Australia

Gerry Georgatos
Yamatji singer/songwriter, rights activist and Stolen Wages campaigner Phill Moncrieff has not given up in the fight for justice for the victims of the Stolen Wages in Western Australia.

In March 2012, the WA government said that the living victims only, and not any of families, will be eligible to apply for upto $2,000 from a Government Trust Scheme. The right to application to these funds has been limited to six months from late March and with the expectation that any further claims are extinguished.

Undercurrent WTV interviews (13 minute segment) with various identities regarding the proposed anti-association Controls Bills which the NSW and SA High Courts have ruled against and which the QLD LNP is looking to repeal however in WA it appears it will be passed by the Liberals, Nationals and Labor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXeGMYrDp6E

Gerry Georgatos - INDYMEDIA first with this story - Australia needs Indymedia.
Today, Monday May 14, after yesterday's peaceful protest by 600 folk outside Broome Police Station, police are amassing in large numbers at Blacktank camp access route - to ensure Woodside Petroleum geophysical site work for the proposed gas hub precinct at James Price Point. Police are reportedly expected at Manari Road access (near Walmandan Tent Embassy), and Cape Leveque after between 140 to 250 police officers with riot gear arrived in Broome in the last several days.

Gerry Georgatos
As the government’s chances of re-election appear in tatters, some of their parliamentarians and Cabinet ministers believe that not all hope is lost, and some, as if in living up to the notion that politics is a calling, believe that in the year they have left in government that much can be achieved for the people of Australia, including Aboriginal peoples, according to two parliamentarians who spoke in confidence to The National Indigenous Times.