally unfounded – tweet calling one of the Thai cave rescuers a "paedo". His public threat to set up an agency to monitor journalists. Then there were his ill-advised, late-night forays onto Twitter, in which he managed to raise questions about the future trajectory of Tesla and spark an SEC investigation.
It all culminated in an interview, in which he said he works 120 hours every week, and hasn't taken a full week off since he had malaria in 2001.
The problem, more than a few observers have suggested, is that Elon Musk is exhausted.
In the conference room at the Tesla headquarters in California, where his board recently met to deal with the fallout from one of his late-night Twitter sessions, his sleeping bag was still lying on the floor. His travails prompted Arianna Huffington – the creator of Huffington Post and founder of Thrive Global – to write him an open letter, suggesting he get more rest. He replied on Twitter: "Ford & Tesla are the only 2 American car companies to avoid bankruptcy. I just got home from the factory. You think this is an option. It is not."
He's not alone in behaving as though sleep is optional – at best, a luxury only those without big, important jobs can afford; at worst a self-indulgent waste of time. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak once bragged how staying awake for four days allowed him to hallucinate the idea of "putting colour into computers". Donald Trump claims to get only three to four hours a night. Rob Wiesenthal, the chief executive of Blade, an "Uber for helicopters", said he sleeps for two periods of two hours. "If you're shut down or disengaged outside the hours of nine to five . . . you're just not going to be competitive."
Humblebragging about their chronic sleep deprivation has become a badge of honour for some overachievers. And, in some respects, it's easy to understand why. Until recently, we didn't even really understand why we sleep. It was one of the unsolved mysteries of neuroscience.
It's all too easy to conclude that sleep is for wimps
On the face of it, evolution should have made sleep obsolete millennia ago: it renders us useless, passive and vulnerable for one-third of our lives, not engaged in any of the other vital functions that make us human – eating, reproducing, socialising, running billion dollar companies. It's all too easy to conclude that sleep is for wimps.
And yet, there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest that doing exactly what Wiesenthal derides, and shutting down for stretches of time outside the hours of nine and five, would make us all more, not less, competitive, smarter, healthier, happier, and more likely to stick around for the long haul.
Beyond the bravado of the four-hours-a-night brigade, growing numbers of us are, in fact, anxious about sleep. The self-help sections of bookshops are heaving with titles on sleep. There are documentaries about sleep. Podcasts about it. Gravity blankets that promise to aid sleep by decreasing the stress hormone, cortisol. Gel mattress toppers that promise to keep you cool.
The nature of modern life means sleep is being attacked on several fronts: our exposure to electric light and LED light, which puts a brake on our production of melatonin; caffeine; alcohol, which suppresses vital REM sleep, and prevents us laying down memories; the pull of work, and the emergence of always-on technology; lifestyle factors like longer commute times; and the phenomenon of "sleep procrastination" – or staying up much later than you should to binge on Netflix.
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As a result, two-thirds of us now don't get enough sleep – defined by the World Health Organisation as eight hours. Matthew Walker, the author of the global bestselling Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, and a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley, suggests we all need to give ourselves sufficient "sleep opportunity time" – which he defines as eight or nine hours in bed.
Sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer
If you get up at 7am and feel you could fall back asleep at 10am, need caffeine to get through the morning, and don't wake up before your alarm clock, you're probably sleep deprived, he suggests. "Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer."
"Tiredness kills" is the stark message on the signs erected this summer along the M7 motorway. Drowsy driving is the cause of one in five accidents in Ireland, and 4,000 road deaths every year in Europe, according to the Road Safety Authority (RSA).
The tragic death of a young mother, Olivia Dunne, and the injuries inflicted on her 15-week-old baby daughter, Eabha, in 2014 showed how catastrophic the consequences of tiredness can be.
Driver Anthony Handley, in his 60s, had four hours' sleep the night before the accident, "which was not unusual for him". He had no alcohol or drugs in his system, was not distracted at the time of the incident, and was not speeding. And yet, shortly after midday, he apparently lapsed without warning into a "microsleep". His SUV veered off the road, swerved onto the footpath near Balbriggan, killing the 31-year-old mother, who was out wheeling her buggy. Baby Eabha suffered horrific injuries, but has since made a good recovery.
