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Seems appropriate to include a photo of a Buddhist temple in this article. One
thing I've always admired about Buddhism is that rather than simply
telling people what not to do (Thou Shalt Not…), it actually provides
strategies and tools to help people deal with unhealthy desires (sin) in a way
that doesn't require one to believe they are no good (original sin).
Actually sounds more like a healthy psychology than a religion, come to think of it.
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If it wasn't for the 7 deadly sins the US wouldn't have a government
or way of life in this country. The 7 deadly sins are the motivation of life in
the US.
I don't think when people make new years resolutions that anyone thinks of any deadly sins, it all about reinforcing their need to keep sinning and repeating they only life they know.
This is the political code of conduct and ethical forms they defend with laws promoting it.
There is no such thing as temptation in the US, its our way of life and laws in business, citizens, and governments at every level of power. Even religions have succomed to greed and lust for power with its campaign of solicitation of money and material needs to reap the charity they live by. Charity has become subjective beggars who just reap and don't give.
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My2Cents suggests that every resolution is just a way to get fatter, lazier,
angrier, prouder and more lustful in every way. Every charity is just a way to
consume more without giving anything to anyone and all political and business
aims are designed to do more of the same.
Yet he spouts his bitterness on a free-board provided by a church-owned business in a country that grants freedom of speech while surrounded by thousands of people going or coming from missions to help others and a church that unites with others to bring clean water to Africa... and etc.
And all those people trying to eat less or exercise more, or just be a little nicer, or who are always looking for ways to help and love their wives and children a little better... they are all doing it for evil purposes?
Is the landscape that bleak?
Try to see good in the world. Some people really are good, honest, hard working, caring, helpful, reasonable, humble, thoughtful, kind and unselfish.
Successful resolutions begin by believing they are possible. Begin by focusing on anything virtuous, lovely or praiseworthy. Give it time. It will work.
Be the change.
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This article contained some notable insights and deserves thoughtful consideration. Resisting temptation and repenting when you succumb are essential to happiness. Prayer is the key to resisting temptation in all its forms. Good music is like a prayer (D&C 25:12); Elder Packer urges us to use it to overcome temptation. Scripture reading and meditation are akin to prayer, too. Another thing I have found valuable is participation in 12-step groups, like the Church's Addiction Recovery Program. There we learn that we often give in to temptations to mask painful feelings, some stemming from hurts experienced as children. A better way to deal with them is to enlist the help of our loving Heavenly Father to uncover their source and release them through forgiving those who hurt us. We also need to forgive ourselves. As we share these insights with others, we feel better about ourselves, more attached to our family and faith communities, and become less inclined to numb the pain through self-indulgence. I believe this is how faith in God can transform our lives and renew our relationships. New year's resolutions can be more successful if they are a part of that process.
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The Chiefs should win as the Browns are playing Jason Campbell at QB.
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The Packers play the Vikings on Sunday night and although there are many WR injuries on the Packers team, they still have one of the best QBs in the NFL behind center. Christian Ponder starts for the Vikings and he might be able to dink and dunk but he can't win a shootout against Aaron Rodgers.
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According to London, her son with Wayne was not a result of a one-night stand, despite media speculation, but rather a long relationship and short-lived engagement. "That my son is the result of some kind of one-night stand or groupie encounter with his father," she said in an interview, when asked about the misconception that bothers her most. "I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me."
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London also explained that her relationship with the three other women who also have children by Wayne is harmonious and has grown out of the best interest of the children. In total, Wayne, 28, is father to four: three boys and one girl, Reginae, who appears on the BET reality show 'Toya: A Family Affair,' alongside her mother Antonia Carter.
For the most part, the Grammy winner keeps mum on his relationships with his children's mothers but has since moved on with a new love interest, a restaurant host by the name of Dhea.
