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• Activist stakes claim to prawns
  22.03.2001
  THE $110 million-a-year north Queensland prawn industry had been ``put on notice'' Aboriginal people want to discuss sharing the resource, Carpentaria Land Council chairman Murrandoo Yanner said yesterday. Mr Yanner said he supported the precedent set... read more
• Mine activist buries the hatchet
  22.07.2000
  FOR almost a decade, the future of the $1.2 billion Pasminco Century zinc mine north-west of Mount Isa has been embroiled in controversy. The main problem was getting agreement with the Aboriginal people -- the traditional owners of the land where the... read more
• Tough justice
  22.07.2000
  QUEENSLAND'S legal system needs to take a long, hard look at itself. Statistics released last week revealed that of 1800 people jailed in Australia last year for defaulting on fines, 1600 were in Queensland. It is not news that people who don't pay... read more
• Aboriginal jobs give zinc mine go-ahead
  17.07.2000
  THE Pasminco Century zinc mine north-west of Mount Isa has finalised an employment agreement with local Aboriginal people that should remove the last impediment to optimum production. The mine owners, the State Government and Aborigines have signed an... read more
• Down but not out
  07.02.2000
  Murrandoo Yanner is the angry voice of young Aboriginal Australia, writes Tony Koch JUST a year ago, I sat at the kitchen table in Murrandoo Yanner's comfortable home in remote Burketown, north of Mount Isa. Yanner is not difficult to interview. Ask... read more
• Yanner forced off land council
  03.02.2000
  OUTSPOKEN Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner has been forced to stand down from his position as co-ordinator of the Carpentaria Land Council based at Burketown, north of Mount Isa. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Mount Isa regional... read more
• Minister sought harsher sentence for Yanner
  02.12.1999
  MINES Minister Tony McGrady has confirmed he wrote to the Attorney-General asking him to appeal against a sentence received by Aboriginal activist Murrandoo Yanner. Mr McGrady said members of the local Aboriginal community asked for the appeal because... read more