Australia

Indigenous health: Not bleeding hearts, just the bleeding obvious

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 28/08/2011 - 3:05pm

To many Aboriginal people in Central Australia the narrative of illness is very different from the one described by western clinicians, argues longtime pro-Aboriginal activist, Prof. Don Palmer Tjungurrayi. “Western doctors would say that kidney disease, for example, is out of control because Aboriginal people make poor choices about food and exercise. For many Aboriginal people the causes are personal and spiritual. They feel they have been cursed.

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Australia
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Feature
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NT intervention

WGAR News: 45th anniversary of Gurindji Wave Hill walk-off - Kalkarindji NT - 26-28 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 28/08/2011 - 11:00am

Newsletter date: 28 August 2011

Contents:
* 45th anniversary of Gurindji Wave Hill walk-off
* Amnesty International Australia: 'Tell the government: don't abandon homelands'
* Interviews with Emma Davidson of Equality Rights Alliance
* Productivity Commission report into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage
* 'strong corporations, strong stores, strong communities' report
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

* 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF GURINDJI WAVE HILL WALK-OFF:

45th Anniversary - Wave Hill Walk-Off - Gurindji Story

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
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NT intervention
indigenous
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
Amnesty International Australia action: 'Tell the government: don't abandon homelands'
Interviews with Emma Davidson of Equality Rights Alliance
Productivity Commission report into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage
'strong corporations
'strong corporations strong stores strong communities' report

R.I.S.E. call out for action on stopping the Malaysian Solution

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 24/08/2011 - 8:22pm

The Refugee Survivors and Ex-Detainees organisation R.I.S.E. has issued the following call for action to take action against the Malaysian Solution. They offer a number of seteps you take to register your dissent against this barbaric, racist policy which traumatises the most vunerable people even further and makes a mockery of Australia's international legal obligations.

R.I.S.E. Suggested actions against the Malaysian Deal

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Australia
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Australia's Mandatory Detention
Malaysian Solution

4 arrests across 4 actions as The Last Stand breaks Harvey Norman’s chain of forest destruction across Australia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 24/08/2011 - 2:44pm

Today, almost 50 activists have taken action at four sites across Australia to protest Harvey Norman’s sale of wood products sourced from native forest destruction. Four activists have been arrested.

‘Australia’s world class native forests are in crisis. The Last Stand has taken action today to say No Harvey No! From the forest floor to a Harvey Norman store, activists across Australia have taken a stand to stop the chain of forest destruction’ said Ula Majewski, spokesperson for The Last Stand.

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Australia
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forests climate change activist protest the last stand harvey norman auswest dixie cummings gippsland

Poking a Zionist Hornet's Nest: Defending the Right to Boycott Max Brenner

Submitted by Vacy Vlazna on Sun, 21/08/2011 - 9:28pm

On Saturday 20th August, about 100 protestors crowded the King St footpath as they marched from the Newtown community centre passing inquisitive customers and shopkeepers while pressing Boycott Max Brenner leaflets into their hands for the four or five hundred metres to confront the Max Brenner shop while chanting with full force, “Max Brenner you can’t hide, you support genocide.”

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Australia
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BDS movement

WGAR News: Equality Rights Alliance Report: Women's experience of Income Management in the NT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 21/08/2011 - 9:35am

Newsletter date: 21 August 2011

Contents:
* Report: Women's experience of Income Management in the NT
* Homelands: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks's call to government
* Amnesty Online Petition: 'Don’t abandon Aboriginal homelands'
* Anti-Intervention campaigners back call for Homelands funding
* Online Petition: Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
* Federal Court dismisses Yindjibarndi appeal
* Submission: Children of the Intervention
* More on Kimberley gas plant
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Western Australia
Keywords: 
NT intervention
indigenous
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
Online Petition: Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
Federal Court dismisses Yindjibarndi appeal
Submission: Children of the Intervention
More on Kimberley gas plant
Aboriginal homelands: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks's call to government
Amnesty Online Petition: 'Don’t abandon Aboriginal homelands'
Anti-Intervention campaigners back Amnesty call for Homelands funding - raise concerns about leaked cabinet report

No Harvey No! Forest actions around Australia demand retailer stops destroying native forests

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 11:09pm

wave of direct actions have taken place across Australia to try to pressure Harvery Norman stores from stocking furniture made from wood sourced from native forests. The actions have been bold and creative including doing banner drops inside or outside stories Harvery Norman stores in Sydney,Melbourne. Blockading a in Nowra. A group of Tasmanian animals including Tasmanian devils and quolls even occupied the Harvey Norman store in Hobart! Well conservationists from Still Wild Still Threatened, dressed as native animals anyway. Most spectacularly one of Australia’s biggest every banner drops occurred in a logged native forest coupe in Tasmania with a banner declaring “Non Harvery Norman No! Don’t buy forest destruction.
Related: Spoof Harvery Norman ad on Youtube -- The Last Stand Campaign Website -- GetUp petition

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Australia
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Logging protest
No Harvey No

IMPACTS OF MANDATORY DETENTION - rise in deaths, illnesses, self harms, and the impacts continue post-release in greater numbers. MORE DEATHS TO COME.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 10:22pm

Human Rights Alliance Press Release: August 19th 2011 The Australian Medical Assocation, following others, such as the UNHCR and the AHRC has supported our calls and our personal witness that Mandatory Detention has grievous traumatic and deleterious impacts and effects upon those whom come before it.

Geography: 
Australia
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Human Rights Alliance
Australia's Mandatory Detention