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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 2 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 01/07/2012 - 6:27pm

Newsletter date: 1 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 25 events from 2 July 2012

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Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Curated by Sandy Edwards
Head On Photo Festival
""The photographs are excellent. They are a moving
portrayal of Aboriginal Australia that all Australians
aught to know about on an issue that wont go away."
- John Pilger, Writer and Filmmaker, January 2012"

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Videos: Rally against Baillieu new coal plans and HRL coal power station

Submitted by takver on Fri, 29/06/2012 - 10:20am

June 28, 2012: Up to 300 People gathered on the steps of the Victorian Parliament house to show opposition to new coal projects which would destroy prime farmland and triple Victoria's contribution to greenhouse pollution.

Residents from Bacchus Marsh and south Gippsland attended to show their opposition to new coal mining projects and plans to use an experimental drying technology by Exergen to open up further mining and the export of brown coal.

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Dexamphetamine and ADHD cons - Mental health policies must move from medication to recovery

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 20/06/2012 - 11:15am

Gerry Georgatos
"In Western Australia, 1989, 880 people were prescribed stimulant medication (for ADHD). By the year 2000 this had increased to 20,648, with the WA Health Department estimating 18,000 prescriptions having been issued to children. By 2002 WA prescription rates were amongst the highest in the world, exceeding the US national average,” said Martin Whitely.

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Carbon capture and storage and the Melbourne earthquake

Submitted by takver on Wed, 20/06/2012 - 4:27am

Melbourne: Did the earth move for you last night? It did for me. Melbourne experienced one of the strongest earthquakes for many many years. Now consider what it might do if we had a couple of billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) geosequested beneath Southern Victoria and under Bass Strait. Because that is what Premier Ted Baillieu and Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson have planned.

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Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam, an alliance of views calling out to the Australian consciousness

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 11:07am

On Jun 06, 2012 former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser delivered the 2012 Whitlam Oration to the Whitlam Institute in Sydney. Despite the chasm of differences and political ambitions of Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam they are both a far cry from the bottom of the barrel politics and personal ambitions of some our nation's contemporary crop of most prominent politicians.

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Malcolm Fraser writes Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison have nothing to be proud about in their race to the bottom of the barrel

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 10:20am

From occasional commentator and former PM, Malcom Fraser, via http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/abbotts-evil-policy-work-20120617...

The Coalition's latest asylum seeker plan is inhumane and lacks integrity.

TONY Abbott and Scott Morrison recently stood in front of Australia and proudly presented the Coalition's plan to ''ensure integrity and restore confidence in refugee assessment''. There is not much to be proud about in this policy. The announcement was based on misinformed and misleading information that plays straight into the unfounded public fear of asylum seekers.

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 7 events from 21 June 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 17/06/2012 - 3:57pm

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Event: Thu 21 June 2012: Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic
Arena Magazine and Arena Journal, and
concerned Australians invite you to attend
INTERVENTION
A Public Forum on the Northern Territory Intervention
into Indigenous communities and the
Stronger Futures legislation.
Chair: Gary Foley
Speakers:
* Professor Jon Altman
* Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
* The Hon. Alastair Nicholson
* Barbara Shaw
Incorporating the launch of:
Arena Magazine’s special issue on the NT Intervention
and Arena Journal’s special issue on settler colonialism

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Melbourne

Victoria

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 19 events from 17 June 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 17/06/2012 - 3:03pm

Newsletter date: 17 June 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 19 events from 17 June 2012

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Hazara refugee threatens to sue ABC over Four Corners story

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 14/06/2012 - 6:10am

by: Paul Maley, National Security Correspondent
From: The Australian June 14, 2012
A HAZARA refugee named on the ABC's Four Corners program as an "agent" of people-smugglers is threatening legal action against the national broadcaster unless an apology is issued and the "defamatory" claims withdrawn.

Medhi Rezaiee was named as collecting a payment on behalf of his brother, Mohammed Ali, as part of a Four Corners program into people-smuggling activities in Australia.

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 10 events from 13 June 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/06/2012 - 1:03pm

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Event: Wed 13 June 2012: Carlton South, Melbourne, Vic
Lizards Revenge - Info Night (Melbourne)
"Come along to have your questions answered &
find out more about the Lizards revenge DIY
music, arts blockade/festival in South Australia
14-18 July. Find out more about Transport,
logistics, actions & legals. We will have speakers
spoken word performances & a short film."
Event details: http://www.facebook.com/events/370448663002867/
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/51194

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Melbourne

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