Australia

'Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' needs serious revision says Anderson on return from Geneva

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 09/12/2014 - 8:48pm

8 December 2014

Ghillar Michael Anderson, Convenor and Joint Spokesperson of Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia, returned from Geneva this morning after attending an organisational meeting to bring together in 2015 the first delegates to the UN of the world's Indigenous Peoples. [The airbus he was on had to make an emergency landing in Perth.]

In a statement from Perth Anderson said:

 

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Australia
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Feature

WGAR News: Sisters on the Inside, Babies on the Outside: The Wire [Featuring Debbie Kilroy, Dr Jennifer James & Kat Armstrong]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 09/12/2014 - 4:15pm

Newsletter date: 12 December 2014

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Keywords: 
aboriginal
The Wire
Debbie Kilroy
Sisters Inside
Dr Jennifer James
Kat Armstrong
Women In Prison Advocacy Network
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert
Rachel Siewert
incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Indigenous incarceration rates continue to rise
Justice Reinvestment
Aboriginal imprisonment
Aboriginal deaths in custody
NIRS
Warren Barnsley
detention of four Aboriginal men with cognitive impairment
Mentally-impaired men imprisoned without conviction
Bridie Jabour
The Guardian
mandatory sentencing
jailed Indigenous men with disabilities

WGAR News: Shutting down Australia's Aboriginal areas: Royce Kurmelovs, Al Jazeera

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/12/2014 - 4:30pm

Newsletter date: 10 December 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography: 
Australia
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal homelands
Aboriginal remote communities
closure of WA and SA Aboriginal homelands
closure of WA remote communities
Royce Kurmelovs
Al Jazeera
Australia's Aboriginal areas
Tiga Bayles
Let's Talk
Professor Jon Altman
Jon Altman
WA and SA threats to neglect Aboriginal citizens living at homelands
threat to close homelands/remote communities
WTV
Gerry Georgatos
NIRS
Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre
Celeste Liddle
removal of people from WA Communities
Congress
Remote Communities
Open Letter to Prime Minister - Remote Communities
National Leadership Needed for Remote Communities
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
Ray Jackson

Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/12/2014 - 12:00pm

Last updated: 5 October 2015

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA (and NT?)

Current: WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government: https://indymedia.org.au/2015/06/08/wgar-background-intervention-into-no...

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
ACT
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Adelaide
Western Australia
Perth
Keywords: 
Bella Bropho on the Police Invasion of Matagarup Refugee Camp
SA Aboriginal Communities
Shut Down Australia For Aboriginal Rights
SOSBlakAustralia Third Global Call To Action
Pushing Aboriginal people off their land for mining interests
John Pilger
Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of war
Maori Party letter to PM
ACTU
Haydyn Bromley on funding for South Australia's Aboriginal Communities
KALACC Directors Statement - Kimberley
Reps from KLC will travel to NY for 20 April meeting of UN permanent forum on Indigenous issues
Tammy Solonec
Bella Bropho interview
May Day marches
Ghillar Michael Anderson
Maori Solidarity with the Nyoongar people at Matargarup
Desire Mallet
Jennifer Kaeshagen
Support for WA Remote Communities is Going Global
Matargarup Aboriginal Refugee Camp
Djurin Refugee Camp
Michael Anderson writes Open Letter to UN
closure of WA remote communities
Amy McQuire
New Matilda
Dennis Eggington
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
Jon Altman

"The British constitution was soaked with our ancestors' blood"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 07/12/2014 - 7:21pm

before i made my way to the aboriginal summit i posted the congress statement from les malezer and kirstie parker, as the co-chairs of the congress, to their calling on the foul abbott to go to the next meeting of coag and get the governments of wa and sa to not close down the remote communities that they had nominated for closure in their states.

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Australia
Promotion: 
Feature

Tyrannical powers for immigration minister Morrison

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/12/2014 - 10:07pm

The very early hours of this morning were some of the darkest in Australian political history. Just a little before 1am, the Migration and Maritime Powers Bill passed by one vote, with Senator Ricky Muir finally caving to some of the most intense and despicable emotional blackmail that the Parliament has witnessed. He was visibly anguished, saying "I am forced into a corner where I have to decide between a bad decision and a worse decision - a position I would not wish on my worst enemies."

 

Geography: 
Australia

What does Australia do when the coal runs out

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/12/2014 - 7:36pm

Current estimates state that there is approx 34 years to 90 years supply of coal left to mine in Australia, this proves Prime Minister Tony Abbots conference with the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston when he stated that coal will fuel human progress for decades & the catch is only decades, this explains why the United States, Europe & many other places around the world are investing heavily in renewable energy as there is only a finite amount of coal to be mined.

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia

WGAR News: New 'Protect Arnhem Land' (PAL) website

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 06/12/2014 - 4:08pm

Newsletter date: 8 December 2014

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Protect Arnhem Land
PAL
PAL - Protect Arnhem Land
Arnhem Land
Aboriginal Land
NT
Northern Territory - NT
traditional culture
The PAL Team
Maningrida
inappropriate development
Traditional Owners
Maningrida community
Eddie Mason
Rosie Ankin
Alice Eather
Traditional owner Eddie Mason
Traditional owner Rosie Ankin
Traditional owner Alice Eather
offshore mining exploration
Paltar Petroleum
environment
Stop Destroying the North
Protect Arnhem Land - We're sending a delegation to Don't Destroy the North
Respect and Listen
Protect Arnhem Land Campaign

WGAR News: Delegation will lead sit-in on Canberra - The Freedom Summit: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 04/12/2014 - 10:16am

Newsletter date: 6 December 2014

Geography: 
Australia
ACT
Canberra
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
aboriginal
grassroots Aboriginal community leaders
Aboriginal community leaders
Aboriginal community
Freedom Summit
Summit for Freedom
Mparntwe Alice Springs
Alice Springs
NT
Tauto Sansbury
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Perth Indymedia
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
sit-in
Sit-in planned at Parliament House in January 2015
Freedom Summit to converge on Canberra on Invasion Day
NIT
National Indigenous Times
Invasion Day
Sovereignty Day
Survival Day
Day of Mourning
NSWALC
NIRS
Amy McQuire
New Matilda
Donna Campbell
CAAMA
Yorta Yorta
Monica Morgan
Lorena Walker
Jenny Munro
Elaine Peckham
Maurie Japarta Ryan
Michael Mansell
Roxley Foley
CAAMA News
Aboriginal sovereignty
Aboriginal Sovereign Nations

Tauto Sansbury and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on the "Freedom Summit" a gathering of grassroots Aboriginal community leaders

Submitted by Karun on Tue, 02/12/2014 - 12:46pm

Perth Indymedia speaks to esteemed elder of South Australia's Narrunga people Tauto Sansbury and Australian of the Year, leader of the Utopia homelands Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on the "Freedom Summit", the most significant gathering of grassroots Aboriginal community leaders in recent history which was held in Alice Springs.

 

Geography: 
Australia
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
Aboriginal elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Aboriginal elder Tauto Sansbury
Aboriginal Rights
Freedom Summit