Australia

Human Rights Alliance demands release of Indonesian children from WA incarceration

The Human Rights Alliance calls on the WA state government, and on the Commonwealth, for the en masse immediate release of all the Indonesian children incarcerated either by remand or judicial conviction in Western Australian prisons - and in particular HAKEA and Albany Regional Prisons.

Capturing carbon and protecting our forests

The Forestry Industry: The truth.

The Australian forestry industry has only one purpose, to provide revenue for state governments. Our forests are considered fodder for governments that lack the ingenuity to devise alternative and sustainable sources of revenue to provide for the needs of the state to which they refer.

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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 3 events from 25 May 2012

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Event: Fri 25 May 2012: Canberra, ACT
National Sorry Day Bridge Walk
Commonwealth Avenue Bridge Canberra
* 10.30am - Gather at Regatta Point
* 10.40 - Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony
* 11.00am - Start Bridge Walk
* 11.30am - Wiradjuri Echoes and Lunch
RSVP (required if staying for lunch)
National Sorry Day Committee in collaboration with
ACT Government Health,
Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service,
and Reconciliation Australia

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 21 May 2012

Newsletter date: 21 May 2012

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Event: Wed 23 and Thu 24 May 2012: Wollongong, south of Sydney
Interim National Unity Government Assembly
of the Sovereign Union
Held at two locations:
Day 1 – Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong
Day 2 – Sandon Point Aboriginal Embassy
"All Aboriginal nations are being called on to send two
delegates - one man and one woman (if appropriate) to the
inaugural assembly of the Sovereign Union interim National
Unity Government in Wollongong Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24
May. ... "

Cultural imperialism jailed Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons - and the prime minister's deaf ears

Gerry Georgatos
Ali Jasmin was 13 years old when the Commonwealth of Australia locked him up in an adult prison for being a deckhand on a boat of Asylum Seekers, and hence for assisting people in the safe passage of Asylum to our shores. International maritime laws and the various United Conventions and protocols asserting the rights of those seeking Asylum would cast this young boy as a hero, and rightfully so however not the Australian government and its institutions.

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WGAR News: "Australia challenged at United Nations over NT laws" Statement of delegations to UN

Newsletter date: 21 May 2012

Contents:
* Statement: Australia challenged at United Nations over NT laws
* Background to UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
* UnitingJustice: Stronger Futures Call to Action
* Congress: Stop & Listen on New NT Laws Campaign update
* Solidarity: Yolngu nations reignite opposition to leases and Intervention
* SPC Statement of Support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly
* PHAA: Partnership approach missing in Stronger Futures legislation
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

People are not the property of people; the Northern Territory is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth

Gerry Georgatos
“For most of these women, the notion of human rights is unheard of. They have lived all their lives believing that they have no rights at all,” said the founder of Sisters Inside, Debbie Kilroy – who counsels women while they are still in prison.

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WGAR News: "Brisbane police move on Aboriginal Tent Embassy" The Wire

Newsletter date: 18 May 2012

Contents:
* The Wire: Brisbane police move on Aboriginal Tent Embassy
* Warwick Daily News: Protesters [from Brisbane Embassy] march on parliament
* NTEU: Indigenous business is Union business - Musgrave Park Tent embassy
* Change.org Petition: Mayor Graham Quirk: allow the return of the Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy to Musgrave Park
* Michael Anderson: Aborigines call for UN peacekeepers to protect them
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies

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