New South Wales

Newsletter date: 17 January 2013

Last updated: 22 January 2013

Contents:

* Background to Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day
* Adelaide events
* Brisbane event
* Canberra events
* Darwin event
* Hobart event
* Melbourne and Victoria events
* Perth events
* Sydney and NSW events

* BACKGROUND TO SOVEREIGNTY DAY, INVASION DAY AND SURVIVAL DAY

Event: 26 January 2013: various locations in Australia
Sovereignty Day / Invasion Day / Survival Day
"'Australia Day', also known as Survival Day,
Invasion Day and Sovereignty Day:

The IPCC chairperson is visiting Australia and commented that the Extreme heatwave and catastrophic bushfires that Australia is experiencing is an 'unmistakeable' part of a global trend of an increase in the frequency and intensity of heatwaves and other extreme weather events. Indeed, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have just released a new study - Global increase in record-breaking monthly-mean temperatures - which clearly shows the present Australian heatwave records being broken and the US recording it's hottest year in 2012, are both part of this global trend.

Newsletter date: 12 January 2013

Contents:

* Briscoe family condemns NT prosecutor decision on anniversary of Briscoe death: Media Release
* Tracker: Family, lawyers condemn DPP decision over Briscoe death
* Tracker: NT denies closing door on Briscoe talks
* Background to the justice for Kumentjaye Briscoe campaign

* NIRS: Incarceration should be "matter of last resort"
* ABC: Indigenous leader urges action on jail 'time bomb' [call for a national summit]
* ABC The World Today Audio: Jobs not jail for troubled Indigenous youths: Mundine [call for a national summit]

Jonathon Moylan's ANZ Bank hoax letter over the Maule's Creek Project open cut coalmine continues to produce reverberations. Greens Leader Christine Milne has now come out in his support arguing that we are in a climate emergency and we need to have a very serious 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by people who bankroll coalmines'. Independent Economist Rod Campbell implies that the real hoax being perpetrated on small and institutional investors in Whitehaven coal is by Gillespie Economics and NSW Planning Department who massively overestimated the benefits and underestimated the social, environmental, health and climate costs of the project.

Related: ANZ Stop the Loan e-petition