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Soil Carbon sequestration limited in mitigating fossil fuel emissions say scientists

Submitted by takver on Sun, 02/06/2013 - 11:28pm

Rebuilding soils through carbon sequestration and mitigating fossil fuel emissions sounds like a win-win solution all around. A reason the Liberal and National Parties in Australia adopted it as a major part of their 2010 Direct Action climate change policy. But a new international study by Australian and UK scientists said soil carbon programs while important, have many limitations, and provide too much false hope in mitigating emissions from fossil fuels.

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WGAR News: Torres Strait region pushes for autonomy: Jeremy Geia, NITV News

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 02/06/2013 - 5:51pm

Newsletter date: 3 June 2013

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* Jeremy Geia, NITV News: Torres Strait region pushes for autonomy
* Jeremy Geia, SBS Radionews: Torres Strait continues autonomy push
* NIRS: New push for Torres Strait self governance

* Ian Lloyd Neubauer, TIME: Australia's Aborigines Launch a Bold Legal Push for Independence
* Audio Boo: Audio - Fred Hooper, Murrawarri Republic - 4ZZZ
* Audio Boo: Audio - Murrawarri Republic - Fred Hooper, spokesperson - 'The wire'
* Background to the Murrawarri Republic declaration

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Sydney events: Guringai Festival + Mabo Day + Blak + A Decision to Discriminate & Our Generation

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 01/06/2013 - 5:39pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 27 May until 3 June 2013: various locations in Australia including NSW
National Reconciliation Week: Let's Talk Recognition
"It is a time to celebrate and build on the respectful
relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people and other Australians."
"National Reconciliation Week is framed by two
key events in Australia’s history, which provide
strong symbols for reconciliation:
* 27 May 1967- the referendum ...

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 48 events from 2 June 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 01/06/2013 - 4:50pm

Newsletter date: 2 June 2013

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 27 May until 3 June 2013: various locations in Australia
National Reconciliation Week: Let's Talk Recognition
"It is a time to celebrate and build on the respectful
relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people and other Australians."
"National Reconciliation Week is framed by two
key events in Australia’s history, which provide
strong symbols for reconciliation:
* 27 May 1967- the referendum ...
* 3 June 1992 - the Mabo decision ... "
Reconciliation Australia

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Racialised imprisonment

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 01/06/2013 - 3:23pm

Racialised imprisonment - http://thestringer.com.au/racialised-imprisonment/#.UamCeEBTCaU
by Gerry Georgatos - May 28th, 2013
Australia has a history since colonialisation of racialised violence and hence racialised imprisonment. Aboriginal peoples deal the with the worst of Australia’s racialised imprisonment – throughout the criminal justice system – from sentencing regimes to the effects of having become the world’s most incarcerated peoples.

Goodes, MacGuire and Australia’s racism – let us not forget mining and Government

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 01/06/2013 - 3:10pm

Goodes, MacGuire and Australia’s racism – let us not forget mining and Government
by Gerry Georgatos
May 30th, 2013 - http://thestringer.com.au/goodes-mcguire-and-australias-racism-let-us-no...

Photo - Collingwood AFL president, Eddie MacGuire - www.heraldsun.com.au

The Stringer weekly newsletter - June 1

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 01/06/2013 - 2:38pm

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20

WGAR News: Suicide prevention strategy targets ATSI communities: Australian Human Rights Commission

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 31/05/2013 - 2:48pm

Newsletter date: 1 June 2013

Contents:

* AHRC: Suicide prevention strategy targets ATSI communities
* NITV News: National strategy targeting Indigenous suicide announced
* CAAMA interviews Professor Pat Dudgeon about the strategy to tackle suicide and self harm
* Pro Bono News: National Strategy on Indigenous Suicide
* SBS Radionews: National strategy to reduce Indigenous suicide
* SBS Radionews: Applause for Indigenous suicide prevention plan
* Australian: Kimberley indigenous suicide prevention plan set to expand

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Victorian government knowingly driving Leadbeater's Possum to extinction, say scientists

Submitted by takver on Fri, 31/05/2013 - 3:43am

Two distinguished environmental scientists accused the Victorian Government of forestry policies knowingly designed to drive Leadbeater's Possum, one of the two fauna emblems of Victoria, to extinction.

In a letter to sciencemag.org, the publication of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, Professors David Lindenmayer and Hugh Possingham say, "Government-sanctioned legal logging of the reserve system will significantly increase the chance of extinction of Leadbeater's possum. To the best of our knowledge, and despite state and national threatened species legislation, this is the first time an Australian government has taken calculated actions to substantially reduce the viability of an IUCN-listed endangered species with full knowledge of the likely consequences." (Read full letter reproduced at end of this article)

Petition: Defer the Bill that would lock-in long-term native forest logging | Help Save Leadbeater's Possum | My Environment Appeal 2013 Leadbeater's Possum | Ethical paper pledge

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Why Celebrate on Mabo Day June 3

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 27/05/2013 - 7:08pm

When Australia was invaded and colonised on the 26th January 1788, the British colonisers acted as if this land was uninhabited. Over forty thousand years of civilisation was swept aside in an orgy of destruction that resulted in the violent dispossession of people who had a long and fruitful association with the land.

For 204 years the legal fiction of TERRA NULLIUS - the land of no one, was used to legally reward the murderers who colonised this land although the original inhabitants had never ceded sovereignty.

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Eddie Mabo