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Wedge tactics by WA government to water down Aboriginal Heritage Act

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 12:39pm

Gerry Georgatos
The West Australian government will attempt to water down the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 to make it easier for government and big business to secure the "assessments they want" of Aboriginal historical and cultural sites.

Aboriginal Elders and advocates have spoken about their fears that the only intention of this move by the state government is to keep on building assimilationist policies, to railroad Aboriginal folk and in effect extinguish customary and historical rights to the benefit or miners, big business and state and local government projects.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 2 April 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 9:39am

Newsletter date: 2 April 2012

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

Event: 11 February 2012 to 26 May 2012: South Bank, Brisbane, Qld
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...

Event: Intermittent 1 March - 3 May 2012: Various Locations
House of Representatives Committees
Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities

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WGAR News: Responses to Ten-Year Funding of NT Aboriginal Communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 01/04/2012 - 1:45pm

Newsletter date: 1 April 2012

Contents:
* Congress: Ten-Year Investment in the NT Must Involve Local and Community Control
* AHRC: Long-term funding commitment welcomed but Stronger Futures still must change
* Greens: Funding shouldn’t be tied to Intervention legislation
* APO NT: NT Aboriginal Organisations Welcome Homelands Support
* AMSANT: Long term funding for Aboriginal health-at last!
* CLC: Ten year Funding Boost will bring relief to the bush
* NACCHO: Ten year funding should be committed to all ACCHO's
* Amnesty: A huge win for homelands

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Northern Territory Intervention

Congress - Ten-Year Investment in the NT Must Involve Local and Community Control

AHRC - Long-term funding commitment welcomed but Stronger Futures still must change

Greens - Funding shouldn’t be tied to Intervention legislation

APO NT - NT Aboriginal Organisations Welcome Homelands Support

AMSANT - Long term funding for Aboriginal health-at last

CLC - Ten year Funding Boost will bring relief to the bush

NACCHO - Ten year funding should be committed to all ACCHO's

Amnesty - A huge win for homelands

NT Govt - $221M Outstation investment welcome news for the Territory

News re Ten-Year Funding in the Northern Territory

STICS Public Meeting - Can Income Management help with Child protection?

Country Liberals - Homelands and Outstations policy

Interviews re Stronger Futures legislation

WGAR News: The Lizard's Revenge over uranium mine - Festival protest against Olympic Dam expansion

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 31/03/2012 - 4:45pm

Newsletter date: 31 March 2012

Contents:
* The Lizard's Revenge over uranium mine
* Interviews re Federal Court challenge over Muckaty
* Brisbane Tent Embassy Interview
* Nyoongar Tent Embassy Interviews
* Deaths in Custody research Interview
* Other articles

* THE LIZARD'S REVENGE OVER URANIUM MINE:

- Upcoming Event

Event: Sat 14 to Fri 20 July 2012: Olympic Dam, SA
The Lizard's Revenge:
Olympic Dam expansion music/art/festival/protest
"Sleeping underneath the ground there is an old lizard,
Kalta the sleepy lizard. The lizard ain’t so sleepy anymore.

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Interviews re Federal Court challenge over Muckaty

Brisbane Tent Embassy Interview

Nyoongar Tent Embassy Interviews

Deaths in Custody research Interview

Catholic church ramps up war on same-sex marriage.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 30/03/2012 - 6:49pm

"Marriage is founded on the wonderful fact of sexual difference and its potential for new life. Without this there would be no human beings and no future."1

That's what Catholics across the country are being told this weekend, in a letter calling on parishioners to campaign against same-sex marriage.

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Justice for Roberto Laudisio Curti

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 6:29pm

The death in custody of Roberto Curti at the hands of 6 NSW police officers early on Sunday 18 March 2012 is one that cannot be allowed to pass without a strong response.

Having watched the video of a part of the chase it is quite clear that the alleged “biscuits thief”, as he was described at the time of the chase, was running away from the 6 police officers and thus is proven to have not caused any danger to those officers. One officer is seen to be smashing his head against the frame of the shop window. There is no logical conclusion why he was then tasered in his back, THREE TIMES, as he staggered away. Also, it has been said that the victim had already been sprayed with capsicum spray and probably his eyes were burning, so he was running to get away from being sprayed again.
Sign the online petition calling for Justice for Roberto -- Solidarity Rally at the Brazilian Consulate Sydney April 2nd
Related:Footage of Tasering

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This is the biggest untold story of the year

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 3:34pm

PM's staffer did not act alone: report
Canberra Times
Lisa Martin, AAP
February 1, 2012 .

A federal government source has contradicted Prime Minister Julia Gillard's statement that a former staffer acted alone when he passed on information to a third party that led to a security scare at an Australia Day event, an indigenous newspaper says.

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Roundup of the anti-election campaign waged by some Brisbane anarchists

Submitted by autonomousactions on Wed, 28/03/2012 - 5:40pm

In the lead up to the Queensland State Election on March 24, a group of Brisbane Anarchists launched an anti-election campaign. In the week prior to the election, anarchists began pasting up a couple of thousand anti politician and anti voting posters all throughout the city. Political party placards erected throughout Brisbane were torn down or defaced with anarchist and anti politician messages. Anti-voting and anarchist graffiti was scrawled and sprayed across walls, billboards, electricity boxes and telephone booths.

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Protests from all quarters as Warrup grabs national attention

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 27/03/2012 - 7:43pm

Gerry Georgatos
The Warrup forest blockade by Forest Rescue Australia (FRA) has broken a long standing record in Western Australia - the blockade is eleven weeks long. It is the longest anti-logging action in 14 years, said Simon Peterffy, FRA convenor.

"For us, we have to save the largest numbat colony in WA and which is under threat of extinction, we have to save the trees, we have to protect the environment - if someone doesn't stand up then they're gone and the damage is done," said Mr Peterffy.

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