Victoria

Gas fired power stations for NSW and Victoria placed on hold as demand slumps

EnergyAustralia has announced shelving plans for construction of a 1000MW gas fired power station in the Latrobe Valley at it's Yallourn site saying that low wholesale energy prices and reduced electricity demand did not make the project viable. EnergyAustralia is a division of Hong Kong-based utility CLP Holdings Ltd.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 28 events from 23 December 2012

Newsletter date: 23 December 2012

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Event: 10 December 2012 to 10 January 2013: Online
Our Generation film
Film released free online
"To mark the International Day for Human Rights
(10 Dec), we have uploaded the original version
of the film to watch for free online.
It will be available to view until 10 Jan 2013."
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/news/film-released-free-online-1
About the film: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
Film Reviews: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/09/24/our-generation-film-reviews

Coal protest: activists scale Yallourn power station cooling tower

Late last week two intrepid climate change activists scaled one of the cooling towers at Yallourn coal fired power station in Victoria's La Trobe Valley. In the end they spent 30 hours on the cooling tower, the longest power station occupation of it's kind in Australia, finally coming down voluntarily to be arrested and charged with various offences. The protest highlighted the enormous multi-million compensation being given by the Australian Government to power operators for the imposition of the carbon tax. The brown coal fired power stations in Victoria's La Trobe valley are some of the dirtiest most carbon emissions polluting power stations in Australia and the world.

Related: Quit Coal | Latrobe Valley Coal power and Climate change | Further subsidies for Victorian coal by Victorian and Federal Governments | Electricity Demand and Emissions Falling in Eastern Australia | Climate IMC: Doha climate change talks fail to cut emissions while weakened Kyoto Protocol extended to 2020

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Melbourne events: Belgrave Survival Day Concert + Share the Spirit Indigenous music festival

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 11 January 2013

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Event: 10 December 2012 to 10 January 2013: Online
Our Generation film
Film released free online
"To mark the International Day for Human Rights
(10 Dec), we have uploaded the original version
of the film to watch for free online.
It will be available to view until 10 Jan 2013."
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/news/film-released-free-online-1
About the film: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about

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[WGAR-news] Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 27 events from 17 December 2012

Newsletter date: 17 December 2012

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Event: 10 December 2012 to 10 January 2013: Online
Our Generation film
Film released free online
"To mark the International Day for Human Rights
(10 Dec), we have uploaded the original version
of the film to watch for free online.
It will be available to view until 10 Jan 2013."
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/news/film-released-free-online-1
About the film: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
Film Reviews: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/09/24/our-generation-film-reviews

Michelle Lovegrove (SBS) interviews journalist Gerry Georgatos returned from Roebourne & Yindjibarndi CEO Michael Woodley

SBS Living Black Michelle Lovegrove interviews Gerry Georgatos on stark contrasts between Yindjibarndi poverty and the wealth nearby, and then Michelle continues on with an interview with Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation CEO Michael Woodley.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJhYnV5Tk1VVG5MYnNUQw

This interviews says quite a lot about it everything wrong in the Pilbara and for Indigenous people all over Australia.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 11 December 2012

Newsletter date: 11 December 2012

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Event: 10 December 2012 to 10 January 2013: Online
Our Generation film
Film released free online
"To mark the International Day for Human Rights
(10 Dec), we have uploaded the original version
of the film to watch for free online."
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/news/film-released-free-online-1
About the film: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
Film Reviews: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/09/24/our-generation-film-reviews

Event: 11 December 2012: Northcote, Melbourne, Vic

Melbourne events: (Inter)national day of solidarity for the Kimberley + Redfern Speech 20 years on

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 15 events from 6 December 2012

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Event: Thu 6 December 2012:
Footscray, East Melbourne, Melbourne CBD, & Elsternwick, Vic
74th Anniversary of Australian Aborigines
League Walk & William Cooper Book Launch
"On the 6th of December 1938, William Cooper
and members of the Australian Aborigines League
walked from his home in Footscray to the German
Consulate to present a resolution condemning the
treatment of Jews. On this day in 2012, the walk

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 35 events from 6 December 2012

Newsletter date: 6 December 2012

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Event: 5-7 December 2012: Gold Coast, Qld
2012 National Indigenous Health Conference
Many Pathways, One Outcome
" ... is designed to bring together both government
and non-government agencies who are working
in the field of Indigenous health with the belief
that working together can close the gap between
the state of Indigenous Health as compared to
the health of mainstream Australians."
"Organiser Maria Edubas says issues including
children's health, the prevention of chronic disease,