Canberra

Newsletter date: 8 October 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Michael Anderson returns from UN Symposium and announced the next Sovereign Union meeting
* Canberra Event: 23-24 November 2013: Next Sovereign Union meeting
* Musgrave Park, South Brisbane Event: 11-13 October 2013: 31st Anniversary Commonwealth Games Protests
* Canberra Event: 17-18 October 2013: First Nations Gathering - Aboriginal Tent Embassy
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* James Rose, Crikey: Book Review: Forgotten War [By Henry Reynolds]

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 9 October 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Recognition and emotional distancing at Indigenous Heritage Sites:
Findings of visitor interviews
Presented by: Laurajane Smith
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"The presentation will outline the various ways in which
other visitors disengage from Indigenous history and culture
to emotionally distance themselves and close down the

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 30 September 2013: Murrumbidgee River, Stromlo, ACT
Murra Bidgee Mullangari River Ceremony
Uriarra East picnic area, Murrumbidgee River
"For the first time in more than 200 years, Traditional Custodians
from the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia
will perform ceremony with Traditional Custodians in Canberra
on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, to reawaken an
ancient pathway that connected their nations for more than
25,000 years."

by Gerry Georgatos of The Stringer, The National Indigenous Times, the National Indigenous Radio Service - September 20th, 2013 - Two years ago, as part of my academic research into the prevalence of suicides in Australia, particularly among Aboriginal youth, to my horror I discovered that Aboriginal youth suicides are tragically at record high levels – that spates of Aboriginal youth suicides are proportionately the world’s highest rates. Aboriginal youth is suiciding at the world’s highest rates.