Aboriginal Law Bulletin --- "Update: Cairns Wik Summit; Child Survival Conference; ALC News" [1997] AboriginalLawB 12; (1997) 3(89) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 2

• Update
• Cairns Wik Summit
• Child Survival Conference
• Aboriginal Law Centre News

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Update

Cairns Wik Summit

Below is a list of basic principles articulated by Representative Bodies in the light of the recent High Court Wik decision, as presented by Mr Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Chairman of the Northern Land Council, to the Cairns Wik Summit on pastoral leases and native title. The summit was held from 21-25 January 1996.

1. No extinguishment of native title.
2. No amendment of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).
3. Respect for the High Court's native title decisions.
4. Resolution through negotiations and agreements.
5. Further negotiation over the proposed Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) amendments.

Child Survival Conference

The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) will hold the Second Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Survival Conference in Townsville from 23-26 June 1997. The Conference will address all aspects of Indigenous children's needs and rights. Issues to be discussed will include child welfare; early childhood development and education; Family Court-related matters; juvenile justice; violence; cultural heritage; suicide; sport and recreation; physical and mental health; and substance abuse.

The Conference will be a forum for pressing ahead with development of a national policy for Australian Indigenous children; for discussing the outcomes of the HREOC's National Inquiry Into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families; and for considering children's rights in the contexts of the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Populations, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

For information on conducting a workshop or presenting a paper, contact SNAICC on [phone] (phone) or [phone] (fax) before 14 February 1997.

Special conference rates have been negotiated with the Townsville Travelodge and with Ansett Australia. To register or for further information, contact Sharon Slater at SNAICC on [phone] (phone) or [phone] (fax).

Aboriginal Law Centre news

We are sorry to say goodbye to Susie Breuer, who has left the Aboriginal Law Centre and her position of Editor of the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter. Susie has made invaluable contributions to the life and work of the ALC, and the place just won't be the same without her. Who else can we turn to for email contacts to every on-line, hooked in, live-wire comment on Indigenous law across the globe? Good luck Susie, and don't stop negotiating meaning!

Susie is followed by Stephan Miller, an Indigenous man from the Wiradjuri area, who has long experience as a journalist, editor and publicist He has also worked for the last three years with the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board. Stephan is also joined by Danny Sinclair as Student Editor on the AILR. For some time now Danny has provided keen and reliable voluntary assistance to the ALB, and has truly dazzled us with his predilection for loud (but stylish) shirts. Now he can officially contribute his talents to the AILR. Congratulations, Danny!