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Queensland events: Ration Shed + Nat'l Indigenous Health Conf + Aboriginal service providers workshop

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/11/2013 - 4:57pm

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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: 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

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 40 events from 4 November 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/11/2013 - 4:40pm

Newsletter date: 4 November 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: Now Open [as of 4 Nov 13]: Parkes, Canberra, ACT
Insurgence
Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
"The Insurgence exhibition explores art, with all its
revolutionary potential, deployed as a platform for politics."
"The museum welcomes all voices in the House-
Insurgence is the voice of proppaNOW. Insurgence builds on

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indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 38 events from 22 October 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 19/10/2013 - 8:19pm

Newsletter date: 20 October 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: Tue 22 October 2013: Perth, WA
Free seminars - Engaging Indigenous communities and improving community governance
"Closing the Gap is hosting free seminars in Perth and Canberra
discussing the evidence on engaging with Indigenous communities
and improving community governance."
Dr Janet Hunt, Australian National University

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Queensland events: Ration Shed Tours + National Indigenous Health Conference: Many Pathways, One Outcome

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 19/10/2013 - 6:37pm

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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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

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aboriginal
Stolen Generations
Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary
Voice and Reason
Gallery of Modern Art
GOMA
2014 Indigenous Women Conference
2014 Indigenous Men Conference

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 42 events from 7 October 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 07/10/2013 - 9:53am

Newsletter date: 7 October 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: 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."

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human rights
aboriginal

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 48 events from 30 September 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 29/09/2013 - 1:22pm

Newsletter date: 30 September 2013

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Event: 29th September 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Murru: In Memory of John Pat Album Launch
"Big hART and the community of Ieramugadu (Roebourne)
proudly present the Album Launch of Murru
- a music collaboration between John Bennett, Shellie Morris,
Emma Donovan, Archie Roach, Lucky Oceans, Harry Hookey,
Bill Chambers, the Last Kinection, Trevor Jamieson,

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 29/09/2013 - 10:42am

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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

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How many more suicides will it take?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 20/09/2013 - 10:58pm

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 19/09/2013 - 2:21pm

Newsletter date: 20 September 2013

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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

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protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 1:26pm

Newsletter date: 5 September 2013

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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,

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