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WGAR News: "Sovereign Union is a movement for freedom, rejecting Pearson's pro-assimilation" SU

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 09/09/2013 - 3:07pm

Newsletter date: 10 September 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Sovereign Union is a movement for freedom, rejecting Pearson's pro-assimilation
* Sharnie Kim, ABC News: Cape York mayors snub Indigenous leader Noel Pearson initiatives
* Laurie Lawira, SBS Radio News: Bipartisan support for Indigenous leadership group
* Sovereign Union: Aboriginal Rates Case back on track [Featuring the Euahlayi Nation]
* Greg Ansley, New Zealand Herald: Indigenous backlash could cost Labor seat [Featuring the Murrawarri Republic]
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

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New South Wales

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Queensland

WGAR News: Coalition's proposed cuts 'a heartless decision' says ALSWA: Aboriginal Legal Service WA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 08/09/2013 - 3:03pm

Newsletter date: 9 September 2013

Editorial Note:

'WGAR News' monitors the media, including alternative media.
'WGAR News' gives priority to grassroots Aboriginal voices and grassroots voices in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples' rights.
'WGAR News' publishes information and opinions from a wide range of sources.
These opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of WGAR.
As such, 'WGAR News' does not endorse any particular political party, but simply includes information on political parties for the interest of readers.

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Western Australia

We were great yesterday

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 08/09/2013 - 10:41am

Pictured is Mary, a 91 year-old GetUp member, who teamed up with Melissa, an 18 year-old first-time voter to cover a polling booth yesterday. Phots like these came in all day, and they're truly, truly beautiful.

Mary handing out scorecards

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Australia

WGAR News: Coalition signals 20 per cent funding cut to Aboriginal & TSI Legal Services: NATSILS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 06/09/2013 - 1:31pm

Newsletter date: 6 September 2013

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Coalition broken aid promise further disillusions youth vote

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/09/2013 - 1:16pm

Just twenty-‐four hours before polls open, thousands of young voters have met the Coalition’s broken promise on foreign aid with outcry.

The Coalition announced yesterday that $4.5 billion in foreign aid increases would be cut should they form government.
Viv Benjamin, CEO of the Oaktree Foundation, stated the slashed funds could have saved the lives of 450,000 people living in extreme poverty around the world. [1]
‘The impact of Abbott’s aid cuts, revealed at the eleventh hour, must be made known so voters can make an informed vote on Saturday’ Ms Benjamin said.

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Australia

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Foreign Aid Cuts Coalition Youth UN Oaktree Foundation

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 6 September 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 1:26pm

Newsletter date: 5 September 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Fri 6 September 2013: Adelaide, SA
152nd Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk
around Government House
Gather at dusk on the first Friday of the month
(except January and February)
"Join us on the Candle Light Walk to
call for a Treaty and Bill of Rights, and
to support the Ngarrindjeri and all other
Aboriginal people and the Stolen Generations,

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Massive poverty levels ignored in election campaign

Submitted by 2060 on Wed, 04/09/2013 - 1:40pm

Why have the major parties totally ignored the issue of poverty?

2.3 million Australians now live below the official poverty line.

"In a wealthy country like Australia, it is not acceptable for more than 2.3 million people, nearly 600,000 of whom are children, live below the poverty line," Senator Rachel Siewert, Australian Greens spokesperson for families and community services said today.

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Late degenerate capitalism: 'It's all bullshit' Kellie Tranter WikiLeaks Party Senate candidate for NSW

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/09/2013 - 11:37am

It seems to me that economists generally, with some exceptions, do have a bit of a monopoly on delusion. Fallacious assumptions ground their theories, information everywhere seems to be skewed, predictions are made without an acknowledgment of the full extent of fraud and corruption (which is rampant), and conflicts of interest regularly creep in.

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Australia

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WikiLeaks Election Australia Kellie Trantor Hottie