If you happened to read John Andersen's reference to moves to set up an NQ Labor Party in response to federal intervention in the ALP's presenection for Herbert you may be interested in reading the letter he mentions. See it in full by clicking on the pic or here.
Showing posts with label John Andersen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Andersen. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
NQ Labor Party - The letter
If you happened to read John Andersen's reference to moves to set up an NQ Labor Party in response to federal intervention in the ALP's presenection for Herbert you may be interested in reading the letter he mentions. See it in full by clicking on the pic or here.Monday, 2 November 2009
Credit where it’s due
I thought that John Andersen had two excellent pieces in Saturday’s Bully – links for neither of which are available on their site.
The first was, I thought, a sensitive response to Lendl Ryan’s disgraceful front page trash-piece on 9/10 titled “Cemetery Outrage. Aborigines desecrate city graves”. To quote Happy Valley resident, Ray Condren, from Andersen’s piece “We respect graves. Our own people are buried here…We respect all graves”.
The article and Ray then rightly slam Councillor Brian Hewett’s original defamation of Happy Valley residents in Ryan's trash-piece and shewer Council for it’s own neglect and disrespect for the graves of a number of early (white) settlers of the town.
Andersen also wrote a great piece to mark recent the passing of Bill ‘Kookaburra” Coolburra on Palm Island. Again it’s not available on-line but it respectfully tells the story of a veteran who “served with distinction in not just Vietnam, but in Borneo, Malaysia and Singapore” … “but when he returned to Australia (after working as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam) he couldn’t go to the RSL or into a bar because Aborigines then were still non-citizens with no right to vote, no right to drink and no right to think he was Australian”
The first was, I thought, a sensitive response to Lendl Ryan’s disgraceful front page trash-piece on 9/10 titled “Cemetery Outrage. Aborigines desecrate city graves”. To quote Happy Valley resident, Ray Condren, from Andersen’s piece “We respect graves. Our own people are buried here…We respect all graves”.
The article and Ray then rightly slam Councillor Brian Hewett’s original defamation of Happy Valley residents in Ryan's trash-piece and shewer Council for it’s own neglect and disrespect for the graves of a number of early (white) settlers of the town.
Andersen also wrote a great piece to mark recent the passing of Bill ‘Kookaburra” Coolburra on Palm Island. Again it’s not available on-line but it respectfully tells the story of a veteran who “served with distinction in not just Vietnam, but in Borneo, Malaysia and Singapore” … “but when he returned to Australia (after working as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam) he couldn’t go to the RSL or into a bar because Aborigines then were still non-citizens with no right to vote, no right to drink and no right to think he was Australian”
Monday, 26 October 2009
Palm Island, The Townsville Bulletin & Greek Mythology
Unfortunately, the Townsville Bully don’t have Saturday’s article by John Andersen about the Palm Island Community Company (“Island hit by Trojan Horse” page 20) available on-line and I haven’t as yet worked out how to make scans of large articles available to readers here.
The article in question is yet another example of the lazy research that passes as journalism in this town. In essence, the article repeats accusations by a number of Islanders that the Qld Government’s establishment of the Palm Island Community Company (with the support of the Island Council) was a “Trojan Horse” designed to take-over community run organizations and in so doing disempower locals.
In true Bully style, Andersen of course fails to seek any comment from either the relevant Minister or the Community Company (itself and Indigenous-run organization).
To be fair though, in some 88 column-centimetres it does, in a sentence or two, allude to the fact that control of Government funding is only diverted to the Community Company where the community organisations involved fail to meet the obligations and standards which come with that funding
The article in question is yet another example of the lazy research that passes as journalism in this town. In essence, the article repeats accusations by a number of Islanders that the Qld Government’s establishment of the Palm Island Community Company (with the support of the Island Council) was a “Trojan Horse” designed to take-over community run organizations and in so doing disempower locals.
In true Bully style, Andersen of course fails to seek any comment from either the relevant Minister or the Community Company (itself and Indigenous-run organization).
To be fair though, in some 88 column-centimetres it does, in a sentence or two, allude to the fact that control of Government funding is only diverted to the Community Company where the community organisations involved fail to meet the obligations and standards which come with that funding
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