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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 23 events from 23 April 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 23/04/2012 - 1:07pm

Newsletter date: 23 April 2012

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* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 23 events from 23 April 2012
* Justice Reinvestment Campaign for Aboriginal Youth NSW
* "How many more suicides before we open our eyes and ears?"
* Other articles

* UPCOMING ABORIGINAL RIGHTS EVENT AROUND AUSTRALIA - 23 EVENTS FROM 23 APRIL 2012

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Event: Tue 24 April 2012: UTS, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW
Public Lecture: UTSpeaks: More Intervention
"Will the Government’s Stronger Futures law
reforms aid indigenous communities or

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Justice Reinvestment Campaign for Aboriginal Youth NSW

How many more suicides before we open our eyes and ears?

Renters stress hits the Blackwood - time for a renters alliance Australia-wide

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 1:01pm

Gerry Georgatos
We have all heard about mortgage stress however renters' stress has received comparatively little mention according to Lea Keenan, coordinator of the WA Renters Alliance. Ms Keenan said that rising rents are not confined to Perth and the north west however "are just as out of control in the south west."

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Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 11:34am

Last updated: 29 May 2014

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* Aboriginal Sovereignty websites
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/02/aboriginal-sovereignty-websites
(Last updated: 13 October 2013)

* Aboriginal Sovereignty interviews, articles and events
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/10/12/aboriginal-sovereignty-interviews-and...
(Last updated: 25 May 2014)

* Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union - National Unity Government (MR: 25 May 2012)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/02/foundation-meeting-of-the-sovereign-u...
(Last updated: 25 May 2012)

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Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal Tent Embassy 40th - 40 Years Stronger - Sovereignty Never Ceded

Brisbane Sovereign Embassy - Musgrave Park Brisbane Qld

Bulahdelah Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Bulahdelah NSW

Goomeroi Sovereign Tent Embassy - Moree NSW

Nyoongar Tent Embassy - Heirisson Island Perth WA

Portland Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Market Square Portland Vic

Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Bulli Wollongong NSW

Northern Murray-Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations NBAN

Walmadan Tent Embassy - James Price Point - north of Broome - Kimberley WA

Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance - WANFA

How many more suicides before we open our eyes and ears?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 21/04/2012 - 8:00am

Gerry Georgatos
Kabi Kabi Elder, and Bundaberg campus coordinator Nulloo Yumbah at Central Queensland University, Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian said she is devastated by the rising disenfranchisement of Aboriginal youth, and the world's highest suicide rates - of Australia's Aboriginal children.

"Across my desk came a study that reported 'the number of completed Indigenous suicides (in the Kimberley) last year exceeded the Australian Defence Force fatalities in Afghanistan'. I cannot comprehend this statement. It is too much," said Mrs Yavu-Kamu-Harathunian.

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Sydney, NSW & ACT Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 9 events from 18 April 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 14/04/2012 - 5:06pm

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Event: Wed 18 April 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Free Public Screening of Our Generation
Introduction and Q&A by Jeff McMullen AM
Hosted by Reconciliation for Western Sydney
"Jeff will be talking about the Stronger
Futures legislation, its clash with our
human rights obligations and the
calls by NT Elders for opposition to
the Government's approach."
Event details: http://stoptheintervention.org/#OurGen

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events from 14 April 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 14/04/2012 - 4:31pm

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Event: 11 February 2012 to 26 May 2012: South Bank, Brisbane, Qld
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...

Event: Intermittent 1 March - 3 May 2012: Various Locations
House of Representatives Committees
Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities
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Anarchists disrupt Police Expo

Submitted by autonomousactions on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 8:55pm

Just before dawn on April 1st a group of anarchists dropped a banner reading “COPS OUT OF REDFERN, OUT OF OUR LIVES” from a construction site at 90 Regent St Redfern. The building now being renovated had been a squatted social centre and a home for more than 10 people throughout November and December of 2010. Within the large city owned building, dubbed ‘The People’s Castle’, solar power, a free shop and free café were established and opened to the public. In mid December 2010 police evicted the building following a failed supreme court challenge to keep the social centre open.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 2 April 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 9:39am

Newsletter date: 2 April 2012

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Event: Intermittent 1 March - 3 May 2012: Various Locations
House of Representatives Committees
Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities

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This is the biggest untold story of the year

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 3:34pm

PM's staffer did not act alone: report
Canberra Times
Lisa Martin, AAP
February 1, 2012 .

A federal government source has contradicted Prime Minister Julia Gillard's statement that a former staffer acted alone when he passed on information to a third party that led to a security scare at an Australia Day event, an indigenous newspaper says.

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