Australia

Let us honestly remind ourselves of the 1970s and 1980s in how we treated and resettled our Asylum Seekers, and who really stood up for them however let us not revise the past in some Camelot like myth as is happening by some and by others too young to remember, and by people ignorant of Galang and Hei Ling Chau and other like regional camps.

The hysteria around Asylum Seekers is deplorable and the result of perceptual modifications.

Newsletter date: 30 June 2012

Contents:
* Deni Langman: A letter to the Politicians of Australia who will Debate the Stronger Futures Legislation, June 2012
* A Day of Mourning: Yolngu Nations Assembly and the Alyawaar Nation media release
* Interview with Rosalie Kunoth Monks: A day of mourning for Stronger Futures
* Interview with Barbara Shaw, member of the NT Intervention Rollback Action Group
* Greens to oppose NT Intervention expansion
* Tracker: Anti-intervention campaign standing strong
* CAAMA: Graeme Mundine on Stronger Futures Bills which are before the Senate this week

Newsletter date: 29 June 2012

Contents:
* avaaz.org community petitions: Putting Australia to the human rights test
* Congress letter to Parliamentary Human Rights Committee
* Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights: Chair's Statement to the House of Representatives
* Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service calls for human rights scrutiny on income management national rollout
* 'concerned Australians': Stronger Futures or human rights: will FAHCSIA remain closed?
* ACM Sydney: The ACM endorses requests to send Stronger Futures for scrutiny by Parliamentary Human Rights Committee

Graeme Mundine, Executive Director of the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Sydney Archdiocese, has lamented the Senate's passing of the Stronger
Futures Legislation on Thursday evening (28 June). "This is a sad day for all
Aboriginal people in Australia and it is a sad day for democracy," Mr
Mundine said.

"The Stronger Futures legislation has now passed through both Houses of
Parliament despite comprehensive opposition from Northern Territory
Aboriginal Nations, community groups, Churches, welfare groups and others.