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Bob Carr publicly attacks West Papua activists

Submitted by nader on Tue, 27/08/2013 - 11:59pm

Foreign minister Bob Carr has angrily attacked a group of Australians who are travelling to West Papua, to highlight the continued abuses under Indonesian rule.

The so called Freedom Flotilla is a small group of vessels currently on the way to West Papua.

The flotilla is supported by several prominent Australians including Bob Brown, David Bridie, Senator John Madigan, and even the Liberal Senator Warren Entsch.

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Everyone in the Territory doing well except for Aboriginal peoples

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 26/08/2013 - 9:01am

By Gerry Georgatos - August 24th, 2013 - During Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s recent whirlwind election stop in the Top End he highlighted the average age of death of the Northern Territory’s Aboriginal peoples – 52 years. This is the nation’s worst.

No truly free press with our inadequate shield laws, whistleblower protections

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 26/08/2013 - 8:56am

PHOTO Geoff Bagnall, National Indigenous Times: Journalist Gerry Georgatos at the January 26, 2012 Lobby Restaurant incident - days later he broke the story that the Prime Minister's Office was extensively involved in generating the incident despite their claims that it is was the work of a rogue parliamentary staffer.

By Gerry Georgatos, investigative journalist, WikiLeaks Party Senate Candidate, Western Australia

WikiLeaks Party statement on intervention in Syria

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 26/08/2013 - 8:46am

August 25, 2013 As the US prepares for military action in Syria, the reactions of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott are entirely in keeping with previous ALP and Coalition failures to put Australian military forces before their own party alliances with Washington.

Australia needs to send emergency medical aid to Syria immediately and assist an independent assessment of the situation. It must not rush towards sacrificing its young soldiers on behalf of an ambitious foreign power before the jury is in.

Whistleblowers needed when cultures of wrong-doing rule

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 26/08/2013 - 8:32am

Gerry Georgatos - I stand alongside those who let nothing get in the way of what is right, what is in the common good. I stand alongside those who will let no injustice go unheard, untold. I stand alongside Private Chelsea Manning who has been sentenced up to 35 years in prison for serving humanity's interests. Manning's decision to report to humanity was out of concern for humanity.

Manning should be relieved of the cruel and unfair burden of her prison sentence with a presidential pardon, and she should be acknowledged as both a patriot and as a true citizen of the world.

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Sydney Events: The politics of the new assimilation + Call for Recognition of South Sea Islanders

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 15/08/2013 - 7:23pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sun 18 August 2013: UTS, Sydney, NSW
Keep Left 2013 Conference:
"Two days of discussion, debate and ideas to change a world in crisis."
Marcia Langton and the politics of the new assimilation
Paddy Gibson, Sue Gillett
Event summary: http://www.solidarity.net.au/active/keep-left-2013/
Event details: http://www.keepleft.info/full-timetable/
Event details: http://www.keepleft.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Timetable3.jpg
Conference Background: http://www.keepleft.info/

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 62 events from 17 August 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 15/08/2013 - 5:47pm

Newsletter date: 16 August 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: 17-25 August 2013:
North of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, WA
The Lurujarri Dreaming Trail
Walk the Trail with us in 2013
As of 14 August 13:
"17-25 August: fully booked"
"Feel free to contact us if you would like to
get some more information or if you would like
to register your interest for the Lurujarri
Heritage Trail 2014."

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Christians label Rudd’s asylum policy morally bankrupt

Submitted by 2060 on Thu, 15/08/2013 - 12:59am

Christian churches say The Rudd Government’s so called “PNG Solution” is morally bankrupt and unworthy of a civilized community.

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Against the Election Spectacle

Submitted by autonomousactions on Tue, 13/08/2013 - 3:24pm

Free magazine charting two years of global resistance to politicians and their political process

Download zine at: https://againstelections.wordpress.com/

This zine has been compiled by some anarchists from the colonised region known as Australia. This small project was initiated to contribute to a discussion on how anti-authoritarians should intervene in or disrupt the 2013 Federal Election.

We have included statements and communiques from a range of anti-authoritarian positions taken from counter information sites, from the insurrectionary to the platformist.

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Sydney Events: Building Bridges August 2013 + Protest: Say NO to Gov't Income Management (23 Aug 13)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 05/08/2013 - 11:13am

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Wed 7 August 2013: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Building Bridges 2013 - every Wednesday in August
Donna Meehan: The Story of a Stolen Child
Glen Klatosvky: Kimberley Gas Hub: For and Against
Organised by Reconciliation for Western Sydney: http://reconciliation4westernsydney.org/index.php
"Donna Meehan was taken from her family in the 1960s.
Unlike many stolen children, who were sent to institutions,
Donna was fostered by a caring white couple who

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