Ramingining elders say No! to more Intervention
Today, Yolngu elders of Ramingining community in NE Arnhem Land are shocked and angered by last week’s announcement that the fundamentally destructive measures of the intervention will be extended for another 10 years. “We don’t want another decade of discrimination here in Ramingining. The government is extending and strengthening laws designed to assimilate Aboriginal people. We will not sit back and watch these attacks on our lives, our future, our culture and our law,” said Mathew Dhulumburrk, a 67 year old Gupapuyngu man.
Read their Statement HERE
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