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WGAR News: "Brisbane City Council to try to forcibly remove Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy" MR

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 10:38am

Newsletter date: 16 May 2012

Contents:
* The Wire: Aboriginal passport for refugees
* MR: Brisbane City Council to try to forcibly remove Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
* Gerry Georgatos: Police amassing at James Price Point [north of Broome, Kimberley, WA]
* Socialist Party: WA: Support the Nyoongar Tent Embassy! [Heirisson Island, Perth, WA]
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Interview with Elder Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra on Stronger Futures bill
* Rachel Siewert: Greens: Intervention funding could be stripped from existing programs

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The Wire - Aboriginal passport for refugees

MR - Brisbane City Council to try to forcibly remove Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Gerry Georgatos - Police amassing at James Price Point

Socialist Party - WA - Support the Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Interview with Elder Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra on Stronger Futures bill

Rachel Siewert - Greens - Intervention funding could be stripped from existing programs

3CR Radioactive Show - Lizards Revenge Festival

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 15 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 15/05/2012 - 1:05pm

Newsletter date: 15 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 32 events from 15 May 2012

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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."

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Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge (South Australia)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 13/05/2012 - 3:08pm

Last updated: 5 December 2013

STOP PRESS!

WGAR News: ... (5 Dec 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/12/04/wgar-news-forty-uranium-mines-is-the-...
"Contents:
* Ryan Emery, SBS Radionews: Elder pleads with BHP "don't make me bankrupt"
* Ryan Emery & Greg Dyett, SBS Radionews: Indigenous elder appeals to BHP Billiton
* Babs McHugh, ABC Rural: Aboriginal elder Kevin Buzzacott gets no answer from BHP AGM ... "

WGAR News: ABC News: Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott loses legal fight against Olympic Dam mine expansion (27 Oct 13)

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The Australian - Aboriginal elder loses bid to block $30bn Olympic Dam mine expansion

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ABC News - Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott loses legal fight against Olympic Dam mine expansion

WGAR News: More organisations state support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly Statement

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 6:03pm

Newsletter date: 11 May 2012

Contents:
* Quakers in Australia support Yolngu Nations Assembly rejection of Stronger Futures Bills
* Josephite SA Reconciliation Circle in support of Yolgnu Nations Statement
* CRA: Catholic Religious support the Yolngu Nations Statement
* Women for Wik respectfully support the Yolgnu Elders' Statement
* STICS: From the bush to Bankstown - communities prepare to fight 'Stronger Futures' implementation
* Presentation Sisters Victoria - Letter to the Hon. Jenny Macklin
* Public Statement protesting against the Stronger Futures Bills

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Quakers in Australia support Yolngu Nations Assembly rejection of Stronger Futures Bills

Josephite SA Reconciliation Circle in support of Yolgnu Nations Statement

CRA - Catholic Religious support the Yolngu Nations Statement

Women for Wik respectfully support the Yolgnu Elders' Statement

STICS - From the bush to Bankstown - communities prepare to fight Stronger Futures implementation

Presentation Sisters Victoria - Letter to the Hon Jenny Macklin

Public Statement protesting against the Stronger Futures Bills

WFFR - Stronger Futures (SF) legislation is No Future

Amy McQuire - Sydney Launch of NT Consultations Report 2011

UnitingJustice - Uniting Church calls on Senators not to pass Stronger Futures legislation

Josephites urge Senate to reject Stronger Futures Bill?

Michael Brull - Shameful second intervention slips under the radar

Rachel Siewert - Greens set for debate on NT Intervention expansion

Road Trip for Change - Step Out(back) and Learn from Country

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 9:54pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 03/07/2012 - 9:00am to Fri, 20/07/2012 - 9:00pm

Location:

Bendigo Students of Sustainability Conference and Roxby Downs for the Lizards Revenge Music/Art Festival

Website:

www.roadtripforchange.org

If you're keen for something different these winter holidays then come on an inspirational journey with us like-minded crew! We're heading out-back to learn about this amazing place we live in and sharpen our skills to stand up for country.

In July the South Australian Student Environment Network will be running a series of epic road trips that will take you on a journey of learning from Adelaide to Australia’s biggest grass roots Environment Conference: Students of Sustainability (SoS), then via the great SA outback to Roxby Downs for the Lizards Revenge Music/Art festival.

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Lizard's Revenge - Shut Down Roxby 14.7.2012

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 9:16pm

Recently BHP Billiton announced it proposal to expand the Olympic Dam Uranium Mine in South Australia to become the largest open pit and uranium mine in the world. Traditional owner Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and activist/musician Izzy Brown are organizing the Lizard's Revenge. On 14th July people are gathering for three days to shut down Roxby Downs which is irreversibly poisoning the land and water, contaminating its workers and spreading its deadly export to the Fukishimas of tomorrow and to war zones in the form of Depleted Uranium. As well as blockading the Lizard Festival will include solar and wind powered cinema, Theatre, Cabaret and Art installations, and over 20 musical acts.

Sleeping underneath the ground there is an old lizard, Kalta the sleepy lizard. The lizard ain't so sleepy anymore. Stand up and boogie down at the Gates of Olympic Dam 14th July 2012
Related Interview with organiser Izzy Brown -- Lizard's Revenge on Facebook -- Lizard's Revenge Indymedia event -- RoxStop Action Website -- May 18th Perth Dinnner and Talk -- June 2nd Sydney Fundraiser -- Road trip for change: July 3rd-20th

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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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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 8 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 1:23pm

Newsletter date: 8 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 30 events from 8 May 2012

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Event: 8 May 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Public Consultation:
National Anti-Racism Partnership Strategy
"Want to hear your thoughts on how racism
affects the community and what we should
be doing about it."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/events/index.html#may

Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud

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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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WGAR News: Yolngu Nations Assembly Statement concerning 'Stronger Futures' laws and NT policies

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 04/05/2012 - 12:01pm

Newsletter date: 4 May 2012

Contents:
* Yolngu Nations Assembly Statement
* Pro Bono: Is Income Management Working?
* Sydney launch of "NT Consultations Report 2011: By Quotations" - 4 May 2012
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Northern Murray-Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN) website
* Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) website
* Video: Uncle Kevin Buzzacott at the Federal Court's decision
* Michael Anderson: Gomeroi activism stops Woolworths in Moree ...

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Pro Bono - Is Income Management Working?

Sydney launch of NT Consultations Report 2011 - By Quotations - 4 May 2012

Northern Murray-Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN) website

Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) website