The Wire

And back to the West, but this time to the Kimberly, where a clan spokesman says the native title process is dealing unfairly with Beagle Bay’s Nyul Nyul, Nimanburr and Jabirr Jabirr Traditional Owners. Beagle Bay became home to Aboriginal children from around the region when Catholic missionaries established a church and school there in the early 1900s. Traditional Owner Henry Augustine says the Aboriginal Lands Trust, or ALT, let down his own people, because they no longer have any elders to speak for them. Mr Augustine says the situation exists because decades of stolen generations policy has caused a loss of culture. A spokesman for the Kimberly Land Council, which is responsible for many major native title claims in the region, says not much is happening for Beagle Bay Traditional Owners at present…But CEO Wayne Bergman was unavailable for an official comment on the issue today.