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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

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* 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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Northern Territory Intervention

Gerry Georgatos

Stronger Futures

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

In the Absence of Treaty - Sydney Book launch - concerned Australians - Tue 28 January 2014

In the Absence of Treaty - Canberra Book launch - concerned Australians - Thu 6 February 2014

In the Absence of Treaty - Melbourne Book launch - Unfortunately this event is already booked out

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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 20/01/2014 - 9:13am

Petitioning the Australian Government, To the Prime Minister, To the Attorney-General
TREATY

Go the change.org petition site to read and sign the petition - here: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/to-the-australian-government-to-th...

TREATY is the justice - when TREATY is here, "that'd be the justice" said a Central Desert Elder to me.

When we settle for less, in general we are left with 'the less', period.

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WGAR News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters [around Australia]: SNAICC

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 19/01/2014 - 1:35pm

Newsletter date: 20 January 2014

Contents:

* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples - A National Voice
* Congress: Message from Co-Chairs Les Malezer and Kirstie Parker
* SNAICC News: Defunding of NATSILS and Congress raises major concerns
* SNAICC News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters
* Congress Events: Unite & Support Strong Black Voices
* Brooke Boney, NITV News: Audit chief: No guarantee Indigenous spending will be immune from cuts
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

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National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

Brooke Boney

Les Malezer

Kirstie Parker

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples - A National Voice

Congress Co-Chairs Les Malezer and Kirstie Parker

Defunding of NATSILS and Congress raises major concerns

Congress Events - Unite and Support Strong Black Voices

Audit chief - No guarantee Indigenous spending will be immune from cuts

WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day Events: Sun 26 January 2014

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 15/01/2014 - 8:48pm

Newsletter date: 16 January 2014

Last updated: 16 January 2014

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* Background to Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day
* Adelaide events
* Alice Springs event
* Brisbane and Queensland events
* Melbourne and Victoria events
* Perth events
* Sydney and NSW events

* BACKGROUND TO SOVEREIGNTY DAY, INVASION DAY AND SURVIVAL DAY

Event: Sun 26 January 2014: various locations in Australia
Sovereignty Day / Invasion Day / Survival Day / Day of Mourning
"'Australia Day', also known as Survival Day,
Invasion Day and Sovereignty Day:

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NSW Events: Responding to Country + 'Utopia' film + Black Diggers + The Shadow King + Yabun Festival

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 13/01/2014 - 6:47pm

Sydney and NSW 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

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New Event: 8 January to 2 February 2014: Grafton, NSW
Responding to Country - Yaegl - Bundjalung - Gumbaingirr
"New works by Regional Aboriginal artists from the Yaegl,
Bundjalung, and Gumbaingirr nations exploring the
delicate associations between country, memory and place."

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 64 events from 13 January 2014

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 12/01/2014 - 7:17pm

Newsletter date: 13 January 2014

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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New Event: 23 November 2013 to 18 May 2014: Parkes, Canberra, ACT
I’ve Been Working On The Railway
National Archives of Australia
Curated and toured by: The Workshops Rail Museum
"Through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, there were large scale
developments of rail infrastructure across Australia.
In the hot and dusty environments of the inland north,

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WGAR News: John Pilger: Utopia is one of the most urgent films I have made: The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 11/01/2014 - 8:46pm

Newsletter date: 12 January 2014

Contents:

* Respect and Listen: 'Utopia' film has been named among the top five films of 2013
* Respect and Listen: John Pilger's video message about Utopia
* Respect and Listen: Utopia website
* Celeste Liddle, Tracker: Utopia: An Aboriginal perspective
* Chris Graham, Tracker: Utopia: The inside story
* The Guardian: John Pilger's Utopia: meet Felicity and Basil Hayes of Whitegate town camp - video
* The Guardian: John Pilger's Utopia: Meet Patricia Morton-Thomas - video

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It is now False to say 'No single extreme weather event can be attributed to climate change'

Submitted by takver on Thu, 09/01/2014 - 2:13am

Professor David Karoly and Post-doctoral researcher Sophie lewis have been undertaking analysis on the temperature record for Australia in 2013. Their article published at The Conversation - Australia’s hottest year was no freak event: humans caused it - is an attribution of risk study of the extreme Australian heat in 2013 involving statistical probability analysis.

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Mass bat deaths in record setting Queensland heatwave

Submitted by takver on Tue, 07/01/2014 - 6:44pm

Flying Foxes are dropping to earth and dying in their thousands from heat exhaustion. The extreme heat in Queensland from the 29 December to 5 January has taken a massive toll of flying fox colonies, warns a wildlife conservation organisation. It is estimated that perhaps hundreds of thousands of native flying foxes have died as a direct result of the record setting high temperatures in the heatwave event across Queensland and north western NSW.

Last year Australia suffered it's hottest year on record, with scientists claiming that extensive fractional risk attribution modelling of 2013 temperatures that this was clearly caused by human greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

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Australian Heatwave temperatures climb towards 50C at start of 2014

Submitted by takver on Mon, 06/01/2014 - 12:33am

With substantial heat in the continental centre, the first days of 2014 saw temperatures climb towards 50C in western Queensland, western NSW, South Australia and parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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