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passion and have givengreat service both to the

Central Coast community

and to the Aboriginal

community.

He described

Orkopoulos act of making

unsubstantiated claims

against the pair under

parliamentary privilege as

despicable.

Central Coast Minister

Chris Hartcher staunchly

defended in state

parliament two former

members of the

Darkinjung Local

Aboriginal Land Council,

who were accused of

misappropriating funds

from the Aboriginal

community by the

disgraced sex criminal

and one-time Aboriginal

Affairs minister Milton

Orkopoulos.

I again speak in an

effort to restore the

reputations of these two

gentlemen, he said.

I have the honour to

know Mr Vandenburg and

Mr Pross personally. They

are people of great

commitment, great

Wrongly accused now exonerated

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Babana News

Babana Aboriginal Mens Group Inc.

Volume4Issue4

July2012

Inside this issue:

From the Chair 2

men fare worse in education,

health and crime

3

Three years of hell - Rex Bellotti

Jnr's first interview

4

The events of the Myall Creek

Massacre on June 10, 1838

6

NAIDOC Fundraiser for Prince of

Wales Hospital

8

Ross threatens Olympic walkout 12

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NAIDOC has been and gone. The

community has celebrated NAIDOC

in almost every way possible.

Lunches, morning teas, BBQs,

speechesall manner of venues.

And Babana has been doing its

bit. We have joined with other

organisations, celebrated with

other organisations and also done

our own thing.

Babana went to the University of

New South Wales and joined in withNura Gili Aboriginal Unit. I was

asked by the Hub to speak about

our group and also the importance

of education. One of the professors

provided an acknowledgement to

country and we were warmly

welcomed by staff and students.

Our members were able learn

about the work of Nura Gili, its aims

and purposes; and the staff and

students were given information of

us and where we are going. It was a

great day and our thanks should

especially go to Jeremy Heathcote

for his work on the day

Babana and members went back

to school in that we hosted a

NAIDOC BBQ for Darlington Public

School. The funds raised from the

BBQ allowed the school to register

its school bus.. It is so true that

kids are our future.

And, of course, we again held our

fundraiser for the Barmbli Room at

Prince of Wales Hospital. This has

become somewhat of a fixture in

Babanas calendar. We know that

our fundraising is doing good for

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Mark Spinks Chair of Babana

This year we

raised over

$500 for the

Barmbli Room.

The funds

raised will be

used to place

new carpeting

on the floor. .

brothers and sisters who need to

use the room and we are happy

that what we are doing is adding

some comfort to their stay and their

waiting for their loved ones.

This year we raised over $500 for

the Barmbli Room. The funds

raised will be used to place new

carpeting on the floor. Some might

say; So what?. But they have not

seen the visitors to the hospital

who have to use the room settle inand feel comfortable while waiting

for news of their kin.

Our thanks go out to all who

assisted and attended the

fundraiser; those who made the day

a success.

Special thanks should go to Linda

Boney for her hard work organising

the whole operation. And to John

Lansky, Babana member and good

man who is going to lay the carpet

at cost price.

Bunnings does not advertise their

good works. They came to the

office recently and painted it both

inside and out. We so much

appreciate their generosity and

support.

We also joined in with the

Legends of League job expo by

helping out at their BBQ and

supporting their work gaining

moreand betteremployment

opportunities for Aboriginal men

and women in this community and

the wider community at large.

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men fare worse in education, health and crime

were more than three times as likely as

females to die from suicide, nearly

three times more likely to die in a car

accident, and one and a half times

more likely to die from cancer. Heart

disease remains the leading cause of

death for males and females

however the rate is higher for males

and the gap between males and

females has increased since 2001.

The suicide rate for males washighest in the age group 35-44 years

and in 2010 males made up over

three-quarters (77%) of all suicides.

While fatal car accidents have dropped

for both males and females over the

last ten years, the death rate is nearly

three times as high for males. Between

2001 and 2010 the rate for males fell

from 15 deaths per 100,000 persons

to 9.4 for males compared to a drop

from 5.0 to 3.3 for females.