Handley, who had no memory of the crash, was jailed for two years in 2016, "to send out the clear message to the community that fatigue must be a phenomenon in the minds of all drivers". That sentence was found to be unduly harsh and was reduced on appeal, and he was released last year.
'Microsleep'
In his book, Walker writes that even a two-second "microsleep" behind the wheel – defined as a lapse in concentration, during which the eyelids fully or partially close, and your brain becomes blind to the outside world – is enough to cause death. Microsleeps are usually suffered by individuals who are chronically sleep restricted – getting less than seven hours a night – and sufferers are mostly unaware of them.
The risk of a fatal lapse in concentration behind the wheel is just one more immediate effect of sleep deprivation. Less well-known are the hidden costs to our memories, judgment, decision-making, creativity and long-term health. The truth is that, far from a passive state, sleep is essential for many functions: consolidating memories; learning; making logical choices and solving problems; recalibrating our emotional circuitry; fostering creativity; repairing physical damage; clearing out toxins; preventing infection; regulating our appetite; helping our microbiome to flourish; lowering our blood pressure.
"Sleep is infinitely more complex, profoundly more interesting, and alarmingly more health-relevant" than we previously understood, says Walker. "There does not seem to be one major organ within the body, or process within the brain, that isn't optimally enhanced by sleep and detrimentally impaired when we don't get enough."
So what does happen when we don't get enough sleep?
After just one night of poor sleep, your immune system is already under siege, with a 70 per cent reduction in your stores of your natural killer cells, or lymphocyte white blood cells. Your concentration suffers – in one landmark University of Pennsylvania study, a night of no sleep resulted in a 400 per cent increase in microsleeps. More alarmingly, participants who were logging a nightly six hours' sleep were just as performance-impaired 10 days into the study, as those who had been awake for 24 hours. Both groups had a 400 per cent increase in microsleeps.
The shorter you sleeps, the shorter your lifespan
Over the longer term, chronic sleep deprivation is linked to abnormally high blood sugar levels, diabetes, cardiovascular strokes, cancer, depression, anxiety and obesity. It is one of the key lifestyle factors that determines if you'll get Alzheimer's. Margaret Thatcher's habit of getting only five hours a night set the tone for a generation of politicians: less often written about are her later years, dogged by dementia and mini-strokes. "The shorter you sleep," Walker warns, "the shorter your lifespan."
The biological functions of sleep are complex and myriad. When we reach the fourth, deepest stage of sleep, for example, our bodies release a growth hormone in which bruises and cuts are healed, infections are fought, and cellular damage is repaired. In children and teenagers, new cells are released which enable the body to grow. During the fifth period of sleep, REM sleep, a fatty substance called myelin, which is essential for proper neural functioning, is generated in the brain. As Alex Soojung-Kim Pang puts it in his book, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, myelin "in the brains of children and infants helps explain how they do smart things; the incomplete myelination of the prefrontal cortex in the brains of teens helps explain why they do stupid things."
Sleep doesn't just help our brains function: it is important for physical performance too. In one study, members of Stanford's men's basketball team increased their nightly sleep by an average of 110 minutes. The extra rest correlated with a 9 per cent boost in both their free-throw and three-point accuracy and a 0.7-second improvement in sprint times.
So what should we do if we're not able to sleep?
Sleeping pills are not the answer. Neither is sedation with alcohol, which might make you drowsy, but will result in a fragmented and restless night, characterised by a lack of REM sleep. Practices drawing on cognitive behavioural therapy have been shown to be helpful – turning your room into a cool, dark cave; avoiding technology for at least 60 minutes before you sleep; limiting caffeine during the day. But most of all, advises Walker, if you do only one thing, make it this: go to bed at the same time each night, and get up at the same time every day, eight hours later.
His book argues that if people, organisations and governments truly understood the cost of sleep loss, they would have no choice but to take action. It is the "most glaring omission in the contemporary health conversation". Frighteningly, most of us have no idea how sleep deprived we are. We have become acclimatised to constant, low-level exhaustion.
"Millions of individuals unwittingly spend years of their levels in a sub-optimal state of psychological and physiological functioning, never maximising their potential of mind or body."
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