Queensland

Queensland events: My Country, I Still Call Australia Home + 31st Anniv Commonwealth Games Protests

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 1 June to 7 October 2013: South Bank, Qld
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home:
Contemporary Art from Black Australia
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
"This exhibition will be the Gallery's largest ever exhibition
of contemporary Indigenous Australian art. It will feature
works by Indigenous Australian artists from across the country."
"'My Country. I Still Call Australia Home' examines the
associations and interpretations Aboriginal and Torres Strait

How many more suicides will it take?

by Gerry Georgatos of The Stringer, The National Indigenous Times, the National Indigenous Radio Service - September 20th, 2013 - Two years ago, as part of my academic research into the prevalence of suicides in Australia, particularly among Aboriginal youth, to my horror I discovered that Aboriginal youth suicides are tragically at record high levels – that spates of Aboriginal youth suicides are proportionately the world’s highest rates. Aboriginal youth is suiciding at the world’s highest rates.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 42 events from 20 September 2013

Newsletter date: 20 September 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Fri 20 September, 2013: Sydney, NSW
ISJA Rally DPP
"we will be rallying to strongly urge mr. babb and
his legal team of officers to fully charge those
errant police officers that have been recommended
by the police integrity commission, among other
legal entities, to answer charges for the killings of
adam salter and roberto laudisio curti and the

WGAR News: Warren Mundine: The white sheep of the family?: Gary Foley, Tracker

Newsletter date: 19 September 2013

Contents:

* Gary Foley, Tracker: Warren Mundine: The white sheep of the family?
* Sovereign Union: Warren Mundine's new military intervention into Aboriginal Australia
* AudioBoo: Audio: Warren Mundine 'Military Intervention' - SBS - The Observer Effect

* AudioBoo: Noel Pearson rejected by Cape York councils - Aurukun Mayor, Dereck Walpo

* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Lack of a Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health a disappointment
* NACCHO political alert: Abbott abolishes Indigenous health ministry

WGAR News: "Sovereign Union is a movement for freedom, rejecting Pearson's pro-assimilation" SU

Newsletter date: 10 September 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Sovereign Union is a movement for freedom, rejecting Pearson's pro-assimilation
* Sharnie Kim, ABC News: Cape York mayors snub Indigenous leader Noel Pearson initiatives
* Laurie Lawira, SBS Radio News: Bipartisan support for Indigenous leadership group
* Sovereign Union: Aboriginal Rates Case back on track [Featuring the Euahlayi Nation]
* Greg Ansley, New Zealand Herald: Indigenous backlash could cost Labor seat [Featuring the Murrawarri Republic]
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 6 September 2013

Newsletter date: 5 September 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Fri 6 September 2013: Adelaide, SA
152nd Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk
around Government House
Gather at dusk on the first Friday of the month
(except January and February)
"Join us on the Candle Light Walk to
call for a Treaty and Bill of Rights, and
to support the Ngarrindjeri and all other
Aboriginal people and the Stolen Generations,

Spread the word – vote WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks became the media, now we can become the government

Gerry Georgatos - September 1st, 2013 - We can change the political discourse in this country, we can change the political landscape. Next week, and despite it being unimaginable now, we can have a brave new Australia, a never-before-seen landscape, our national consciousness enriched. With less than a week to the federal election we have the opportunity before us to make this happen. The Senate-only party, The WikiLeaks Party, has three candidates in three States who are all close to being elected. We need your primary vote.

WGAR News: Euahlayi Nation declares independence and asserts pre-existing and continuing Statehood

Newsletter date: 30 August 2013

Contents:

* Euahlayi Nation Media Release: Euahlayi Nation declares independence and asserts pre-existing and continuing Statehood
* YouTube: Euahlayi Nation declares independence - NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* ABC Radio National - Breakfast: Australia's 'Sugar Slaves' remembered
* YouTube: Qld marks 150th anniversary of blackbirding NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
* SBS Radio News: South Sea Islanders mark sugar 'slave' days

* SBS Radio News: University offers Wiradjuri language course

Queensland events: Sandcliffe Writers Festival + Ration Shed Tours + ACPA: Spirit of the Lore

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sat 31 August 2013: Queensland
Sandcliffe Writers Festival
Bracken Ridge library
"Indigenous Writers' Panels. "Aboriginal Men's Stories"
presented by novelist Sam Watson, poet Sam Wagan Watson,
and historian Joshua Walker. ...
"Aboriginal Women's Stories" presented by Elizabeth Engelbrecht
... novelist Sue McPherson ... and Aunty Ruth Heggerty ... "
Event details: http://www.989fm.com.au/events/sandcliffe-writers-festival/

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 51 events from 29 August 2013

Newsletter date: 29 August 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Wed 28 & Thu 29 August 2013: Melbourne, Vic
Puliima National Indigenous - Language & Technology Forum 2013
'Language is culture, culture creates values, values are the future'
"Puliima National Indigenous Language Forum is a biennial
event aimed at bringing people together from all over Australia
to explore pioneering project ideas, exciting products and