Stop Great Barrier coal
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WGAR News: Aboriginal Northern Territory (NT) Intervention and the NT Elections
Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 18/08/2012 - 3:16pmNewsletter date: 18 August 2012
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Aboriginal NT Intervention and the NT Elections:
* Amy McQuire: All eyes turn to bush seats as NT election gets underway
* Daniel Fejo: First Nations NT candidate: 'Things have been taken away'
* NIT: Japarta Ryan’s plan to stop Intervention
* NT Greens: Barbara Shaw stands up for Alice Springs
* Press TV: Indigenous intervention dominates Australia NT election campaign
'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws:
* Chris Graham: Who put the con back in consultation?
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WGAR News: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples - August 9, 2012
Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 17/08/2012 - 3:08pmNewsletter date: 17 August 2012
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International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples - August 9, 2012:
* Congress hosted a media forum to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
* ANTaR: "Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices"
* Amnesty: Indigenous Peoples’ rights need to move from aspiration to reality
* Amnesty: Response to the story published in The Australian: "Amnesty a racist organisation"
* Tracker: UN Special Rapporteur Anaya to probe mining impact
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* Tracker: WA gas hub proponents try to sway Brown
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Something stinks - Ecuador has the right to grant Julian Assange Asylum - Ecuador's humanity verse the UK's inhumanity
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 17/08/2012 - 8:59amBelow are three key speeches in the evolving Assange extradition case, Ecuador's Foreign Minister granting Assange asylum, UK's Foreign Minister rejection of this claim and Julian Assange's speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy.
The first speech below is translation of the statement from the Ecuadorean Foreign Minister arguing the case for their right to grant Julian Assange asylum. At the end of this statement follows the UK Foreign Minister's statement suprisingly arguing their case against ensuring Julian Assange's safe passage and exposing an intention to apprehend and extradite Julian Assange (and in what goes against the UK's history and respect at all costs in adhering to the right to all forms of asylum despite their most recent statement). The last speech is by Julian Assange from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy on the 19th August 2012.
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Australian rallies to demand Britain allow Assange safe passage to Ecuador
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 17/08/2012 - 6:55amOn 16th August 16th the Ecuadorean Government announced it was granting political asylum to Julian Assange, under international law, on the grounds he has well founded fears of persecution for his journalism by the U.S.A., including threats to his life. They also stated Australia had failed to cover protection to Assange. Read full statement here. Meanwhile the British police surrounded the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and threatened to temporarily revoke its diplomatic status and raid it to arrest Assange and extradite him to Sweden. A series of protests were called at UK consulates and the Embassy in Australia to occur on Friday 17th August. These included Sydney -- Melbourne and Canberra and Adelaide
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Declaration by the Government of the Republic of Ecuador on Julian Assange’s asylum application
Submitted by Flowerpower on Fri, 17/08/2012 - 6:43amOn June 19, 2012, the Australian national Mr. Julian Assange appeared at the premises of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to request that the Ecuadorean State provide him with diplomatic protection, thus invoking the existing Diplomatic Asylum rules. The applicant had made his asylum request based on his fear of eventual political persecution by a third country, the same country whom could use his extradition to the Kingdom of Sweden to enable an expedited subsequent extradition.
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WIKILEAKS Statement on UK threat to storm Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/08/2012 - 6:08pmSource: Wikileaks.org Thursday 16th August, 3:00am UTC In a communication this morning to the government of Ecuador, the UK threatened to forcefully enter the Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrest Julian Assange.
The UK claims the power to do so under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987.
This claim is without basis.
By midnight, two hours prior to the time of this announcement, the embassy had been surrounded by police, in a menacing show of force.
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Pacific Solution Mark II?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/08/2012 - 2:34pmThe parliamentary deadlock over asylum seekers is over. On Monday the Government’s independent Expert Panel issued its recommendations, and the Gillard Government has said they’ll comply with all 22 of them, including a return to processing asylum seekers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Legislation is now before Parliament, and with the Coalition’s support, will pass within days.Â
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WGAR News: "Waste dump tender is 'putting the radioactive cart before the horse'." BNI
Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 15/08/2012 - 5:58pmNewsletter date: 15 August 2012
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* BNI: Waste dump tender is 'putting the radioactive cart before the horse'.
* Greens Scott Ludlam: This land is not nowhere; these people are not no-one
* NT Greens: Greens call for a unity in face of nuclear waste tender
* ABC Video: Push to make nuclear waste dump an election issue
* Upcoming Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) Events
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* BNI: WASTE DUMP TENDER IS 'PUTTING THE RADIOACTIVE CART BEFORE THE HORSE'.
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Human Rights Alliance media release: Draconian Pacific Solution is no solution - people will die
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 15/08/2012 - 9:43amAfter having read the report by the three stand alone members of the ‘Expert Panel’ we have found no grounds to suggest that any lives will be protected or saved from returning to the Pacific Solution, and in a form and manner which evidences policy more draconian than John Howard’s Pacific Solution.
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