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WGAR News: "Congress joins opposition to big stick policies in the NT" - NCAFP media release

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 10:22am

Newsletter date: 29 October 2011

Contents:
* What’s Working: Animation of stories
* "Congress Joins Opposition to Big Stick Policies in the NT" NCAFP Media Release
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)
* Occupy Melbourne calls for Treaty with Indigenous Australia
* Interview with Brian Devlin on cuts to bilingual education in the NT
* Prof Jon Altman: Governments can not afford to neglect homelands
* UTS Lecture by Dr Miriam Jorgensen & Prof Stephen Cornell:
Indigenous Government - A Solution in Settler States

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Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

What’s Working - Animation of stories

Occupy Melbourne calls for Treaty with Indigenous Australia

Interview with Brian Devlin on cuts to bilingual education in the NT

Prof Jon Altman -Governments can not afford to neglect homelands

UTS Lecture by Dr Miriam Jorgensen & Prof Stephen Cornell - Indigenous Government - A Solution in Settler States

Statement by Northern Territory elders and community representatives - No more! Enough is enough!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/11/2011 - 7:31pm

Melbourne 4 November, 2011

United First People’s Law men and women who are born leaders representing people of Prescribed Areas in the Northern Territory make this statement. Once again, they have gathered to openly discuss the future of our generation who have been subjugated by the lies and innuendo of the Federal Government, set out in the Stronger Futures document (October 2011).

The Stronger Futures report has created a lot of anger and frustration due to the lack of process and the ignorant way in which the views of the people have been reported. We therefore reject this report.

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WGAR News: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on Q and A; Interviews with Djiniyini Gondarra and Michael Anderson

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 26/10/2011 - 11:02am

Newsletter date: 26 October 2011

Contents:
* Rosalie Kunoth-Monks - panellist on Q and A live from Darwin
* Interview with Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra - Yolgnu embassy proposed
* Interview with Michael Anderson - Sovereignty and Native Title
* Evidence - Free Policy Making? The Case of Income Management by Eva Cox
* Eva Cox: The lack of evidence for the benefits of Income Management
* What's Working: Tjuwumpa Rangers
* Chapter of Book: The Doctrine of Discovery in Australia
* Protesters shut down Macklin press conference
* More on APY Lands

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‘A tortuous trail’: Bob Beadman’s short history of outstations.

Submitted by Arthur Bell on Tue, 25/10/2011 - 4:51pm

Bouquets to Kieran Finnane from the Alice Springs News for once again shining the light of reason on Amnesty International’s “unhelpful” homelands campaign, and brickbats to Amnesty for refusing to publicly discuss the important points she has raised in her articles.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events from 25 October 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 25/10/2011 - 2:26pm

Newsletter date: 25 October 2011
Newsletter last updated: 25 October 2011 4:20pm

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Event: Thu 18 August - Sun 30 October 2011: Wiluna to Perth, WA
Walk Away from Uranium Mining
"By coming to Wiluna you will be supporting Traditional
Owners in their opposition to uranium mining."
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/walk-away-from-uranium-mining
Event details: http://www.nuclearfreefuture.com/
Walk Schedule: http://footprints.footprintsforpeace.net/nffcampaign/upload/files/Wiluna...

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'Our Generation' film screenings

WGAR News: Government 'consultation' report and plans for a new Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 25/10/2011 - 9:46am

Newsletter date: 25 October 2011

Contents:
* Government 'consultation' report and plans for a new Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* GOVERNMENT 'CONSULTATION' REPORT AND PLANS FOR A NEW INTERVENTION:

- The Report

http://www.indigenous.gov.au/stronger-futures-in-the-northern-territory-...

- Media Releases

Stop the Intervention: Stop the Intervention campaign blasts sham consultations
http://stoptheintervention.org/facts/press-releases/stop-the-interventio...

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Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Living in the Northern Territory: A submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 6:57am

article by Gerry Georgatos Michele Harris OAM and Georgina Gartland in June 2011 prepared a submission to the United Nations on what it is like for many Aboriginal peoples to live in the Northern Territory - a place of contrasts in which many Aboriginal peoples are subsumed by a whirlpool of inhumanity, neglected and disregarded into acute and abject poverty, and incarcerated as downtrodden. If a peep is heard from any downtrodden Aboriginal person who lives rejected as oppressed or marginalised in the Northern Territory they are punished by a tumult of government authority stampeding through their lives, saturating every last dignity of human worth, if not their unending spirits, telling them to shut up.

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WGAR News: Advocates brief UN Committee on the Rights of the Child re Australia's performance

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 1:40pm

Newsletter date: 16 October 2011

Contents:
* Advocates brief UN Committee on the Rights of the Child re Australia's performance
* Amnesty chief tells Macklin - We will be watching
* Attempted suicides in communities affected by NT Intervention has doubled
* Arnhem Land leaders are gathering on Elcho Island
* Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott calls for scrapping of Olympic Dam expansion
* What’s Working: A Better Way - ANTaR's book of success stories
* More on APY Lands
* Apology to the Aboriginal People of Australia on behalf of Australians of Arabic background

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Amnesty chief tells Macklin - We will be watching

Attempted suicides in communities affected by NT Intervention has doubled

Arnhem Land leaders are gathering on Elcho Island

Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott calls for scrapping of Olympic Dam expansion

What’s Working - A Better Way - ANTaR's book of success stories

United Nations hears that Australia fails its children in the Northern Territory

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 13/10/2011 - 12:35pm

Kathy Guthadjaka with her granddaughter, Gurang Gurang
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By Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney

Two reports were tabled at the United Nation's Pre-Sessional Meeting on the Rights of the Child in Geneva. These reports looked closely at whether Australia's commitments through the Convention on the Rights of the Child are being complied with. The first report, Listen to Children was far reaching across our nation's children in its comment. The second complementary report, Children of the Intervention, focused solely on those children living in the ‘prescribed communities' of the Northern Territory and under separate legislation to all other Australian children.

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WGAR News: Amnesty International head slams decades of neglect in remote Aboriginal communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 13/10/2011 - 9:56am

Newsletter date: 13 October 2011

Contents:
* Amnesty International cheif Salil Shetty visits communities in Utopia, NT
* Calls for implementation of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* Jon Altman: Homeland communities destroyed to save a bit of cash
* Amnesty International Australia Action: Tell the government: don’t abandon homelands
* Amnesty International Australia: Utopia Homelands featured on the 7pm Project
* What’s Working: Health-Utopia
* Rally against Income Management in Bankstown - 8 October 2011

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