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Lecture 5 - Counting Our Victories: the end of Garvey-ism and the soft bigotry of low expectation
In her final lecture, Professor Langton reflects on the economic transformation underway in the lives of Aboriginal people -- from increasing Indigenous enrolments in higher education, through rising employment in mining and other rural industries, to the explosion of cultural production by Aboriginal people into the Australian mainstream not only on canvas and on the stage, but also in music, literature, cinema and television.
Australia's mining wealth has had varied impacts on our economy and incomes of Australians. While there is no uniformity, it is clear that the result has increased income levels for a large majority. Aboriginal people have not been exempt from this development. With this new economic status has come social and political change.
I have been counting our victories against the racialist tendency in this society, the tendency of the settler state to destroy or control or warp any Aboriginal initiative. This is not a report card, but a simple count of present electoral successes: Ken Wyatt's seat in the House of Representatives, Linda Burney's long record in the New South Wales Parliament, Ben Wyatt's and Carol Martin's seats in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, and the four seats in the Northern Territory Assembly held by Alison Anderson, Larisa Lee, Francis Xavier Kurrupuwu, and Bess Nungarrayi Price. These successes reflect not just demography but increasing political sophistication among both Aboriginal people and the political class in Australia. The preparedness of the electorate to accept Indigenous Australians as political representatives who, unlike Pauline Hanson, represent their electorate regardless of race, is a great advance on the state of affairs in the 1960s, the time of my coming of age, when we did not have the right to vote, and were excluded from all national affairs by several racist provisions in the Constitution.
There is a general report card on our status developed under the banner of the 'Close the Gap' campaign, designed to measure the progress in overcoming various types of Aboriginal disadvantage in education, health, employment and other socioeconomic categories. The measurement of this status encompasses many institutions, researchers, agencies, and several methodologies and approaches, all with varying sophistication and accuracy. Annually, the federal Parliament receives the Productivity Commission report card on Indigenous disadvantage, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner's Social Justice report card. These are essential reading for obtaining a current picture of the state of affairs. The problem with the report card approach, however, is that it is not required to tell us what caused various measurements to shift up or down the scale.
In these lectures, I have paraphrased fifty years of change in the relationship between Aboriginal people and the mining industry, and the complex historical, social and economic factors at work. During this same period, similar trajectories of radical change have occurred in other spheres, including the overarching relationship between the nation state and Indigenous people, measured by constitutional and legal change.
In recent years, especially with the involvement of Indigenous people in the media, there is more reporting of success. If the conventional mainstream media were the only source of our understanding of these issues, we would be terminally depressed and pessimistic. Many Australians do have a pessimistic, not to say jaded, view of the status of Aboriginal people. We see the simplistic comments from the uninformed readers of newspapers regularly: 'If they worked like the rest of us, they would have nothing to whinge about.' 'Why should taxpayers support these bludgers?' These are the questions asked by our citizens bunkered into the suburbs where no Aboriginal footprint has been seen for more than a hundred years. They read about the budget expenditure on the mysterious category 'Indigenous Affairs', and imagine that cheques are being mailed out to individual Aboriginal people on a weekly basis.
Such naïve views reflect the general unawareness of the actual nature of the 'indigenous affairs' machine. It exists to measure, to categorise and to report. It is administered largely by well-paid white people. Their business is not to write cheques, but to write memos and reports. If they do activate the cheque-writing processes in the bureaucracy, they do so more often to pay the army of consultants producing feasibility reports and evaluations. I receive letters and emails from people of goodwill trying to do something positive and who have tried to engage with the 'Indigenous Affairs' machine. They come away with scathing views of the roundabout of bureaucrats, agencies, websites, application forms and absurd meetings. I have talked to Aboriginal people who have registered with an agency to find employment. Their stories are accounts of Kafkaesque horror. I have my own experiences of being trapped in the dark corridors of this machine, tracking my way through the maze of bureaucracy and papers that seem to reproduce like cancer cells.
Counting the successes, then, is a pleasant pastime that sometimes results in a small measure of hope in a landscape of obstacles, bureaucratic monsters, and traps.
