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Renters rights rally - WA - August 15, & national day of renters rights rallies - October 16

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 29/05/2012 - 4:30pm

Gerry Georgatos
The Renters Alliance (RA) started only several months ago in Western Australia with a number of its original members from Bridgetown and the Blackwood region. The RA spokesperson Lea Keenan said the renters rights movement has spread Australia-wide after the RA was swamped with emails and calls from distressed renters.

To get involved write to rentersalliance@humanrightsalliance.org

or phone 0430 657 309 or 0412 833 733

http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/news/audio/2012/may/22/national-renters-allianc...

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AMA report says government needs to do more for Indigenous health

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 28/05/2012 - 12:06pm

Gerry Georgatos
President of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Steve Hambleton says the federal government has to do much more for Indigenous health - "There is a long way to go."

On Saturday May 26 at the AMA National Conference the AMA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Report: Progress to Date and Challenges that Remain was released.

The report summarises the recommendation of the AMA Indigenous Health Report Cards over the past ten years and analyses the major government measures related to the recommendations that have been implemented.

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HRA media release: Bob Carr must live up to DFAT's side - Indonesia has lived up to their part - Schapelle soon home

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 26/05/2012 - 8:25am

Bob Carr said that it is abominable that children are in adult prisons - therefore release them all, now. Now that the Governor of Kerobokan has supported the right to early parole for Schapelle Corby, Australia needs to keep its side and en masse release all the children - now.

The conversations between DFAT and their counterparts, between Australian and Indonesian foreign ministries have occurred in that the goodwill of a sentence reduction, early parole for Schapelle Corby was brought up alongside the urgent need for Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons to be released.

WGAR News: "Brisbane tent embassy given permanent site" Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 24/05/2012 - 1:27pm

Newsletter date: 24 May 2012

Contents:
* BNI: Trade union support strengthens NT nuclear waste dump campaign
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Tracker: Brisbane tent embassy given permanent site
* Video: Sam Watson: The police attack on the Aboriginal Sovereign Tent Embassy, Brisbane
* ISJA: On Sovereign Embassies and police brutality
* IC: More Aboriginal Tent Embassies Appearing Throughout Australia
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Video: Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars - ANZAC Day 2012

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BNI - Trade union support strengthens NT nuclear waste dump campaign

Tracker - Brisbane tent embassy given permanent site

Video - Sam Watson - The police attack on the Aboriginal Sovereign Tent Embassy - Brisbane

ISJA - On Sovereign Embassies and police brutality

IC - More Aboriginal Tent Embassies Appearing Throughout Australia

Video - Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars - ANZAC Day 2012

National Renters Alliance campaign - WA rally August - National day of rallies October

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 24/05/2012 - 9:20am

Interviews with the HRA's National Renters Alliance

It started in the Blackwood region of the South West of WA, and then became the WA Renters Alliance, and now it's a national movement with the National Renters Alliance campaign

In August there will be a renters rally for justice at WA's state parliament followed by a coordinated national day of rallies in October

Human Rights Alliance demands release of Indonesian children from WA incarceration

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 22/05/2012 - 12:06pm

The Human Rights Alliance calls on the WA state government, and on the Commonwealth, for the en masse immediate release of all the Indonesian children incarcerated either by remand or judicial conviction in Western Australian prisons - and in particular HAKEA and Albany Regional Prisons.

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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 3 events from 25 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 3:35pm

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Event: Fri 25 May 2012: Canberra, ACT
National Sorry Day Bridge Walk
Commonwealth Avenue Bridge Canberra
* 10.30am - Gather at Regatta Point
* 10.40 - Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony
* 11.00am - Start Bridge Walk
* 11.30am - Wiradjuri Echoes and Lunch
RSVP (required if staying for lunch)
National Sorry Day Committee in collaboration with
ACT Government Health,
Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service,
and Reconciliation Australia

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Canberra

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 21 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 2:40pm

Newsletter date: 21 May 2012

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Event: Wed 23 and Thu 24 May 2012: Wollongong, south of Sydney
Interim National Unity Government Assembly
of the Sovereign Union
Held at two locations:
Day 1 – Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong
Day 2 – Sandon Point Aboriginal Embassy
"All Aboriginal nations are being called on to send two
delegates - one man and one woman (if appropriate) to the
inaugural assembly of the Sovereign Union interim National
Unity Government in Wollongong Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24
May. ... "

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Cultural imperialism jailed Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons - and the prime minister's deaf ears

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 11:54am

Gerry Georgatos
Ali Jasmin was 13 years old when the Commonwealth of Australia locked him up in an adult prison for being a deckhand on a boat of Asylum Seekers, and hence for assisting people in the safe passage of Asylum to our shores. International maritime laws and the various United Conventions and protocols asserting the rights of those seeking Asylum would cast this young boy as a hero, and rightfully so however not the Australian government and its institutions.

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People are not the property of people; the Northern Territory is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 20/05/2012 - 3:33pm

Gerry Georgatos
“For most of these women, the notion of human rights is unheard of. They have lived all their lives believing that they have no rights at all,” said the founder of Sisters Inside, Debbie Kilroy – who counsels women while they are still in prison.

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