Media release 20/6/11 for immediate release.
Income Management under spotlight in Bankstown
The national expansion of the controversial Income Management system will be the subject of a public forum today in Bankstown in South-West Sydney.
Bankstown is one of five new trial sites where Income Management is scheduled for introduction in 2012.
Newsletter date: 19 June 2011
Contents:
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - From 19 June 2011
* Speeches from Canberra rally against NT waste dump
* Plans for Australia to become world’s nuclear waste dump
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
ABORIGINAL RIGHTS - UPCOMING EVENTS AROUND AUSTRALIA - FROM 19 JUNE 2011:
Click on the links for details of the events ...
27 May to Sun 9 October 2011: Kalgoorlie, WA
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Charges were dismissed against 49 climate activists under a section 10 ruling by an East Maitland Court magistrate yesterday. The protesters had committed non-violent civil disobedience at a climate camp against a new coal fired power station being built in the Hunter Valley in December 2010. The section 10 ruling means they have no conviction recorded, no criminal record and their fines dropped.
A group of students gathered outside of one of Max Brenner's franchise cafes in Sydney in protest at its support for the Israeli army. The protest is part of the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS campaign, which was called from a broad cross-section of Palestinian civil society organisations in 2005.
Max Brenner is a chocolate retailer owned by the Strauss Group, which is the second largest Israeli food and beverage company and is largely touted as one of the greatest successes of Israeli industry.
Newsletter date: 14 June 2011
Contents:
* Australia rejects International Calls for Action
* Endorsing 'An Alternative to the NT Intervention' document
* Funds needed to take delegates to Darwin for Prescribed Area Peoples’ Alliance gathering
* 'Our Generation' awarded ‘Best Campaign Film’
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - From 14 June 2011
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles
AUSTRALIA REJECTS INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR ACTION:
- Media Statement
A Busy week for the activists of Greenpeace Australia who did a banner drop outside BHP Billiton headquarters in Melbourne on Monday and followed it up midweek with erecting a Pollution Tax Collection Point at BHP’s Mount Arthur Mine in the Hunter Valley holding up a BHP coal train temporarily.
Youtube Video: BHP Billiton: The Polluter must Pay
NSW LEAK (3)
Earlier this year on the 1st March 2011 I published NSWLEAK (1) and on the 9th March 2011 I published NSWLEAK (2), and today I will publish NSWLEAK (3).
In NSWLEAKS one, I published finding an inconsistency in the area of Law under which complaints about police are made and investigated by the NSW Ombudsman. I based the inconsistency I found on there being in force at the same time a section of a police Act, indicating under the Ombudsman Act the Ombudsman could investigate the conduct of a complaint made against a police officer.
An expansion of the Xstrata owned Ulan coal mine near Mudgee in the upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales is being challenged partly based upon it's long term impact of exacerbating global anthropogenic climate change.
Newsletter date: 7 June 2011
Contents:
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia
* Prime Minister Julia Gillard visits Alice Springs today
* Bankstown Income Management forum, 20 June 2011 - Organised by STICS
* Central Australian delegates return from UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York
* Calls for Native Title reform
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
ABORIGINAL RIGHTS - UPCOMING EVENTS AROUND AUSTRALIA:
Click on the links for details of the events ...
Quarantining of Centrelink payments is coming to Bankstown
What has been the experience under the Northern Territory Intervention and around the country?
Monday June 20th
1pm Bankstown Senior Citizens' Centre
7 West Terrace, Bankstown
Speakers include:
Paddy Gibson, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS (recently returned from Alice Springs)
Katie Wrigley, Welfare Rights Centre
