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Northern Tablelands voters look set to elect local mayor as next state MP

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 19/05/2013 - 9:40am

Voters in the Northern NSW seat of Northern Tablelands look set to elect Independent Candidate and current Mayor of Armidale Dr Jim Maher as controversy grips the campaign of National Party candidate.

The Armidale Express has revealed that National Party Candidate Adam Marshall who was brought in from outside the electorate had previously worked for an Independent MP in another seat and at that time he was both a member of the ALP and National Party.

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Pain is not a whinge issue: medical marijuana in NSW

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 15/05/2013 - 4:48pm

this is good news, but medical use of marijuana should be extended to other
chronic severe disabling pain patients & consideration should be given
to specific legality being extended to certain synthetic analogues currently available for purchase.
these drugs can work where NSAIDs/paracetamol doesn't & is a good
alternative to or addition to opiates if it works for the patient.
pain is not a whinge issue.
Also psychological issues related to illness, disability and medication side effects need specific funding & equitable access practices.

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WGAR News: Murrawarri people take sovereignty campaign to UN: Jeremy Geia, NITV News

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 15/05/2013 - 1:00pm

Newsletter date: 16 May 2013

Contents:

* Murrawarri Republic: Queen Recognises Murrawarri Republic
* Jeremy Geia, NITV News: Murrawarri people take sovereignty campaign to UN
* NITV's Jeremy Geia, SBS Radionews: Indigenous 'republic' to go to UN
* Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Murrawarri Republic
* Background to the The Murrawarri Republic
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Sovereign Union: Goomeroi People call for a mining freeze on sacred lands [Transcript from NITV News - Jeremy Geia report]

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WGAR News: "Stop Aboriginal deaths in police custody by saving the Custody Notification Service"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 14/05/2013 - 5:51pm

Newsletter date: 15 May 2013

Contents:

* Change.org Petition: Stop Aboriginal deaths in police custody by saving the Custody Notification Service (CNS)
* Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT: ALS News: Save the CNS
* The Wire Audio: Argument between governments puts lives at risk
* The Stringer: Funding cuts means more Aboriginal peoples incarcerated
* NIRS: Urgent funding call for anti-deaths in custody measure
* NIRS: ALS warns lives could be at risk unless phone line is funded

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos on Aboriginal imprisonment

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Custody Notification Service

CNS

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Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT

ALS

Peoples Alcohol Action Coalition

Alcohol Protection Orders

Aboriginality in sentencing

Change org Petition - Stop Aboriginal deaths in police custody by saving the Custody Notification Service - CNS

Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT - ALS News - Save the CNS

The Wire Audio - Argument between governments puts lives at risk

The Stringer - Funding cuts means more Aboriginal peoples incarcerated

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos on Aboriginal imprisonment

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Aboriginality in sentencing before the High Court

The Stringer - DCS issued warning one year prior - that riot would eventuate

Sydney events: Photographer: Barbara McGrady + NT Intervention update + A Decision to Discriminate

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 13/05/2013 - 9:35am

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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

Event: Wed 1 May - Sun 30 June 2013: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Photographer: Barbara McGrady
"Barbara is a Gamilario/Murri woman has been photographing
the social history of contemporary Aboriginal life for over
30 years. From Sports to politics, her vision is a unique
perspective from within a community empowering her
subjects by this virtue alone."
Event details: http://headon.com.au/event/barbara-mcgrady

Event: Mon 13 May 2013: Mona Vale, Northern Sydney, NSW

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 48 events from 13 May 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 12/05/2013 - 4:30pm

Newsletter date: 13 May 2013

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

Event: Fri 10 May until 1 June 2013: Northcote, Melbourne, Vic
The Power and the Passion

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 12

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 12/05/2013 - 10:42am

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20
NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 80 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

South Africa, 20 years after Apartheid, doing better than Australia

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 11/05/2013 - 6:31pm

by Gerry Georgatos - May 11th, 2013
Australia incarcerates its Aboriginal youth at the world’s highest rates, it imprisons one in 14 Western Australian Aboriginal adult males and it removes one in 14 children from Western Australian Aboriginal families into the care of the State, and for Aboriginal peoples the whole of the Northern Territory is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth, and this prison is loosely known as the ‘Intervention’.

Since 1992, the rate of Aboriginal incarceration in Australia has grown 14 times faster than that of non-Aboriginal incarceration.

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WGAR News: Walkatjurra Walkabout: Stepping out against uranium mining: WANFA & ANAWA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 10/05/2013 - 4:52pm

Newsletter date: 11 May 2013

Contents:

* WANFA & ANAWA: Walkatjurra Walkabout: Stepping out against uranium mining
* NITV News: WA anti-uranium protesters begin 250km walk
* SBS Radionews Audio: TOs lead walk against uranium mining in WA
* NIRS: 20-day walk to protest uranium mine
* Walkatjurra Walkabout - Yeelirrie to Leonora - 4 until 29 May 2013
* Background to the Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA)

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Aboriginal heritage: between a rock and a hard place
* Tracker: Small fine for NSW Aboriginal rock damage

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Fracking the Canning Basin

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 09/05/2013 - 7:35pm

Gerry Georgatos - Western Australia’s Canning Basin (photo abc.net.au) will soon be talked about as the next resources mining frontier. The James Price Point $40 billion gas hub proposal for all intents and purposes has been dumped but the State’s Premier, Colin Barnett, will pitch the extraction of natural gas from the Canning Basin as the way to go in the pursuit of State revenue. Most of the gas will be exported.

The shale gas deposits of the Canning Basin are among the richest in the world.

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