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Larrakia Kenbi Aboriginal Land Claim settlement announcement by the Northern Territory Government (NTG)
Friday - 30 January 2009 is the most significant date in thirty years of our Larrakia Kenbi Aboriginal Land Claim. It is the landmark announcement by the NTG of the settlement of Kenbi Land Claim that was won by the Larrakia Traditional Owners headed up by the most senior Larrakia Elder Raylene Singh.

Related Media documents below-

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Radio Larrakia 94.5 FM "Larrakia Talk"
- Professor Marcia Langton

"Realities and Intervention in Indigenous Communities"
Professor Marcia Langton, award winning Indigenous leader, anthropologist, academic and advocate for Aboriginal rights, land rights, customary law and women and children's issues as well as, expert on Indigenous affairs for many decades gave an exclusive interview with Radio Larrakia's Donna Odegaard this week on Larrakia Talk.
Professor Langton gave a frank and detailed account of her support for the Intervention, based on her many years experience in her profession as an anthropologist, researcher and advisor, identifying the reality of problems and ongoing suffering facing Aboriginal people living in urban, rural and remote Aboriginal communities in Australia and, in particular the Northern Territory. The Intervention arose from the Emergency Response and the release of the "Little Children are Sacred Report" this year, which confirmed the worsening plight of neglect, abuse and violence against Aboriginal women and children within Aboriginal communities. This drew alarming similarity with the recent report of the Aurukun case in Queensland of the gang-rape of a ten year old Aboriginal girl in an Indigenous community and, the failure of the legal system to prosecute the rapists.

Comparisons were made between the issues raised in the 2007 Intervention and the 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in which Professor Langton played a major part in visiting 30 Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and reporting on critical factors leading to the over representation of Aboriginal people in the legal system and, alarming rates of deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. Professor Marcia Langton identified alcohol as a major causal factor in both findings and stressed the situation is much worse now with the ongoing problems associated with alcohol and, the added problems of pornography within Aboriginal communities, illicit drug use, poverty, illness, homelessness, unemployment and gambling. "It is much, much worse now".

Professor Langton urged Aboriginal women to speak up on Radio Larrakia and in the media to "have their voices heard" on the problems happening in Aboriginal communities.
Until now, public condemnation of the Intervention has been at the centre of much academic and legal debate spilling into the national media, forums and rallies by people mostly outside Aboriginal communities, speaking on behalf of the affected communities. Those against the Intervention are against the drastic measures taken to fix decades of poverty, disadvantage and ill health of Indigenous Australians living in remote and rural communities.
Aboriginal community people need the opportunity to tell it like it is, to inform Australia on the facts of the situation and to identify what they need to fix their own communities.
The interview is being replayed due to public demand.
-To read more about the Indigenous Broadcasting Training Program - Click Here.

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An open letter from Gary Deacon about his 'unusual reception' of the Radio Larrakia all the way from Cape Town SOUTH AFRICA!

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To: Radio Larrakia

Dear Sir

It was with pleasure that I received Radio Larrakia via 6WR Waringarri Radio on my AM radio here in South Africa!

I would appreciate it greatly if you would be so kind as to take the trouble to listen to the attached audio clip.

If you find it to be correct, I would greatly appreciate a brief e-mail reply to verify the audio clip if possible.

I have also inlcuded some program details below.

I guess that I am outside the target area of your medium wave radio station, although it may be of interest to discover how far your signal can travel at times.

I heard Radio Larrakia viaon Sunday 16th September 2007 at 3:21 am your time. 6WR Waringarri Radio was broadcasting on a frequency of 693 kHz in the mediumwave band.

The signal strength varied from poor to fair and faded at times.

Program Details

:(Indistinct words due to the signal level have been indicated)

1:51am: A relay of 94.5 FM Radio Larrakia was in progress as I tuned in:

An announcement by the male presenter of the early morning programme was in progress :

" OK the time now : 21 and a half minutes past 3 ... Tom ...on Sunday morning. You're listening 94.5 FM ... on a Sunday morning - Darwin Beat Request Show. (As heard on the attached audio grab) ... Live right across Aus from the ... top end of Darwin by the NIRS National Indigenous Radio Service ... If you wan't to make a request at this hour of the morning, give me a call 0889 4827 11 ... "

An enjoyable programme of music continued.

I enjoyed your program and will certianly try to tune in again when reception conditions permit.

A few details about myself : I am a recording artist, composer and music lecturer of the guitar and bass guitar. I have composed music for the SABC and Fine Music Radio, another local radio station in Cape Town. As a matter of interest, I have just completed composing and recording some extra music for an Austalian film, "The Jammed", which has recently been released to good reviews.

Regarding my receiving equipment, I used a Yaesu Musen FRG-7 receiver via a home-built preselector and 220 meter beverage antenna on the ground directed towards Perth.

My receiving location is in Fish Hoek, approximately 25kM southeast of Cape Town (photo -right)

You are welcome to click onto http://capedx.blogspot.com/ and http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/fishhoek_2006_03.dx
for a few more photographs and an idea of other AM radio stations and verifications received at my location in Fish Hoek.

As I matter of interest I recently managed to tune into another Australian AM radio station, 891 ABC Adelaide. The producer decided to include an interview concerning the unusual reception, a short story and some photographs on their website which you are welcome to visit by clicking onto http://www.abc.net.au/adelaide/stories/s1870547.htm

Thank you for kindly taking the time to read my e-mail.

I will be looking forward to your reply.

Best Regards

Gary Deacon
45 Carlton Road
7975
Fish Hoek
South Africa
e-mail : garydeacon@telkomsa.net

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Daughter Nicole tuning in

Fish Hoek Beach, Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA