Brisbane

Upcoming Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 6 events from 6 September 2011

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Event: Tue 6 September 2011: Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Qld
Homelands campaign training session
Amnesty International Qld/Northern NSW
"The training is designed for activists who want to play an
active role in the campaign, within their local group or as
a part of the Homelands Action Group."
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/qld/event/26520/

Event: Fri 16 September 2011: Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD
Our Generation Film Screening
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/

WGAR News: Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Newsletter date: 23 August 2011

Contents:
* Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Research review: 'Does new evidence from NT women undermine supposed benefits of income management?'
* Interview with Equality Rights Alliance's Emma Davidson
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 23 August 2011
* Muckaty Voices and Our Generation screening at 'Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival'
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

WGAR News: Government 'Strategic Review of Indigenous Expenditure' made public

Newsletter date: 14 August 2011

Contents:
* Tracker Magazine is now online
* Government 'Strategic Review of Indigenous Expenditure' made public
* Jenny Macklin's address to the Sydney Institute
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Aboriginal imprisonment rates & deaths in custody
* Land Rights and Native Title
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 14 August 2011
* Other articles

* TRACKER MAGAZINE IS NOW ONLINE:

- New website

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 29 events from 8 August 2011

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Event: 27 May to Sun 9 October 2011: Kalgoorlie, WA
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow - Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...

Event: 3 July to Sun 25 September 2011: Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: FREEDOM RIDERS - Art and activism 1960s to now
Sydney University Art Gallery

Anti-racist rally confronts bigots in Brisbane

Below is a reprinted article from the Direct Action Socialist newspaper about an anti-racism rally in Brisbane. The text is by Owain Jones. The rhetoric of groups such as the APDM is the same as the Norwegian killer Andrew Brevnick who demonstrated the dangers that can follow from allowing right wing Islamophobes to flourish. These groups feed off the Islamophobia and xenophobia of the mainstream political parties to try and create an opening for the growth of far right nationalism/facism withint the community.

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WGAR News: Gurindji Walkoff from Wave Hill - 45th Anniversary Commemoration in Kalkarindji, NT

Newsletter date: 6 August 2011

Contents:
* Gurindji Walkoff from Wave Hill - 45th Anniversary Commemoration in Kalkarindji/Daguragu, NT
* Sydney Rally on Gurindji Freedom Day - Fri 26 Aug 2011
* Video of Richard Downs and Ngarla Kunoth-Monks at UN Indigenous Forum
* Interviews with Dorinda Hafner and Alistair Nicholson about the NT Intervention consultations
* Background to the 2011 round of consultations in the NT over the Intervention
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 24 events from 6 August 2011
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles

WGAR News: Aboriginal voices criticize NT intervention at consultations

Newsletter date: 2 August 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal voices criticize NT intervention at consultations
* Interview with Dr. Lynn Arnold about the NT Intervention
* Background to the 2011 round of consultations in the NT over the Intervention
* Forty organisations oppose income management in Bankstown
* Interview with Prof. Sir Michael Marmot about impacts on people's health
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 21 events from 2 August 2011
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

WGAR News: Gurindji tell consultations meeting: 'stop the Intervention immediately'

Newsletter date: 30 July 2011

Contents:
* Gurindji tell consultations meeting: 'stop the Intervention immediately'
* Background to the 2011 round of consultations in the NT over the Intervention
* Update on Kimberley gas hub protest
* Survey: 88% of NCAFP members want constitutional recognition
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* Minister meets with Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust community
* Background to blockade by Aboriginal women of Lake Tyers
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 21 events

Brisbane Food Not Bombs Kitchen vs Talisman Sabre 2011

Food not Bombs kitchen, Brisbane Square, Brisbane CBD, 1pm on Saturday the 16th of July- to voice our opposition to the Talisman-Sabre War Games, 2011.

These military ‘games’ are costing the Australian taxpayer over $100 million.
Who decided that? Not the Australian people.

The games are being held in various locations across Australia including in Shoalwater Bay, part of the Great Barrier Reef region; threatening the areas’ ecology and the existence of more than 25 endangered species.

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Australian solidarity protests for Bersih democracy movement in Malaysia

While "thousands and thousands" marched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today (July 9th) for democracy (braving police roadblocks, hundreds of arrests, water cannon, teargas, etc), in Australia some 750 Malaysian rallied in Melbourne, 300 in Sydney, 200 in Perth, 150 in Adelaide, 40 in Canberra and 100 in Brisbane.