On May 26th Australia will mark Sorry Day and from May 27th to June 3rd it will mark Reconciliation Week.
To learn about events near you visit the Reconciliation Australian Events Calendar
The next of monthly demonstrations held outside the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra calling for the release of West Papuan political prisoners.
For more information please call the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, WPNA, ASIA PACIFIC, Phone : 03 95102193 0r Herman Wainggai : 0411295137
This Summit web-page was last updated on 6 May 2011
THE 2011 CANBERRA EASTER SUMMIT IS NOW CONCLUDED.
SEE THIS MEDIA RELEASE RESULTING FROM THE SUMMIT:
Call for dramatic return to proactive political action at Aboriginal summit
By Michael Anderson and Ellie Gilbert
Treaty Republic: http://treatyrepublic.net/content/call-dramatic-return-proactive-politic...
Indymedia Australia: http://indymedia.org.au/2011/04/26/call-for-dramatic-return-to-proactive...
Protest actions have been called around Australia and the world to show support for the Egyptian Revolution. Actions occurred on the weekend of 29th-30th of January in Melbourne - reports 1, 2, Youtube video ; Sydney report, Youtube video. Actions also occurred in many cities around the world. Protests have again happened around Australia on the 4th February in Brisbane and Melbourne and on the 5th in Sydney
Upcoming actions included Friday 11th in Brisbane and Saturday 12th in Adelaide.
Related: Youtube clip of worldwide protests
Following the Global Action for Tasmania's forests on 15 December 2010, with the help of emails and actions in 52 cities in 21 countries around the world, the Tasmanian Government has announced a moratorium on the logging of High Conservation Value forests in Tasmania!
This is a tremendous victory for the conservation of nature BUT the devil is in the detail.
We are asking for you to join with us at a Peoples Assembly in Canberra at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday 28 September (2010).
We will assemble on the lawns outside Parliament House to call on the new Parliament to introduce humane refugee policies and stop using refugees as political footballs. Refugee groups are asked to bring banners with the key messages of the gathering as well as their own messages.
Julia Gillard was educated at 'Mitcham Demonstration School' in Adelaide. Brad Boyd, Deputy Head at this school, claims that this is what made her what she is today. The history of education in Adelaide is interesting, with a very heavy Froebelian influence, and having been constructed in what we call the 'John Adam Street Gang' in London (also called the 'Adelphi Planners') who set up colonies in NZ and Canada, as well as Australia and elsewhere. To read more about the influence of the Froebel gifts and the 'architecture of the mind', I suggest people go to the 'lifeinthemixtalk' website:
The ACT Government has announced cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2020, and 80 per cent by 2050, based on 1990 levels. The targets were announced by Minister for the Environment Climate Change and Water, Simon Corbell when tabling the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Bill 2010 in the ACT legislative assembly.
WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
WGAR website: http://wgar.info/
Contents:
National Day of Action against Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump: 12th April!
Nuclear Waste Dump: Possible Legal Challenge; Tennant Creek Protests
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST MUCKATY NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP: 12th APRIL!
[Please note, WGAR is not the organiser for the National Day of Action. See ASEN link below for details of contacts.]
- Background of Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump
Beyond Nuclear Initiative’s weblog:
http://beyondnuclearinitiative.wordpress.com/
