Newsletter date: 3 September 2013
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Contents:
* Respect and Listen Compilation: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, OAM - A.F.N.P.P. - Australia's First Nations Political Party
* The Wire: Jeff McMullen backs First Nations candidate for the Senate [Aboriginal Elder from Utopia, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks]
* Respect and Listen: Interview by Jeff McMullen with Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
* CAAMA Radio's Paul Wiles interviews Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, OAM - A.F.N.P.P.
* YouTube: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks makes NT Senate bid
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Rosie Kunoth-Monks, Senate candidate for Australia's First Nations Political Party (A.F.N.P.P.)
* CAAMA Video: Rosalie Kunoth Monks from Australia's First Nations Political Party runs for a seat in the Senate
* CAAMA Radio: Arrende-Alyawarra Elder speaks out against intervention [Featuring Aunty Rosalie Kunoth Monks]
* Respect and Listen, Vimeo: "A Decision to Discriminate" Past Adelaide book launch - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
* STICS, Vimeo: The Struggle Against the NT Intervention - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
* Rosalie Kunoth-Monks speaks at Arena's NT Intervention Forum
* Background to NT Aboriginal candidates in the 2013 Australian Federal elections
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* RESPECT AND LISTEN COMPILATION: ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS, OAM - A.F.N.P.P. - AUSTRALIA'S FIRST NATIONS POLITICAL PARTY
- Compilation
Respect and Listen: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, OAM - A.F.N.P.P. - Australia's First Nations Political Party
http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/rosalie-kunoth-monks.html
See:
WGAR News: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks & Ken Lechleitner: Australia's First Nations Political Party candidates (21 Aug 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/08/19/wgar-news-rosalie-kunoth-monks-ken-le...
* THE WIRE: JEFF MCMULLEN BACKS FIRST NATIONS CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE
- Audio Interview
The Wire: Jeff McMullen backs First Nations candidate for the Senate
Produced by Lisa Burns
http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=10750
28 Aug 13: "Treaties and the future of the Stronger Futures legislation are issues that many Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory are hoping the major parties will consider during this election period. Aboriginal Elder from Utopia, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, who has campaigned fiercely against Stronger Futures and the Intervention, has decided to take matters into her own hands and is bidding for a seat in the Senate. Journalist and former foreign correspondent, Jeff McMullen, has spent years covering Indigenous rights issues here in Australia and abroad, and is travelling around the country to support Rosalie in her campaign.
Featured in story:
Jeff McMullen, Journalist, Indigenous rights advocate, CEO of Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth "
* RESPECT AND LISTEN: INTERVIEW BY JEFF MCMULLEN WITH ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS
- Audio
Respect and Listen: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks: Interview by Jeff McMullen with Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on 22.08.2013
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/rosalie-kunoth-monks.html
A.F.N.P.P. - Australia's First Nations Political Party
* CAAMA RADIO'S PAUL WILES INTERVIEWS ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS, OAM - A.F.N.P.P.
- Audio Interview
Respect and Listen: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, OAM - A.F.N.P.P.
Audio - Interview with Paul Wiles of CAAMA Online Radio News
http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/rosalie-kunoth-monks.html#...
A.F.N.P.P. - Australia's First Nations Political Party
* YOUTUBE: ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS MAKES NT SENATE BID
- Video
YouTube: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks makes NT Senate bid - Sovereign Embassy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_2eWnGVL8&feature=c4-overview&list=UUok...
13 Aug 13: "Rosalie Kunoth was born in 1937 at Utopia Cattle Station (Arapunya) in the Northern Territory of Australia to parents of the Amatjere people. ... In August of that year [2011] she went to Canberra for Amnesty International and denounced Federal government intervention in the Northern Territory as a "huge violation of human rights," displacing "more indigenous people from their traditional lands, depriving them of opportunities to speak their native language and severing links with [their] culture. ... "
* LET'S TALK'S TIGA BAYLES INTERVIEWS AUNTY ROSIE KUNOTH-MONKS, SENATE CANDIDATE FOR AUSTRALIA'S FIRST NATIONS POLITICAL PARTY (A.F.N.P.P.)
