While "thousands and thousands" marched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today (July 9th) for democracy (braving police roadblocks, hundreds of arrests, water cannon, teargas, etc), in Australia some 750 Malaysian rallied in Melbourne, 300 in Sydney, 200 in Perth, 150 in Adelaide, 40 in Canberra and 100 in Brisbane.
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Event: 27 May to Sun 9 October 2011: Kalgoorlie, WA
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...
Event: Thu 30 June to Sun 17 July 2011: Newtown, Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: Stars, Sky, Breeze, Trees
Photo artist: Jagath Dheerasekara
Gallery: At The Vanishing Point
Newsletter date: 6 July 2011
Contents:
* Interviews with Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra about the Government’s consultation process
* New round of consultations in the NT over the intervention
* Petition to Jenny Macklin: A Fair Go for Aboriginal People in the NT
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* INTERVIEWS WITH REV DR DJINIYINI GONDARRA ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S CONSULTATION PROCESS:
- The Audio Interviews
Newsletter date: 1 July 2011
Contents:
* New round of Government consultations in the NT over the Intervention
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 15 events
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* NEW ROUND OF GOVERNMENT CONSULTATIONS IN THE NT OVER THE INTERVENTION:
- The Consultations
indigenous.gov.au: The consultations [includes timetable]
http://www.indigenous.gov.au/index.php/no-category/the-consultations/
Newsletter date: 28 June 2011
Contents:
* Upcoming Sydney events:
Event 1: 28 June - Katherine Napaljarri Parker speaks on NT Intervention
Event 2: 29 June - Katherine Napaljarri Parker speaks at 'Our Generation' screening
Event 3: 29 June - Rally - Stop Nuclear Minister Martin Ferguson
Event 4: from 29 June - Exhibition of Photo artist Jagath Dheerasekara
* Upcoming events around Australia - 15 events
* Kimberley gas plant protest and blockade
* Past events:
Event 1: Women delegates speak on UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
The Federal government will “meet its Waterloo” in its attempt to extend income management, a plank of the NT Intervention, to parts of Sydney, protesters say.
On Saturday June 25, several hundred people took to the streets of Sydney to protest the “atrocious” impacts of the NT Intervention, introduced four years ago this week.
Social breakdown had accelerated in the four years since the legislation was introduced, Paddy Gibson, a researcher with the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney(UTS), told the crowd at Town Hall.
Pollution from burning coal, oil and gas is driving a climate crisis, making our world more dangerous, increasing prices of food and water and jeopardising our way of life.
But if we cut pollution and invest properly in the clean alternatives, we can build a healthier, cleaner, more secure economy and community for all of us.
The best way to do that is to put a price on carbon pollution and use the revenue to help householders and invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency, public transport and forest protection.
Special talk by Katherine Napaljarri Parker from Kintore, NT
in Gladesville, Tuesday, 28 June at 7pm.
GLADESVILLE LIBRARY COMMUNITY ROOM back entrance.
Katherine Napaljarri Parker has recently spoken at an Our Generation screening in Darwin and has also attended the Darwin launch of the 'Rebuilding from the Ground Up' Statement on Tuesday 21 June, the 4th Anniversary of the NT Intervention. This will be a wonderful and unique opportunity to hear first hand accounts about the Intervention.
Hosted by Bennelong & Surrounds Residents for Reconciliation
Extraordinary meeting of Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS)
with special speaker Katherine Napaljarri Parker
at the Federation Conference Centre, Level 1, 23-33 Mary Street Surry Hills (turn off Elizabeth st at Albion St and left onto Mary street)
Monday, 27 June at 6pm.
Community protest outside Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce
199 George Street, Sydney CBD
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Speakers include:
John Kaye, NSW Greens MP
Holly Creenaune, Friends of the Earth
Nat Wasley, Beyond Nuclear Initiative
Statement from Dr Helen Caldicott
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Protect workers, Protect communities
No nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land
Stop uranium mining, No to nuclear weapons
The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce is organising a business lunch on June 29 titled "Nuclear Energy after Fukushima".
