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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 40 events from 24 February 2013

Newsletter date: 24 February 2013

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Event: Sun 24 February 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Concert for the Kimberley:
A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle
The Wilderness Society WA
"Join us in Fremantle on Sunday 24 February 2013
for a free, open-air concert featuring the
John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Ball Park Music,
special guest Dr Bob Brown, and others."
"This concert and rally is a call to arms for
all West Australians to stand up and protect
one of our finest national treasures,

WGAR News: The Wire: Newstart bad news for the income-managed [interview with Barbara Shaw]

Newsletter date: 23 February 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Newstart bad news for the income-managed [Annie Hastwell interviews Barbara Shaw]
* 'concerned Australians': Murray Bridge launch of 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Dr Norman Sheehan, a consultant with Link-Up

* Other articles

* THE WIRE: NEWSTART BAD NEWS FOR THE INCOME-MANAGED [ANNIE HASTWELL INTERVIEWS BARBARA SHAW]:

- Audio Interview

Claims human rights of tanker crew violated as Japan suspends whaling in Antarctica

Notes thrown by crew from the South Korean owned Panama registered tanker, Sun Laurel, used for refueling the Japanese whaling fleet, indicate at least some of the crew were taken to Antarctica without their consent or foreknowledge and have been denied means of communication with their families and the International Maritime Organisation about violations of their labour rights.

Related: Sea Shepherd: Whaling factory ship rams Korean fuel tanker and 3 activist ships | Whaling Fleet committed multiple breaches of international law says Sea Shepherd Director Bob Brown

WGAR News: SBS Living Black's Michelle Lovegrove interviews Michael Anderson on Act of Recognition

Newsletter date: 22 February 2013

Contents:

* SBS Living Black's Michelle Lovegrove interviews Michael Anderson on Act of Recognition
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* NIRS: Noongars to protest detention of juveniles in Perth adult jail
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* SBS Living Black's Michelle Lovegrove interviews SNAICC CEO Frank Hytten

* Other articles

* SBS LIVING BLACK'S MICHELLE LOVEGROVE INTERVIEWS MICHAEL ANDERSON ON ACT OF RECOGNITION:

- Audio Interview

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Whaling fleet committed multiple breaches of international law, says Sea Shepherd Director Bob Brown

One of the Directors of Sea Shepherd Australia, Bob Brown conducted an interview Wednesday afternoon in which he called for the Australian Government to intercede directly with Tokyo over the Nisshin Maru ramming of 4 ships in the Southern Ocean and also called for an Australian naval presence to uphold international law in Antarctic waters. Bob Brown is a former leader of the Australian Greens and a former Tasmanian Senator.

Sea Shepherd: Whaling factory ship rams Korean fuel tanker and 3 activist ships

Update 25 Feb 2013: Japanese Whalers escalate dangerous attacks on Sea Shepherd in refueling attempt

20 Feb 2013: In the Southern Ocean tempers are fraying over whaling with Sea Shepherd hindering all attempts to slaughter whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sancturay in their Zero Tolerance campaign this year being run from the Australian Sea Shepherd Organisation. A Major confrontation erupted today north of the Australian Casey Antarctic Base when Sea Shepherd used it's vessels to prevent the Nisshin Maru Whaling Factory Ship coming alongside the Panama registered Korean fuel supply ship the Sun Laurel.

Related: Whaling Fleet committed multiple breaches of international law says Sea Shepherd Director Bob Brown

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WGAR News: Man allegedly bashed by NSW police testifies: NITV News

Newsletter date: 21 February 2013

Contents:

* Alexandra Payne-Baggs, Green Left: March demands justice for TJ Hickey
* NIRS: Prison only a temporary solution: WA group
* SBS Audio Radionews: Fighting to reduce young Indigenous imprisonment
* NITV News: Man allegedly bashed by NSW police testifies
* SBS World News Video: NSW police accused of bashing cover-up
* Tracker: Cops taunted Aboriginal man: PIC
* ABC Indigenous: Police taunted bashed man's mother, inquiry told
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

WGAR News: Blackett, Western Sydney launch of the book 'A Decision to Discriminate'

Newsletter date: 20 February 2013

Contents:

* Blackett, Western Sydney launch of the book 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* New 'A Decision to Discriminate' book review
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Mick Gooda on Stronger Futures
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Cathy Eatock, One Billion Rising: End violence against Aboriginal women

* NIRS: Compensation test case hoped to shine light on removal conditions
* NIRS: Stolen Generations victims deserve criminal compensation: Sam Watson

Child suicide attempts in Darwin Immigration centre

Courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/child-suicide-attempts-in-darwin-immigration-c...

Evidence has been obtained of suicide attempts and self-harming by children in Darwin Airport Lodge immigration detention centre. The document (attached) has been obtained by the Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN) and reveals several disturbing cases of self-harming.

The child harming involves children as young as nine years old.

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