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WGAR News: Act: Sign an AMCS Petition: Don't Let Them Take Away Your Rights + Don't use taxpayer funds to risk the Reef!: Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS)

Newsletter date: 11 September 2015; last updated 9:45am AEST

Contents:

* Act: Sign an AMCS Petition: http://www.marineconservation.org.au/petitions.php

Don't Let Them Take Away Your Rights: http://www.marineconservation.org.au/petitions.php/46/dont-let-them-take...

WGAR News: Statement from Taiwan Nuclear Free Movement to Walkatjurra Walkabout: Coalition of Taitung Communities Against Nuclear Waste - Green Citizen's Action Alliance

Newsletter date: 10 September 2015

Contents:

* Homepage of 'Walkatjurra Walkabout - Walking for Country': http://walkingforcountry.com/

* Statement from Taiwan Nuclear Free Movement to Walkatjurra Walkabout

* Update: Walkatjurra Walkabout Crew: Update from week three walking for a nuclear free future on the red-earth country of the Northern Goldfields

WGAR News: First Nations leaders gather once more in the heart of Australia to define Treaty: Freedom Movement SA Media Release

Newsletter date: 10 September 2015

Contents:

* Media Release: Freedom Movement SA: First Nations leaders gather once more in the heart of Australia to define Treaty

* Upcoming Event: WGAR News: Demand Our Treaty: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks Calls for First Nations People to Attend Summit in Alice Springs 11-13 September 2015

WGAR News: A different point of view: Treaty interviews with Tauto Sansbury & Rosalie Kunoth Monks on CAAMA Radio

Newsletter date: 9 September 2015; last updated 6:50pm AEST

Contents:

* Upcoming Event: WGAR News: Demand Our Treaty: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks Calls for First Nations People to Attend Summit in Alice Springs 11-13 September 2015

* Audio on Treaty: Justin Fenwick, The Wire: A Way Forward to Treaty [featuring Rosalie Kunoth Monks, Tauto Sansbury & Jim Remedio]

WGAR News: Alec Doomadgee speaks on Tribal Law and the Constitution: Many First Nations people are calling for treaties: Kirstyn Lindsay, Living Black on SBS Radio

Newsletter date: 7 September 2015; last updated 8:10pm AEST 9 September 2015

Contents:

* Audio Interview: Kirstyn Lindsay, SBS Living Black Radio: Alec Doomadgee speaks on Tribal Law and the Constitution: Many First Nations people are calling for treaties to be signed before the referendum for Constitutional Recognition.

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WGAR News: Calls for greater action to prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide: University News, University of Western Australia Media Statement

Newsletter date: 6 September 2015

Contents:

* Media Statement: University News, University of Western Australia: Calls for greater action to prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide [featuring Prof Pat Dudgeon, Prof Tom Calma, Adele Cox - a Bunuba Gija woman from the Kimberley & Gerry Georgatos]

* News Analysis: Cowra Community News: Indigenous suicide needs action now - academic [featuring Prof Tom Calma]

Inquiry to review Australia’s diplomatic response against the death penalty

 

Australia Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, has commissioned a parliamentary inquiry to review Australia’s diplomatic efforts against the death penalty, following the executions last April of drug traffickers, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan in Bali.

A parliamentary human rights subcommittee, chaired by former attorney-general Philip Ruddock, will examine Australia’s current engagement on capital punishment, and will recommend further steps the government can take on the world stage.

 

WGAR News: NAB rules out funding Adani's Carmichael mine as buyer LG pulls out: Joshua Robertson, The Guardian Australia's Brisbane correspondent

Newsletter date: 5 September 2015; last updated 8:35am AEST

Contents:

* News Analysis: Joshua Robertson, The Guardian: NAB rules out funding Adani's Carmichael mine as buyer LG pulls out

* Audio: Nance Haxton & Eleanor Hall, The World Today: NAB rules out funding controversial Carmichael Coal Mine

* News Analysis: Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide: Australian bank NAB rules out funding Adani's Australian coal export project

The Shortwave Report 9/4/15 Listen Globally!

