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

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 13/12/2012 - 10:23am

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.

The National Indigenous Times – ‘voice to the voiceless’

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/12/2012 - 7:49pm

Published at Indymedia courtesy of the National Indigenous Times (12.12.2012) - Photo courtesy of the National Indigenous Times, by Geoff Bagnall; January 26, Lobby Restaurant

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 11/12/2012 - 9:55am

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

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 06/12/2012 - 10:34am

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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Melbourne

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

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 06/12/2012 - 10:19am

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,

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74th Anniversary of Australian Aborigines League Walk (Melbourne) + other Melbourne events

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 01/12/2012 - 2:15pm

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 13 events from 6 December 2012

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 13 events from 6 December 2012

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 29 events from 5 December 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 01/12/2012 - 10:05am

Newsletter date: 1 December 2012

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Event: Wed 5 December 2012, 12pm: Canberra, ACT
Memorial for Aunty Isabell
"A MEMORIAL day will be held at the
National Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra
on 5 December in honour of the late
Aboriginal rights campaigner Isabell Coe,
who died on 10 November."
"There will be a Smoking Ceremony"
Event summary: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/actindnetwork/message/20106
Event summary: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/actindnetwork/message/20113

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Australia's largest proposed wind farm on King Island to supply electricity to Victoria

Submitted by takver on Wed, 28/11/2012 - 4:26pm

Hydro Tasmania unveiled plans last night to a public meeting on King Island in Bass Strait for Australia's largest proposed wind farm - a 200 turbine wind farm project called TasWind. The wind farm will produce 600MW of power, enough to supply power for nearly half a million households. The project is estimated to be worth $2 billion.

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17TH ANNIVERSARY OF CRITICAL MASS MELBOURNE

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 27/11/2012 - 10:05pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 30/11/2012 -

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

State Library

Contact Name:

Bee

Contact Phone:

0434565247

Contact Email:

betski@live.co.uk

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/events/302712856500337/

Every month cyclists in over 200 cities throughout the world ride to celebrate bike awareness and pollution-free transit.

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Melbourne

WGAR News: Don’t abandon us as you did in other Royal Commissions (By NIT reporter Geoff Bagnall)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 27/11/2012 - 11:21am

Newsletter date: 27 November 2012

Contents:
* Geoff Bagnall: Don’t abandon us as you did in other Royal Commissions
* Gerry Georgatos: Conflict allegations surface in Yindjibarndi, Fortescue battle
* Background to the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC)
* SBS World News Australia: Indigenous domestic violence concerns UN
* Speech by Muriel Bamblett at Melbourne launch of 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* Adelaide CBD Book Launch to mark International Human Rights Day: 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles

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Gerry Georgatos - Conflict allegations surface in Yindjibarndi Fortescue battle

SBS World News Australia - Indigenous domestic violence concerns UN

Speech by Muriel Bamblett at Melbourne launch of A Decision to Discriminate

Adelaide CBD Book Launch to mark International Human Rights Day - A Decision to Discriminate

Tracker - Native title is flawed - activists

Jon Altman - Evidently - Rudd’s quiet revolution gets noisier