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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 13 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 3:35pm

Newsletter date: 13 March 2013

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Event: from 13 March 2013: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others
developed different strategies to survive this

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ILC keeping Aboriginal men In The Long Grass

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 1:57pm

Today in the Northern Territory along the Roper Bar road on the Aboriginal Alawa people owned Station of Warrigundu you will find no activity. The part time Aboriginal station staff was sat down in early December last year by the lease holders of the property, the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC). While sitting down for two or three months over a wet period is nothing new in the top end, the pay systems the Aboriginal boys operate under within the ILC is.

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WGAR News: Stronger Futures 'fundamentally racist': Ada Lee, South Sydney Herald

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 11/03/2013 - 12:55pm

Newsletter date: 11 March 2013

Contents:

* Ada Lee, South Sydney Herald: Stronger Futures 'fundamentally racist'
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* YouTube: Letters Patent Protest, South Australia - MAV Media

* PShift: Traditional owner - james bonner - supports tent embassy in Musgrave Park
* YouTube: Sovereignty is an Australian question - SovereignEmbassy
* Brisbane City Council Heritage Citation: Musgrave Park

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Northern Territory Intervention

treaty

Muckaty nuclear waste dump

sovereignty

Stronger Futures

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Musgrave Park

Wave Rock

Letters Patent Protest

Indigenous doctors

cave art

YouTube - Letters Patent Protest - South Australia - MAV Media

PShift - Traditional owner - james bonner - supports tent embassy in Musgrave Park

YouTube - Sovereignty is an Australian question - SovereignEmbassy

Brisbane City Council Heritage Citation - Musgrave Park

NITV Footage - Michael Anderson - Nicole Watson and Dianna Murray - A discussion of Sovereignty and Treaty

NIRS - Efforts for more Indigenous doctors praised

Debra Jopson - The Guardian UK - Australian uranium discovery threatens ancient indigenous cave art

Malarndirri McCarthy - NITV News - Mercedes-Benz apologises over Wave Rock video

Songlines - Government answers to Greens questions regarding Muckaty radioactive sites matters

Northern Territory events: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention + National Close the Gap Day

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 05/03/2013 - 11:07am

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 22 March - 20 April 2013: Parap, Darwin, NT
Cross Art Projects's exhibition:
Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Hosted by: 24HR Art
Opening at 6pm Fri 22 March 2013
"Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
is about the removal of citizen rights by the
Federal Government Intervention in the Northern Territory
(2007 to 2012) seen through the practices of
Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists."

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Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Evidently: Finding the truth in the employment gap: Jon Altman, Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 11:28am

Newsletter date: 4 March 2013

Contents:

* Jon Altman, Tracker: Evidently: Finding the truth in the employment gap

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: We have your back [strong Aboriginal women on the frontline]

* NACCHO: Positive health gains for Aboriginal community controlled health organisations

* Jeff McMullen, Tracker: The Way Ahead: The Aboriginal Voice

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Behind Enemy Lines: Taking sentencing out of the court of public opinion
* Peter Robson, Green Left: NT introduces new mandatory sentencing laws

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Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal community controlled health organisations

Amy McQuire - Tracker - We have your back - strong Aboriginal women on the frontline

NACCHO - Positive health gains for Aboriginal community controlled health organisations

Jeff McMullen - Tracker - The Way Ahead - The Aboriginal Voice

Amy McQuire - Tracker - Behind Enemy Lines - Taking sentencing out of the court of public opinion

Peter Robson - Green Left - NT introduces new mandatory sentencing laws

Northern Star- Call for Royal Commission into Bowraville murders

Indigenous Social Justice Association - ISJA - Action against police brutality

NIRS - Anti-police brutality rallies to be held four years after Bellotti incident

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

Contents:

* 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 horrific incarceration rates of Aboriginal peoples: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 25/02/2013 - 5:01pm

Newsletter date: 26 February 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: International Prisoners Justice Day highlights Australia's horrific incarceration rates of Aboriginal peoples
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Dr Alice Clark, The Stringer: Housing and homelessness issues for Aboriginal and Islander Peoples living in South Australia

* The Stringer: One of Australia's worst massacres - 150 Yaburara men, women and children slaughtered

* Paddy Gibson, Solidarity Online: "Captain's pick" Nova Peris will make NT Labor's problems worse

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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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WGAR News: The Wire: Newstart bad news for the income-managed [interview with Barbara Shaw]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 22/02/2013 - 5:12pm

Newsletter date: 23 February 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Newstart bad news for the income-managed [Annie Hastwell interviews Barbara Shaw]
* 'concerned Australians': Murray Bridge launch of 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Dr Norman Sheehan, a consultant with Link-Up

* Other articles

* THE WIRE: NEWSTART BAD NEWS FOR THE INCOME-MANAGED [ANNIE HASTWELL INTERVIEWS BARBARA SHAW]:

- Audio Interview

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Northern Territory Intervention

Stronger Futures

income-management

A Decision to Discriminate

concerned Australians

Murray Bridge

The Wire - Newstart bad news for the income-managed - Annie Hastwell interviews Barbara Shaw

concerned Australians - Murray Bridge launch of A Decision to Discriminate

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Dr Norman Sheehan - a consultant with Link-Up

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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