Cancer is another leading killer of

males, at about one and a half times

the rate of females (224.2 per

100,000 for males and 139.0 for

females in 2010). Men are also

more likely to have contact with the

criminal justice system than women.

In 2010-11, men were up to one-

and-a-half times more likely be the

victims of physical or threatened

assault or robbery than women.

Men that experienced physical or

face-to-face threatened assault

were less likely to tell the policeabout the incident than were

women.

More than

thirteen

times as

many men

were in

prison in

2011 than

women

(27,078

men, 2,028

women).

The third

release of

Gender Indicators also contains new

information on men and women

living in low economic resource

households. In 2009-10 18% of

men and 20% of women were living

in a low economic resource

household.

Emale

Mens Health Services .com.au

August Edition

[Ed Note: Although this article is not specifically

related to Aboriginal men, the statistics can be

extrapolated into the Aboriginal community. If this

extrapolation is performed then it is evident that

Aboriginal men also fare worse in the areas that

have been looked at.]

Men continue to fare worse

than women in education, health

and crime, according to a new

report Gender Indicators,

Australia released by theAustralian Bureau of Statistics.

The report

highlights that

in 2011, 75%

of boys

entering high

school were

likely to be

studying until

Year 12,

compared to

84% for girls.

The report

also showed

that this gap

continues into adult life with only

30% of men aged 25-29 years

having completed a bachelor

degree or higher compared to

41% of women of the same age.

For those that completed a

Certificate III or above, the gap

was smaller - 60% of men and

67% of women. Men are more

likely than women to complete a

Certificate III and IV as their

pathway into employment.

On the health front, males

Figure 3 Male school retention until year 12, by Indigenous status and juris-

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tended family member Rex Jr has

been staying with during the last

couple of months, and I picked up

Rex Jnr and his partner Erica and

we went out for a meal and for

some conversation. He was glad to

meet me and I was glad to meet

him.

"I miss not being able to play foot-

ball (AFL). I loved football and had

hoped to go professional. I can still

kick the ball with my right leg but I

can't with my left."

"I am not allowed to run, if I do

run it may cause harm to my left

leg and if it starts to bleed the doc-

tors say I have only one hour to get

to hospital to save my life. I don't

run," said Rex Jnr.

I asked Rex Jnr about the events

on the night of the incident, after

he had left a Wake to walk home

along Old Lower King Road in his

hometown of Albany.

"I remember what I was doing. I

was having a smoke while walking

along the road. There were three

girls walking along with me. They

were about 13 to 15 years old.""We began to cross the road, it

was dark, and as we were walking

towards the middle of the road all

of a sudden out of nowhere I saw

headlights coming at us. It was

split second stuff."

"They looked like high beams."

"I pushed the girls out of the way.

They would have been hit for sure. I

did the right thing in saving them. I

didn't make it out of the way.."

"The car came fast."

"I remember all that well enough."

I asked Rex Jnr what he remem-

bered after being hit by the police-

four-wheel drive.

"I don't remember much, I think I

was conscious for about ten sec-

onds, I went in and out and then

out altogether."

He doesn't remember being

taken to Albany Hospital nor does

he remember being flown by the

Royal Flying Doctor to the Perth.

He woke up at Royal Perth Hospi-

tal.

"The scariest part for me wasn't

the hospital, it was the rehabilita-

tion. It was the toughest time of my

life trying to get my leg working

again."

"When the police car hit me they

snapped both my legs but my left

leg is the worry now. The police car

snapped my right leg at the femur

and my left leg hung together by an

artery. They say if it gets hurt then

there's the prospect of an amputa-

tion."I asked Rex Jnr how he felt about

the police officers who did this to

him and how he felt about police in

general.

