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The 1991 Annual Report of the ALC is now available. Copies can be supplied on request. The Hon. J.H. (Hal) Wootten, AC, QC, has assumed the role of Director (part-time) of the Centre. Professor Garth Nettheim continues for the time being as Chairman of the Management Committee.
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Robert Tickner, has announced the appointment of 25 people who will comprise the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. The Council consists of 2 Torres Strait Islander, 12 Aboriginal and 11 non-Aboriginal members as required by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991. Pat Dodson has been named as Chairperson of the Council and Sir Ronald Wilson will be the Deputy Chairperson.
The Council is as follows:
William Lowah: Has executive posts in health, education and welfare fields.
Alan Mosby: Founding member of Tamwoy Development Association.
Pat Dodson: Executive Director of the Kimberley Land Council.
Archie Barton: Administrator of Maralinga Tjarutja.
Sol Bellear: Deputy Chairperson of ATSIC.
Essie Coffey: Founding member of the Western . Aboriginal Legal Service.
Mary Graham: Lecturer in the Social Work Department at the University of Queensland.
Pastor Bill Hollingsworth: Founding member of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress.
Rose Murray: Community Development Worker with Community Aid Abroad in Western Australia.
Lois O'Donoghue: Chairperson of ATSIC.
Wenten Rubuntja: Senior central Australian Aboriginal leader and Board member of the Northern Territory Conservation Commission
Esme Saunders: Executive member of the Yangenanook ATSIC Regional Council and Secretary of the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association.
Alma Stackhouse: Tasmanian Aboriginal of the Year in 1989 and has worked for Aboriginal people at both State and national levels since 1974.
Galarrwuy Yunupingu: Chairman of the Northern Land Council.
Robert De Crespigney: Executive Chairman of the Normandy Poseidon Group.
Ted Egan: Poet and performer and worked for the former Department of Aboriginal Affairs in the Northern Territory.
Rick Farley: Executive Director of the National Farmer's Federation.
Jennie George: ACTU assistant secretary.
Senator Cheryl Kernot: Australian Democrats nomination.
Ray Martin: Journalist.
Peter Nugent MP: Federal Coalition's nomination.
Senator Margaret Reynolds: Minister for Local Government and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women.
The Hon. Helen Sham-Ho: Liberal Party Member of the NSW Legislative Council
Ian Spicer AM: Chief Executive of the Confederation of Australian Industry.
Sir Ronald Wilson: Former High Court Judge, President of the Uniting Church and President of the Human rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
In his press release on 15 December, 1991, the Minister re-iterated that the role of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation was to:
Maclean Shire Council has appealed to the New South Wales Court of Appeal from the Land and Environment Court decision exempting Nungera Co-operative Society LTD., from local government rates (See [1991] AboriginalLB 67; 2(53)pg15).
The notice of Appeal claims Nungera is not being used or occupied for the purposes of a public benevolent institution.
The Commonwealth Government has announced that it will allocate $7.867 million to address "immediate priorites arising out of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody".
The Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Robert Tickner, stated that the Commonwealth and the States had agreed to develop a national response to the Royal Commission's recommendations by March, 1992. He outlined that $2 million of the money allocated will be for Commonwealth action while the remaining $5.867 million will be for state programs, the distribution of which is as follows:
Police cell improvements: $850 000
Employment of 5 drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers: $530 000
Family counselling: $650 000
Training for Slate and Aboriginal Community Police: $535 000
Family counselling: $500 000
Extension of Aboriginal prisoners' visitors scheme: $195 000
Family counselling: $650 000
Aboriginal prisoners' visitors scheme: $180 000
Crime prevention strategy: $180 000
Alcohol and drug programs, including training for Aboriginal alcohol and drug treatment workers: $150 000
Family counselling: $250 000
Construction of 3 regional youth centres: $450 000
Employment and training for Aboriginal prison welfare officer: $110 000
Aboriginal prisoners' visitors scheme: $60 000
Family counselling: $60 000
Employment of Aboriginal welfare officer to assist prisoners and young offenders in custody: $81 000
Extension of Aboriginal education programs: $242 275
Family counselling: $20 000
Pilot course in cross-cultural training for health professionals: $53 000
Family counselling: $200 000
Australian Capital Territory: $206 000
Cell refurbishment: $200 000
Training of juvenile justice staff: $6 000
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