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WGAR News: Online petition: Call for a moratorium on government Income management

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 24/09/2011 - 1:25pm

Newsletter date: 24 September 2011

Contents:
* Change of venue of 'Rebuilding from the Ground Up' launch with Barb Shaw
* Call for a Moratorium on Government Income Management
* Melbourne’s only Aboriginal school wins fight against closure
* National Sorry Day Committee: National Curriculum Online Petition
* Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians
* Jeff McMullen: Don’t buy the NT Intervention lie
* Review of the book "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Other articles

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Change of venue of 'Rebuilding from the Ground Up' Sydney launch with Barb Shaw

Melbourne’s only Aboriginal school wins fight against closure

National Sorry Day Committee - National Curriculum Online Petition

Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians

Jeff McMullen - Don’t buy the NT Intervention lie

Review of the book 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 34 events from 24 September 2011

Global 24 hours of action for Australia's forests. Join us on 8 Oct 2011 and say No Harvey No!

Submitted by thelaststand on Thu, 15/09/2011 - 4:35pm

On Saturday 8 October in Australia (which might be your 7th or 8th Oct depending on timezone) join us to stand up for our forests at Harvey Norman stores and other locations across Australia and the planet and say

No Harvey Norman No! Stop selling Aussie forest destruction!

Australia's world-class forests are still being ripped apart by industrial logging operations every single day. The destruction of our native forests is placing our threatened species, clean air and water, and climate in serious danger.

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Support imprisoned Tassie Forest activist Ali Alishah

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 13/09/2011 - 9:09pm

Ali Alishah is a Tasmanian forest activist who is spending his second week in custody after standing up for what is right in Tasmania. What is not right in Tasmania is the proposed pulp mill, the continued logging of old growth and high conservation value forests, and the logging company Ta Ann. Ali Alishah has been fighting to protect ancient forests in Tasmania for over eight years.

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Code Green demands exit from BenLomond

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 8:11pm

Code Green media statement August 25th 2011 10 members of environmental community group CODE GREEN have blockaded a logging coupe in East Ben Lomond in Tasmania’s northeast. Tasmania Police and Forestry Tasmania are on-site and have instated a 4.5 km radius exclusion zone. The protesters have been directed to leave the exclusion zone and nine members of the demonstration have complied. A protester is still suspended from a tree-sit thirty metres up a Black Peppermint Gum attached to three machines.

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Call for immediate native forest protection in protest outside state labour conference

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/08/2011 - 2:17pm

15 members of the community based direct action group Code Green have today staged a dramatic protest outside the state labour conference in Launceston. Two activists scaled 12m high flagpoles outside the Country Club Casino and unfurled a banner calling for the immediate placement of 572 000 ha of high conservation value native forest into formal reserves.

“The current Heads of Agreement deal does nothing to ensure the formal protection of Tasmania’s unique native forests and only delivers a short term band-aid for a failed forest industry,”* Code Green spokesperson Ali Alishah said.

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Two protestors arrested in Artec woodchip mill shutdown

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 29/07/2011 - 7:19pm

Two female protesters from CODE GREEN have been released on bail from the George Town police station this afternoon after shutting down the Artec ancient forest woodchip mill facility at Bell Bay.

Sarah Doornbusch 28, a veterinary support officer in Launceston and Dinah Too,21 studying furniture design at UTAS in Launceston were acting as environmental advocates for Tasmania's ancient forests.

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Platypus feeling the heat of climate change

Submitted by takver on Sat, 23/07/2011 - 3:08pm

Some of Australia's most iconic animals are feeling the heat of climate change and global warming. New scientific research shows the Platypus is under threat due to increasing summer temperatures. The scientific paper - Early response of the platypus to climate warming - is to be published in the international scientific journal 'Global Change Biology' later this year.

Related: Scientists have already reported that Koalas face starvation, extinction due to climate change

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Conservationists arrested protesting logging in Tasmania and Sarawak by Malaysian Company Ta Ann

Submitted by takver on Sun, 17/07/2011 - 4:59pm

Conservationists have today participated in a protest on Hobart's wharf, where a vessel is being loaded for the Malaysian logging company Ta Ann. The protest highlights the ongoing loss of high conservation value temperate forests in Tasmania and the rapacious logging of tropical rainforests of Borneo and destructon of habitat for Orangutan and dispossession of the indigenous Penan people from their ancestral forests and lands.

"Four conservationists have attached themselves to the vessel, we are participating in today's non violent protest to highlight the ongoing loss of high conservation value forests," Huon Valley Environment Centre's Jenny Weber said.

Youtube video | Photos of the action

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