"I hate cops with a passion. I can't

forgive those cops for what they

did. I don't trust them," he said. "I

understand that they didn't help

(Continued on page 5)

12 Jul 2012

Gerry Georgatos

(This is the first time Rex Jnr has given an interview)

Rex Bellotti Jnr was fifteenyears old when a police-four-

wheel-drive struck him grievously

near midnight on a March night

in 2006. In an unfettered deba-

cle since the tragic event the

Western Australian police have

refused to admit adequate culpa-

bility and the now 18 year old is

still waiting for the State Insurer's

payout.

I have written over 70,000

words on this young man and of

the incident that wrecked many

of his dreams.

I have come to know his par-

ents quite well and his five

younger siblings however I had

never met Rex Jnr. I knew him

from the suite of police reports,

crash investigation file docu-

ments, third party witness state-

ments, affidavits, the Corruption

and Crimes Commission report

and other information I immersed

myself into.

His family have protected him

from the glare of public scrutiny

and from the news media. They

have stood alongside him during

tempests of grief, during tortuous

mental anguish and at all times

they protected him from any pros-

pect of public meltdowns. At all

times they have put his welfare

first.I drove to the home of an ex-

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cops looking to get us in trouble.

There were none of the usual smart

arse comments and smirks."

Rex Jr began to rub his leg and I

asked him if he was alright. "Yeah,

I'm alright, it's just the pins, the

screws and rods in my leg - on a

cold day like today I feel them more

than usual," he said.

More than a year ago Rex Jr

spent a summer with relatives in

West Australia's north west, to try

and dissociate the grief. In Carnar-

von, he met Erica Atherton, 17, and

they have been together ever

since. Rex Jnr and Erica are insepa-rable.

"I like everything about Rex, he's

a good person. What the police did

to him, and then not admit it, that's

just wrong. What happened to Rex,

that was wrong, just wrong," said

Erica.

"Rex and I have never argued, we

are always at ease, he's a calm

guy, he's cool."

Rex Jr remains solidly close with

his family.

"My family is pretty home bound,

so I go from time to time to visit

them. I am close with all my broth-

ers and sister."

I asked him about the future.

"I have to wait. It's been more

than three years and I haven't re-

ceived the insurance and compen-

sation. That's wrong but I'll

wait. Then I'll buy a house

with the money. I don't

know how long they are

going to take but hopefully

not as much time as has

passed since what they did

to me."

"They took away my foot-

ball, and I didn't finish high

school because of them.

They need to let us get on

with our lives."

"I don't expect justice, I don't ex-

pect the cops to get honest but I

am glad that many people have

learned the truth - that you have

been writing about what happened

to me so cops think twice next timeit happens."

"I haven't read everything you

have written, you have written so

much, I get tired but I am glad that

my people throughout Australia

know the truth and that every cor-

ner of Australia has at least heard

of what the police did to me. I can't

forgive them but I won't let them

mess me up and get me down."

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me while I was lying there. They

never came to the hospital to see if

I was alright. They have never taken

the time in more than three years

to check on me or contact me. I

don't know what they look like, they

have never given me a minute's

worth. They have never admitted

the full extent of what they did to

me that night. How can I

trust police when they're

like this?"

A week before the inter-

view Rex Jnr and some

friends were spoken to by a

couple of local police offi-

cers. The officers asked

questions about 'a person

of interest' they were look-

ing for. Rex Jnr told one

officer of the incident that

mangled his legs.

"He was shocked when I showed

him my leg. He said, 'Did we do

that?'"

I asked Rex Jnr what he thought

of that particular police officer. He

was taken aback by the question,and while reminding me of his

mother's soulful glances he looked

up at me, looked over my shoulder

and then flickered his eyes back to

me, and then spoke with the odd

pause between sentences.

"Actually, I didn't hate him, he

seemed to be quite a good person

despite being a cop. He didn't pack

on anything like other smart arse

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The events of the Myall Creek Massacre on June 10, 1838

of their victims. Within twenty

minutes of their arriving theyhauled their captives westwards

from the huts and over the top of

a rise.

