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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 21 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 2:40pm

Newsletter date: 21 May 2012

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Event: Wed 23 and Thu 24 May 2012: Wollongong, south of Sydney
Interim National Unity Government Assembly
of the Sovereign Union
Held at two locations:
Day 1 – Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong
Day 2 – Sandon Point Aboriginal Embassy
"All Aboriginal nations are being called on to send two
delegates - one man and one woman (if appropriate) to the
inaugural assembly of the Sovereign Union interim National
Unity Government in Wollongong Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24
May. ... "

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Sisters Inside needs our help as the Queensland government has cut funding

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 18/05/2012 - 7:38am

Gerry Georgatos
"For most of these women, the notion of human rights is unheard of. They have lived all their lives believing that they have no rights at all."

The Queensland Liberal-National government has withdrawn $120,000 annual funding from Sisters Inside, a long-time organisation that has provided counselling services for imprisoned women and for those recently released.

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Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 6 events from 16 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 10:07am

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Event: Wed 16 May 2012: Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane
National Day of Action
in solidarity with the people of Broome
"250 police have converged on Broome, Western Australia,
as the WA Government attempts to crush peaceful
community opposition to a proposed industrial complex
at James Price Point on the pristine Kimberley coast."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.kimberleycampaigner.com/stories/national-mobilisation-of-kimb...

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The Australian prison system has failed; warehouses of illness & death. Bring on Bastoy for starters

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:30pm

Gerry Georgatos
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.

The two century old modern day prison experiment is failing, that is if we look at the spiralling incarceration rates, adult and youth, and if we look at re-offending rates, the recidivism.

My PhD research argues that people who enter the prison experience, who are incarcerated for relatively short or long terms leave the prison experience worse than they came in.

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Control bill pushed to target Aboriginal peoples and to erode civil liberties

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 4:09pm

Gerry Georgatos
Australia-wide Aboriginal organisations, communities and rights advocates are more than just apprehensive of the consolidated push by State and Territory governments for the introduction of Criminal Association Control Bills better known as anti-association laws – in Western Australia, the Criminal Organisation Bill 2012 appears that it will be passed and within days.

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Brisbane & Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 7 events from 27 April 2012

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Event: Sat 28 April 2012: Musgrave Park, Brisbane, Qld
Corroboree - Dancers, Music, Speakers
All welcome!
Brisbane Sovereign Embassy
Event details: http://antarqld.org.au/node/164
Event details: http://cultureboy.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/brisbane-sovereign-embassy.html
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.antarqld.org.au/node/165

Event: Wed 2 May 2012: Brisbane, Qld
Constitutional Recognition Forum
Tiga Bayles will MC the forum
Panellists include:
Congress Co-Chairs Les Malezer and Jody Broun
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The importance to activists in Qld of FOI in unearthing police misconduct

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 27/04/2012 - 6:53am

THE IMPORTANCE TO ACTIVISTS IN QLD – OF FOI IN UNEARTHING POLICE MISCONDUCT.

Any activist serious about their role in attempting to change the system is bound to come into contact with the cops sometime in their journey. Often this will be a life changing event opening your eyes to the reality of the way cops see themselves and those that dare to question them and their actions.
As a citizen engaged in social and environmental activism since 1997 in Townsville and North Queensland I have had many such encounters.

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Is a renters revolution nearing?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 24/04/2012 - 5:36pm

Gerry Georgatos
A renters rights movement is gathering momentum in Western Australia with its first impetus surprisingly from the state's South West, and in particular from the Blackwood Valley.

Renters stress hits the Blackwood - time for a renters alliance Australia-wide

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 1:01pm

Gerry Georgatos
We have all heard about mortgage stress however renters' stress has received comparatively little mention according to Lea Keenan, coordinator of the WA Renters Alliance. Ms Keenan said that rising rents are not confined to Perth and the north west however "are just as out of control in the south west."

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How many more suicides before we open our eyes and ears?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 21/04/2012 - 8:00am

Gerry Georgatos
Kabi Kabi Elder, and Bundaberg campus coordinator Nulloo Yumbah at Central Queensland University, Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian said she is devastated by the rising disenfranchisement of Aboriginal youth, and the world's highest suicide rates - of Australia's Aboriginal children.

"Across my desk came a study that reported 'the number of completed Indigenous suicides (in the Kimberley) last year exceeded the Australian Defence Force fatalities in Afghanistan'. I cannot comprehend this statement. It is too much," said Mrs Yavu-Kamu-Harathunian.

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