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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 7 April 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 07/04/2013 - 9:10am

Newsletter date: 7 April 2013

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Event: 7 April until 4 May 2013: Forrest, Canberra, ACT
Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud
Canberra Opening Sun 7 April 2013
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Curated By Judith Crispin
To be opened by special guest speaker:
Ms Penny Phillips, Manuwangku (Muckaty) Traditional Owner
Venue: Manning Clark House Gallery: http://manningclark.org.au/
Gallery Opening Hours:
Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm
"Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud is a
series of photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara

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Militancy and collaboration at the USyd Strike

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sat, 06/04/2013 - 1:58pm

Tuesday March 26 marked the begining of a 48 hour strike at Sydney university. The strike was called by the NTEU with CPSU support as a continuation of the struggle against the uni administrations new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement, intended to undercut staff conditions, increase casualisation, micromanagement and surveillance under the familiar guise of "flexibility". In the early hours of March 26, some anarchists once again broke into the City rd Catholic college (or chapel of the Insurrection) and again dropped a massive banner reading
“WE ARE THE UNI WE CAN SHUT IT DOWN

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Thought provoking clips on journalism and deaths in custody

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/04/2013 - 8:53am

Thought provoking clips on journalism, on deaths in custody, Mr Ward and Mulrunji

A journalist with a difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzigzfSNx9Y

The REAL FACTS on DEATHS in CUSTODY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVof4bQg1X8

The BETRAYAL of MR WARD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TM5KqgQNAI&playnext=1&list=PLF0B0129D1B...

ALEC DOOMADGEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH8lT437h6I

MULRUNJI - Palm Island

Super success

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/04/2013 - 8:56pm

Good news in our campaign for fairer superannuation: this morning the Treasurer announced improvements to Australia's superannuation scheme, reducing the inequitable tax concessions handed out to Australia's richest people.

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WGAR News: Homeless NT people 'having rent deducted': SBS Radionews Audio

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 05/04/2013 - 2:25pm

Newsletter date: 6 April 2013

Contents:

* Amnesty Action: Stop universal rent deductions on Aboriginal homelands
* SBS Radionews Audio: Homeless NT people 'having rent deducted'

* Amnesty NSW free screening of John Pilger’s seminal documentary, 'The Secret Country' - Mon 8 April 2013
* johnpilger.com : The films and journalism of John Pilger: The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: From Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples

* Jon Altman, Tracker: From "Territory of Exception" to "Exceptional Territory"?

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The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back

seminal documentary

From Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples

Indigenous affairs portfolio

Indigenous people

Confirmation of Aboriginality

Amnesty Action - Stop universal rent deductions on Aboriginal homelands

Amnesty NSW free screening of John Pilger’s seminal documentary - The Secret Country - Mon 8 April 2013

Jon Altman - Tracker - From Territory of Exception to Exceptional Territory

The Wire - NT dumps Indigenous affairs portfolio

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous people abandoned by Labor

Nicola Butler - The Stringer - Butler calls for an end to the tyranny of our youth seeking Confirmation of Aboriginality

The films and journalism of John Pilger - The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back

First uranium mine in WA may mean 40 uranium mines by 2030

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 9:42am

Courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/first-uranium-mine-in-wa-may-mean-40-uranium-m...
Western Australia will be exporting uranium within two years after the Federal Government granted environmental approval to Toro Energy’s Wiluna project – To many people this was unexpected, including to Wiluna’s Aboriginal peoples and to anti-uranium mining and anti-nuclear advocates nationwide.

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WGAR News: "Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 9:36am

Newsletter date: 4 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison
* Tracker: Legal bid to get WA kids out of adult jail
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley
* NITV: Northern NSW clans create 'Murrawarri Republic'
* Sovereign Union: A fight against paying rates on ancient homelands
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* 3CR Community Radio: Earth Matters

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Aboriginal imprisonment

Gary Foley

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Indigenous health

National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Housing consultations

Tracker - Legal bid to get WA kids out of adult jail

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley

NITV - Northern NSW clans create Murrawarri Republic

Sovereign Union - A fight against paying rates on ancient homelands

3CR Community Radio - Earth Matters

3CR Community Radio - Radioactive Show

NITV News - Re-direct Indigenous health funding to community services

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous carers better for Indigenous children

SNAICC News - New resource on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Promising Practice Profiles

It's tough being super wealthy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/04/2013 - 3:14pm

We're one of the forgotten minority groups actually: the wealthiest 1%. Even the gays are at 4%. It's lucky my good mates Joel Fitzgibbon and Tony Abbott are sticking up for us. And Simon Crean I guess, but recently he's a bit of a liability. Poor bloke.

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Tasmania feels the autumn heat breaking March temperature records

Submitted by takver on Wed, 03/04/2013 - 10:46am

Tasmania, that small island state of Australia that protrudes into the Southern Ocean, has recorded it's hottest March on record in over 100 years of temperature record keeping.

The mean March temperature across the state was 15.7C, breaking the 1974 record by 0.3 degrees and 2.2 °C above normal. The Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement "The state average maximum temperature was a March record of 21.0 (2.9 °C above normal and 0.9 °C above the previous record from 1974), and minimum temperatures were the 3rd-warmest for March at 10.3 °C (1.6 °C above normal)."

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Cuts to single parent payments lead to hardship

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 02/04/2013 - 11:59pm

Courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/cuts-to-single-parent-payments-lead-to-hardshi...
Gerry Georgatos - There are 630,000 Australian lone parent families with dependents – 84 per cent are single mothers and 16 per cent are single fathers. 54 per cent of these single parents have a youngest child less than nine years of age. Of the parents with a child less than 9 years of age 59 per cent were in some form of employment end of June 2011 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011).

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