We should not count our progress by measuring them one step after another. The problem is far too complex for that. But one statistic has given me some cause for hope. Professor Ian Anderson, an Aboriginal medical specialist, told me this year that enrolments of indigenous people in first year medical studies have reached national parity with the non Indigenous student enrolments. This statistic tells me so much. I began these lectures by referring to the emergence of an Aboriginal middle class, a phenomenon that has been ignored by the professionals paid to observe and measure our lives. This statistic is an instance of the wellbeing experienced by those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Their accumulation of social and human capital in the space of perhaps one, but no more than three generations, has enabled them to send their children to university to study medicine. This development does not sit well in the standard analysis of the Aboriginal "problem" or the domain of 'Indigenous Affairs'. Most of the protagonists in the intellectual workforce supported by the 'Indigenous Affairs' machine will ignore or refute this singularly important statistic. The anthropologists have accused me of being a 'conservative', a 'neoliberal advocate for assimilation', of lacking 'objectivity', and a litany of other crimes against this hapless discipline. They are flailing about in the death throes of an intellectual paradigm that does not admit the legitimacy of such statistics and their implications.
Poverty, alienation and disadvantage in the Aboriginal community and the history of settler-Aboriginal relations have triggered several intellectual movements and fashions in the last fifty years. I have described the return of the 'noble savage' in the wilderness conservation movement in previous lectures. Variations on the ideas in the late Robert Hughes' tome, The Culture of Complaint were fashionable for a while, and so too was Keith Windschuttle's ridiculous book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. There were snide remarks about 'designer tribalism' and a new language for race hate emerged. Windschuttle was joined by other rabid denialists of that history, especially in relation to the stolen generations, such as the late Paddy McGuinness, editor of Quadrant, Piers Akerman of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Andrew Bolt of the Melbourne Herald Sun. Their specious refutations have not survived a decade, and history will treat them with the contempt they deserve.
There are other monsters stalking this landscape, and one of them is a favourite of the professional dissidents of the Aboriginal movement: Aboriginal sovereignty. There is a small and powerful group of Aboriginal people involved in the politics of this domain, and a strident few are advocates of the concept of 'Aboriginal sovereignty.' What does this mean? A separate state? Enactment of indigenous rights? Such questions have never been answered, and the concept remains a slogan, one that points to a vaporous dream of self determination but one that does not require any actual activity in the waking world to materialise it. It is Australia's version of the Marcus Garvey movement of 1950s Jamaica that involved the proto Rastafarians in rituals such as waiting on the wharf for their saviour, Emporer Haillie Selassie of Ethiopia to arrive on a ship and rescue them. In the early 1990s, some advocates for this idea had Aboriginal passports made and travelled internationally using these passports for some years. When Prime Minister John Howard learned about this, he was enraged, and made telephone calls to investigate. A very senior corporate executive called me to ask what he should tell the Prime Minister. I told him to say that they do it to make themselves attractive to women, such as the groupies hanging around in the international forums on indigenous rights. It was a joke that wasn't funny. It bemuses me that so many people are enthralled by this absurd political ideology. In 1995, Noel Pearson tried to refute it with plain logic. He said
In a world crumbling in the face of the inability of peoples to come to terms with historical grievance and our inability to locate and respect group rights to self-determination within the concept of a unified and peaceful nation - I believe that the only choice available to both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, is to find a way of living together in a unified community which respects our particular and different identities and the particular rights of indigenous peoples. Because, as I often say to the occasional discomfort of both black and white people, Mabo has put to rest two gross fantasies. Firstly it has put to rest the fantasy that the blacks were not and are still not here. The fantasy of terra and homo nullius. Secondly, Mabo also puts to rest the fantasy that the whites are somehow going to pack up and leave. Co-existence remains our lot.
There is an undercurrent in the reconciliation movement that has gone unnoticed. At public events over the last twenty years, many Aboriginal advocates of reconciliation have addressed themselves not to the settlers who want absolution for their ancestral past in Australia's history, but to young Aboriginal people attracted to the 'Aboriginal sovereignty' slogans. They have tried to deter them from a fatuous political path towards ideas and activities that will improve their lives and sense of self esteem. For all my cynicism about reconciliation and those who coopt the idea to mask the same old intentions, I have respect for these messages from the wise old warriors who brought about the changes during the civil rights era of the 1960s and 1970s.
