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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 5 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 6:42pm

Newsletter date: 5 March 2013

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Event: 23 February - 10 March 2013: Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW
'Unsettling Suite' - Performance Space
"Performance Space is delighted to present
Sarah-Jane Norman's installation and performance
project bringing together her entire Unsettling Suite
project into a dramatically charged exhibition
and series of live performances."
"Through works that are both beguiling and disturbing,
Unsettling Suite explores the ways that Australia's
history of colonisation plays out on the body, and

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WGAR News: We must renew calls for national land rights: Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/03/2013 - 4:53pm

Newsletter date: 3 March 2013

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* Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial: We must renew calls for national land rights
* Chris Munro, Tracker: Aboriginal Ink: Voices of the voiceless
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Land Rights: Breaking new ground
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance
* Tracker: NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office
* Gary Foley, Tracker: The Contrarian: How Bob Hawke killed land rights
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

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Chris Munro - Tracker - Aboriginal Ink - Voices of the voiceless

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Land Rights - Breaking new ground

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance

Tracker - NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office

Gary Foley - Tracker - The Contrarian - How Bob Hawke killed land rights

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights

WGAR News: Australia's Aboriginal children - The world's highest suicide rate: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 01/03/2013 - 3:37pm

Newsletter date: 2 March 2013

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* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia’s Aboriginal children - The world’s highest suicide rate
* The Stringer: Youth suicides - toll higher than Afghan war deaths

* NIRS: Higher rates of severe disability for Indigenous Australians: Research

* SBS Living Black: Heal Our Youth - Or Jail Them?
* NIRS: Gooda: "Stop locking Aboriginal people up who don't need to be locked up"
* ABC Radio Australia: Call for NSW intervention program to include indigenous youth
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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The Stringer - Youth suicides - toll higher than Afghan war deaths

NIRS - Higher rates of severe disability for Indigenous Australians - Research

SBS Living Black - Heal Our Youth - Or Jail Them

NIRS - Gooda - Stop locking Aboriginal people up who don't need to be locked up

ABC Radio Australia - Call for NSW intervention program to include indigenous youth

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 40 events from 24 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/02/2013 - 5:25pm

Newsletter date: 24 February 2013

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Event: Sun 24 February 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Concert for the Kimberley:
A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle
The Wilderness Society WA
"Join us in Fremantle on Sunday 24 February 2013
for a free, open-air concert featuring the
John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Ball Park Music,
special guest Dr Bob Brown, and others."
"This concert and rally is a call to arms for
all West Australians to stand up and protect
one of our finest national treasures,

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Sydney events: Festival for the Kimberley + Play: This Heaven + Shane Phillips: Tribal Warrior

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/02/2013 - 4:34pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Fri 8 March 2013: Sydney CBD, NSW
The Wilderness Society Sydney:
Festival for the Kimberley
"STOP PRESS:
Due to a severe weather warning,
Festival for the Kimberley has been
postponed until Friday 8 March, 2013."
"Calling all Sydneysiders: This is your chance
join us for a fun-filled day to bring the stunning
beauty of the Kimberley region to Sydney,
and to stand in solidarity with the people of
Broome against industrialisation as a result of the

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WGAR News: Man allegedly bashed by NSW police testifies: NITV News

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 20/02/2013 - 2:25pm

Newsletter date: 21 February 2013

Contents:

* Alexandra Payne-Baggs, Green Left: March demands justice for TJ Hickey
* NIRS: Prison only a temporary solution: WA group
* SBS Audio Radionews: Fighting to reduce young Indigenous imprisonment
* NITV News: Man allegedly bashed by NSW police testifies
* SBS World News Video: NSW police accused of bashing cover-up
* Tracker: Cops taunted Aboriginal man: PIC
* ABC Indigenous: Police taunted bashed man's mother, inquiry told
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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WGAR News: Blackett, Western Sydney launch of the book 'A Decision to Discriminate'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 20/02/2013 - 10:04am

Newsletter date: 20 February 2013

Contents:

* Blackett, Western Sydney launch of the book 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* New 'A Decision to Discriminate' book review
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Mick Gooda on Stronger Futures
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Cathy Eatock, One Billion Rising: End violence against Aboriginal women

* NIRS: Compensation test case hoped to shine light on removal conditions
* NIRS: Stolen Generations victims deserve criminal compensation: Sam Watson

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 39 events from 19 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 18/02/2013 - 9:29am

Newsletter date: 19 February 2013

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Event: 7 February - 10 March 2013: Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Production by emerging Koori playwright
Nakkiah Lui, called "This Heaven"
Director Lee Lewis
"'This Heaven' is the story about the
death in custody of a father and his
family's reaction on the night they're
told the police have been acquitted
of his murder."
Event details: http://belvoir.com.au/productions/this-heaven/
Event details: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1735970/Play-on-Indigenous-death-in-c...

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Environment minister approves fossil fuel projects increasing carbon emissions 8% per year

Submitted by takver on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 10:23am

Maules Creek and Boggabri coal mines, and the Gloucester CSG Field in New South Wales get conditional go ahead from the Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke increasing Australia's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Decision strongly condemned by the local community and conservationists, with court challenge being flagged as possible.

Environment Minister Tony Burke has conditionally approved the Whitehaven Maules Creek open cut coal mine near Narrabri in the Leard State Forest as well as the four fold expansion of the neighboring Idemitsu Boggabri coal mine, and a major Coal Seam Gas field near Gloucester being undertaken by AGL Energy.

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Sydney's water supply under threat from BHP Longwall coal mine extension

Submitted by takver on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 8:27am

"Allowing BHP to undermine our drinking water supply defies common sense and breaches a personal commitment by Premier O'Farrell to prevent mining in drinking water catchments," Nature Conservation Council of NSW Chief Executive Officer Pepe Clarke declared on Tuesday with the announcement that approval had been given to BHP Billiton's Mount Kembla Dendrobium coal mine to extend under part of Sydney's water catchment.

On Monday 11 February the New South Wales State Government Department of Planning and Infrastructure gave approval to BHP Billiton's Mount Kembla Dendrobium Area 3B long wall mine extension plan. This involves several underground excavations directly under Sydney's Woronora water catchments. The approval was strongly criticised by conservationists including Total Enviropnment Centre director Jeff Angel, and the NSW Conservation Council Pepe Clark who accused the Premier Barrie O'Farrell of breaking a key pre-election promise of not to mine in Sydney's catchments.

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