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WGAR News: Aboriginal Northern Territory (NT) Intervention and the NT Elections

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 18/08/2012 - 3:16pm

Newsletter date: 18 August 2012

Contents:

Aboriginal NT Intervention and the NT Elections:

* Amy McQuire: All eyes turn to bush seats as NT election gets underway
* Daniel Fejo: First Nations NT candidate: 'Things have been taken away'
* NIT: Japarta Ryan’s plan to stop Intervention
* NT Greens: Barbara Shaw stands up for Alice Springs
* Press TV: Indigenous intervention dominates Australia NT election campaign

'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws:

* Chris Graham: Who put the con back in consultation?

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Keywords:

Amy McQuire - All eyes turn to bush seats as NT election gets underway

Daniel Fejo - First Nations NT candidate - Things have been taken away

NIT - Japarta Ryan’s plan to stop Intervention

NT Greens - Barbara Shaw stands up for Alice Springs

Press TV - Indigenous intervention dominates Australia NT election campaign

Chris Graham - Who put the con back in consultation?

Geraldine Fela - Unions - Labor members say no more Income Management

Aunty Daphne & Sue Gillett - Back to the Future - NT Intervention & Income Management - Building Bridges 2012

Graeme Mundine - Stronger Futures? - Building Bridges 2012

Emma Murphy - NT government quietly abandons bilingual ban

Rosa McKenna - NT covertly drops the first 4 hours of each day English only policy

Amnesty International German Newsletter on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - RUNDBRIEF AUGUST 2012 - THEMENKOGRUPPE - MENSCHENRECHTE UND INDIGENE VÖLKER - AUSTRALIEN

WGAR News: "Waste dump tender is 'putting the radioactive cart before the horse'." BNI

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 15/08/2012 - 5:58pm

Newsletter date: 15 August 2012

Contents:
* BNI: Waste dump tender is 'putting the radioactive cart before the horse'.
* Greens Scott Ludlam: This land is not nowhere; these people are not no-one
* NT Greens: Greens call for a unity in face of nuclear waste tender
* ABC Video: Push to make nuclear waste dump an election issue
* Upcoming Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) Events
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* BNI: WASTE DUMP TENDER IS 'PUTTING THE RADIOACTIVE CART BEFORE THE HORSE'.

- Media Release

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Greens Scott Ludlam - This land is not nowhere - these people are not no-one

NT Greens - Greens call for a unity in face of nuclear waste tender

ABC Video - Push to make nuclear waste dump an election issue

Upcoming Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) Events

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 13 events from 14 August 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 14/08/2012 - 12:05pm

Newsletter date: 14 August 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 13 events from 14 August 2012

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Fri 10 - Sun 26 August 2012: Darwin, NT
Official Opening Fri 10 Aug
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographer Jagath Dheerasekara, human rights defender
This traveling exhibition is a collaborative project with
* the Manuwangku (Muckaty) Traditional Owners,
* the Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) and
* Amnesty International.
Presented by the Environment Centre NT
in association with Darwin Festival

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NT covertly drops ‘the first 4 hours of each day English only’ policy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 13/08/2012 - 8:37am

Hi to all those who supported us in the effort to inform more people throughout Australia about the banning of Indigenous languages in the education of Indigenous children in the remote communities of the Northern Territory .

The mail out of materials went extremely well and this effort combined with actions taken within the NT itself have produced some results.

