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WGAR News: Who Gets To Develop James Price Point?: Deborah Ruiz Wall, New Matilda

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 17/02/2013 - 8:03pm

Newsletter date: 18 February 2013

Contents:

* Deborah Ruiz Wall, New Matilda: Who Gets To Develop James Price Point?
* ABC: Wilderness Society challenges gas hub approvals
* Kimberley Page: Rachel Siewert on gas hub emmisions
* The West: Govt defends axing of greenhouse gas controls
* Kimberley Campaign Events
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* The Wire interviews Manawangu (Muckaty) Traditional Owners Isobel Phillips & Doris Kelly
* Tennant & District Times: Nuke waste in focus, Muckaty in the frame

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ABC - Wilderness Society challenges gas hub approvals

Kimberley Page - Rachel Siewert on gas hub emmisions

The West - Govt defends axing of greenhouse gas controls

Kimberley Campaign Events

The Wire interviews Manawangu Traditional Owners Isobel Phillips & Doris Kelly

Tennant & District Times - Nuke waste in focus - Muckaty in the frame

WGAR News: Muckaty Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival: BNI

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 1:58pm

Newsletter date: 14 February 2013

Contents:

* BNI: Nuclear waste in the spotlight, Muckaty in the frame: Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival
* Event: Exhibition by Human Rights Activist, Jagath Dheerrasekara: Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud: 14 Feb - 22 Mar 13
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* SNAICC News: Know your rights - Resource on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

* Sovereign Union: The Apology is still an empty vessel

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Muckaty nuclear waste dump

Adelaide Fringe festival

Jagath Dheerrasekara

Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud

UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The Apology

Indigenous defence service

40-year leases

BNI - Nuclear waste in the spotlight - Muckaty in the frame - Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival

Event - Exhibition by Human Rights Activist Jagath Dheerrasekara - Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud - 14 Feb - 22 Mar 13

SNAICC News - Know your rights - Resource on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - UNDRIP

Sovereign Union - The Apology is still an empty vessel

NIRS - Kowanyama wants housing but not with 40-year leases

SBS Radionews Audio - Remembering Indigenous defence service

The Wire - Cultural ties improve vocational opportunities

WGAR News: Let Aboriginal people manage their own affairs: Canberra & Brisbane Tent Embassies

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 11/02/2013 - 12:02pm

Newsletter date: 12 February 2013

Contents:

* Aboriginal Tent Embassies in Canberra and Brisbane: Let Aboriginal people manage their own affairs
* Jon Lamb, Socialist Alternative: "They cannot put out the fire of sovereignty"
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* ISJA: TJ Hickey: Nine Long Years...Time for Justice?
* Event: Rally 9th Anniversary of TJ Hickey's death - 14 Feb 13
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT government cuts services, reverses Aboriginal gains
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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Northern Territory Intervention

TJ Hickey

Aboriginal imprisonment

Stronger Futures

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Jon Lamb - Socialist Alternative - They cannot put out the fire of sovereignty

ISJA - TJ Hickey - Nine Long Years - Time for Justice

Event - Rally 9th Anniversary of TJ Hickey's death - 14 Feb 13

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT government cuts services - reverses Aboriginal gains

ANTaR - Reporting progress towards closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

NT events: Kanyini Film screening + National Close the Gap Day + National Native Title Conference

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 8:12pm

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 13 February 2013: various locations in Australia
National Apology Day
"Commemmoration of the day ex-Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd moved a Motion of Apology to the
Indigenous Peoples in the House of Representatives,
apologising for past laws, policies and practices that
devastated the Indigenous Peoples
(particularly those of the Stolen Generation)."
"The NSDC holds annual celebratory events on the
Anniversary of the Apology (13 February each year)

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Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 3:59pm

Newsletter date: 11 February 2013

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WGAR News: "Marie Sailor, an Aboriginal elder whose wages were stolen" Accent of Women, Radio 3CR

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 07/02/2013 - 10:34am

Newsletter date: 8 February 2013

Contents:

* Accent of Women, Radio 3CR: "Marie Sailor, an Aboriginal elder whose wages were stolen"

* "Landmark Stolen Generations Test Case Begins in Perth" Media Statement
* Tracker: Stolen Gen victims begin landmark compensation trial

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews William Hayward of ATSILS
* Background: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander responses to Royal Commission into child sexual abuse

* NIRS: Health provider regrets lack of community control

* NIRS: Territorians continue to speak out against funding cuts

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Landmark Stolen Generations Test Case Begins in Perth - Media Statement

Tracker - Stolen Gen victims begin landmark compensation trial

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews William Hayward of ATSILS

NIRS - Health provider regrets lack of community control

NIRS - Territorians continue to speak out against funding cuts

Green Left TV - Socialist Alliance stands up for the Burrup

Green Left TV - David Beniuk - January 26

WGAR News: NT leader: Nova Peris is wrong, Stronger Futures must go: STICS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/02/2013 - 1:44pm

Newsletter date: 4 February 2013

Contents:

* STICS: NT leader: Nova Peris is wrong, Stronger Futures must go
* 4 Feb 13 Event: STICS meeting - Guest speaker from the NT - Marie Ellis
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* ABC Radio National - Awaye!: The Letters Patent [1836 South Australia]
* change.org Petition: Jay Weatherill Premier of South Australia: Uphold the 1836 SA Letters Patent

* ACF: New Kimberley parks welcomed but jettison JPP gas hub plans

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Northern Territory

South Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 39 events from 4 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 2:28pm

Newsletter date: 3 February 2013

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Event: Mon 4 February 2013: Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Stop the Intervention Collective special meeting:
Guest speaker from the NT:
Marie Ellis, President Amoonguna community
"Marie Ellis has been a leading Aboriginal voice
opposing the Intervention and the devastation it
has caused at Amoonguna, her community near
Alice Springs. At this special STICS meeting,
Marie will give us the latest news from the NT
and discuss the struggle to re-establish community

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WGAR News: UN intervention called for at James Price Point: Hands off country

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 01/02/2013 - 2:08pm

Newsletter date: 2 February 2013

Contents:

* Hands Off Country: UN Intervention called for at James Price Point
* The West: Push for UN to visit gas hub
* Respect and Listen: Save the Kimberley: Report on Walmadany - James Price Point
* Hands Off Country: Video: Barnett Blooms in Broome
* The West: Premier coy on ways to stop FLNG
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* NIRS: Income management admin costs over a million a year: Report
[sic - actually the amount is over one hundred million a year]

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WGAR News: The burning issue of deaths in custody: Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 30/01/2013 - 2:34pm

Newsletter date: 31 January 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: The burning issue of deaths in custody - Aboriginal people die 5 times the rate of Apartheid South Africa
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The West: Offshore Browse move hard to stop: EPA
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* Tracker: Nova Peris wins NT Senate pre-selection
* ABC PM Audio: Nova Peris endorsed
* Tracker: Peris choice is 'extremely positive': Albo

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Northern Territory

Western Australia