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The Stringer weekly newsletter - June 29

NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20. Four months young The Stringer has been reaching a growing readership, nationally and internationally. In the three months since March 1, The Stringer on average has had 12,340 new visitors each month with May recording 15,072 new visitors.

The downfall of Prime Minister Julia Gillard began with broken promises on the Intervention and the lies about the Lobby restaurant incident

- The following article has been republished on a number of sites in various formats, originally from various versions on The Stringer and in The National Indigenous Times. - Gerry Georgatos' investigations reveal the beginning of the end for Julia Gillard as Australia’s Prime Minister started with the revelations of the involvement of the Office of the Prime Minister to use the 40th anniversary Aboriginal Tent Embassy celebrations to wedge Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott. Gerry broke the story nationally that parliamentary staffer, Tony Hodges did not act alone.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 61 events from 28 June 2013

Newsletter date: 28 June 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: 27 June - 1 August 2013: Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW
Koori Radio 93.7FM and Carriageworks present:
LIVE AND DEADLY
20 years of the Gadigal Information Service
"For 20 years Gadigal Information Service
(incorporating Koori Radio 93.7FM) has been
broadcasting the news and views of Aboriginal
Australia from its home in Redfern. From Keating’s

SA events: Protest the Basics Card! Not In Playford, Not Anywhere + Candle Light Walk + NAIDOC Week

Adelaide and South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Mon 1 July 2013: Smithfield, SA
Protest the Basics Card!
NO Compulsory Income Management!
Not In Playford, Not Anywhere!
"To mark the one-year anniversary of the so-called
"trial" of compulsory income management in the
City of Playford, and the introduction of TWO NEW
categories of income management,
SIMPla (Stop Income Management in Playford) calls
for all opposed to this heavy-handed, unjust, wasteful

"This system has made it much harder for us to share and care for each other" - After 6 years of NT intervention

By Barbara Shaw - Six years ago my family watched the TV in my living room as John Howard announced he would be sending in the military and taking control of our communities.

I have never been more frightened in my life. I locked the gate of my town camp and kept the kids inside for two weeks for fear of them being taken. I worried constantly about my family out bush who didn't understand what was coming.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - June 21

NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20. Four months young The Stringer has been reaching a growing readership, nationally and internationally. In the three months since March 1, The Stringer on average has had 12,340 new visitors each month with May recording 15,072 new visitors.

Adelaide events: Justice and Peace Candle Light Walks + NAIDOC Week: Gladys Elphick Awards

Adelaide and South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

http://indymedia.org.au/2013/06/05/adelaide-events-justice-and-peace-can...

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Event: Fri 5 July 2013: Adelaide, SA
150th 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

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 54 events from 21 June 2013

Newsletter date: 21 June 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: Fri 21 June 2013: South Brisbane, Qld
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST a film by David Noakes
Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy Family Night
"The story of the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers’ strike
An event more important than the Eureka Stockade but
never recorded in written histories - the passive resistance
by 800 Aboriginal station workers, from 23 different

The US Wants Syrian Oil, Not Democracy

By Carl Gibson - 18 June, 2013

"... the Persian Gulf, the critical oil and natural gas-producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available only at very high prices." -John Bolton, George W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations

All the hubbub over Syria is all about oil. And if you don't believe me, believe John Bolton.