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WGAR News: Indigenous survival: Where to from here? - Symposium on the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 10:50am

Newsletter date: 3 March 2011

Contents:
* Indigenous survival: Where to from here? - Symposium on the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
* The Desecration of The Sacred Alum Mountain
* ACTU Indigenous Conference in Darwin
* Two Surveys on racial relations in Australia
(1) Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Research Project
(2) Australian Reconciliation Barometer

INDIGENOUS SURVIVAL: WHERE TO FROM HERE?
- SYMPOSIUM ON THE 2007 DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research:

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Northern Territory Intervention

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

"NSWleaks"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/03/2011 - 3:24pm

It has been said: Corruption in any democratic country, island, state of territory, can only exist with the support of every member of the ruling and opposition parties, and in the state of NSW and in relation to complaints about police I have found this to be so true.

It took me ten years to discover how publicly funded authorities and each publicly funded investigative authority are able to defeat evidence of police corruption, which effectively ended any automatic claim of compensation from being made by victim of police corruption.

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NSW Parliament

misuse of legislation

office of the NSW Ombudsman

SEFR condemns the latest in an ongoing string of illegal cutting of SE forests

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 21/02/2011 - 7:29pm

SEFR Press Release Feb 21st This morning conservationists have halted logging in Glenbog State Forest Compartment 2360. Three logging machines are cabled to a tree sit 25 metres above the ground.

Forests NSW and their authorised logging contractors logging practices are being investigated, after more discoveries of breaches including the felling of dead standing trees, no marking up of habitat trees, using habitat trees as bumpers and destroying the habitat of threatened and endangered native animals.

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New South Wales

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Logging

Refugee Action Coalition protests immigration ministers at Sydney Harmony Day celebrations

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 18/02/2011 - 11:05pm

Members of Sydney's Refugee Action Coalition today protested Immigration Minister Chris Bowen and Shadow Scott Morrison as they attended a Harmony Day celebration. The protest was in response to the forcible return to Christmas Island of survivors of the boat tragedy who attended funerals of those who drowned in Sydney. Scott Morrison had also objected to taxpayers' money being used to fly them to the funerals, and it was today revealed that he secretly urged the Liberal Cabinet to adopt anti-Muslim policies. SHAME
Video on Youtube

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New South Wales

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Refugee Solidarity

Refugee supporters say no return to Christmas Island

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 18/02/2011 - 11:02pm

Refugee Action Coalition Pres Release, 17 February, 2011 Refugee supporters and relatives of the survivors’ relatives again gathered at the Miowera Road gates of Villawood detention centre at 8.30am Thursday, 17 February to call on the Minister of Immigration not to return the Christmas Island disaster survivors to the island. It is expected that the survivors will be taken from the Villawood detention centre at 9.00am Thursday for the plane trip back to Christmas Island.

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New South Wales

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Refugee Action Coalition

fastBREAK - BACK TO BASICS?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 17/02/2011 - 3:32pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 25/02/2011 -

7:45am to 9:00am

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Powerhouse Museum - The Boiler Room 500 Harris Street, Ultimo 2007, NSW Australia

Contact Name:

William Libert

Contact Phone:

(02) 9660 6591

Contact Email:

william.libert@vibewire.org

Website:

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/bookings/fastbreak.php or http://www.vibewire.org

Following previous year’s success, the 2011 fastBREAK monthly series of rapid-fire interactive talks has returned into the Powerhouse Museum’s best-kept secret, the Boiler Room Mezzanine. With a focus on intergenerational exchange and dialogue, fastBREAK is a unique opportunity for conversations outside the ordinary – an opportunity for emerging young masterminds from a range of disciplines to be heard and to brush shoulders with decision-makers from corporate and non-profit organisations.

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New South Wales

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Sydney

Egyptian revolution discussed at Socialist Equality Party’s final election meeting in Broadmeadows

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 16/02/2011 - 9:02am

Egyptian revolution discussed at Socialist Equality Party’s final election meeting in Broadmeadows

By our correspondent
14 February 2011

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Valentine's Day – for the love of the forests

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/02/2011 - 5:42pm

SFER Press ReleaseToday South East Forest Rescue have halted logging operations in Bodalla State Forest in the foothills of Gulaga Mountain, south of Narooma, and presented Forests NSW and the logging contractors with a Statement of Guarantee. The Statement of Guarantee sets out terms and conditions requiring Forests NSW to guarantee there will be no impacts on the environment as a result of the logging and to guarantee any logging Forests NSW and their authorised contractors undertake will not impact on the health and wellbeing of the citizens of New South Wales, being both present and future unborn generations. There are three machines attached by cable to a structure in a tree thirty metres off the ground, and an erected banner stating “Carbon Criminals”.

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New South Wales

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Logging

SFER

Exclusive: Massive corruption causes DoCS NSW holocaust of families

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 13/02/2011 - 6:27am

http://lukesarmy.com/blogs/lukes-dad/department-community-services-holoc...

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"Angels for the Forgotten"
Melina is a DoCS NSW victim of corruption and devotes her life to Child Protection Reform.

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Mumbulla protesters case dismissed

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/02/2011 - 1:23pm

Two members of South East Forest Rescue who protested the illegal logging of a gazetted Aboriginal Place on Mumbulla Mountain, north of Bega last year, were acquitted yesterday when the case was dismissed. Anthony Whan and Scott Daines were in Bega Local Court yesterday. This follows two other cases with the same result.

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