Nauru staff condemn cruel conditions
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/07/2013 - 7:03pm By Salvation Army Workers
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Where the wild things are
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/07/2013 - 6:00pmOur new Environment Minister is just days away from approving a mine that will threaten the last-known healthy population of endangered Tasmanian devils.
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Don't dump on our reef
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/07/2013 - 5:47pm
Want to protect the Reef for generations to come? If the answer is yes, you might want to give new Environment Minister Mark Butler a bell - and quick.
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Whistleblowers expose unspeakable conditions in Australian refugee camps
Submitted by Diet Simon on Fri, 26/07/2013 - 8:11am By James Cogan , on World Socialist Website
25 July 2013
Horrific details have emerged about the conditions inflicted on refugees imprisoned by the Australian Labor government in its South Pacific detention camps on Manus Island, to the north of Papua New Guinea, and Nauru. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has responded by insisting there will be no turning back from Labor’s policy of indefinitely condemning asylum seekers to what are being described as “hell-holes” and “gulags.”
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July 24 - the week's nuclear news
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 24/07/2013 - 7:02pmAUSTRALIA
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WGAR News: Protect Arnhem Land Campaign: Respect and Listen [Northern Territory - NT, Australia]
Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 24/07/2013 - 3:41pmNewsletter date: 25 July 2013
Contents:
* Respect and Listen: Protect Arnhem Land Campaign
* Respect and Listen: Protect Arnhem Land - Sydney 18 & 19 July 2013 Event Compilation
* Protect Arnhem Land community group: Traditional owners accost oil company offices [19 July 2013]
* Respect and Listen, Vimeo: Celebrate the Kimberley - Protect Arnhem Land [18 July 2013]
* Green Left TV, YouTube: Protect Arnhem land! [Sydney 19 July 2013]
* Respect and Listen, Vimeo: Protect Arnhem Land - Protest Action at Paltar HQ, Sydney [Uncut version, 19 July 2013]
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Bombs dropped on Reef raise alarm bells
Submitted by kimk on Tue, 23/07/2013 - 7:25pm Friends of the Earth Brisbane is alarmed at the disclosure that two US Harriet jets have dumped 500 pound bombs on the Great Barrier Reef earlier this week. (article below and at:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/19/.UeoUfym4zA0.twitter )
The US Marine jets are in Australia participating in US-Australia joint military exercise Talisman Saber, which sees 18,000 US and 9,000 Australian troops engaging in combined land, sea and air training, primarily at Shoalwater Bay, just north of Rockhampton in central Queensland.
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WGAR News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth
Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 23/07/2013 - 7:07pmNewsletter date: 24 July 2013
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* SNAICC News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of Mr Andrew Jackomos [as first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth]
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Victorian appointment for Aboriginal children and young people
* Tracker: Vic gets commissioner for Koori youth
* SNAICC News: National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day - 4 August 2013
* Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) Submission - Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill 2013 (NT)
* Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill
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Flawed response to Gail Hickey UN submission
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 22/07/2013 - 3:34pmattached is the agreed media release from the sydney and melbourne indigenous social justice associations and the flemington kensington community legal centre, melbourne re the flawed response from australia to the gail hickey complaint and submission to the united nations human rights committee.
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Sydney City Council and Rocks police assaults at Occupy Sydney
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 22/07/2013 - 9:58am attached is a letter of complaint we wrote to both the sydney lord mayor, ms. clover moore, and to the nsw police minister, mike gallacher, on behalf of the rocks police, arising from a savage assault against an isja member, ms. colleen fuller, during a failed attempt to evict those who were there at the occupy sydney site in sydney's martin plaza, along with their supporters.