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Stop the refoulement of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 23/05/2013 - 8:56am

Melbourne 22 May 2013: The Australian government has separated 14 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, 4 men, 3 women and 6 children (including a 6 month old baby), who arrived by boat and were detained in a remote immigration detention centre in Christmas Island from other asylum seekers and have informed them that:

a/ They are not going to be allowed to make an application for asylum.
b/. They are going to be forcibly deported to Sri Lanka.

They will be taken by force to a military plane and flown to Sri Lanka at 9.30 am Christmas Island time (12.30pm Melbourne time)

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They want to sell the ABC and the SBS

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 22/05/2013 - 9:00pm

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Australia's education lottery - help petition for reforms

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 22/05/2013 - 11:20am

Gonski. It's the name that's been dominating headlines for months.

But what exactly is the plan behind the man?

We've teamed up with Jane Caro and Chris Bonnor, co-authors of What Makes a Good School, to explain why the Gonski Review represents the best pathway to a quality education for every Australian child.

Watch Jane and Chris explain why our system is in desperate need of an overhaul and how Gonski does this.

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WGAR News: "NACCHO praises release of FPDN 10 point plan for Aboriginal people with a disability"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 22/05/2013 - 10:42am

Newsletter date: 22 May 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO praises release of FPDN 10 point plan for Aboriginal people with a disability
* NACCHO chair welcomes Professor Kerry Arabena as the newly appointed Chair of Indigenous Health
* SBS Radionews: Indigenous suicide summit in Perth
* Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

* CAAMA Radio: Interview with Rod Little, a Director of the National Congress of Australia's First People
* CAAMA Radio: "Huge attitude change needed" to recognise Indigenous rights
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

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First People's Disability Network - FPDN

Aboriginal people with a disability

NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Professor Kerry Arabena

Chair of Indigenous Health

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

Indigenous suicide summit

National Congress of Australia's First People

Rod Little

NACCHO chair welcomes Professor Kerry Arabena as the newly appointed Chair of Indigenous Health

SBS Radionews - Indigenous suicide summit in Perth

CAAMA Radio - Interview with Rod Little - a Director of the National Congress of Australia's First People

CAAMA Radio - Huge attitude change needed to recognise Indigenous rights

Open letter in response to the #NoJabNoPlay Campaign.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 22/05/2013 - 6:13am

Open letter to:
21/05/2013
The Editor The Daily Telegraph
The Hon. Jillian Skinner MP
Minister for Health
Minister for Medical Research
The Hon. Adrian Piccoli MP
Minister for Education

Dear Sirs/madam

In response to the #NoJabnoplay Campaign.
This open letter will be published through indymedia and propagated via various social and media networks.

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vaccination immunisation adjuvants toxic

The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 20

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 20/05/2013 - 8:51pm

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20 - http://thestringer.com.au/
NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. Less than three months young The Stringer has been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.
Please share this newsletter and spread the word about The Stringer.

Liberation through acquisition

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 20/05/2013 - 2:32pm

By Gary Foley writing in The Tracker

Melbourne was recently privileged to receive a visit from Queensland’s most famous Lutheran since peanut farming Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson. I refer, of course, to the corpulent and verbose Aboriginal Man of the Moment- Mr Noel Pearson.

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More independent Aboriginal states in the pipeline

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 20/05/2013 - 1:11pm

Goodooga, 20 May 2013 - - Aborigines who have just met for two days in Brisbane are looking to launching their own independent states, as the Murrawarri people have just done in northwest NSW and southwest Queensland.
“Clearly the people are now asking the pertinent questions relating to a process of asserting their continuing sovereignty as individual nations,” writes Michael Ghillar Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia in a media release.

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WGAR News: The Federal Budget and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 20/05/2013 - 12:04pm

Newsletter date: 20 May 2013

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* The Stringer: Homeless protest at Matagarup - "we will not be swept away"
* Tracker: Anger in Perth over Heirisson Island plans
* NIRS: Matagarup development protested in Perth
* Background to the Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Heirisson Island (Matagarup), Perth, WA

* Emma Murphy, Green Left: New laws to criminalise drinking
* NAAJA has criticised the NT government's announcement of alcohol protection orders
* Other Northern Territory News

* The Federal Budget and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities

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Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Emma Murphy

NAAJA

The Stringer

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Tracker

Green Left

Alcohol Protection Orders

Heirisson Island - Matagarup

The Stringer - Homeless protest at Matagarup - we will not be swept away

Tracker - Anger in Perth over Heirisson Island plans

NIRS - Matagarup development protested in Perth

Emma Murphy - Green Left - New laws to criminalise drinking

NAAJA has criticised the NT government's announcement of alcohol protection orders

Heading for cooler waters - Climate change impact of warming oceans on global fish stocks

Submitted by takver on Sun, 19/05/2013 - 10:34pm

For the first time scientists have demonstrated the impact of climate change on ocean warming and sea surface temperatures affecting global fisheries stocks. Previous studies were limited to individual fisheries. The changes have been occurring clearly since the 1970s, the scientists say. The implications of this research raises the need for timely changes in fisheries management practices and adaptation plans for communities dependant on fishing, particularly climate vulnerable developing countries in the tropics.

"Given global fisheries contribute hugely to the world's economy and food security, this is a significant finding," said co-author Dr Reg Watson from the University of Tasmania's specialist Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies."We are no longer talking about future hypotheticals - we are talking about impacts on a global scale that we can already demonstrate."

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