Australia

Sydney man sentenced to 12 years for publishing internet "terrorist manual"

A Sydney Court has sentenced a man to 12 years in jail with a minimum of 9 years for publishing an online "terrorism manual". He is the first person to be convicted on the charge of making a document connected with assistance in a terrorist act in Australia. The accused spent three days in 2003 cut and pasting the material which was already on the net into a book called "The Rules of Jihad - Short Judicial Rulings And Organisational Instructions For Fighters And Mujahideen Against Infidels."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8274119.stm

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Open letter to Federal MP Kelvin Thompson and the ACF

To whom it may concern,

In response to the ACF media release “Population boom will bust environment and quality of life” (22 September 2009):

The opinion presented is overly simplistic and inherently flawed as several of the implicit assumptions cannot be backed up by robust arguments. Exposing the nationalist agenda of this statement is in the interests of fairness in informing a free-thinking, democratic society. A nationalistic perspective on climate change is inconsistent with the inexorably global nature and scale of the manifold impacts of a modified climate.

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WGAR News: Ampilatwatja Anti-Intervention Walk-off Speaking Tour (22 Sep 09)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Ampilatwatja Anti-Intervention Walk-off Speaking Tour
Restrictions on Bilingual Education in the NT
NT Intervention Chief removed
Call for Stolen Generations Compensation
Homelands / Outstations Policy
Proposed National Indigenous Representative Body
Aboriginal Housing in the NT
Other Aboriginal articles

AMPILATWATJA ANTI-INTERVENTION WALK-OFF SPEAKING TOUR:

- Background

Intervention walkoff’s Blog
http://interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com/

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Melbourne attacks on Indians “reflect Australian racism”

MEDIA RELEASE

Goodooga, 17 September 09 -- A northwest NSW Aboriginal political activist says the assault on four Indian men outside a bar in Melbourne this week is representative of the hidden racism that exists in Australia.

Michael Anderson, last survivor of the four Black Power activists who set up the Aboriginal Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra in 1972, says politicians remaining mute on these racist attacks reflects badly on Australia as a nation.

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YOUTH DECIDE 09

Date and Time: 
Mon, 14/09/2009 (All day) to Sun, 20/09/2009 (All day)
Location: 
Online or at many locations around Australia! Find a location near you at http://www.youthdecide.com.au/Get-Involved/Find-a--Local-Event-.aspx
Contact Name: 
Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Contact Phone: 
(03) 90058552
Contact Email: 
http://www.youthdecide.com.au/Contact-Us.aspx
Website: 
www.youthdecide.com.au

Youth Decide '09 is a national youth vote on climate change.

We're giving Australia's 4.8 million young people (aged 15 - 29) the chance to vote on what kind of world we want to inherit.

Australia's young people can be a voice for their generation: both here in Australia and for those poor countries and communities around the world who will be most affected by climate change.

Visit the website to vote for the world you would like to inherit.

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WGAR News: Governments' review of Aboriginal housing scheme in the NT (3 Sep 09)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Governments' review of Aboriginal housing scheme in the NT
Responses to the backlash against James Anaya's statement
Intervention Walk-Off
Still more media responses to proposed national Indigenous body

GOVERNMENTS' REVIEW OF ABORIGINAL HOUSING SCHEME IN THE NT:

- Background

WGAR News:
Government failure over Northern Territory Aboriginal housing (24 July 09)
http://wgar.info/240709-government-failure-over-northern-territory-abori...

- Review of SIHIP

Help unfuck the world - don't eat animals

Real Greenies don’t eat animals – and that includes dairy, fish and even organic meat. Land clearing, water use, climate change, energy use and the global food crisis are being worsened by food choices. If you want to do something for the planet and the world’s poor – just change your diet. If you don’t believe me fellow greenies then read the well researched document “Eating up the World”.

http://www.vnv.org.au/site/htmfiles/eatinguptheworld.htm
http://www.vnv.org.au/site/files/eatinguptheworld.pdf

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WGAR News: More media responses to UN Expert, James Anaya (31 Aug 09)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
More media responses to James Anaya's statement and press conference
Call to Aboriginal nations, from across the Territory, to unite
More media responses to proposed national Indigenous body
Intervention Walk-off

MORE MEDIA RESPONSES TO JAMES ANAYA'S STATEMENT AND PRESS CONFERENCE:

- Background

WGAR News:
UN Expert visits Australia to report on Aboriginal Human Rights (18 Aug 09)
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=145907

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Fair Trade Chocolate Campaign Victory

In a major boost to the Fair Trade movement in Australia and for the campaign to wipe out child slavery and other forms of work exploitation in the cocoa industry, Cadbury Australia has announced it will be seeking Fair Trade Certification for its Dairy Milk chocolate bars by 2010. This comes after a global campaign by NGO's such as the Stop the Traffik to pressure the major chocolate manufactures to embrace Fair Trade.

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