The message has been received. I heard Neil Wilmett, Aboriginal businessman, president of the Indigenous Business Council, and publisher of the Aboriginal Business Magazine, say at a conference that he was following in the footsteps of his elders who established the Aboriginal medical and legal services in the 1970s. Like them, he is involved in building an institution to assist Aboriginal people. He reminded us that Aboriginal people had established businesses on the Australian frontiers during colonial times, and told a story of his own ancestors in Queensland who were stripped of their property by the State. It was illegal for Aboriginal people to own property and to engage in business. His campaign for Aboriginal business strength is a continuation of the long civil rights movement.
Noel Pearson challenged Michael Mansell and his entourage to develop an ideological consciousness "that goes beyond absolutist, nihilist daydreaming about what should be, but instead become concerned with how we are actually going to go about making things the way they should be."
His Cape York agenda over the past twenty years stands in stark contrast to the futile activism of the professional Aboriginal dissidents who cling to their Garveyism. Their ship has not come in, and they have deceived too many of our young people.
But not all. I have been thrilled by the Redfern Now television series on ABC television, broadcast during the period of writing these lectures. Produced and directed by Rachel Perkins of Blackfella Films and a magnificent team of Indigenous writers, actors and technicians in collaboration with famous scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern and a range of partners, it speaks to the Aboriginal people who have lived through these turgid political dramas. It depicts the emergence of an Aboriginal middle class with veracity, its members intimately linked to their families living on the block in Redfern, and the transference of Aboriginal cultural values from the Block to the suburbs. It shows Aboriginal values and social practices at work in dramatic scenes of encounters with the police, the struggle of families to deter youth from criminal activities and with mental illness. Leah Purcell's character in Episode 1, 'Family', sacrifices the family holiday in Bali to care for her sister's children when her world falls apart in a psychotic episode. The battle of loyalties and values was brilliantly portrayed. Those who have joined the workforce and earned some of the privileges and assets that most Australians take for granted are not entirely free to enjoy them while others in their family have not been able to improve their circumstances. The bonds of kinship tie these families dispersing across the Australian cities and towns in a cobweb of ancient traditions and modernity's dilemmas.
Artists such as Rachel Perkins and her exceptional team members have done a far better job than anthropologists and the political ideologues in describing these challenges. With minute attention to the intimate details of Aboriginal life at the Block and the tendrils of familial, social and political connection across geographies, class and history, they have broadcast more truth and sociological sophistication into Australian homes than thousands of papers from the intellectual militias of the 'Indigenous Affairs' machine.
Those of us who have raged against the machine and won some few successes know that the challenge lies in large part in capturing the hearts and minds of young people with a message of hope. The elements of that picture of their future that they must imagine for themselves must come not from Garveyism but from opportunities to enable them to live a good life. This is why Noel Pearson's Welfare Reform and education initiatives are so important and effective in transforming the lives of people in Cape York. The inspiration Noel has given to others across the country should not be underestimated. In the face of the rancorous denials from the exclusive club of Noel Pearson haters, the facts keep stacking up. The majority of Aboriginal leaders have adopted similar strategies to Pearson's. Ben Wyatt, Member for Victoria Park in Western Australia, gave a speech this week that traverses the points made by Noel Pearson a decade ago. Noel denounced 'the soft bigotry of low expectations,' citing American President Lyndon B. Johnson's comment during the civil rights era. Ben Wyatt denounced government policy based on 'palliative economics' – a defeatist attitude 'premised on Aboriginal culture dying'. He said, 'No longer is it acceptable to view regional poverty from the social welfare perspective;' 'palliative economics must be replaced by building relationships between Indigenous communities and industry.' 'Aboriginal people cannot be empowered if they are not willing to prioritise the one key to empowerment – education;' 'If we do not accept that a school in a regional or remote part of Western Australia must perform at mainstream standards, then what is the point of that school? How are we providing Indigenous empowerment with such expectations?' 'We cannot deliver a standard of education lower than what we expect in Perth and then expect "mainstream" jobs to flow. We are, effectively, giving governmental endorsement to a 'palliative education' system.'
