NYUNGAH CIRCLE OF ELDERS
c/o PO GUILDFORD WESTERN AUSTRALIA
T: 08 9377 3550, 08 9279 6706 F:08 9377 3559

The Last of the Nyungah Elders who are standing to Save and Protect our Ancient Religion and Culture and Sacred Beliefs in the Land and not take money to sell our Sacredness

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29-02-2000


TO:

The Minister Of Justice, Mr Peter Foss

The Minister for Disability Services, Mr Paul Omodei

The Minister for Lands

The Minister for Housing

The Ministry for Justice

The Disability Services Commission

Depût of Land Administration

The Member of the Legislative Council, Hon Derrick Tomlinson

The Superintendent of Nyandi, Christine Ginbey

Tom McKay Consultant to the Ministry of Justice


1. You, DOLA were going to meet with Bassendean Council on the Lockridge Land at Pyrton with a new proposal, and called it off a couple of weeks ago.

2. The Minister Mr Omedei met with the Mayor of Bassendean with a new proposal for the Lockridge Land at Pyrton last week.

3. Mr Tom McKay and the Superintendent of Nyandi met on Sunday with Lynda Nutter as a random resident (but of the Pyrton Action Group in fact) and with Mr Roy Simpson as a random resident (but of the Pyrton Action Group) with a new proposal for the Lockridge Land at Pyrton.

4. The Hon Derrick Tomlinson rang Mrs Esther Constable as a very long-standing Bassendean resident with new information on the prison proposals for Bandyup and the Lockridge Land at Pyrton the other day:

WHY HAVEN'T YOU COME AND SEEN THE NYUNGAHS? YOU NEVER APPROACHED US AS YOU WOULD A WHITEFELLA.

WHERE DOES IT SHOW ON ANY OF YOUR RECORDS THAT ANY OF YOU HAVE HAD THE COMMON DECENCY TO COME AND SEE US?

WILL YOU ALL MEET WITH US THE NYUNGAH PEOPLE ON SITE IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR SACRED SPIRITUAL DREAMINGS IN THE LOCKRIDGE LAND AT PYRTON?

Please reply.

Everything and all these proposals should stop until you've seen and studied and looked seriously and considered seriously and thought seriously about the Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Study that is now being completed.


Swan Valley Nyungah Community

and for Nyungah Circle of Elders


Copy to:

The Premier of WA, Mr Richard Court

The Minister for Planning. Mr Graham Kierath

The Chairperson of the WA Planning Commission, Simon
Holthouse

The Ministry of Planning

The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Dr Kim Hames

The Aboriginal Cultural Mateial Committee of the Aboriginal
Affairs Department

The Registrar of Aboriginal Sites, Irene Stainton

The Culture and Heritage Section of the Aboriginal Affairs
Department

The Member for Morley, Clive Brown

The Indigenous Land Corporation

Bassendean Mayor and all Councillors

Swan Shire Council President and all Councillors


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Swan Valley Nyungah Community

svnc@nyungah.org.au

http://www.nyungah.org.au/

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