ABC News Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:28 CDT LOCAL NEWS : South Australia WMC Resources and Arabunna opponents meet in Adelaide Representatives of the Arabunna Aboriginal community have today held talks in Adelaide with W.M.C. Resources, which operates the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia's far north. The meeting was prompted by the concerns of Aboriginal protestor Kevin Buzzacott, who has accused the company of committing genocide against Aborigines. About a dozen Aborigines attended the meeting, including some senior elders who are understood to be unhappy with Mr Buzzacott's protest camp outside Government House in Adelaide. The meeting decided that in about six weeks time, there would be a two to three day gathering of Arabunna representatives in Port Augusta. Aboriginal Lands Trust executive officer Chris Larkin said that the gathering would determine what direction the Arabunna community will take, and who will speak as its representative. "It's important for them to come toegether and decide as a people what are the main issues and how they want to go about addressing those," said Mr Larkin. On behalf of W.M.C, spokesman Richard Yeeles said today's meeting was frank and cordial. "Well I think it was a useful meeting..it was an opportunity for different points of view to be put on the table and to be considered and I just say I think, from both points of view, it was a useful meeting," said Mr Yeeles. � 2000 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
