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The burning issue of deaths in custody - Aboriginal people die 5 times the rate of Apartheid South Africa

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 29/01/2013 - 11:39am

PHOTO: Roebourne Prison inmates - for crimes like ‘absconding’ from ‘blackbirding’ - slavery. Those who resisted strongly were sent to Wadjemup (Rottnest Island) and Fremantle Prison - most never to return. The word they used for policeman was “Marndamarangga” and means “chainhand” and is still used today. (Photo: Battye Library, WA)

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False Security Dirt Cheap mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Tue, 29/01/2013 - 10:38am

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 33 events from 29 January 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 28/01/2013 - 2:07pm

Newsletter date: 29 January 2013

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Event: 29 January 2013: Petersham, Sydney, NSW
Invasion Day Special Screening and Fundraiser
The Inner West Film Forum
"In the wake of Invasion Day 2013
we present two important screenings …
* The Invasion Continues… Video from the NT Intervention.
Presented by Paddy Gibson
* One People Sing Freedom (1988)"
"Assisting STICS to continue its fight against the
Northern Territory Intervention"
STICS (Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney)

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Anarchists attack Australia

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sun, 27/01/2013 - 8:52pm

In the early hours of January 26th we tipped a bucket of paint on a statue celebrating the First Fleet in Brighton Le Sands, Botany Bay.

We later threw numerous paint bombs at a massive statue of James Cook in Hyde Park, who according the plaque on the monument “discovered this territory in 1770”.

We sprayed stencils reading: "FUCK AUSSIE PRIDE", "DESTROY COLONIAL AUSTRALIA" & "PROUDLY UNAUSTRALIAN" throughout the city, Redfern, Newtown, Marrickville, Sydenham and at Bicentennial Park and Carss Park, where ‘Australia Day’ celebrations were to take place.

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WGAR News: Protest over land council mining plans: Mel Barnes, Green Left

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 27/01/2013 - 2:16pm

Newsletter date: 28 January 2013

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* Mel Barnes, Green Left: Protest over land council mining plans

* Brisbane Times: Indigenous rally on Australia Day in Qld
* SMH: Sodden but not sunk: How Queenslanders marked Australia Day
* Sovereign Union: Invasion Day March Brisbane 2013
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Background to Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, Qld

* SBS Radionews Audio: Reviewing the MDGs: Pt 2 [Millennium Development Goals]

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Operation Kimberley Miinimbi

Broome Community No Gas

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Brisbane Times - Indigenous rally on Australia Day in Qld

SMH - Sodden but not sunk - How Queenslanders marked Australia Day

Sovereign Union - Invasion Day March Brisbane 2013

SBS Radionews Audio - Reviewing the MDGs - Pt 2 - Millennium Development Goals

Operation Kimberley Miinimbi Update - No place sacred as Woodside prepares to destroy burial sites and ancient culture for gas in the Kimberley

Broome Community

Broome Community No Gas Campaign - Why is the Broome Community opposed to the development

Green Left - Aboriginal freedom fighters commemorated

WGAR News: 'Tent Embassy' returns to Heirisson Island: The West Australian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 26/01/2013 - 11:45am

Newsletter date: 27 January 2013

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* The West Australian: 'Tent Embassy' returns to Heirisson Island
* Background to Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Heirisson Island, Perth, WA
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Tracker: Mature Australia needs new flag: academic

* SBS Living Black: Approval Granted to Destroy Aboriginal Heritage Sites
* ABC: Number of land acquisition mistakes unknown
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* SBS Living Black: No Criminal Charges Against Police

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James Price Point

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Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Heirisson Island

Kumentjaye Briscoe

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north of Broome

Tracker - Mature Australia needs new flag - academic

SBS Living Black - Approval Granted to Destroy Aboriginal Heritage Sites

ABC - Number of land acquisition mistakes unknown

SBS Living Black - No Criminal Charges Against Police

WGAR News: "Day of Mourning protest: The most significant moment in Aboriginal political history"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 25/01/2013 - 2:47pm

Newsletter date: 26 January 2013

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* NIRS: Day of Mourning protest: The most significant moment in Aboriginal political history
* NIRS: Australia Day a "race-based" celebration
* Joseph Toscano, Anarchist World - 3CR Audio: Inappropriate 'Australia Day', Invasion Day
* Peter Gebhardt, The Age: A national day of shame
* NIRS: Treaty demands to be outlined at Melbourne protest
* WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day Events: Sat 26 January 2013

* Tracker: Win for tent embassy activists

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Musgrave Park

Saturday 26 January 2013

Aboriginal Sovereignty Day

South Brisbane

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander

child sexual abuse

Lowitja Institute

child protection system

NIRS - Day of Mourning protest - The most significant moment in Aboriginal political history

NIRS - Australia Day a race-based celebration

Joseph Toscano - Anarchist World - 3CR Audio - Inappropriate Australia Day - Invasion Day

Peter Gebhardt - The Age - A national day of shame

NIRS - Treaty demands to be outlined at Melbourne protest

Tracker - Win for tent embassy activists

NIRS - Court lifts bail conditions for Brisbane Embassy three

NIRS - Embassy member disappointed not to be allowed to light sacred fire

SNAICC News - The Lowitja Institute needs your support

The Lowitja Institute - The MCG Congress Lowitja Statement

WGAR News: Daughter of 'Maralinga test victim' speaks out: YouTube

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 23/01/2013 - 5:20pm

Newsletter date: 24 January 2013

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* YouTube: Daughter of 'Maralinga test victim' speaks out
* SBS Radionews Audio: Maralinga compo collapse prompts calls for Act of Grace
* ABC Radio National Breakfast: Maralinga compensation - Guest: WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlum
* Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog: In Contradiction to the British Position that Proof of Radiological Harm Does Not Exist. Part 2
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

* Sovereign Union condemns Peris-Kneebone "steamrolling"

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Australian political responses to Obama's climate change Inauguration speech

Submitted by takver on Wed, 23/01/2013 - 9:42am

The parliamentary leaders of the Labor Party, Liberal Party and the Greens all responded to Barack Obama's statement on the necessity to act on climate change made during his 2013 inauguration speech.

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard welcomed the statement and also reiterated government policy on carbon pricing, and the trend for more extreme weather events due to climate change as articulated by climate scientists.

Tony Abbott was more combative, attempting to use his press conference question for taking a cheap shot at President Obama not being able to get climate legislation passed through congress, and attacking the Government's carbon pricing policy.

Greens leader, Senator Christine Milne, also welcomed the change in priority on climate change by the US administration and said that "the proof of President Obama's commitment will be in what the US does in the global negotiations" over the next two years.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 53 events from 25 January 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 22/01/2013 - 6:13pm

Newsletter date: 23 January 2013

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Event: Fri 25 January 2013: East Perth, WA
Nyoongar Tent Embassy: Last day of Freedom
- A ceremony to honour our Nyoongar Yorga Boodja
"Activities at Matagarup (Heirrison Island) hosted
by the Nyoongar Tent Embassy. Includes BBQ
(for donation) and music. ...
(Named for being the last day before invasion day.)"
"Preliminary Launch of Curtin University’s
Research on Media Reporting on the NTE"

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