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Origin Energy under scrutiny over anti-renewables stance

Submitted by takver on Tue, 13/11/2012 - 12:01am

Origin Energy, Australia's largest energy retailer, came under intense scrutiny today from shareholders at the Annual General Meeting in Sydney over it's energy portfolio placing great emphasis on development of gas, poor investment in wind and solar power, and a campaign by Managing Director Grant King to destabilise the Renewable Energy Target.

At one stage a banner was quickly unfurled infront of the board on the stage which said "Origin: Build wind and solar, not coal and gas". It was just as quickly taken down.

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WGAR News: Council Stops Darug Nation Acknowledgement: SBS Living Black

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 12/11/2012 - 6:21pm

Newsletter date: 13 November 2012

Contents:
* SBS Living Black: Council Stops Darug Nation Acknowledgement
* SNAICC: Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service calls on Government to put a stop to detaining juvenile offenders in adult custody
* Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation: Yindjibarndi Answer FMG/Wirlu-Murra Weasel Words
* Daily Liberal [Dubbo News]: Activist to speak at school debate
* 9 News: [Isabel] Coe lauded for role in Aboriginal politics
* Map of First Nations Sovereign Embassies in Australia
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies

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SNAICC - Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service calls on Government to put a stop to detaining juvenile offenders in adult custody

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation - Yindjibarndi Answer FMG Wirlu-Murra Weasel Words

Daily Liberal - Dubbo News - Activist to speak at school debate

9 News - Isabel Coe lauded for role in Aboriginal politics

Map of First Nations Sovereign Embassies in Australia

Greens Rachel Siewert - Obligation now lies with Burke to protect James Price Point

Background to the Walmadan Tent Embassy - James Price Point - north of Broome - Kimberley Region - WA

Congress - Education Working Group Communique

Amnesty International Australia - 5 things Australia should do with its seat on the UN Security Council

Senator Nigel Scullion - Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs - Labor bureaucracy fails Indigenous Australians

Wollongong & Sydney Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 4 events from 11 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 1:32pm

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Event: Wed 7 to Sun 11 November 2012: Wollongong, NSW
Exhibition: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Project Contemporary Artspace
"The word ‘intervention’ is popular in the art and
architecture worlds, but in this context it condemns
the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER),
Australia’s "national emergency" policy introduced in 2007.
This punitive policy is at odds with international human
rights conventions and the Racial Discrimination Act.
The exhibition Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention

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Sydney

Wollongong

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 18 events from 11 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 12:46pm

Newsletter date: 11 November 2012

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

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Save Art in TAFE

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/11/2012 - 4:53pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 14/11/2012 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

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Sydney Parliament House

Contact Name:

Rissa Dyson

Contact Email:

rissa_dyson@hotmail.com

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https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/392429200830470/

"Rally at NSW Parliament house table the Save Art In TAFE petition in Parliament - Carmel Tebbut Opposition shadow Minister for Education will be coming out into the forecourt to receive the petitions. We need at least 250 to attend representing the various tafe art schools across the state to hold banners and signs to help illustrate our cause."

https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/392429200830470/

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Sydney

Sydney & Wollongong Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 5 events from 5 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 05/11/2012 - 3:43pm

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Event: Mon 5 November 2012: Glebe, Sydney, NSW
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
To be launched by:
* Graeme Mundine, respected Aboriginal leader and
Executive Officer of Australian Catholic Ministry in Sydney
* Deni Langman, Traditional Owner from
Uluru in Central Australia
* Jeff McMullen AM, well known Journalist and
Indigenous advocate
"This new book is an important historical record
that focuses on the Senate Committee Inquiry

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New South Wales

Sydney

Wollongong

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events from 5 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 05/11/2012 - 2:59pm

Newsletter date: 5 November 2012

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

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FMG/Yindjibarndi - mining deal bombshell - whistleblower blows the lid on Wirlu-murra

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 31/10/2012 - 6:45pm

The National Indigenous Times has run the story of the year - reporter Gerry Georgatos covers solicitor Kerry Savas' claims which blows the lid on the Wirlu murra and FMG - circulate this story, it's the big one that may change things - http://nit.com.au/news/2167-exclusive-mining-deal-bombshell.html
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN
http://yindjibarndi.org.au/
Wednesday 31 October 2012
ANOTHER WHISTLEBLOWER DROPS FMG MINING DEAL BOMBSHELL

Save the Koorie Centre at Sydney University. Houston, we have a problem!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 28/10/2012 - 8:35am

JOIN US IN SAVING THE KOORI CENTRE

The Koori Centre puts their collective view.

The Koori Centre is a space in the University of Sydney on the ground floor of the Old Teachers' College that allows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to gather in a community environment to study together.

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Sydney

A Decision to Discriminate - Sydney book launch 5 Nov 12

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 28/10/2012 - 12:10am

Date and Time:

Mon, 05/11/2012 -

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Contact Name:

gleebooks

Contact Phone:

9660 2333

Website:

http://www.respectandlisten.org/

A Decision to Discriminate

Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory

Through the use of direct quotation, this new book is an important historical record that focuses on the Senate Committee Inquiry into the Stronger Futures legislation. It shows how the Government decision-making process chose to ignore the views expressed by many Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory communities, in much the same way as has happened since colonisation.

Click here for the flyer - http://www.respectandlisten.org/uploads/downloads/ca/ADTD-flyer-final.pdf

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Sydney