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WGAR News: Women's Federation for World Peace Australia support the Statement by Yolnuw Makarr Dhuni

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 17/06/2012 - 3:21pm

Newsletter date: 17 June 2012

Contents:
* Background to support for the Yolngu statement
* WFWP Australia acknowledge and support the Statement by the Yolnuw Makarr Dhuni
* SNAICC: Opposition to Stronger Futures Bills continues to mount
* Dr. Fiona McAllan with endorsement from Aunty Sandra Lee DTAC
* ANTaR Victoria: Abandon the Stronger Futures legislation
* AMA: Re - Statement of the Yolnju Nations Assembly
* ACBC: Catholic Church speaks out on "Stronger Futures" legislation
* Rachel Siewert: Housing comments overlook the needs of homelands

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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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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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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is threatening legal action against the national broadcaster unless an apology is issued and the "defamatory" claims withdrawn.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.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 21 events from 12 June 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/06/2012 - 12:57pm

Newsletter date: 12 June 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 21 events from 12 June 2012

Click on the links for details of the events ...

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Two brothers attempt suicide within 12 hours and AVS officers not called in

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 10/06/2012 - 5:24pm

Gerry Georgatos
Western Australia’s Greenough Prison has at this time no Aboriginal Visitors Scheme (AVS) according to AVS officer Joyce Capewell and confirmed by the Department of Corrective Services (DCS). In February, two young Aboriginal brothers, around 20 years of age, attempted suicide by hanging, were found in their cells and cut down - such is the despair in Greenough Prison which Mrs Capewell describes. The AVS officers were not allowed to assist the brothers.

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WA's first Aboriginal school principal ostracised by the Department of Education

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 10/06/2012 - 3:36pm

Gerry Georgatos
Margie Webb was West Australia’s first Aboriginal female school principal – appointed in 1991 to Glen Hill Primary school. In 2000 Mrs Webb caused a storm by taking on the Department of Education on grounds of discrimination. Once again Mrs Webb is standing solid in her drive to see Indigenous languages at Derby High School. However, Derby High School is refusing to include Indigenous languages under the ‘Languages other than English’ program. LOTE is a requirement, and currently Mrs Webb says there is no LOTE at Derby.

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See it to believe it: 3 minute video clip - two human rights activists charged for singing Christmas Carols

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 10/06/2012 - 12:52pm

Human Rights belong to everyone

Our justice system struggles to find the time to prosecute major criminality however has the time to persecute ordinary folk in the business of awareness-raising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxqt456sqw

Rally outside the Perth Magistrate Court on June 28

Expose about two pro-Palestine activists facing court on June 28, 2012 in Perth, Australia.

Miranda Wood and Alex Bainbridge were charged with trespass for singing modified Christmas carols in December 2011. They face a two day trial beginning 28 June 2012.

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From the cradle to the grave one injustice after another - Rex Bellotti Jr

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 10/06/2012 - 10:11am

Gerry Georgatos
Three and half years have passed since a police-four-wheel-drive struck down 15 year old Rex Bellotti Jr, dragging him underneath the undercarriage of the vehicle, nearly amputing his right leg at the knee which hung on by torn tendons.

The WA Police have languished in their duty to settle the insurance pay out to the Bellotti family who are now bitterly in debt to meet the costs of convalescence for their eldest child, and as they watch the trauma of being blind-sided by the WA Police impact upon their five other children.

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Human Rights Alliance media release - The Australian Government is lying - they told me they knew, and face to face

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 09/06/2012 - 6:43pm

The piecemeal release of a score of Indonesian children from adult prisons is not enough

Another four children have been released from Australian adult prisons, following the three children released several weeks back, and therefore they were wrongly convicted. It is good they are going home to their families.

Country regions right behind the renters rights revolution – now a national movement

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 07/06/2012 - 10:15am

Gerry Georgatos
Renters Alliance (RA) WA coordinator Lea Keenan said that every week now Blackwood residents, renters and some who are home owners, are joining the movement and "are motivated for a united pursuance for legislation to make life fair for everyone."

Rally – August 15 – WA State Parliament – Rallies Australia-wide – October 16 – every capital city and many towns.
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/05/29/renters-rights-rally-wa-august-15-nat...

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