- Audio Interview
Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane:
Let's Talk - Rosie Kunoth-Monks
http://www.989fm.com.au/category/podcasts/lets-talk/
12 Aug 13: "Aunty Rosie Kunoth-Monks is The Senate Candidate for The First Nations Political Party."
Listen to this interview on-line:
http://www.989fm.com.au/podcasts/lets-talk/rosie-kunoth-monks/
[First Rosalie Kunoth-Monks speaks about Jedda
27 mins into the programme: She talks about the NT Intervention
34 mins into the programme: She talks about her standing for the NT Senate]
* CAAMA VIDEO: ROSALIE KUNOTH MONKS FROM AUSTRALIA'S FIRST NATIONS POLITICAL PARTY RUNS FOR A SEAT IN THE SENATE
- Video
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association: Rosalie Kunoth Monks from Australia’s First Nations Political Party runs for a seat in the Senate
http://caama.com.au/rosalie-kunoth-monks-from-australias-first-nations-p...
7 Aug 13
* CAAMA RADIO: ARRENDE-ALYAWARRA ELDER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST INTERVENTION [FEATURING AUNTY ROSALIE KUNOTH MONKS]
- Audio Interview
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association: Arrende-Alyawarra Elder speaks out against intervention
http://caama.com.au/arrende-alyawarra-elder-speaks-out-against-intervention
9 Aug 13
* RESPECT AND LISTEN, VIMEO: "A DECISION TO DISCRIMINATE" PAST ADELAIDE BOOK LAUNCH - ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS
- Video
Respect and Listen, Vimeo: ADTD book launch Adelaide - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
http://vimeo.com/55690589
9 Dec 12: "The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) with individual donors and in conjunction with SA Unions, the Josephite Sisters Reconciliation Circle, Pilgrim Uniting Church, Mission Resourcing SA, Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress SA and the United Nations Association Australia will be launching the book ‘A Decision to Discriminate’ released by Concerned Australians. ... Travelling to Adelaide to launch the book are the Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM and Rosalie Kunoth Monks OAM representing the Yolngu Nations and the Alyawaar Nations respectively. This is a rare opportunity to meet with these two distinguished Elders and to hear first-hand stories."
* STICS, VIMEO: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE NT INTERVENTION - ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS
- Video
STICS, Vimeo: The Struggle Against the NT Intervention - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
http://vimeo.com/55359004
6 Dec 12: "Special STICS public forum marking Human Rights Day:
After the NT election...
The Struggle Against the NT Intervention
Aboriginal leaders speak out - "Stronger Futures" = Stolen Futures ...
Special guest speakers:
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM, Alyawarr Elder from Utopia homelands, NT
Amelia Pangarte Kunoth-Monks, NT youth leader living on the BasicsCard
Jeff McMullen, Chief Executive Officer (Honorary) of Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth"
* ROSALIE KUNOTH-MONKS SPEAKS AT ARENA'S NT INTERVENTION FORUM
- Video
Arena: NT Intervention Forum - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
http://arena.org.au/nt-intervention-forum-rosalie-kunoth-monks/
"Rosalie Kunoth-Monks speaks at Arena’s NT Intervention Forum, Jun 2012"
* BACKGROUND TO NT ABORIGINAL CANDIDATES IN THE 2013 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTIONS
Last updated: 2 September 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/09/01/background-to-nt-aboriginal-candidate...
* BACKGROUND TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT) INTERVENTION:
Last updated: 2 September 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-northern-territory-...
* BACKGROUND TO 'STRONGER FUTURES' NEW NT INTERVENTION LAWS:
Last updated: 2 September 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-stronger-futures-new-nt...
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