A younger generation of Aboriginal people are telling stories through literature, the arts, film and music and speaking back to history and oppression without the burden of the Culture Wars. Redfern Now, The Sapphires, directed by Wayne Blair; Toomelah, directed by Ivan Sen, and Samson and Delilah, directed by Warwick Thornton are just some examples of their outpouring of creative work, thinking and writing. While several Aboriginal films have been selected for the Cannes Film Festival and won awards around the globe, in a first for an Australian indigenous director, The Sapphires will be distributed internationally by American producer Harvey Weinstein's company. Indigenous filmmakers and television producers have cemented their place in the mainstream winning over audiences and proving their box office success.
They are confident and refuse to be stereotyped. They want to keep some of our cultural traditions, and they reject others. They abhor the abuse caused by alcohol and drugs, but they have compassion for the abusers. They want hope. Recently, I asked Warwick Thornton if the non-Aboriginal audience for Samson and Delilah were deluding themselves when they believed it to be a story of hope. In the denouement of this powerful drama his principal characters, a petrol sniffer and his girlfriend who is a victim of rape, retreat to an outstation with little likelihood of a happy ending. His answer was this: 'If they believe that they can live for one more day, then there is hope.'
What do these extraordinary Aboriginal storytellers have in common? They are educated; they are successful; they are proud of their Aboriginal heritage; they glow with self esteem; and their ability to tell these gripping stories through award-winning film and television productions comes from their intimate understanding of Aboriginal life, whether in Redfern or Papunya, Toomelah or Cummeragunga. What is also remarkably similar throughout their work is their view of the Aboriginal dilemma in the struggle with modernity. On the one hand there is the backdrop of the scourge of colonial history, alcohol and drug abuse, the vulnerability of youth in dysfunctional family settings, the constant racism and police presence, and on the other, the resilience of Aboriginal people that sometimes results in a victory, small or large, against the odds. Cultural values and kinship bonds are not by themselves the source of victory; they are sometimes the cause of anguish and conflicted values, of threats to survival, catching the young in a web of alcohol and drug dependency, demand sharing and self-exclusion from the opportunities in the wider world. But these cultural values also strengthen their will to survive. They find self-esteem in celebrating their cultural identity and heritage. Youthful desire for adventure, to go out into the world for new experiences, to climb a metaphoric mountain or catch a dream; these are universal. What Aboriginal youth experience is not so different from their counterparts in Brazil or Africa or Timor Leste, where old traditions and rapid change clash also. The details vary, and sometimes considerably, but these stories of young dreams are the stuff of the human dilemma that most settler Australians or their ancestors left behind in their original homelands. Dickens's novels, such as The Adventures of Oliver Twist, are rich with analogies to these postmodern tales of poverty, hunger, hierarchies, repression, exploitation and the desire for something better. It is colonialism and racism rather than class that mark these stories as different. The impacts of the end of feudalism in England, the land tenure revolution and the industrial mills of Dickens's England are similar in many ways to those of the mines of 21st century Australia; and, so similar in their power to transform societies and economies.