About 800 metres from the

huts the defenceless Aboriginal

people were hacked and slashed

to death. They were beheaded

and their headless bodies were

left where they fell. The

stockmen then set up camp,

drinking and bragging about their

killings.

Late that night the Aboriginal

men who had been working at

the neighbouring station arrived

at Myall Creek Station. They were

urged to move on and headed off

into the night.

Two days after the Myall Creek

Massacre the murderers

returned and burned the bodies

of their victims. They then set out

to find the ten Aboriginal people

they had missed.

They found them the next day

and murdered most of them.

Two beautiful young girls were

allowed to live so that they could

be raped.

'Massacre at Myall Creek',

The Sydney Morning Herald

It seems likely that the same

stockmen perpetrated another

massacre near MacIntyre's (near

Inverell) where the group of tenAboriginal people had headed.

Reportedly between 30 and 40

Aboriginal people were murdered

and their bodies cast onto a largefire.

A woman was allowed to run

with blood spurting out of her cut

throat. She was then thrown alive

onto the fire. Her infant child was

thrown alive onto the fire. Two

young girls were mutilated by the

gang.

Eventually the party immersed

into heavy drinking and dispersed

five days after their first killings.

Investigating the Myall CreekInvestigating the Myall CreekInvestigating the Myall CreekInvestigating the Myall Creek

MassacreMassacreMassacreMassacre

Aboriginal killings 'run in the

family'. The cartoon reflects that

many colonists saw shooting

Aboriginal people as a sport [18].

It also plays with the fact that

many people see having some

Aboriginal ancestry as

'fashionable'. Graphic: Ian

Sutherland

Almost three weeks later the

atrocity was reported to police in

Sydney in the absence of the local

police magistrate. Governor

George Gipps ordered an

investigation which opened on

July 28th, 1838. Eventually ten

suspects were identified and

marched 300kms to Sydney for

trial. Their leader, John Fleming,

escaped.

As news spread about the

prisoners their capture attracted(Continued on page 7)

Creative Spirits .org

Many massacres, including

Myall Creek, were witnessed only

by the murderers. But because

the Myall Creek Massacre has

been extensively documented we

know now what happened.

At the time about 50 Aboriginal

people had moved to Myall Creek

Station at the invitation of a

stockman employed there.

The Myall Creek Massacre.

Note the rope binding the

Aboriginal people together and

the little child on the back of her

mother on the far right.

Published in The Chronicles of

Crime, 1841.

Ten of them, all able bodied

males, were working on aneighbouring station, 50kms

away, when they learned that a

group of armed stockmen

planned to go onto Myall Creek

Station. They walked back as fast

as they could, but it was already

too late.

The stockmen, led by John

Fleming, were already galloping

towards the huts of Myall Creek

Station where the remaining

Aboriginal people were preparing

their evening meal.

The stockmen herded the

defenceless Aboriginal people

together and tied their hands

together with a long rope. Only

two young boys escaped.

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wide interest. Given the accepted

opinion about Aboriginal people ofthose days the public were soon in

favour of the accused and a prominent

landholder offered to finance their

defence.

The whole gang of black animals are

not worth the money the colonists will

have to pay for printing the silly [court]

documents.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 5

October 1838

After Myall CreekAfter Myall CreekAfter Myall CreekAfter Myall Creek

After the Myall Creek Massacre

murderous attacks on Aboriginal

people continued for many decades

well into the 20th century. Whitepeople now went 'underground' using

poisoned flour which was harder to

prove in court . They also took

greater care to conceal or destroythe corpses . Many massacres

never became known outside the

district where they occurred .One of

the last big massacres occurred in

1928 when a group of policemen

chained together and shot 50

Aboriginal people in the

Northern Territory.

Three women were

spared to be raped and

later burned . It

became known as the

Coniston Massacre.

