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WGAR News: Broome 'army ready' for war on Kimberley gas hub: Save The Kimberley

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 29/01/2013 - 1:13pm

Newsletter date: 30 January 2013

Contents:

* Save The Kimberley: Broome 'army ready' for war on Kimberley gas hub
* Broome Community No Gas Campaign: Decision "insulting joke" to Aboriginal heritage
* Perth Now: Broome and the gas hub - a town divided
* The West: Premier heckled by protesters
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* 'concerned Australians': Stronger Futures Legislation passed into Law on 29 June, 2012
* Paddy Gibson, Solidarity: NT Liberals betray Aboriginal communities with cuts and more cops

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Northern Territory Intervention

Broome Community No Gas

Australian First Nation's Political Party

Peris

Aboriginal ALP members

Day of Mourning

Indigenous party

Broome Community No Gas Campaign - Decision insulting joke to Aboriginal heritage

Perth Now - Broome and the gas hub - a town divided

The West - Premier heckled by protesters

concerned Australians - Stronger Futures Legislation passed into Law on 29 June 2012

Paddy Gibson - Solidarity - NT Liberals betray Aboriginal communities with cuts and more cops

SMH - Indigenous party rallies in Canberra

Tracker - Aboriginal ALP members put hands up against Peris nomination

ABC - Indigenous ALP members nominate against Peris

Socialist Alternative - What's to celebrate on Invasion Day

Socialist Alternative - Poems of resistance on Invasion Day

Sovereign Union - Invasion Day

The burning issue of deaths in custody - Aboriginal people die 5 times the rate of Apartheid South Africa

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 29/01/2013 - 11:39am

PHOTO: Roebourne Prison inmates - for crimes like ‘absconding’ from ‘blackbirding’ - slavery. Those who resisted strongly were sent to Wadjemup (Rottnest Island) and Fremantle Prison - most never to return. The word they used for policeman was “Marndamarangga” and means “chainhand” and is still used today. (Photo: Battye Library, WA)

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 33 events from 29 January 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 28/01/2013 - 2:07pm

Newsletter date: 29 January 2013

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Event: 29 January 2013: Petersham, Sydney, NSW
Invasion Day Special Screening and Fundraiser
The Inner West Film Forum
"In the wake of Invasion Day 2013
we present two important screenings …
* The Invasion Continues… Video from the NT Intervention.
Presented by Paddy Gibson
* One People Sing Freedom (1988)"
"Assisting STICS to continue its fight against the
Northern Territory Intervention"
STICS (Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney)

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Canberra events: Centenary of Canberra celebrates First Aust'ns + Kevin Gilbert Art Retrospective

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 28/01/2013 - 12:46pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 13 February 2013: Barton, Canberra, ACT
Constitutional Recognition Forum
Tanya Hosch and Jason Glanville
National Press Club of Australia Forum
"A big moment in history beckons.
To vote at a referendum so the first Australians,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,
are recognised in our Constitution."
Event details: http://www.npc.org.au/speakers/tanya-hosch-and-jason-glanville.html

Event: 25 January - 25 May 2013: Canberra, ACT

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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Anarchists attack Australia

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sun, 27/01/2013 - 8:52pm

In the early hours of January 26th we tipped a bucket of paint on a statue celebrating the First Fleet in Brighton Le Sands, Botany Bay.

We later threw numerous paint bombs at a massive statue of James Cook in Hyde Park, who according the plaque on the monument “discovered this territory in 1770”.

We sprayed stencils reading: "FUCK AUSSIE PRIDE", "DESTROY COLONIAL AUSTRALIA" & "PROUDLY UNAUSTRALIAN" throughout the city, Redfern, Newtown, Marrickville, Sydenham and at Bicentennial Park and Carss Park, where ‘Australia Day’ celebrations were to take place.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 53 events from 25 January 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 22/01/2013 - 6:13pm

Newsletter date: 23 January 2013

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Event: Fri 25 January 2013: East Perth, WA
Nyoongar Tent Embassy: Last day of Freedom
- A ceremony to honour our Nyoongar Yorga Boodja
"Activities at Matagarup (Heirrison Island) hosted
by the Nyoongar Tent Embassy. Includes BBQ
(for donation) and music. ...
(Named for being the last day before invasion day.)"
"Preliminary Launch of Curtin University’s
Research on Media Reporting on the NTE"

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WGAR News: 200 Aboriginal Maralinga victims denied compensation: Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 20/01/2013 - 6:06pm

Newsletter date: 21 January 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: 200 Aboriginal Maralinga victims denied compensation
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: Goolarabooloo Law Bosses lift the ante in battle with Woodside over gas hub
* Background to Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: Lobby restaurant incident - January 26, 2012 - Will Prime Minister Gillard finally admit the truth and apologise?

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Aboriginal sovereignty

Gerry Georgatos

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Walmadan Tent Embassy

Maralinga

Indymedia Australia

Aboriginal victims of Maralinga

Aboriginal victims

Prime Minister Gillard

Lobby restaurant

January 26 2012

Aboriginal Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary

mandatory sentencing

Murujuga National Park

Burrup Peninsula

Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Goolarabooloo Law Bosses lift the ante in battle with Woodside over gas hub

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Lobby restaurant incident - January 26 2012 - Will Prime Minister Gillard finally admit the truth and apologise

Amnesty - Plans to toughen mandatory sentencing in WA a step in the wrong direction

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Murujuga National Park at long last - however the struggle is not over

Lobby restaurant incident – January 26, 2012 – Will Prime Minister Gillard finally admit the truth and apologise?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 20/01/2013 - 2:34pm

Gerry Georgatos - On the 26th of January last year headlines rocketed around the world out of Canberra from the Lobby restaurant incident where more than 200 protestors descended from the nearby 40th Aboriginal Tent Embassy celebrations and vigil. The Prime Minister’s Office, despite its public denials, tried to stage manage a confrontation between Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott and some of Aboriginal Tent Embassy’s high profile figures, including legendary co-founder of the Embassy, Michael Anderson.

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200 Aboriginal Maralinga victims denied compensation

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 20/01/2013 - 2:21pm

Gerry Georgatos
Maralinga’s and Emu Field’s long suffering Aboriginal victims of the British atomic tests have been told by lawyers that a class action for compensation would fail and that the fight in the courts is over because apparently it is impossible to adequately prove radiation from the atomic blasts specifically caused their illnesses and the premature deaths. Maralinga victim Yami Lester said this is “rubbish” and that his blindness was caused by nothing else other than the fallout from the blasts. He was a young child at the time.

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