THE CLEANSING OF GARIWERD
The Point went to Gariwerd to look at the rise of white supremacist and extremist groups operating in Australia. On the January 26 long weekend this year, the area - the Grampians in regional Victoria was invaded by masked white supremacists.
Gunaikurnai man Troy McDonald told the program: “In this vicinity, 30 of those white supremacists came and started their hateful chants. It was a really tough thing for a lot of us to see that, when it was reported.
Because if you are coming here, this is not a hateful environment. People don t come here generally on a holiday or a walk to express a hate agenda and that’s what they’ve done.
Seven students from Page High School volunteered to help vaccinate residents from the town of Fredonia, Ariz. last month.
The high school students were
Jonah Holiday, Ryan Thomas, Neve Redhair, Keira Jenkins, Arianna Jenkins, Marah Little and Nadya Begay.
Fredonia is located in the northwest corner of Arizona and doesn’t have a healthcare provider. When Coconino County made Covid-19 vaccinations available, it reached out to Encompass Health Services in Page, the nearest Arizona-based medical provider, and asked if they could assist the county do the vaccinations.
“Of course, we were happy to help with that,” said Joe Wright, CEO of Page Encompass.
McARTHUR RIVER MINE
Reporter Keira Jenkins travelled to Borroloola and the land nearly 100km south of Darwin on which mining giant Glencore’s McArthur River mine continues to make controversy, with traditional owners facing the poisoning of their water and wildlife.
“It is like a garden to Aboriginal people,” said Garawa elder Jack Green, who is now too scared of lead poisoning to fish in the river.
Locals say the lead and zinc mine has had an enormous impact and warn that even after it closes the environmental impact will need to be monitored for 1000 years.
Elder Josie Davey says: “I’m really worried about the mine, what they’ve done is not right. It’s my great-grandfather’s country and it hurts so much that I can’t even take my kids back there no more.”