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WGAR News: IQ2 Debate: True Reconciliation Requires a Treaty: ABC TV Big Ideas

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 04/02/2014 - 4:38pm

Newsletter date: 5 February 2014

Contents:

* ABC TV Big Ideas: IQ2 Debate: True Reconciliation Requires a Treaty
[Featuring Peter Sutton, George Williams, Mark Yettica-Paulson, Mick Dodson, Tony Birch, Gregory Phillips, Michael Williams]
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Treaty
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Yalmay Yunupingu discusses call for Treaty
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Yalmay Yunupingu learns of the calls for TREATY
* NIT: Utopia shows Scullion's truancy army is no substitute for a Treaty

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Canberra

Northern Territory

Anti-racist redecoration

Submitted by autonomousactions on Fri, 31/01/2014 - 12:37pm

On the evening of January 24 some antifascists reworked a racist mural in Newtown, on a property owned by Sergio Redegalli on the stolen land of the Gadigal people. For the past 4 years he’s been continually repainting islamaphobic statements on his walls which have been vandalised at least a couple hundred times. Despite his expensive security precautions, including numerous CCTV cameras, and motion sensor floodlights, (like many potential targets) it remains easy to attack.

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Some actions against 'Australia day'

Submitted by autonomousactions on Wed, 29/01/2014 - 11:01pm

On the 26th of January, the 226th year since the British Naval fleet of Arthur Philip landed on this territory, we made some modest actions to counter the colonial narrative of 'Australia'. 4 banners denouncing the nationalist holiday were hung from highway bridges in Broadway, Stanmore, Kogarah and Sutherland reading:

STOLEN LAND

NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE

FUCK AUSSIE PRIDE

BURN THE (AUSTRALIAN FLAG)

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Canberra events: Farming without fences - how Aborigines made Australia + 'In the Absence of Treaty'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 29/01/2014 - 12:25pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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 ...

New Event: 31 January - 16 February 2014: Belconnen, Canberra, ACT
Farming without fences - how Aborigines made Australia - Helen S. Tiernan
Exhibition opening: Friday 31 January
Meet the artist: Sunday 9 February
Venue: Gallery - Belconnen Arts Centre BAC
"Inspired by The Biggest Estate on Earth
- How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage,

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Northern Territory Intervention

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Invasion day vandalism

Submitted by autonomousactions on Tue, 28/01/2014 - 3:19pm

Let no one say the past is dead.
The past is all about us and within
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal 1970

As settlers on stolen land,
we pledge our resistance to the
Australian state and its agents,
whose despotic practices we abhor,
whose police and prisons we despise,
whose laws we shall subvert and disobey.

On the night of January 26th, while drunken nationalists celebrated the 226th anniversary of a British military invasion, some unaustralians vandalised the facade of the Ryde electoral office of Victor Dominello, the state minster for Aboriginal affairs and for citizenship.

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Tumult of death - 400 more suicides

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 26/01/2014 - 6:44pm

Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - thestringer.com.au - Last year, I aggregated Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) hospital collated data on reported suicides of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples – 996 suicides from 2001 to 2010. That is 1 in 24 of all deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – by suicide.

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Canberra events: John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia' + Book launch: 'In the Absence of Treaty'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 25/01/2014 - 3:08pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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 ...

New Event: Fri 31 January & Sat 1 February 2014: Yarramundi Reach, Canberra, ACT
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
Venue: Theatrette at Burrunju Gallery (at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre)
"Reservations essential: no drop-ins please as each seat will be allocated by rsvp."

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Northern Territory Intervention

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Time to honour Aboriginal frontier warriors: Paul Newbury, Eureka Street

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 23/01/2014 - 8:11pm

Newsletter date: 24 January 2014

Contents:

* Paul Newbury, Eureka Street: Time to honour Aboriginal frontier warriors
* Catherine Armitage, Sydney Morning Herald: Tim Flannery in call to honour Aborigines killed in land wars
* Catherine Armitage, Sydney Morning Herald: Put indigenous warriors in war memorials: Flannery
* Geoff Page and Digby Habel, Canberra Times Letters: Nelson out of step in failure to honour Aboriginal warriors
* Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: ANZAC Day - for those who served in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations

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WGAR News: Change.org petition for 'Treaty' & 'In the Absence of Treaty' book-launches by 'cA'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 20/01/2014 - 12:48pm

Newsletter date: 21 January 2014

Contents:

* TREATY - Change.org petition for Treaty - please sign and share

* 'concerned Australians' Sydney Book launch - Tue 28 January 2014: 'In the Absence of Treaty' [Launched by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks & Jeff McMullen]
* 'concerned Australians' Canberra Book launch - Thu 6 February 2014: 'In the Absence of Treaty' [Speakers: Graeme Mundine & John Falzon]
* 'concerned Australians' Melbourne Book launch: 'In the Absence of Treaty' Unfortunately this event is already booked out
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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