Australia

WGAR News: Muckaty traditional owner meets with minister: NITV News [Featuring Penny Phillips, TO]

Newsletter date: 11 July 2013

Contents:

* NITV News: Muckaty traditional owner meets with minister [Featuring Penny Phillips, TO]
* From Muckaty to Melbourne: Dianne Stokes, TO for Muckaty is speaking at FoE on Mon 15 July 2013
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump in NT, Australia

* Respect and Listen: Arnhem Land Traditional Owners in Sydney: 17-19th July 2013

* Philippa Velhinho, Green Left: Greed still threatens Kimberley paradise
* Celebrate the Kimberley in Sydney - 18 July 2013 [Featuring Traditional Owners from Arnhem Land]

WGAR News: $1.3 billion Native Title deal divides Noongar peoples: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Newsletter date: 10 July 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: $1.3 billion Native Title deal divides Noongar peoples
* ABC News: Tent embassy group rejects native title offer
* Tracker: Native title deal angers WA Tent Embassy
* SBS World News Video: WA govt offers native title deal to Noongar group
* Tim Bray, CCI: State Government Native Title offer to provide positive benefits
* University of Otago, NZ: Setting up the Tent Embassy [Nyoongar Tent Embassy]
* Background to the Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Heirisson Island (sacred site of Matagarup), Perth, WA

Does the Indigenous Land Corporation have the ability to run a cattle station? Ask the 500 dead cows

By Mick Estens
0428936305

In the past month a situation on an ILC leased Station in the NT has unfolded that shows neglect, even ignorance, by ILC management. Outbreaks of the cattle disease Botulism is not a new thing on a Northern cattle station but in this day and age controls have been developed to help pastoralists cope. Before the days of supplement and vaccine large numbers were lost over vast tracks of outback land.

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Traditional owners seek your assistance to save Arnhem land from oil and gas companies

From: ecnt@iinet.net.au

Traditional Owners and the Protect Arnhem Land community campaign (based in Maningrida) are seeking the assistance of environment groups and Indigenous networks in Sydney to help raise awareness of the threat to Arnhem Land from oil and gas exploration.

Five traditional owners are travelling from Maningrida to Sydney in mid July and will hold a public event in Martin Place outside the offices of Paltar Petroleum at midday on Friday 19 July.

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Finnish Government Dirty Tricks List

Below I have listed Finnish Government Usurp and Dark Actions, which I personally have come across as a Civil Citizen[*] after 1994 happenings in USA and Finland (http://universitypost.dk/article/finnish-professor-scouted-student-spies"; see the article comment on happenings leading to difficulties in stead of relevant case handling), and which I have found out from other public sources (articles, literature, press and other media) [+], or which I have come across while making complaints b

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 75 events from 7 July 2013

Newsletter date: 7 July 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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

Event: 7 to 14 July 2013: various locations in Australia
2013 National NAIDOC Week
The theme for NAIDOC Week 2013 is:
We value the vision: Yirrkala Bark Petitions 1963
"We value the foresight, strength and determination of the
Yolngu people whose Bark Petitions set into motion a
long process of legislative and constitutional reforms

Still supporting Yolngu in their fight for rights

NAIDOC WEEK
‘concerned Australians’ July 7, 2013
Still Supporting Yolngu in Their Fight for Rights
‘concerned Australians’ welcomes NAIDOC Week and the celebration of the history, culture and
achievements of the Aboriginal and Torres Island communities.
The theme this year focuses on the 50th anniversary of the presentation of the Yirrkala Bark Petition to
the Federal Parliament by the Yolngu people of North Eastern Arnhem Land and signed by thirteen clan
leaders in 1963.
This traditional petition was a catalyst to legislative and constitutional reform that led to the granting of

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What future does this little boy have? 5 hours ago the first car bomb was detonated in Samawa

I woke this morning to a message and photo from Samawa, Iraq, hometown of my good friend Riyadh Al-Hakimi. Riyadh came to Australia in 1993 as a child refugee with his family fleeing the prospect of persecution. We met at university, I was the general manager of a Student Guild and coordinator of Students Without Borders and Riyadh was an international relations student, now graduated.

Media Watch's Jonathan Holmes dodged one of the biggest ABC falsifications ever

"The ABC's senior management.... have unfailingly supported us however uncomfortable we sometimes make their lives and who've never once interfered in the choices we make." (Audio attached) So said Jonathan Holmes at the end of his last presentation of Media Watch on ABC TV on 1 July 13. I challenged him with the following email to mediawatch@your.abc.net.au. You might like to do the same.

Jonathan,

that's a barefaced lie for which you owe at least every Northern Territory Aboriginal person a most remorseful apology.

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