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Event: 10am Sun 25 November 2012: Qld State Library
1st Brisbane Sovereignty & Land Rights Conference
* BBQ breakfast from 9-9:45am
at Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park
* Conference begins at 10am Queensland State Library
Speakers include:
* Mark McMurtrie
* Adrian Burragubba
* Robbie Thorpe
* Wayne Wharton
* Marshall Bell
* Norman Johnson
* Michael Anderson
* Kevin Arjin
* Gracelyn Smallwood
* Michael Mansell
Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/295153823919301/

Newsletter date: 22 November 2012

Contents:
* The Wire: Call for indigenous commissioners to head up abuse investigation [Interview with Tjanara Goreng Goreng]
* ABC: Abused Indigenous children 'must be heard' [Tjanara Goreng Goreng]
* SNAICC News: Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: FMG [Fortescue Metals Group] actions warrant further investigation
* ABC 7.30 Videos: Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) and Fortescue Metals Group (FMG)
* Background to the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC)

Newsletter date: 20 November 2012

Contents:
* Gerry Georgatos: Mining Deal Bombshell - Fortescue and the Yindjibarndi
* Chris Graham: Beer Goggles - The politics of backing grog bans despite scant evidence they actually work
* The Wire: Aboriginal women who experience sexual violence have a new support network
* Greens Rachel Siewert: JPP [James Price Point] protection relies on Minister Burke as the WA Government greases the wheels of industrialisation
* Graham Lloyd: New action to stop $35bn gas hub [James Price Point, WA]

Coal seam gas has been touted as a green transitional fuel, far less polluting than coal, but a new study implies it may not be as green or climate friendly as the industry makes out. It hinges on the level of fugitive emissions produced in development and production of a gas field. A study by two scientists from Southern Cross University based in Lismore, northern NSW, detected much higher levels of the strong greenhouse gas methane around the Tara gas field on the Darling Downs of Queensland west of Brisbane.

Action: Getup! have started a Dirtier than Coal? campaign calling on Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet to commission urgent research into the climate impacts of coal seam gas, and to make sure that CSG companies start accounting, and paying, for fugitive emissions.