What I have marvelled at in this heady mix of social change is the resilience of Aboriginal culture. The threat that the old racists, leftists and Aboriginal sovereignty advocates level against the new Aboriginal intellectuals is a prediction that Aboriginal culture will 'die out'. Aboriginal culture has changed dramatically in many parts of Australia, but it survives, as the works of our filmmakers and artists demonstrate. The most important thing is that it is viable, supported more and more not by the welfare state but by the engagement of entrepreneurs, artists, filmmakers and workers in the economy and the accrual of the first generation of private material wealth. I spoke to one of my Aboriginal friends at the Perth airport the other day. He is a successful businessman, and he was heading home to attend Aboriginal Law ceremonies for the next three months, because, he said, 'The old people may not be around for much longer.' These ceremonies will be held not far from the mines about which I have spoken. Successful Aboriginal men and women have dedicated some proportion of this new social capital to cultural maintenance and renewal, and made Aboriginal endeavours commercially successful. Our culture is no longer simply a country for anthropologists, new age mystics and wilderness campaigners to colonise. Their tragic, necrophiliac and self-serving accounts are no competition for the works of the new guard of Aboriginal creative workers, nor for actual Aboriginal culture. Economic factors have made this possible, just as much as the factors that have contributed to our cultural resilience. Ben Wyatt's point about 'palliative economics' is most timely. The grasp of the welfare state, the protectionist state that addresses itself to an old paradigm of the mendicant natives, is loosening. A new generation of Aboriginal people is turning dreams into reality: education, economic participation, self-esteem and success are part of this new Aboriginal world, and there is no going back.
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Rodney Wetherell :
17 Dec 2012 6:41:14pm
I have listened to these Boyer Lectures, missing bits here and there, and have been very impressed by Marcia Langton's stern rejection of some of the fantasies we have heard about: separate development, an aboriginal nation etc. I knew there were aboriginal businesses in the north particularly, but had no idea how many. Like Ms Langton I have admired the movies directed by aboriginal directors and starring aboriginal actors, Redfern Now being an outstanding example (of a TV series). Unfortunately the advances made have been patchy, and we know there are still communities beset by alcohol and negativity. Let's hope the trends described by Ms. Langton are felt in those areas as well, over time.
Wolfgang :
17 Dec 2012 9:52:26pm
love the soundtrack. Can you tell me who is playing?
Moderator: Thanks for your interest. The theme music is from NT band Nabarlek - the track 'Little Journey to Manmoyi', from their album 'Manmoyi Radio'.It's published by Skinnyfish Music.
colleen enchelmaier :
22 Dec 2012 9:12:30am
At last Marcia is rational and informative until she returned to the silly name calling of "anthropologists, new age mystics and wilderness campaigners ... Their tragic, necrophiliac and self-serving accounts.." She has a simplistic view of colonists leaving poverty and class warfare behind back in Britain and the benefits of the industrial revolution but I revelled in the listing of the successes of Indigenous people in Australia. It is not done often enough. There are too many reports like the ABCTV likes to do entering Aboriginal communities to show the worst.Bangara dance company, the art, the musicians ( Archie Roach is back), the writing ( "That Deadman Dance" best Australian book), the festivals and so on add so much to our culture and now we have the NITV channel not just "Message Stick", "Awaye" and "Blackout". "Redfern Now" was fantastic.Great to hear of the numbers of medical students and of course we hope for the success of Noel Pearson's educational programme in the Cape.Perhaps all Australian schools will have to return to a more formal, repetitive approach to teaching reading if present figures are any indication.
Darren Lewin-Hill :
22 Dec 2012 6:01:22pm
Professor Langton's lectures are rhetorically powerful and present a fascinating case for Aboriginal empowerment, but, I think, a deeply flawed one. It is a continuing indictment on Australia if the empowerment of Aboriginal people remains as dependent as Professor Langton suggests on the resource companies so often at odds with Aboriginal stewardship of the land. I agree with Professor Langton's call for more diversity of economic activity, including renewable energy projects that promise empowerment and environmental benefit, and could be controlled by Aboriginal people, rather than merely employing them. However, I must reject Professor Langton's characterisation of valid criticisms of resource companies as attacks on Aboriginal empowerment. Those who make such criticisms are not racist or race haters - they look to Aboriginal empowerment not to endorse and repeat the mistakes of corporate power and white settlers, but to offer all of Australia something better than what we as a nation currently are.
Bruce Smith :
31 Dec 2012 6:45:09pm
Dear Marcia,
Thank you and the ABC for a thoroughly enjoyable and informative lecture series.