Overall, "premeditated

butchery of men,

women, children and

infants accounted in

the aggregate for tens

of thousands of black

lives," reported the

Sydney Morning

Herald, a view Colin

Clague confirms. Colin

was head of the

Aboriginal Land Claims

Unit from 1983 to 1988

and vividly remembers the struggle

to acknowledge many other

massacre sites. Many of them could

not be claimed, and when you walk

along public reserves or in national

parks you might as well come

across a massacre site.

Australian, 18 December 1838

I look on the blacks as a set of

monkeys, and the earlier they

are exterminated from the face

of the earth the better... I would

never see a white man hanged

for killing a black.

One of the

jurors, quoted

in The

Australian.

The first trial

in November

1838 was

based on thin

evidence. No-

one apart from

the killers had

witnessed themassacre and

they had

removed all

bodies before

they could be

recovered as

evidence. The

accused

pleaded not

guilty.

In the absence of any corpse

the jury took only 15 minutes to

pronounce the accused not

guilty to the cheering of the

crowd in the court. But Attorney-

General James Plunkett asked

for and was granted another

indictment.

The second trial, ten days

later, accused only seven of the

The Myall Creek Massacre.The Myall Creek Massacre.The Myall Creek Massacre.The Myall Creek Massacre. Note the rope binding the Aboriginal people together and the little child on the back of

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What was Australia's 1967 Referendum about?

[Ed Note:] There are so many misconceptions and myths about what the 1967 Referendum was about. So

many people, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people have the wrong information that it is time for a fuller

understanding of the referendum and its ramifications]

There are common misconceptions about what the 1967 Referendum actually changed.

What the referendum was about

The 1967 Referendum proposed to include Aboriginal people in the census.

The 1967 Referendum proposed to allow the Commonwealth government to

make laws for Aboriginal people.

Clever campaigners nonetheless understood to introduce these aspects into their campaigns and use them to favour a

'yes' vote.

What the 1967 Referendum was not about

The 1967 Referendum

Did not give Indigenous people the right to vote. This right was

already introduced in 1962.

Did not grant them citizenship. By the time of the referendum, most

of the specific federal and state laws discriminating against Aboriginalpeople had been repealed

Was not about equal rights for Aboriginal people. The Constitutional

change would not impact at all on laws governing Aboriginal people.

However, campaigners hoped that a 'yes' vote would require theCommonwealth government to enact reforms which would eventuallyachieve better rights for Aboriginal people


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Spinksys Birthday Party

Dont ask his age. He is a tad sensitive to that :-). Seventy people

joined together to celebrate the birthday of Mark Spinks aboard the

Tribal Warrior. It was a freezing night. Wind and rain. But it was also

a testament to the many friendships that Mark has that so many

people came aboard. A great night though. Family, friends, and

people he has reached out to with the programmes that Babana

have run and his own work on employment opportunities.

Mark has asked that his thanks go out to all those who attended.

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Another of the many events and activities that Babana members took on during NAIDOC Week was to hold a BBQ

to raise the registration costs for the Darlington Public Schools bus.Mark Spinks, chairperson of Babana Aboriginal Mens Group said that; one of the highlights of the day was to

attend the School Assembly where the children danced and sang for us. And we had the privilege to hand out

NAIDOC prizes to some of the children.

A delegation of Babana members attended the school to hand over the cheque for the bus registration to the

school Principal.

[Editors note: Sometimes I hear people ask; what does this Babana really do?. Well here is just one example of

the many good works that Babana members do all through the year. Mostly without fanfare or any publicity.

Many members, particularly the members of the management committee work diligently, with long hours, to make

sure that they can positively contribute to the well-being of the people of the Redfern/Waterloo community and throughoutthe City of Sydney. This work is often accomplished without funding, without assistance from government departments, with

a lack of interest from local businesses (although some local businesses are very supportive and give assistance when they

can), and often without the knowledge of the community at large.

