The Jawoyn people are a group of indigenous Australians living in the Northern Territory of Australia. They are unusual in that, when a mining corporation wanted to gain access to their land, rather than sell the land outright, they instead negotiated to allow the company to use the land for mining rather to sell it outright. In exchange, they received a number of concessions from the mining group, including commitments towards hiring Aboriginal workers, providing scholarships, and promoting the area as a tourist and environmentalist area.
Jawoyn success in protecting the sickness country around Coronation Hill was not based on fabrication, as implied by Mr Brunton.
It is our cultural strength that allows the Jawoyn - despite the Guratba experience - to engage positively with the mining industry to the point where we hold equity in exploration on our traditional lands and are represented on the NT Minerals Council executive.
Robert Lee is executive director of the Jawoyn Association, Katherine, Northern Territory.
This “invasion” by outsiders was accompanied by introduces diseases, to which the Jawoyn had no or little immunity to, and disruption to the local subsistence economy, particularly in pastoral areas, where Jawoyn people were forced away from traditional hunting and fishing areas.
Jawoyn people, along with many other groups, worked for the army during the war.
The purpose of the study was to identify barriers to achieve improvements in nutrition, and to assess the current capacity to monitor health impacts that may result from the implementation of our project.
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