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NT events: Public Forum: Who cares about Human Rights? + No Nuclear Waste Dump for Muckaty

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Wed 15 May 2013: NT Supreme Court
'Who cares about Human Rights? - A free public forum about the
human rights implications of recent justice re-forms in the NT'
Australian Lawyers For Human Rights (ALHR):
Northern Territory Committee
Keynote Speakers:
* Ben Schokman
Director of International Human Rights Law
Human Rights Law Centre
* Jonathon Hunyor
Principal Legal Officer
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 48 events from 13 May 2013

Newsletter date: 13 May 2013

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Event: Wed 1 May - Sun 30 June 2013: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Photographer: Barbara McGrady
"Barbara is a Gamilario/Murri woman has been photographing
the social history of contemporary Aboriginal life for over
30 years. From Sports to politics, her vision is a unique
perspective from within a community empowering her
subjects by this virtue alone."
Event details: http://headon.com.au/event/barbara-mcgrady

Event: Fri 10 May until 1 June 2013: Northcote, Melbourne, Vic
The Power and the Passion

The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 12

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20
NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 80 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

South Africa, 20 years after Apartheid, doing better than Australia

by Gerry Georgatos - May 11th, 2013
Australia incarcerates its Aboriginal youth at the world’s highest rates, it imprisons one in 14 Western Australian Aboriginal adult males and it removes one in 14 children from Western Australian Aboriginal families into the care of the State, and for Aboriginal peoples the whole of the Northern Territory is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth, and this prison is loosely known as the ‘Intervention’.

Since 1992, the rate of Aboriginal incarceration in Australia has grown 14 times faster than that of non-Aboriginal incarceration.

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Fracking the Canning Basin

Gerry Georgatos - Western Australia’s Canning Basin (photo abc.net.au) will soon be talked about as the next resources mining frontier. The James Price Point $40 billion gas hub proposal for all intents and purposes has been dumped but the State’s Premier, Colin Barnett, will pitch the extraction of natural gas from the Canning Basin as the way to go in the pursuit of State revenue. Most of the gas will be exported.

The shale gas deposits of the Canning Basin are among the richest in the world.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4

The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Prime Minister believes she will win September 14

Every poll nationwide portrays either a decisive or catastrophic defeat for the Australian Labor Party come September. But the Office of the Prime Minister has gone heavy into campaign strategies since late last year according to our source. These include not just make overs for the Prime Minister but the commissioning of their own polls and surveys.

Read the whole story here: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYR3A7W...

Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

In the United States, the Annie Casey Foundation’s report ‘No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration,’ has an assembly of juvenile crime statistics that evidence why locking up children does not work. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rates of adults and children than any other nation.

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NT events: Tennant Creek rally & concert + Darwin Closing the Gap early childhood devt seminar

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 25 May 2013: Tennant Creek, NT
Tennant Creek rally and concert
"May 25 marks six years since the Northern Land Council
voted to nominate the current Muckaty site for assessment.
The annual community rally will be held on this date
in Tennant Creek."
"Supporters from across the Northern Territory and
country are invited to attend."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://ohmsnotbombs.net/archives/809