Geography:

Northern Territory

WGAR News: "International Olympic Committee rules need review" Australian Human Rights Commission

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 06/08/2012 - 12:31pm

Newsletter date: 6 August 2012

Contents:
* NIT: Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to his Olympic Games debut
* AHRC: International Olympic Committee rules need review
* Background to Damien Hooper wearing the Aboriginal flag
* Misha Schubert: NT poll a judgment on intervention from the people most affected
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* ABC: Council implored to oppose Muckaty nuclear dump

Geography:

Global/International

Australia

Northern Territory

Keywords:

NIT - Damien Hooper strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to his Olympic Games debut

AHRC - International Olympic Committee rules need review

Background to Damien Hooper wearing the Aboriginal flag

Misha Schubert - NT poll a judgment on intervention from the people most affected

ABC - Council implored to oppose Muckaty nuclear dump

WGAR News: "Stronger Futures legislation may not comply with Australia's human rights obligations"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/08/2012 - 10:54am

Newsletter date: 3 August 2012

Contents:
* Amnesty: Resolutions passed at our 2012 National AGM
* Background: Calls for 'Stronger Futures' laws to be subject to Human Rights scrutiny
* Geoff Scott: In the Trenches: A nation united in harming our most vulnerable
* Tracker: UN pressure continues on Gillard’s Stronger Futures
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Adam Brereton: Olympians Can't Leave Politics At Home

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Amnesty - Resolutions passed at our 2012 National AGM

Geoff Scott - In the Trenches - A nation united in harming our most vulnerable

Tracker - UN pressure continues on Gillard’s Stronger Futures

Adam Brereton - Olympians Can't Leave Politics At Home

Pro Bono News - Community Doco Named as Award Finalist

Tracker - WA to review Kimberley gas hub decision

Greens Rachel Siewert - Saving the Kimberley

Interview with Tully - one of the organisers of Lizard’s Revenge

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 16 events from 2 August 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 02/08/2012 - 10:40am

Newsletter date: 2 August 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 16 events from 2 August 2012

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Event: Thu 2 August 2012: Monash University, Melbourne, Vic
Our Generation film screening
A group discussion of the film afterwards
Organised by Students for Indigenous Sovereignty
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/51731
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Fri 3 August 2012: Adelaide, SA

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WGAR News: "Representatives of more than 30 nations see Aboriginal affairs at an all-time low"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 01/08/2012 - 11:30am

Newsletter date: 1 August 2012

Contents:
* Michael Anderson: Representatives of more than 30 nations see Aboriginal affairs at an all-time low
* Interview with Michael Anderson following Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Congress: No apology needed for being proudly Aboriginal
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
* CAAMA: Senior APY leader rejects claims that communities want income management

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Michael Anderson - Representatives of more than 30 nations see Aboriginal affairs at an all-time low

Interview with Michael Anderson following Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering

Congress - No apology needed for being proudly Aboriginal

CAAMA - Senior APY leader rejects claims that communities want income management

Chris Graham - Bad Aunty - The truth about the NT intervention and the case for an independent media

Liz Conor - The anti-intervention movement and violence in remote Aboriginal communities

Andrew Dutney - The First Peoples are us - Why the Uniting Church opposes Stronger Futures

Darren Coyne - Intervention opponents say the fight will go on

Ray Jackson - NSW Ombudsman response to questions from the indigenous social justice association

WGAR News: "Bob Brown: why I’m leading the Sea Shepherd to the Kimberley" Crikey

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 28/07/2012 - 4:34pm

Newsletter date: 28 July 2012

Contents:
* Greens Rachel Siewert: Overwhelming support for Low Aromatic Fuel at Alice Springs Inquiry Hearing
* Bob Brown: why I’m leading the Sea Shepherd to the Kimberley
* Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering: 28 & 29 July 2012
* National Unity Government Foundation - Sound & Pictures
* Sovereignty Conference 2012 - Sound & Pictures
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

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

Greens Rachel Siewert - Overwhelming support for Low Aromatic Fuel at Alice Springs Inquiry Hearing

Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering - 28 & 29 July 2012

National Unity Government Foundation - Sound & Pictures

Sovereignty Conference 2012 - Sound & Pictures

Chris Graham - Another golden chance to grill Gillard on Stronger Futures slips by

Tony Harris - Labor's sad short deviation from a White Australia mentality

Sharon Mason Kaleesha Morris and Larissa Behrendt speak at Talks on the Rocks

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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