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WGAR News: 'Listen to us - negotiate with us.' - Central Land Council statement at Kalkaringi NT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 10/09/2011 - 1:28pm

Newsletter date: 10 September 2011

13 September 2011 - Fourth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html

Contents:
* Central Land Council statement, Kalkaringi, 26 August 2011
* Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT: 'Response to Stronger Futures'
* Perth launch of book: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Interview with Barbara Shaw about the NT Intervention
* Poems by Isobel Phillips, Muckaty Traditional Owner
* Paddy Dujack and Gus George at Wave Hill homestead

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT: 'Response to Stronger Futures'

Perth launch of book: 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Interview with Barbara Shaw about the NT Intervention

Poems by Isobel Phillips - Muckaty Traditional Owner

Paddy Dujack and Gus George at Wave Hill homestead

ANTaR: 'Support NT communities to shape their own development'

Eva Cox: 'Government ignores evidence of policy failure on Aboriginal issues'

ANTaR: 'Practical action needed now to address ‘national shame’ of Aboriginal imprisonment'

Video: An Aboriginal community from pre-colonial times to the 1990s

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 34 events from 10 September 2011

Sign Up Letter For Container Deposit Legislation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/09/2011 - 12:00pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 06/09/2011 - 11:45am to Sun, 02/10/2011 - 12:00am

Location:

Victoria

Contact Name:

Anthony Amis

Contact Phone:

9419 8700

Contact Email:

anthonyamis@hotmail.com

Container Deposit Legislation Sign on Letter (Please sign by October 1, 2011)

Dear Friend,

Geography:

Victoria

WGAR News: Petition calling for a national moratorium on government’s income management

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 06/09/2011 - 11:57am

Newsletter date: 6 September 2011

Contents:
* Indigenous groups challenge 'Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination'
* Petition calling for a moratorium on Income Management
* Upcoming 'Save the Kimberley' events
* Environmentalists: Kimberley Heritage listing inadequate
* AMSANT: Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker
* Unions support Aboriginal opposition to nuclear waste dump
* Remembering Wave Hill Walk-Off
* Sydney activists celebrate Wave Hill Walk-Off
* "Walk With Us" presents views of NT Elders on Intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Indigenous groups challenge 'Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination'

Upcoming 'Save the Kimberley' events

Environmentalists - Kimberley Heritage listing inadequate

AMSANT - Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker

Unions support Aboriginal opposition to nuclear waste dump at Muckaty

Remembering Wave Hill Walk-Off

Sydney activists celebrate Wave Hill Walk-Off

'Walk With Us' presents views of NT Elders on Intervention

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 33 events from 6 September 2011

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 4 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 04/09/2011 - 7:55am

Newsletter date: 4 September 2011

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Ongoing protest: James Price Point, Kimberley, WA
Kimberley gas plant protest
Save the Kimberley info: http://www.savethekimberley.com/
Kimberley gas plant threatens Aboriginal culture: http://ccr.uws.edu.au/2011/06/22/kimberley-gas-plant-threatens-aborigina...
Aboriginal elder Elsta Foy at the protest camp: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3296152.htm
Protest updates: http://www.savethekimberley.com/wp/blog/

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Northern Territory Intervention

Our Generation film screenings

Upcoming Melbourne & Vic Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 6 events from 7 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 03/09/2011 - 6:25pm

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Event: Wed 7 September 2011: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Indigenous Social Justice Association:
Discussion of Justice Reinvestment
"On to 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission into
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody ANTAR issued a statement
criticising the lack of progress and putting forward a
range of strategies, including Justice Reinvestment,
a program being trialed in a number of U.S. States.
This meeting will discuss this program and evaluate its
usefulness in the Australian context"

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Injunction halts logging at Sylvia Creek for next three weeks

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/08/2011 - 10:20pm

On August 25th a three week interim injunction was granted in the Victorian Supreme court on logging at Sylvia Creek/Gun Barrel coup after an application by the My Environment conservation group that the logging coupes contain habitat of the endangered Leadbeater's possum and should be protected under state law.

Geography:

Victoria

Keywords:

Save Syliva Creek

logging protest Victoria

5 Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 30 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 2:16pm

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Event: Tue 30 August 2011: Carlton, Melbourne, Vic
Book launch: "Walk With Us"
- Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
To be launched by Hon Sally Brown and Melissa Brickell
Brought to you by 'concerned Australians': http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
Event details: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/WWU_booklaunches.html
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/melbourne-book-launch-of-walk-with-us-aboriginal...
Event details: [scroll down page] http://stoptheintervention.org/

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Melbourne book launch Walk With Us - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

More arrests and court action to Save Sylvia Creek

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 24/08/2011 - 5:40pm

Two more people have been arrested at Sylvia Creek on the 23rd of August bring the total number of arrests to 16 at the blockade. The pair locked on to a logging truck holding up logging on the site in the Toolangi State Forest for 3 hours. The site represents some of the only old growth forests to have survived the Black Saturday fire intact and is also habitat for the endangered Leadbeaters Possum.

Geography:

Victoria

Keywords:

Save Sylvia Creek

logging protest Victoria

WGAR News: Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 23/08/2011 - 4:41pm

Newsletter date: 23 August 2011

Contents:
* Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Research review: 'Does new evidence from NT women undermine supposed benefits of income management?'
* Interview with Equality Rights Alliance's Emma Davidson
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 23 August 2011
* Muckaty Voices and Our Generation screening at 'Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival'
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Research review: 'Does new evidence from NT women undermine supposed benefits of income management?'

Interview with Equality Rights Alliance's Emma Davidson

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 23 August 2011

Muckaty Voices and Our Generation screening at 'Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival'

Reflex paper stripped of FSC certification

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 23/08/2011 - 7:06am

The Wilderness Society of Victoria reports on its website that Reflex Paper has been stripped of its Forest Stewardship Council rating because of its use of native forests in Victoria's Central Highlands. This is a boost to the campaign to protect these forests and force Reflex and their corpoate customers like Officework to stop loggin our forests. It is also a boost to local campaigns such as the fight to save Sylivia Creek and Cement Creek currently being fought in Victoria.

Geography:

Victoria

Keywords:

Logging Victoria

Reflex paper