Northern Territory

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 27 July 2012

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."