WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/
Contents:
Programs for Upcoming Events
Urgent Fundraising Campaign
Aboriginal Articles
PROGRAMS FOR UPCOMING EVENTS:
Defending Indigenous Rights Land~Law~Culture
[Indigenous & Non Indigenous Gathering]
July 6-9 in Mparntwe-Alice Springs
[Program]: http://defendingindigenousrights.wordpress.com/agenda/
[Link includes agenda, camping, contact, help needed, transport, donations]: http://defendingindigenousrights.wordpress.com/
The New Way Aboriginal summit July 1 - 4 in Melbourne
Treaty Republic [Updated program including list of speakers]: http://treatyrepublic.net/node/359
Treaty Republic [Link includes invitation, program, speakers, contacts, costs, locations]: http://treatyrepublic.net/
URGENT FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN:
Rollback the Intervention:
Urgent Fundraising Campaign
http://rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/
22 Jun 10: "Funds are now urgently needed to help with the large gathering being held from 6-9 July. IRAG [Intervention Rollback Action Group] is supporting this event by contacting communities and helping organise transport to bring people into Alice Springs. We are also involved in provision of food and logistics, and with running several workshops."
ABORIGINAL ARTICLES:
Radio
CAAMA: Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association
25th June 2010 CAAMA Radio news
http://caama.com.au/radio/25th-june-2010-caama-radio-news/
25 Jun 10: "* We have a new Prime Minister and she’s famale. * The former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd leaves a good legacy for Indigenous affairs according to the Australian Indigenous human rights commission."
Opinion/Analysis
Green Left: ALP's desperate rebadging could mask a shift to right
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/44543
25 Jun 10: "Socialists and progressive trade union and social movement activists have reacted sceptically to the leadership change in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) federal government of Australia. ... Richard Downs, spokesperson for Alyawarr people and organiser for the July gathering of elders and leaders: "In Julia Gillard's address to the nation, there was no mention of the first Australians and owners of this country on the way forward." ... Sharon Firebrace, Koori activist and Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for Victoria: "There is no sign that Gillard will do anything to reverse the racist apartheid laws in the Northern Territory where indigenous people have lesser rights than non-indigenous people." ... "
News
NT News: Hendo urges Gillard to dump Muckaty
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/06/26/159311_ntnews.html
26 Jun 10: "AUSTRALIA'S new Prime Minister Julia Gillard should rethink her predecessor's decision to build a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory, Chief Minister Paul Henderson said. Mr Henderson said the Muckaty Station nuclear waste dump would be one of the first issues on the table."
National Indigenous Radio Service:
Richard Downs calls for Intervention rollback gathering support
http://www.nirs.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4057...
25 Jun 10: "Alyawarra elder and spokesperson for the Ampilatwatja walk off, Richard Downs, has called for all people in central Australia to attend a gathering from July 6 - 9 to unite against the NT Intervention and all racist laws."
National Indigenous Radio Service:
Hopes Gillard will fulfil Stolen Generation promise
http://www.nirs.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4047...
25 Jun 10: "The Northern Territory's Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson says he hopes the new Prime Minister Julia Gillard will fulfil the Government's commitments to the Stolen Generations."
Koori Mail: Mansell says Rudd won't be missed
[scroll down page] http://www.koorimail.com/index.php
24 Jun 10: "ABORIGINAL people around the country will be unanimous in celebrating the demise of Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre legal director Michael Mansell said today. He said Stolen Generations members remained without compensation and Aborigines in the Northern Territory had been humiliated."
Koori Mail: Former PM 'proud' of Apology
[scroll down page] http://www.koorimail.com/index.php
24 Jun 10: "FORMER Prime Minister Kevin Rudd included the Apology and reaching out to the Stolen Generations among a list of things he was most proud to have achieved during his time in the top job. Mr Rudd yesterday stepped down from the position following a challenge by his deputy, Julia Gillard, who is now Australia’s first female Prime Minister."
Alternative Media Group:
Back to the ration days for indigenous workers
http://www.altmedia.net.au/back-to-the-ration-days-for-indigenous-worker...
17 Jun 10: "Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory employed in the building and construction industry are getting less than a quarter of the award pay of workers in NSW. Peter Inverway, a building worker from Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory addressed workers at construction sites across Sydney and NSW last week to talk about the stripping back of pay and conditions under the federal Northern Territory intervention." Liz Cush
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WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)