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WGAR News: "Sovereign Union - interim National Unity Government has now been officially formed."

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 28/05/2012 - 1:01pm

Newsletter date: 28 May 2012

Contents:
* Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union - National Unity Government
* NIT: Coco Wharton: I’ll defy the white man’s bail conditions
* Interview with Adam Stone on Brisbane Tent Embassy
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Tennant Creek Rally marking five years since Muckaty nomination
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Other articles

* FOUNDATION MEETING OF THE SOVEREIGN UNION - NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT:

- Media Release

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Brisbane

Australia

Northern Territory

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Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union - National Unity Government

NIT - Coco Wharton - I’ll defy the white man’s bail conditions

Interview with Adam Stone on Brisbane Tent Embassy

Tennant Creek Rally marking five years since Muckaty nomination

AMA report says government needs to do more for Indigenous health

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 28/05/2012 - 12:06pm

Gerry Georgatos
President of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Steve Hambleton says the federal government has to do much more for Indigenous health - "There is a long way to go."

On Saturday May 26 at the AMA National Conference the AMA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Report: Progress to Date and Challenges that Remain was released.

The report summarises the recommendation of the AMA Indigenous Health Report Cards over the past ten years and analyses the major government measures related to the recommendations that have been implemented.

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Muckaty gathering 25 May 2012

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 26/05/2012 - 1:36pm

Alice Springs residents gather in support of the Muckaty Traditional Owners and all peoples oppposing the Nuclear Waste Dump in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Watch UTube

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Northern Territory

HRA media release: Bob Carr must live up to DFAT's side - Indonesia has lived up to their part - Schapelle soon home

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 26/05/2012 - 8:25am

Bob Carr said that it is abominable that children are in adult prisons - therefore release them all, now. Now that the Governor of Kerobokan has supported the right to early parole for Schapelle Corby, Australia needs to keep its side and en masse release all the children - now.

The conversations between DFAT and their counterparts, between Australian and Indonesian foreign ministries have occurred in that the goodwill of a sentence reduction, early parole for Schapelle Corby was brought up alongside the urgent need for Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons to be released.

WGAR News: "Stronger Futures continues dark era for Aboriginal Peoples in the NT" Amnesty Int'l

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 25/05/2012 - 4:02pm

Newsletter date: 25 May 2012

Contents:
* Amnesty: Global failure of human rights leadership extends to Australia
* Amnesty: Tell your Senators: scrap Stronger Futures
* Greens: Amnesty report emphasises need for homelands investment
* Jon Altman: Another decade for homelands policy debacle
* Tracker: Intervention laws need scrutiny: Gooda
* Greens seek further scrutiny for NT Intervention
* Greens: Government & Coalition should heed UN concerns on NT Intervention
* Interview with Matthew Dhulumburrk Gaykamangu & Paddy Gibson on Stronger Futures laws

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Global/International

Australia

Northern Territory

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Amnesty - Global failure of human rights leadership extends to Australia

Amnesty - Tell your Senators - scrap Stronger Futures

Greens - Amnesty report emphasises need for homelands investment

Jon Altman - Another decade for homelands policy debacle

Tracker - Intervention laws need scrutiny - Gooda

Greens seek further scrutiny for NT Intervention

Greens - Government & Coalition should heed UN concerns on NT Intervention

Interview with Matthew Dhulumburrk Gaykamangu & Paddy Gibson on Stronger Futures laws

Terry Priest & Eva Cox - Evidence-Free Policy Making? The Case of Income Management

Zoe Edwards - Labor’s racist Intervention set to continue

Darren Coyne - Senators adjourn debate until June

ABC - Barkly candidates united against Muckaty

WGAR News: "Brisbane tent embassy given permanent site" Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 24/05/2012 - 1:27pm

Newsletter date: 24 May 2012

Contents:
* BNI: Trade union support strengthens NT nuclear waste dump campaign
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Tracker: Brisbane tent embassy given permanent site
* Video: Sam Watson: The police attack on the Aboriginal Sovereign Tent Embassy, Brisbane
* ISJA: On Sovereign Embassies and police brutality
* IC: More Aboriginal Tent Embassies Appearing Throughout Australia
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Video: Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars - ANZAC Day 2012

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BNI - Trade union support strengthens NT nuclear waste dump campaign

Tracker - Brisbane tent embassy given permanent site

Video - Sam Watson - The police attack on the Aboriginal Sovereign Tent Embassy - Brisbane

ISJA - On Sovereign Embassies and police brutality

IC - More Aboriginal Tent Embassies Appearing Throughout Australia

Video - Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars - ANZAC Day 2012

National Renters Alliance campaign - WA rally August - National day of rallies October

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 24/05/2012 - 9:20am

Interviews with the HRA's National Renters Alliance

It started in the Blackwood region of the South West of WA, and then became the WA Renters Alliance, and now it's a national movement with the National Renters Alliance campaign

In August there will be a renters rally for justice at WA's state parliament followed by a coordinated national day of rallies in October

WGAR News: "NT intervention law must comply with Australia’s human rights obligations" M. Bogner

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 23/05/2012 - 3:26pm

Newsletter date: 23 May 2012

Contents:
* Matilda Bogner, UN Human Rights Office: NT intervention law must comply with Australia’s human rights obligations
* ABC: NT Aboriginal intervention breaches Human Rights - NGO
* Panel discussion: Poverty reduced by Indigenous communities' self-management
* Congress: Unity is the key: Speech to ACTU Congress 2012
* Gerry Georgatos: The NT is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth
* Jack Waterford: Macklin policies do not translate
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles

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Global/International

Australia

Northern Territory

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ABC - NT Aboriginal intervention breaches Human Rights - NGO

Panel discussion - Poverty reduced by Indigenous communities' self-management

Congress - Unity is the key - Speech to ACTU Congress 2012

Gerry Georgatos - The NT is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth

Jack Waterford - Macklin policies do not translate

Matilda Bogner - UN Human Rights Office - NT intervention law

Human Rights Alliance demands release of Indonesian children from WA incarceration

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 22/05/2012 - 12:06pm

The Human Rights Alliance calls on the WA state government, and on the Commonwealth, for the en masse immediate release of all the Indonesian children incarcerated either by remand or judicial conviction in Western Australian prisons - and in particular HAKEA and Albany Regional Prisons.

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Cultural imperialism jailed Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons - and the prime minister's deaf ears

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 11:54am

Gerry Georgatos
Ali Jasmin was 13 years old when the Commonwealth of Australia locked him up in an adult prison for being a deckhand on a boat of Asylum Seekers, and hence for assisting people in the safe passage of Asylum to our shores. International maritime laws and the various United Conventions and protocols asserting the rights of those seeking Asylum would cast this young boy as a hero, and rightfully so however not the Australian government and its institutions.

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