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Fracking the Canning Basin

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 09/05/2013 - 7:35pm

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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 2:29pm

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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 1:00pm

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...

WGAR News: Ongoing racism and abuse at Brisbane [Aboriginal] Sovereign Embassy: Sovereign Union

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/05/2013 - 2:07pm

Newsletter date: 4 May 2013

Contents:

* Michael Anderson: Don't sign your sovereign rights away with ILUAs [Indigenous Land Use Agreements]
* The Stringer: Ceding Sovereignty for a few crumbs
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson & Mary Graham
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* Sovereign Union: Ongoing racism and abuse at Brisbane Sovereign Embassy
* Sovereign Union Audioboo: Musgrave Park Arrests - Wayne Coco Wharton Interview

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Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Sovereign Union

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Aunty Lilla Watson and Mary Graham

Wayne Coco Wharton

The Stringer

Indigenous Land Use Agreements - ILUAs

sovereign rights

Ceding Sovereignty

Musgrave Park Arrests

Michael Anderson - Sovereign Union - Don't sign your sovereign rights away with ILUAs

The Stringer - Ceding Sovereignty for a few crumbs

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson & Mary Graham

Sovereign Union Audioboo - Musgrave Park Arrests - Wayne Coco Wharton Interview

4ZZZ Brisbane - BCC clash with Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy - Kevin Arjin Interview

Workers Bush Telegraph - Why the sacred fire is important to everyone

Australian - Aboriginal actors refused taxis four times before being racially abused

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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pm

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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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 47 events from 2 May 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 5:58pm

Newsletter date: 2 May 2013

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Event: Thu 2 May 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Next Meeting:
Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne:
http://www.isja-msg.com/index.htm
"During 2013, ISJA will meet the
first Thursday of every month."
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm

Event: Fri 3 May 2013: Grovedale, Geelong, Vic
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Speakers:
Auntie Betty Pike, Elder from the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Victoria

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 27

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 27/04/2013 - 10:16am

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - http://thestringer.com.au/

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 42 events from 26 April 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 25/04/2013 - 12:26pm

Newsletter date: 26 April 2013

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Event: Ongoing: Cherbourg Aboriginal community, S-E Qld
The Ration Shed Museum
"When our Elders were moved off the land and taken to
Cherbourg they were cut off from their traditional sources
of food and were given weekly rations of mainly flour,
sugar, tea, sago, rice, split peas and meat. The rations
were given from a wooden shed which we have restored
and call The Ration Shed Museum. We use the Ration
Shed as a space to tell our stories."
Event details: http://rationshed.com.au/

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Queensland events: Dinner & re-union Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy + National Treaty Talks

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 25/04/2013 - 10:13am

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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The killing times

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 22/04/2013 - 11:29am

by Gerry Georgatos
April 20th, 2013

Courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/the-killing-times/
- The map is from the book ‘Where is thy brother? : inter-racial massacres since invasion’. Originally published in Judith Monticone’s Healing the land : a closer look at needs of the Australian (re)conciliation movement, by Healing the Land 1999. – courtesy of treatyrepublic.org