Western Australia

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation — BULLETIN - http://yindjibarndi.org.au/

Wednesday 7 November 2012 - - Following last week’s news that Fortescue Metals Group’s "set up and funded" a native title splinter group to circumvent the Yindjibarndi people’s opposition to Fortescue's defrauding land access ‘agreement’; and reports of how an FMG agent worked as an ‘inside man’ to get FMG’s land access agreement signed "one way or another” —

Gerry Georgatos
Image courtesy Margaret Bertling
John Pat, who was killed by off-duty police officers in Western Australia's Roebourne in 1983 will be remembered in a National John Pat Day next year. Marches and rallies will take place in every major city and in many towns across the nation. It will be 30 years since September 28, 1983 when his life was extinguished during a brutal beating by an inebriated racist police officer. Last week The National Indigenous Times visited Roebourne and met with John Pat’s mother, Mavis Pat.

Gerry Georgatos
The veils and layers of racism are myriad – a trickle of humanity flees from persecution and horrific conditions, from civil strife, to our shores and Australian Governments react with racism, fall into the trap of justifying their racist actions, deeds and words and then normalise the racism and stereotype peoples.

An interesting twilight years (post prime ministerial) interview of Paul Keating by Kerry O'Brien at last year's Sydney Writers Festival - Sunday October 30, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAOPX5A6GXY

(75 minutes)