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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, September 20, 1974
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Aborigines
PROGRAM FAILS
pushed
By GARRETT JONES
SYDNEY (Reuter)-An Aus-
tralian government attempt to
push a small group of aborigines
into the 20th Century has ended
in failure and disillusion, drunk-
enness and violence.
For 40,000 years aborigines in
the Gulf of Carpenteria, North
Australia have lived and hunted
happily. Their routine inter-
rupted only by the trek into
dreamtime (death).
NOW IN less than two years
the aboriginal community at
Umbakumba on Groote Eylandt,
a small island about 50 miles
long standing 20 miles off the
North Australian coast, has
foundered on the social ills of
boredom, violence and alcohol-
ism.
Umbakumba is the pilot pro-
ject for self-determination for
Australias 60,000 outback ab-
origines. The scheme aims at
finding their place in Australian
society in the next half century.
The ruling Australian Labor
Party gave Umbakumba the
right to make its own decisions
in December, following riots
over demands for increased original Affairs,
Senator Jim
rights for aborigines, which re-
sulted in 27 people being jailed.
BUT TODAY the 368 aborig-
ines in the commuity are dis-
illusioned and unhappy.
Government policy has seen
the traditional tribal society of
the aborigines broken down and
replaced by new structures,
community and village councils
and a housing association, that
are meaningless to this cen-
turies-old race.
Elders have lost interest in
maintaining discipline. The
young men recently went on a
drunken rampage which caused
50,000 dollars damage to a com-
munity center.
TWO NURSING sisters resign-
ed, one after being threatened
with an ax. A construction com-
pany pulled out earlier this
month, claiming the lives of its
workers were endangered. An-
other company threatened to
abandon work on a new hospital
after one of its workers was
held at knifepoint.
Australias Minister for Ab-
Cavanagh, who inspected Um-
bakumba during a tour of
original settlements in the north,
admitted the government might
have moved too fast in giving
the aborigines self-determination
and more assistance than they
could cope with.
"It shows money is not the
only solution," he said.
AS A result of the drunken
sprees the government will prob-
ably send in a community ad-
viser as a practical move to try
to curb excesses.
But Cavanagh is worried that'
helping the aborigines in the
outback to return to their tra-
ditional ways could cut them off
from needed facilities and ham-
per the education of their
young.
While the government is will-
ing to finance aboriginal com-
munities with basic grants of
5,000 dollars, Cavanagh stressed
he would like to see more value
for money.
into present
department, for its loose hand- i and run by aborigines, have al-
ling of financial grants in help- so proved successful.
ing Australia's 106,000 aborig- Government officials, aware
ines. of setbacks to their self-deter-
But aboriginal leaders empha- mination policy, say only time
size that a two-way system is will tell if it is the right one.
needed under which aborigines
would be able to take what they
need from western culture while
maintaining much of their own. Be careful with fire:
As an example they point to There are babes
the Pintubis aborigines at Yai+ h
Yai, about 155 miles west of, nthe woods.
Alice Springs in Central Aus-
tralia where aborigines who
have left the main settlement
at Papunya to establish their
own village, are drawing on;
such props of white society as
medical and health care, while
living a more traditional life.
ADVISORS say they have re-
gained their self-respect and
look to the future with more con-
fidence, in stark contrast to
Papunya where morale is low
and drunken brawls are fre-
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