Guest Speaker to be announced.
No admissions charged - you pay for your own food and drink.
Seating limited: Booking Essential. Bookings close 20th November
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Event: Ongoing protest: Glenroy, Melbourne, Vic
Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
This Koori Pathways School is under threat
"The Local Indigenous Community is campaigning to keep the Glenroy Koorie Pathway School on Wurundjeri Country at its current Hilton Street Glenroy site."
Campaign Updates: http://ballerrtmooroop.org/
Event: Wed 7 September 2011: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Indigenous Social Justice Association:
Discussion of Justice Reinvestment
Newsletter date: 14 August 2011
Contents:
* Tracker Magazine is now online
* Government 'Strategic Review of Indigenous Expenditure' made public
* Jenny Macklin's address to the Sydney Institute
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Aboriginal imprisonment rates & deaths in custody
* Land Rights and Native Title
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 14 August 2011
* Other articles
* TRACKER MAGAZINE IS NOW ONLINE:
- New website
Protestors have continued to try and disrupt logging at Sylvia Creek in the Toolangi State Forest in Victoria with tree-sits delaying logging on both Monday and Tuesday of this week.
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Event: 27 May to Sun 9 October 2011: Kalgoorlie, WA
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow - Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...
Event: 3 July to Sun 25 September 2011: Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: FREEDOM RIDERS - Art and activism 1960s to now
Sydney University Art Gallery
Roger Davey is the CEO of EnviroMission Limited, an Australian company developing Solar Tower renewable energy technology on a global scale. Enviromission has secured a 200MW Power Purchase Agreement with the Southern Californian Public Power Authority to deliver power from the first of two planned Solar Tower developments in Arizona.
Newsletter date: 6 August 2011
Contents:
* Gurindji Walkoff from Wave Hill - 45th Anniversary Commemoration in Kalkarindji/Daguragu, NT
* Sydney Rally on Gurindji Freedom Day - Fri 26 Aug 2011
* Video of Richard Downs and Ngarla Kunoth-Monks at UN Indigenous Forum
* Interviews with Dorinda Hafner and Alistair Nicholson about the NT Intervention consultations
* Background to the 2011 round of consultations in the NT over the Intervention
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 24 events from 6 August 2011
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
Newsletter date: 2 August 2011
Contents:
* Aboriginal voices criticize NT intervention at consultations
* Interview with Dr. Lynn Arnold about the NT Intervention
* Background to the 2011 round of consultations in the NT over the Intervention
* Forty organisations oppose income management in Bankstown
* Interview with Prof. Sir Michael Marmot about impacts on people's health
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 21 events from 2 August 2011
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
On July 27th The Gunditjmara and Eastern Maar peoples were y granted native title ownership of Deen Maar Island, also known as Lady Julia Percy Island, and 4000 hectares of Crown land between Dunkeld and Yambuk on Victoria's south-west coast. The announcement came after a 15 year long legal struggle. The decision was handed down by Justice North at a special hearing of the Federal Court held at the Yambuk.
Newsletter date: 30 July 2011
Contents:
* Gurindji tell consultations meeting: 'stop the Intervention immediately'
* Background to the 2011 round of consultations in the NT over the Intervention
* Update on Kimberley gas hub protest
* Survey: 88% of NCAFP members want constitutional recognition
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* Minister meets with Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust community
* Background to blockade by Aboriginal women of Lake Tyers
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 21 events