I am so glad that common sense and a recognition of the vested interests of well meaning but misguided groups and individuals are detrimental to indigenous peoples' welfare.
I love the voice, so easy to listen to.
Jackaline :
25 Jan 2013 1:32:59pm
I have just listened to the last lecture and feel I would like to make a comment. I have not lived in Australia for over 10 years now and so, am out of touch with a lot of contemporary Aboriginal culture. Having lived in a remote Cape York community(5 years) and the Torres Strait(6 years) I welcome any news of the success of creative young indigenous people. Also,as an educator, I have to support the underlying tenet of activists like Noel Pearson - education for our indigenous children - particularly in remote areas - should be a priority for all AT THE SAME STANDARD as any school in the country - anything less is tokenism and an insult to Aboriginal people.
For me, however, the message that I received from this lecture is that culture is ever-evolving. Why condemn the adaptation of tradition to fit a contempory niche? Do people object to Graham Murphy melding Indian and Buddhist imagery in his take on 'Romeo and Juliet'? Contemporary Aboriginal culture it appears is being interpreted by inidivuals whose voices should be welcomed. Culture, language - it all changes. As an ESL teacher I am constantly explaining why English has components from ancient Greek, Latin, French, German, Hindi & Urdu (think verandah and bandanna respectively) and, of course the wealth of Aboriginal names given to Australian flora and fauna (kangaroo any one?). Language changes. Culture changes. People change. Try explaining to a non-English speaker why the term "uber-chic" is now common in English. From what I have heard, young indigenous artists are giving voice to their history and culture which is representative of contemporary Aboriginal life. Uber-deadly.
Ivan Sayer :
29 Jan 2013 11:02:28am
Disagree on a couple of nitpicks, but the following are absolutely certain:
1)There is *no* future for White Australia, nor for Black Australia that isn't a mess.
2)'Wilderness' is still, far too often, a smart name for 'Terra Nullius'.
Thanks Professor Langton
Peter Sladdin :
05 Feb 2013 5:52:34pm
I thank Professor Langton for these lectures,but i have a few nitpicks,Rastas may have done what she suggests but not Garvys followers,Garvey promoted self determination.I see this as Ideological discrimination,an air of superiority and disrespectfull to RASTAFARI.
peaceandlonglife :
08 Feb 2013 11:34:19pm
Langton Takes Umbrage
There is no necessary racial implication in Tim Flannery's statement about the degazetting of Oyala Thumotan National Park.
Control was being passed from public into private hands.
There is a legitimate environmental issue regardless racial or cultural origins of the prospective owners.
If they had been Jewish or Islamic, one would not them automatically attribute Flannery's opposition to anti-semitic or anti-islamic prejudice.
The fact the state government has overriding powers to approve mining leases irrespective of the title, does not mean, in practice, that it being a national park rather than private land would have no influence on whether those powers were exercised.
Government does not operate in a vacuum.
Environmental groups, other stakeholders and public opinion more generally, are – at least in theory – a brake on the arbitrary exercise of executive power.
And, even if Flannery is mistaken that the land is at no greater risk of being mined irrespective of the nature of title, national park status would protect it from other environmentally damaging land uses.
A plausible neutral reading of Flannery's quote is as criticism of government, rather than as a slur on Aborigines. ...
Conservationists have 'connived' with governments to deny Aboriginal claims.
This is a conspiracy theory.
On the face of it, this sequence of events, while reflecting poorly on the government, says nothing about the motives of environmentalists.
Langton assumes racist rather than environmental intentions.
Whether true or false, Langton does not present any direct evidence to support it.
The impression given is that "if you are not with us, you are against us."
1. The government are racists.
2. The government opposes us.
3. Environmentalists oppose us.
4. Environmentalists are racists
5. There is a racist conspiracy.
If follows then, that the only "true" or honorable environmentalists are those whose positions align with Aboriginal interests.
Any divergence from Aboriginal goals strays into racist territory. ...