Australia

WGAR News: "International Olympic Committee rules need review" Australian Human Rights Commission

Newsletter date: 6 August 2012

Contents:
* NIT: Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to his Olympic Games debut
* AHRC: International Olympic Committee rules need review
* Background to Damien Hooper wearing the Aboriginal flag
* Misha Schubert: NT poll a judgment on intervention from the people most affected
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* ABC: Council implored to oppose Muckaty nuclear dump

Royal Commission into the AWU allegations and Gillard's involvement long overdue

Prime Minister cannot continue to leave an example of 'trust me' and 'I was young and naive' while other Australians would have come before the justice system

Julia Gillard claimed that she was young and naive while her then partner, Bruce Wilson, siphoned members' funds from the AWU but instead she was a 36 year old lawyer, and a partner in the burgeoning law firm, Slater and Gordon.

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WGAR News: "Stronger Futures legislation may not comply with Australia's human rights obligations"

Newsletter date: 3 August 2012

Contents:
* Amnesty: Resolutions passed at our 2012 National AGM
* Background: Calls for 'Stronger Futures' laws to be subject to Human Rights scrutiny
* Geoff Scott: In the Trenches: A nation united in harming our most vulnerable
* Tracker: UN pressure continues on Gillard’s Stronger Futures
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Adam Brereton: Olympians Can't Leave Politics At Home

Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact would allow national laws to be overruled by corporations

By Systemic Disorder Imagine a world in which which labor safeguards, safety rules and environmental regulations will be struck down because a multi-national corporation’s profits might be affected. A world in which measures to reign in financial speculation are illegal. A world in which the task of governments, codified in law, is to maximize corporate profits.

Imagine a world in which corporations can bypass national laws and courts when they are in a dispute with a government, and instead can have their dispute adjudicated by a closed tribunal controlled by their lawyers.

Unfortunately, the above is not dystopian science fiction; it is the reality of the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Related: More analysis of the TPPA -- Occupy the TPPA -- Melbourne protest at TPPA negotiations

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 16 events from 2 August 2012

Newsletter date: 2 August 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 16 events from 2 August 2012

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Thu 2 August 2012: Monash University, Melbourne, Vic
Our Generation film screening
A group discussion of the film afterwards
Organised by Students for Indigenous Sovereignty
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/51731
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Fri 3 August 2012: Adelaide, SA

Bringing back the Brough: 10 of the worst things Mad Mal did in office

By Chris Graham*

Mal Brough has won Liberal National Party pre-selection for the seat of Fisher, virtually guaranteeing him a seat in federal parliament in 2013… unless voters find out about his past performance, of course.

The best predictor of someone’s future behaviour is their past behaviour. Which means that with Mal Brough winning pre-selection for the federal seat of Fisher, parliament is in for a sideshow the likes of which it hasn’t seen since… well, the last time Brough was there.

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WGAR News: "Representatives of more than 30 nations see Aboriginal affairs at an all-time low"

Newsletter date: 1 August 2012

Contents:
* Michael Anderson: Representatives of more than 30 nations see Aboriginal affairs at an all-time low
* Interview with Michael Anderson following Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Congress: No apology needed for being proudly Aboriginal
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
* CAAMA: Senior APY leader rejects claims that communities want income management