--The Government is trying to push through sweeping changes to Australia's surveillance and intelligence laws which put our privacy at risk. Watch the video to find out more and sign the petition: http://www.getup.org.au/protect-us-but-respect-us--
Following the success of the November 2011 trip to the UK, the Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust and the Aurora Project are delighted to announce the opening of the application period for another exciting opportunity to participate in an overseas visit to Cambridge and Oxford universities in the UK in October this year. Â The visit may also include Harvard and New York University in the US.
Newsletter date: 28 July 2012
Contents:
* Greens Rachel Siewert: Overwhelming support for Low Aromatic Fuel at Alice Springs Inquiry Hearing
* Bob Brown: why I’m leading the Sea Shepherd to the Kimberley
* Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering: 28 & 29 July 2012
* National Unity Government Foundation - Sound & Pictures
* Sovereignty Conference 2012 - Sound & Pictures
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
Refugee Action Collective Victoria Media Release July 27th 2012 Distraught family members of deported Tamil asylum seeker Mr Dayan Anthony have finally been reunited with him. Anthony was deported on July 25.
Anthony was interrogated for 16 hours after being handed over to the Sri Lankan police intelligence unit (CID) at Colombo airport. During this time, the Sri Lankan police refused to give the family any information.
Newsletter date: 27 July 2012
Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 20 events from 27 July 2012
Click on the links for details of the events ...
Event: Fri 27 July 2012: The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
Talks on The Rocks:
Spirit of the Tent Embassy: 40 years on
* July 27 - Gabi Widders, an Anaiwan and Gumbangier woman
"To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Tent Embassy,
The Rocks Discovery Museum has invited four
Aboriginal women to reflect on the significance
of the Embassy in their own and their family's
lives for Talks on The Rocks in July."
Sovereign Union Interim National Unity Government
Asserting sovereignty into governance
A message from Michael Anderson National Coordinator
The next Sovereign Union meeting is in Moree on 28-29 July 2012 and the details are on the website. If you have any enquiries call Alf Priestly in Moree on 0416 966 852 or my number 0427292492.
Our website is still under construction but growing daily. Right now we are wondering who is able to form a secretariat to speed up communications and admin.
Gerry Georgatos
Forests Rescue Australia (FRA) coordinator Simon Peterffy appeared in Manjimup Court on July 26 and feared that a prison term was on the cards for his activism in protecting the Warrup forest's numbats.
Mr Peterffy said he has never spent time in prison however feared that his persistent activism may have culminated in a prison sentence "because it appears that police have been coming down harder in recent times and the instructions from 'above' are that harsher penalties need apply" to dissuade FRA type protest actions.
Newsletter date: 26 July 2012
Contents:
* Tracker: A mental health crisis behind bars
* News Release: Family demands independent investigation into death in custody in Alice Springs Hospital
* ANTaR: Reducing Imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
* UnitingJustice: Pastoral Letter on Action Against 'Stronger Futures'
* Michael Brull: Are Little Children still Sacred?
* Jon Altman: NT intervention: what happened to outcomes?
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
It's been reported that Metcash the grocery wholesaler that operates grocery chain IGA, is on the brink of making a deal that would see it buying up pubs and profiting from dangerous and addictive poker machine revenue.[1]
