Australia

WGAR News: Declarations of Independence advanced at Brisbane Treaty Talks: Sovereign Union

Newsletter date: 24 May 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Declarations of Independence advanced at Brisbane Treaty Talks
* Sovereign Union Media Release: Declarations of Independence advanced at Brisbane Treaty Talks
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, about the Brisbane Treaty Talks
* CAAMA Radio's Paul Wyles interviews Michael Anderson about the struggle to decolonize and achieve independence

* Sovereign Union: Italian Media: Birth of the Republic of Aboriginal Murrawarri

Gomeroi traditional owners join broad anti-coal seam gas protest in northwest NSW

Support as Traditional Owners join fight to stop destruction of the NSW North West from mining and extraction of coal seam gas

A broad range of farmers and community members concerned about the impacts of new mining and coal seam gas proposals across NSW North West are expressing their support for the Gomeroi Native Title claimants in their recent stance to halt all mining in the region.

Stop the refoulement of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers

Melbourne 22 May 2013: The Australian government has separated 14 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, 4 men, 3 women and 6 children (including a 6 month old baby), who arrived by boat and were detained in a remote immigration detention centre in Christmas Island from other asylum seekers and have informed them that:

a/ They are not going to be allowed to make an application for asylum.
b/. They are going to be forcibly deported to Sri Lanka.

They want to sell the ABC and the SBS


 

Australia's education lottery - help petition for reforms

Gonski. It's the name that's been dominating headlines for months.

But what exactly is the plan behind the man?

We've teamed up with Jane Caro and Chris Bonnor, co-authors of What Makes a Good School, to explain why the Gonski Review represents the best pathway to a quality education for every Australian child.

WGAR News: "NACCHO praises release of FPDN 10 point plan for Aboriginal people with a disability"

Newsletter date: 22 May 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO praises release of FPDN 10 point plan for Aboriginal people with a disability
* NACCHO chair welcomes Professor Kerry Arabena as the newly appointed Chair of Indigenous Health
* SBS Radionews: Indigenous suicide summit in Perth
* Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

* CAAMA Radio: Interview with Rod Little, a Director of the National Congress of Australia's First People
* CAAMA Radio: "Huge attitude change needed" to recognise Indigenous rights
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

Open letter in response to the #NoJabNoPlay Campaign.

Open letter to:
21/05/2013
The Editor The Daily Telegraph
The Hon. Jillian Skinner MP
Minister for Health
Minister for Medical Research
The Hon. Adrian Piccoli MP
Minister for Education

Dear Sirs/madam

In response to the #NoJabnoplay Campaign.
This open letter will be published through indymedia and propagated via various social and media networks.

The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 20

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Liberation through acquisition

By Gary Foley writing in The Tracker

Melbourne was recently privileged to receive a visit from Queensland’s most famous Lutheran since peanut farming Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson. I refer, of course, to the corpulent and verbose Aboriginal Man of the Moment- Mr Noel Pearson.

More independent Aboriginal states in the pipeline

Goodooga, 20 May 2013 - - Aborigines who have just met for two days in Brisbane are looking to launching their own independent states, as the Murrawarri people have just done in northwest NSW and southwest Queensland.
“Clearly the people are now asking the pertinent questions relating to a process of asserting their continuing sovereignty as individual nations,” writes Michael Ghillar Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia in a media release.

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