[Marxism] Latest on the QUT struggle

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> New Video  on QUT and Laughing at Aborigines
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM0HYYBKblg
>  or just go to www.youtube.com/globaldawning and click on the latest video
> "Laughing at Aborigines? - Tough Questions for QUT"
> 
> 
> 
> Please view tape forward link to everyone and post on all blogs.
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> 
> 
> My Name is Ted Watson.  I am an Aboriginal man.  I have been granted power
> of attorney to act on behalf of May Lulu Dunne who was filmed by Michael
> Noonan in the Australian Hotel in Boulia Easter 2006 as part of his PhD
> Project.  The project was called *Laughing at the Disabled: Creating Comedy
> that Confronts, Offends and Entertains.*
> 
> * *
> 
> In Easter 2006 Noonan took two intellectually impaired men to Boulia to find
> girls and to ask about the Min Min Lights. He sent them into the pub and
> there they met May Dunne.  She is a tribal woman from the Northern Territory
> and is a decent caring grandmother of 52 years of age.  She had too much to
> drink when Noonan filmed her but this is an exception for her.  On Noonan's
> film she comes across as the stereotypical drunken indigenous woman that
> white people love to portray. In May's own words she tells us
> 
> 
> 
> "At no time was I asked permission to be filmed or sign any paper…I was hurt
> and shamed to see my actions shown on the internet in [the] Courier Mail
> newspaper website at our local library by Mr Ted Watson on Friday 14//07. I
> watched ABC and SBS hoping I would not be see[n] by everybody especially my
> people and family in a drunken way.  I am upset now and want my pictures
> taken of the website…"
> 
> 
> 
> Noonan and QUT have broken all of the protocols for doing research involving
> indigenous Australians.  We the Aboriginal people of Australia fought hard
> for these protocols. They are
> 
> 
> 
> *National Statement for Research Involving Humans*
> 
> *Research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People*
> 
> *Six core values*
> 
> ·         *Reciprocity*
> 
> ·         *Respect*
> 
> ·         *Equality*
> 
> ·         *Responsibility*
> 
> ·         *Survival and Protection*
> 
> ·         *Spirit and integrity     *
> 
> * *
> 
> *The Clauses*
> 
> *The researcher should ensure that the research methods are respectful.*
> 
> *There should be evidence of support for the research project from relevant
> Aboriginal and Torrres Strait Islander communities and the research
> methodology should engage with their social and cultural practices.*
> 
> *The researcher should seek to identify any potential negative consequences
> of the proposed research, to design process to monitor them and to advise
> steps for minimizing them.*
> 
> *The research methods and processes should provide opportunities to develop
> trust and a sense of equal research partnerships.*
> 
> *The benefits… should include… research outcomes that advance the interests
> of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.*
> 
> *The described benefits from research should have been discussed with and
> agreed to by the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander research stakeholders.
> *
> 
> I repeat that Michael Noonan has clearly broken all these protocols.  Yet
> QUT set up an internal review following a complaint about his research and
> they found him not guilty.  The academics who did this have betrayed my
> people and they have also shamed their own university.
> 
> May has also asked me to say that she thinks it is nasty to make fun of and
> rubbish people like Darren and James who do not understand what is going on.
> May herself is the guardian and carer of an intellectually disabled man. The
> Aboriginal people of Boulia were horrified when Noonan and Spectrum
> Organization put Daren and James into the rodeo ring and made them act being
> a bull and a matador so people would laugh at them. May and her family could
> not understand why people were being so cruel to James and Darren.  But then
> we Aborigines have never understood why white Australians can be so cruel to
> other whites.
> 
> * *
> 
> 
> 
> There is now an interview with me up  on YouTube. The link below will get
> you there.
> 
> 
> 
> Please pass on the link to all interested parties especially indigenous
> groups all round the world.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM0HYYBKblg
> 
> 
>  or just go to www.youtube.com/globaldawning and click on the latest video
> "Laughing at Aborigines? - Tough Questions for QUT"
> 
> 
> 
> We Aborigines are having a very hard time now, what with our rights being
> trampled on and our land being taken off us. We need help and support from
> everyone.  If you care about this issue please email The Federal Minister
> for Aboriginal Affairs Mal Brough and the Shadow Minister Jenny Macklin. To
> contact Mal Brough go to
> 
> < http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/memfeedback.asp?id=2K6>  and fill in
> the contact form. Jenny Macklin can be reached via <  JMacklin.MP@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >
> 
> 
> 
> We need an apology from QUT to May Dunne, compensation for her suffering and
> the removal of Noonan's footage of her from the Courier Mail website.
> 
> 
> 
> Yours in the struggle
> 
> Edward James Watson
> 

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