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9/11 investigation movement heats up.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 07/03/2010 - 12:18am

Recently an organisation of professional architects and engineers held a press conference to mark the milestone of 1000+ members.

The press conferences was held in various cities around the world by professionals in their fields, but did not receive much media response at all.

The organisation is currently raising funds to put NIST investigators in front of a grand jury for fraud.

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Federal Police raid Sea Shepherd vessel

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sat, 06/03/2010 - 3:53pm

Five Federal Police officers have raided the Steve Irwin as it docked in Hobart today at the behest of the Japanese Government. Australia instead of helping to enforce the international ban on whaling in its waters and condemning the Japanese for their illegal sinking of a Sea Shepherd vessel is trying to help criminalise the Sea Shepherds activities.

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/whale-watch/federal-police-board-an...

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Our Land, Our Future: Melanesian Land Speaking Tour

Submitted by Gary on Fri, 05/03/2010 - 12:50pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 11:00pm to Mon, 29/03/2010 - 2:15pm

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Brisbane-Canberra-Newcastle-Sydney-Melbourne

Contact Name:

Gary Lee, AID/WATCH

Contact Phone:

02 9557 8944

Contact Email:

gary@aidwatch.org.au

Website:

http://aidwatch.org.au/events/our-land-our-future-melanesian-land-speaking-tour

Join us to hear from two leading campaigners for land rights in Melanesia about the impacts of land reforms on Melanesian peoples, their cultures, economies and livelihoods.

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Australia

Educational apartheid in the Northern Territory and the Building The Education Revolution program

Submitted by phanly on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 1:53pm

The Northern Territory government has set up an apartheid education system in the Northern Territory and the Federal Government seems to accept it.

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Why are the Australian media and politicians totally silent on the latest ABS crime figures?

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 6:05pm

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issued a media release on the 18th February 2010 under the heading: “Over a million cases of household property damage”, found that: “there are approximately 1.6 million incidents of malicious property damage” across Australia, and that: “912,500 households (11%) were victims of at least one incident of property damage in the 12 months” between 2008 and 2009.

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WGAR News: Nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory (2 Mar 10)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 02/03/2010 - 3:14pm

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

- Background

Beyond Nuclear Initiative's weblog:
http://beyondnuclearinitiative.wordpress.com/
"This site is a snapshot of current nuclear free campaigns in Australia, particularly focusing on the proposal for a federal radioactive waste dump in the Northern Territory."

- Media Releases

Aboriginal News Group: Stop Dumping on Aboriginal Rights
http://aboriginalnewsgroup.blogspot.com/2010/02/stop-dumping-on-aborigin...

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Women's Peace Walk to take people's opposition to nuke dump to Canberra

Submitted by kimk on Wed, 24/02/2010 - 7:25pm

The Women's Peace Walk “Footprints for Peace” will begin their epic three month trek from Brisbane to Canberra to send a message of peace, sustainability and anti-nuclear proliferation to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

The Women-organised event is expected to take three months taking in many towns and cities before finishing in Canberra. They will meet with Prime Minister Rudd and deliver a message stick to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.

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“Aborigines from across the country will fight nuclear dumping”

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 24/02/2010 - 3:47pm

Goodooga, northwest NSW, 24 February 10 – Aboriginal people will be called from all over Australia to protest in the Northern Territory against any movement of nuclear waste across their traditional lands, an Aboriginal activist says.

Michael Anderson, chairman of an Aboriginal Summit Task Force recently elected in Canberra (click x above for picture), says in a media release: “Nothing will move down the former American Vice-President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton railway line from Darwin to Alice Springs.”

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Frankenstein food remains unpopular.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 21/02/2010 - 7:36pm

Public attitudes to genetically modified (GM) agriculture are not changing with most people still uncomfortable with the technology, according to a study conducted by Swinburne University’s Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society.

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