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WGAR News: Muckaty Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival: BNI

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 1:58pm

Newsletter date: 14 February 2013

Contents:

* BNI: Nuclear waste in the spotlight, Muckaty in the frame: Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival
* Event: Exhibition by Human Rights Activist, Jagath Dheerrasekara: Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud: 14 Feb - 22 Mar 13
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* SNAICC News: Know your rights - Resource on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

* Sovereign Union: The Apology is still an empty vessel

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Muckaty nuclear waste dump

Adelaide Fringe festival

Jagath Dheerrasekara

Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud

UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The Apology

Indigenous defence service

40-year leases

BNI - Nuclear waste in the spotlight - Muckaty in the frame - Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival

Event - Exhibition by Human Rights Activist Jagath Dheerrasekara - Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud - 14 Feb - 22 Mar 13

SNAICC News - Know your rights - Resource on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - UNDRIP

Sovereign Union - The Apology is still an empty vessel

NIRS - Kowanyama wants housing but not with 40-year leases

SBS Radionews Audio - Remembering Indigenous defence service

The Wire - Cultural ties improve vocational opportunities

WGAR News: Let Aboriginal people manage their own affairs: Canberra & Brisbane Tent Embassies

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 11/02/2013 - 12:02pm

Newsletter date: 12 February 2013

Contents:

* Aboriginal Tent Embassies in Canberra and Brisbane: Let Aboriginal people manage their own affairs
* Jon Lamb, Socialist Alternative: "They cannot put out the fire of sovereignty"
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* ISJA: TJ Hickey: Nine Long Years...Time for Justice?
* Event: Rally 9th Anniversary of TJ Hickey's death - 14 Feb 13
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT government cuts services, reverses Aboriginal gains
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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Northern Territory Intervention

TJ Hickey

Aboriginal imprisonment

Stronger Futures

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Jon Lamb - Socialist Alternative - They cannot put out the fire of sovereignty

ISJA - TJ Hickey - Nine Long Years - Time for Justice

Event - Rally 9th Anniversary of TJ Hickey's death - 14 Feb 13

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT government cuts services - reverses Aboriginal gains

ANTaR - Reporting progress towards closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

Queensland events: In Conversation with Mary Graham + Clancestry Festival + Deepen the Conversation

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 8:16pm

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 13 February 2013: various locations in Australia
National Apology Day
"Commemmoration of the day ex-Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd moved a Motion of Apology to the
Indigenous Peoples in the House of Representatives,
apologising for past laws, policies and practices that
devastated the Indigenous Peoples
(particularly those of the Stolen Generation)."
"The NSDC holds annual celebratory events on the
Anniversary of the Apology (13 February each year)

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Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 13 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 3:59pm

Newsletter date: 11 February 2013

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Cairns bans fluoride in water supply

Submitted by nader on Sat, 09/02/2013 - 2:01am

In a rare decision The Cairns Regional Council has voted to stop fluoridating its water supplies, calling the practice ‘involuntary mass medication’.

The Queensland Government last year changed the law to give councils control over fluoride policy.

Cairns Mayor Bob Manning says 'mass medication' must not proceed without community consent.

The move will save the council about $400,000 a year.

Nearby Townsville is now also looking at the issue and could follow Cairns.

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WGAR News: Sovereignty not constitutional recognition the key to closing the gap: The Wire

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 08/02/2013 - 1:33pm

Newsletter date: 9 February 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Sovereignty not Constitutional recognition the key to Closing the Gap
* Sovereign Union: Governments 'Act of Recognition' has some very serious implications
* NIRS: Raising life expectancy not a case of throwing around money: Mansell
* Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee: Shadow Report 2013
* Congress Close the Gap Statement
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Government commitment to flawed policies clouds efforts to close the gap

* Brisbane Times: Protesters storm Rudd's Brisbane office

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WGAR News: "Marie Sailor, an Aboriginal elder whose wages were stolen" Accent of Women, Radio 3CR

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 07/02/2013 - 10:34am

Newsletter date: 8 February 2013

Contents:

* Accent of Women, Radio 3CR: "Marie Sailor, an Aboriginal elder whose wages were stolen"

* "Landmark Stolen Generations Test Case Begins in Perth" Media Statement
* Tracker: Stolen Gen victims begin landmark compensation trial

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews William Hayward of ATSILS
* Background: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander responses to Royal Commission into child sexual abuse

* NIRS: Health provider regrets lack of community control

* NIRS: Territorians continue to speak out against funding cuts

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Landmark Stolen Generations Test Case Begins in Perth - Media Statement

Tracker - Stolen Gen victims begin landmark compensation trial

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews William Hayward of ATSILS

NIRS - Health provider regrets lack of community control

NIRS - Territorians continue to speak out against funding cuts

Green Left TV - Socialist Alliance stands up for the Burrup

Green Left TV - David Beniuk - January 26

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 39 events from 4 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 2:28pm

Newsletter date: 3 February 2013

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Event: Mon 4 February 2013: Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Stop the Intervention Collective special meeting:
Guest speaker from the NT:
Marie Ellis, President Amoonguna community
"Marie Ellis has been a leading Aboriginal voice
opposing the Intervention and the devastation it
has caused at Amoonguna, her community near
Alice Springs. At this special STICS meeting,
Marie will give us the latest news from the NT
and discuss the struggle to re-establish community

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Queensland 2013 bigwet floods, tornados and climate change

Submitted by takver on Mon, 28/01/2013 - 5:11pm

Ex-tropical cyclone Oswald has left a trail of damage and destruction from it's origins in the Gulf of Carpentaria to crossing Cape York and working it's way down the Queensland Coast. The storms brought destructive winds, tornados, rough seas, storm surge and torrential rain, followed by flooding. Quite a few rain records were broken for 24 and 48 hour periods in Rockhampton, Gladstone and Bundaberg with some rain gauges recording well over one metre of rain in 48 hours. Now flood level records are being broken for many river basins and towns like Bunderberg and Gympie.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 33 events from 29 January 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 28/01/2013 - 2:07pm

Newsletter date: 29 January 2013

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Event: 29 January 2013: Petersham, Sydney, NSW
Invasion Day Special Screening and Fundraiser
The Inner West Film Forum
"In the wake of Invasion Day 2013
we present two important screenings …
* The Invasion Continues… Video from the NT Intervention.
Presented by Paddy Gibson
* One People Sing Freedom (1988)"
"Assisting STICS to continue its fight against the
Northern Territory Intervention"
STICS (Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney)

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