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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 27 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 27/07/2012 - 10:04am

Newsletter date: 27 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 20 events from 27 July 2012

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Event: Fri 27 July 2012: The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
Talks on The Rocks:
Spirit of the Tent Embassy: 40 years on
* July 27 - Gabi Widders, an Anaiwan and Gumbangier woman
"To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Tent Embassy,
The Rocks Discovery Museum has invited four
Aboriginal women to reflect on the significance
of the Embassy in their own and their family's
lives for Talks on The Rocks in July."

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Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 11 events from 21 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 20/07/2012 - 7:29pm

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Event: 21, 27 & 28 July 2012:
Various locations: Port Macquarie, Wollongong & Sydney NSW
Whitehouse Announce Australian Tour 2012
"While the Federal Government urges Australians
to get behind what is essentially an extension of
the Intervention into the Northern Territory for the
next ten years under a new title 'Stronger Futures',
a funk/hip hop crew - ironically called Whitehouse -
are urging their listeners to oppose what they
view as more of the same government oppression
on Australia’s first peoples."

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New South Wales

Sydney

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 18 events from 21 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 20/07/2012 - 7:25pm

Newsletter date: 21 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 18 events from 21 July 2012

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Event: Thu 26 July 2012: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Public Forum for Constitutional Change
Invitation from Women's Reconciliation Network
With Speakers:
* Jody Broun Co Chair, National Congress of First Peoples
* Linda Burney MP Member for Canterbury
* Jacqui Phillips National Director of ANTaR
Event details: http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au/events-1/public-forum-for-constituti...

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WGAR News: NSW ALP conference rejects compulsory income management

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 6:58pm

Newsletter date: 20 July 2012

Contents:
* Tracker: NSW Labor condemns federal party policy on income management
* Media Release: Campaign Coalition welcomes the NSW ALP conference’s rejection of compulsory income management
* Eva Cox: The ALP Opponents Of Income Management
* Darren Coyne: Ten more years of government intervention
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* SBS Living Black: No Intervention For Toomelah [NSW]

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New South Wales

Australia

Northern Territory

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Tracker - NSW Labor condemns federal party policy on income management

Media Release - Campaign Coalition welcomes the NSW ALP conference’s rejection of compulsory income management

Eva Cox - The ALP Opponents Of Income Management

Darren Coyne - Ten more years of government intervention

SBS Living Black - No Intervention For Toomelah - NSW

NIT - Abandoned Toomelah pleads for assistance

People smugglers they are not, lawful and heroes instead - we have to change the language

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 1:02pm

Gerry Georgatos
The misappropriation of language and abuse of semantics in reference to ‘perceived people smugglers’ has to begin to change so we do not further erode compassion, and continue to skew the moral compass, bend and circumvent the rule of law- domestic and international.

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Promotion:

WGAR News: "Labor's extended NT Intervention sparks calls for indigenous communities to vote Green"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/07/2012 - 6:56pm

Newsletter date: 16 July 2012

Contents:
* ABC PM: Labor's extended NT Intervention sparks calls for indigenous communities to vote Green
* ABC Lateline: NT intervention shakes once popular Labor support
* ABC Radio Australia: Indigenous leaders urge protest vote against Labor
* Tracker: NSW Labor condemns federal party policy on income management
* Talk by Les Malezer at Arena NT Intervention forum, Melbourne
* Talk by Barbara Shaw at Arena NT Intervention forum, Melbourne
* Talk by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks at Arena NT Intervention forum, Melbourne

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ABC PM - Labor's extended NT Intervention sparks calls for indigenous communities to vote Green

ABC Lateline - NT intervention shakes once popular Labor support

ABC Radio Australia - Indigenous leaders urge protest vote against Labor

Tracker - NSW Labor condemns federal party policy on income management

Talk by Les Malezer at Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne

Talk by Barbara Shaw at Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne

Talk by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks at Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne

Talk by Jon Altman at the Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne

Emma Murphy - How Closing the Gap is full of holes

WGAR News: "Lizard's Revenge kicks off at Olympic Dam - Saturday 14th July [2012]" Antinuclear

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/07/2012 - 6:34pm

Newsletter date: 16 July 2012

Contents:
* Antinuclear: Lizard's Revenge kicks off at Olympic Dam - Saturday 14th July [2012]
* Sovereign Union: The Lizards Revenge Protest - Olympic Dam Gates 14th - 18th July 2012
* news.com.au : White horse brigade set for six-day anti-Olympic Dam protest in Roxby Downs
* Tracker: Protesters gather at Olympic Dam
* Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge
* Interview with Michael Woodley, CEO of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation
* Green Left TV: Melbourne's National Aborigines and Islanders Day march

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Sovereign Union - The Lizards Revenge Protest - Olympic Dam Gates 14th - 18th July 2012

news.com.au - White horse brigade set for six-day anti-Olympic Dam protest in Roxby Downs

Tracker - Protesters gather at Olympic Dam

Interview with Michael Woodley - CEO of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation

Green Left TV - Melbourne's National Aborigines and Islanders Day march

Sovereign Union - Sovereignty inevitable says Michael Anderson at Symposium

Peter Robson - Wharfies & traditional owners unite against nuclear dump

Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 12 events from 14 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 14/07/2012 - 4:03pm

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Event: 14 July 2012: Manly, Sydney, NSW
Our Generation film screening
As part of Guringai Festival
Q&A with co-director/producer Damien Curtis
More details to come
Event details: http://www.respectandlisten.org/
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/screenings/14-july-2012-manly-sydney-nsw
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/28814/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Tue 3 [to 15] July 2012: Bondi Junction, Sydney, NSW

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New South Wales

Sydney

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 24 events from 14 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 14/07/2012 - 3:40pm

Newsletter date: 14 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 24 events from 14 July 2012

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Event: 14 to 18 (or 20) July 2012: Olympic Dam, SA
The Lizard's Revenge:
Olympic Dam expansion music/art/festival/protest
"Sleeping underneath the ground there is an old lizard,
Kalta the sleepy lizard. The lizard ain’t so sleepy anymore.
BHP is mining right into that Lizards body. The government
has just approved an expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium
mine, making it the biggest uranium mine in the world.

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WGAR News: "The Lizard's Revenge begins as protesters head to Olympic Dam" The Wire

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 13/07/2012 - 3:24pm

Newsletter date: 13 July 2012

Contents:
* The Wire: The Lizard's Revenge begins as protesters head to Olympic Dam
* Peter Burdon: Peaceful dissent and a lizard's revenge
* Jim Green: [Olympic Dam] Project a rule unto itself
* Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge
* MUA Stands With Traditional Owners To Oppose Nuclear Dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Greg Dickson: Ngurrju! Manymak! Pupuni! NT drops First Four Hours in English policy
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools
* Video: Yolngu tourism plan launched

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SBS Living Black - Stories From Sandon Point - Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Bulli - near Wollongong NSW

Peter Burdon - Peaceful dissent and a lizard's revenge

Jim Green - Project a rule unto itself

MUA Stands With Traditional Owners To Oppose Nuclear Dump

Greg Dickson - Ngurrju! Manymak! Pupuni! NT drops First Four Hours in English policy