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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 48 events from 13 May 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 12/05/2013 - 4:30pm

Newsletter date: 13 May 2013

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Event: Wed 1 May - Sun 30 June 2013: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Photographer: Barbara McGrady
"Barbara is a Gamilario/Murri woman has been photographing
the social history of contemporary Aboriginal life for over
30 years. From Sports to politics, her vision is a unique
perspective from within a community empowering her
subjects by this virtue alone."
Event details: http://headon.com.au/event/barbara-mcgrady

Event: Fri 10 May until 1 June 2013: Northcote, Melbourne, Vic
The Power and the Passion

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 12

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 12/05/2013 - 10:42am

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20
NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 80 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

South Africa, 20 years after Apartheid, doing better than Australia

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 11/05/2013 - 6:31pm

by Gerry Georgatos - May 11th, 2013
Australia incarcerates its Aboriginal youth at the world’s highest rates, it imprisons one in 14 Western Australian Aboriginal adult males and it removes one in 14 children from Western Australian Aboriginal families into the care of the State, and for Aboriginal peoples the whole of the Northern Territory is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth, and this prison is loosely known as the ‘Intervention’.

Since 1992, the rate of Aboriginal incarceration in Australia has grown 14 times faster than that of non-Aboriginal incarceration.

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Fracking the Canning Basin

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 09/05/2013 - 7:35pm

Gerry Georgatos - Western Australia’s Canning Basin (photo abc.net.au) will soon be talked about as the next resources mining frontier. The James Price Point $40 billion gas hub proposal for all intents and purposes has been dumped but the State’s Premier, Colin Barnett, will pitch the extraction of natural gas from the Canning Basin as the way to go in the pursuit of State revenue. Most of the gas will be exported.

The shale gas deposits of the Canning Basin are among the richest in the world.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 2:29pm

The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Prime Minister believes she will win September 14

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 1:00pm

Every poll nationwide portrays either a decisive or catastrophic defeat for the Australian Labor Party come September. But the Office of the Prime Minister has gone heavy into campaign strategies since late last year according to our source. These include not just make overs for the Prime Minister but the commissioning of their own polls and surveys.

Read the whole story here: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYR3A7W...

Reclaim Our Bodies: Stop exploiting women for profit!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/05/2013 - 3:44pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 19/05/2013 -

4:00pm to 6:45pm

Location:

Brunswick Neighbourhood House, 43a De Carle St, Brunswick

Sunday, May 19, 2.00 – 4.00 pm

Reclaim Our Bodies: Stop exploiting women for profit!

From fast cars to holidays, fashion to junk food, the market turns women into
sexualised objects to lure consumers. Explore how advertising and the media
use sexism, racism and homophobia to sell products and shape how we see
ourselves and others.

Come hear:
• Angeline Ferdinand, queer woman of colour with a special interest in the
health of marginalised people and reproductive justice activism

• Ashley Ihasz, a student, musician, trans woman and committee member of

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Victoria

Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pm

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

In the United States, the Annie Casey Foundation’s report ‘No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration,’ has an assembly of juvenile crime statistics that evidence why locking up children does not work. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rates of adults and children than any other nation.

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War on drugs breaches separation of powers

Submitted by grputland on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 9:11pm

If you are on the jury in a drug trial, and if you are told that the defendant must prove that he/she knew nothing about the drugs, it is your civic duty to put the onus of proof back where it belongs (on the prosecution), raise it to the proper standard (beyond reasonable doubt), and reach a verdict accordingly.

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presumption of innocence

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Melbourne events: Human Rights and the Northern Territory + Film Screening of 'Our Generation'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 7:43pm

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 2 May 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Next Meeting:
Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne:
http://www.isja-msg.com/index.htm
"During 2013, ISJA will meet the
first Thursday of every month."
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm

Event: Fri 3 May 2013: Grovedale, Geelong, Vic
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
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Northern Territory Intervention

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary