Australia

WGAR News: Invasion Day / Survival Day Rallies and Marches Across Australia: NITV News; SBS News; Occupy Sydney

Newsletter date: 28 January 2015

Contents:

* Video: NITV News - 26 January 2015: Invasion Day Marches and Rallies in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
* Video: SBS News: 'Survival Day' marked across Australia
* News: Occupy Sydney: Invasion/Survival Day Rallies Across Australia

* Hobart
-- News: Daniel McCulloch, The Examiner: Change the date campaign ramps up

How Australia sold out to the Middle east & Asia

Before 1975 Australia used its own oil reserves & manufactured most goods & machinery in Australia, however after 1975 trade was opened up to the Middle east & Asia & Australia begun to use middle eastern oil reserves & imported alot of goods from Asia. The Australian manufacturing sector was flushed down the toilet & Australia relied heavily on dwindling coal exports, renewable energy took a back seat after the abolition of the carbon tax.

WGAR News: The day I don't feel Australian? That would be Australia Day: Chelsea Bond, The Conversation

Newsletter date: 27 January 2015

Contents:

* Video: NITV News - 26 January 2015: Invasion Day Marches and Rallies in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane

Citizen journo issues Take Down notice to LNP and Courier Mail over stolen video used to slander oppositio

On Saturday January 24, while hundreds of people were protesting the Newman state government in the streets of Brisbane, the Liberal National Party of Queensland were engineering a bikie-related scandal using stolen video.  The LNP mud-slinging attempt purports to expose criminal motorcycle gangs as supporters of the Electrical Trades Union, and that the ETU are giving the proceeds of crime to the Queensland Labor Party.  This desperate and cynical attempt to distract from the state and federal Liberal National governments' performance is likely to alienate further an already disgruntled el

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Australia Day Awards 2015: Should they be awarded without proper investigation of the recipient?

It's Australia Day Awards time again. The secret process has been happening for the past few months. The public has no idea of who is being considered or what investigations are taking place into their possibly dark past. The citizens of Australia, some of whom may have been abused by senior public servants, have no input. Public servants: can they be trusted? This is an old article but still relevant in 2015. 

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National Convergence on Canberra Sit-In Protest

Date and Time: 
Tue, 27/01/2015 -
1:00am to 11:00pm
Location: 
Canberra: Assembly at Aboriginal Tent Embassy to walk to Capital Hill Parliament House
Contact Name: 
WGAR News Editor
Contact Email: 
wgar.news@gmail.com
Website: 
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/01/21/wgar-news-call-out-for-people-to-attend-the-national-convergence-on-canberra-sit-in

This newsletter: https://indymedia.org.au/2015/01/21/wgar-news-call-out-for-people-to-att...

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Urgent plea to the Nation to come to Canberra for the Sit-In: http://vimeo.com/117165236