Dear Radio Friend,
            The latest Shortwave Report (September 4) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml  in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom

WGAR News: AHC signs compromise deal over low-income housing at the Block: Danny Teece-Johnson, NITV News [AHC - Aboriginal Housing Company]

Newsletter date: 4 September 2015

Contents:

* News Analysis: Danny Teece-Johnson, NITV News: AHC signs compromise deal over low-income housing at the Block

* News Analysis: Alexander Lewis, Altmedia: Sydney's "black heart" to keep beating

* Photos: Newzulu Australia: Sydney: Fires burn for the last time at Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy

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WGAR News: Walkatjurra Walkabout update: Week two on the road: walking on the special red-earth country of the Northern Goldfields

Newsletter date: 4 September 2015

Contents:

* Homepage of 'Walkatjurra Walkabout - Walking for Country': http://walkingforcountry.com/

* Update: Walkatjurra Walkabout: Week two on the road: An update from week two walking on the special red-earth country of the Northern Goldfields

* News Analysis: Craig Quartermaine, NITV News: Walkatjurra Walkabout begins fifth protest of Toro uranium mining project

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WGAR News: Bad Interventions - How Governments Stuff it up: Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney: Media Release, 1 September 2015

Newsletter date: 1 September 2015

Contents:

* Media Release: Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS): Bad Interventions - How Governments Stuff it up: The Intervention – An Anthology

* Upcoming Event: Indymedia Australia: The Intervention - an Anthology: Booklaunch Panel Discussion - Redfern, Sydney - Wednesday, 2 September 2015

* WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government

WGAR News: Traditional owner to challenge Carmichael mine in Federal Court over job and revenue claims: [featuring Adrian Burragubba] Brian Williams, The Courier-Mail

Newsletter date: 31 August 2015; last updated 31 August 2015, 7:30am AEST

Contents:

* News Analysis: Brian Williams, The Courier-Mail: QLD News: Traditional owner to challenge Carmichael mine in Federal Court over job and revenue claims [featuring Traditional Owner Adrian Burragubba]

* News Analysis: Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS): Prime Minister's interference in Adani mine & port decisions alarming - AMCS

WGAR News: Redfern tent embassy protesters claim victory: audio featuring Lorna Munro: triple j Hack, SoundCloud

Newsletter date: 29 August 2015; ; last updated 8:30pm AEST

Contents:

* Audio: SoundCloud - triple j Hack: Redfern tent embassy protesters claim victory [featuring Lorna Munro. Her Mum, Jenny Munro, started the tent embassy]

* News Analysis: Sarah McVeigh, triple j Hack: The Block: Tent embassy protesters claim win at The Block

* facebook video: Jenny Munro on ABC24 [interview with Jenny Munro, founder of Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy]

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WGAR News: At Redfern's the Block, spirits lifted after Tent Embassy win: Danny Teece-Johnson, NITV News: Video Live from The Block

Newsletter date: 28 August 2015; last updated 5:10pm AEST

Contents:

* Video & News Analysis: Danny Teece-Johnson, NITV News: At Redfern's the Block, spirits lifted after Tent Embassy win [includes NITV News Live from The Block]

* Video: Newzulu Australia: [Video] Sydney: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy comments on housing deal [featuring Jenny Munro, founder of the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy]

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The Shortwave Report 8/28/15 Listen Globally!

Dear Radio Friend,
            The latest Shortwave Report (August 28) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml  in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom

WGAR News: Redfern Tent Embassy claims victory with Aboriginal housing deal: Lucy McNally and staff, ABC News

Newsletter date: 27 August 2015; last updated 8:50pm AEST, 27 August 2015

Contents:

* News Analysis: Tom Joyner & Justin Pen, Honi Soit: Black heart, still beating: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy claims important housing victory

* News Analysis: Lucy McNally and staff, ABC News: Redfern Tent Embassy claims victory with Aboriginal housing deal

WGAR News: Reject the Uluru Bark Petition: Celeste Liddle, Change.org Petitioning Federal Government

Newsletter date: 27 August 2015

Contents:

* Change.org Petition: Petitioning Federal Government: Reject the Uluru Bark Petition: Celeste Liddle, Melbourne, Vic

* Blog: Celeste Liddle, Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist: The Uluru Bark Petition - They don't speak for me

* Audio Interview: Sarah Martin, The Wire: Not in our name: Aboriginal people speak out against Uluru Bark Petition [featuring Celeste Liddle]