Personally, through a combination of illnesses and some difficulty in walking far, the writer has not really been as

involved as I would like to be. However, my admiration for the active members of Babana is full. They are men who often

have their own issues. Yet they contribute to the organisation and the community on a regular basis. It would be good if

some of those questioners actually came along, joined in and contributed instead of sitting back being a critic.]


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nominated for the 100m.

Ross said he was committed to

sacrificing his place at the Olympics andwould have to live with what many

people would consider an extreme action

because after coming out of retirement

and giving his all to represent Australia at

London he has felt a distinct lack of

respect from his sport's officialdom.

All I wanted is an answer, a

simple answer, he said. I'm doing this

because I haven't got any answers

personally. I've been trying to get

answers but because it's always beinghand-balled to other people it's been

difficult to find a straight answer. The

strangest thing of all is I'm trying to find

out why they nominated Steve Solomon

and John Steffensen to run but didn't

want to nominate me.

Am I not good enough? Am I not

good enough to them to run the 100m

when I have proven time and time again

that Josh Ross always comes through

with the goods . . . 'Am I not good enough

to be nominated?' That is the bigquestion although it is a strange

question.

Ross believed such a stance

was required to ultimately improve

the lot for Australia's athletes. Hecould not understand why his

federation would not nominate the

likes of himself or Tamsyn Manou

(nee Lewis), a triple Olympian and

former world indoor champion who

was not even selected for the team

despite posting a B-qualifier for the

800m .

Great Britain has nominated

athletes who have run B-qualifying

times in the men's 100m

and women's 800m.There is a bigger picture

than just me not running or

Tamsyn and whoever else,

Ross said. You have to look

at the future of the sport,

the up-and-coming athletes.

We have the best 400m

sprinter [Steffensen] that

we've ever seen on the

team and he's not [picked

yet]; we have our best

100m sprinter and he's not

making it ... the younger

athletes must be thinking 'if

they're not making it what

hope do I have?' I think it is

time to fix athletics in this

country and [for the

officials] to do things the

right way.

If we don't speak up now

and make stands to change

the sport it will never happen, I justwant you to know this is [the reason

for] my stand.

Ross said the chance for him

to compete against Jamaica's world

champion Usain Bolt, history's fastest

man, would perhaps help AA to

inspire youngsters to remain in a

sport that constantly loses its best

prospects to the football codes.

Australians want to see

Australians compete, he said. The

fact is I'm here in London [where I'mbeing accommodated, clothed and

fed] so why not let me run?

Sydney Morning Herald

Daniel Lane

25 July 2012

Sprinter Josh Ross iswarning the Australian Olympic

Committee he will abandon the

London Games if he does not

receive a legitimate explanation

for the reason behind his

federation failing to nominate

him to race in the 100 metres

individual event.

Ross, who is a member of

Australia's

4x100m relay

team, is eligible to

compete in the

Olympics blue

riband event

because he

clocked 10:23

seconds a B-

qualifying

standard time at

the nationals

earlier this year

and at a recent

meet in Europe.

I've been

trying to get

answers but

because it's

always being

hand-balled to

other people it's

been difficult to

find a straight

answer

However, he has reachedbreaking point after Athletics

Australia officials would not tell

him why he was overlooked.

Melissa Breen was nominated for

the women's 100m after she ran

a B-standard time and selectors

will soon choose between fellow

B-qualifiers Steve Solomon and

John Steffensen to compete in

the 400m event.

I'm actually thinking

about pulling out all together if I

don't get answers, Ross said. I'll

actually be happy to pull out if I

don't get answers to why I wasn't

Ross threatens Olympic walkout

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Our web sites

http://www.treocom.net/babana

http:www.myspace.com/

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http://www.facebook.com/

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Babana members, guests and friends

Tosupport,enableandempowerAboriginalmenandfami

liesinourcommunity

An ABO is an

Australian BornOriginal person.

reader's letter, Koori Mail

Read more: http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/racism.html#ixzz23UOgFHVU

2012 July/August Final

Documents

Transcript of 2012 July/August Final