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UFO photographed over Bridgetown

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 30/04/2012 - 8:56am

Gerry Georgatos
In recent times the Blackwood region has become a hotspot for UFO sightings and recently a Bridgetown resident photographed a UFO in Bridgetown's sky.

77 year old Robert Meldrum lives on one of the highest vantages of Bridgetown, near the well-known Bridgetown Lookout, and his front verandah is a pilgramage to one of the great views of the valley town. He and his wife retired to Bridgetown ten years ago. Mr Meldrum is an avid photographer who on the afternoon of Sunday April 22 was shooting photographs of cloud formations from his front verandah.

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Accusations flying thick and fast over Aboriginal Heritage Act

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 27/04/2012 - 5:02pm

Gerry Georgatos
Accusations are flying thick and fast at the Western Australian government's proposed overhaul of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. The Act was intended to protect sacred sites however it appears it will become easier for the mining sector to steamroll sites in pursuit of expansionist projects, said a Greens parliamentarian, anthropologists and rights advocates.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 35 events from 27 April 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 27/04/2012 - 11:00am

Newsletter date: 27 April 2012

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Event: Fri 27 April 2012: Bankstown, Sydney, NSW
Speak Out against Income Management
"As part of the 2011 Federal Budget, the Australian
government announced that it plans to spend $117.5 million
over the next five years to introduce Income Management to
five "disadvantaged" communities across Australia. ...
Income Management will commence in these sites from 1st
July 2012 and will be compulsorily applied to welfare
recipients in the "trial sites" who are assessed by

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WGAR News: "Frontier wars remembered on ANZAC Day" Koori Mail

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 26/04/2012 - 2:19pm

Newsletter date: 26 April 2012

Contents:
* Koori Mail: Frontier wars remembered on ANZAC Day
* Ray Jackson, ISJA: NSW police 'too deadly'!
* Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Bulli, NSW
* Corroboree at Brisbane Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park
* Let's Talk: Live from Moree Tent Embassy, NSW
* Update on the Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Perth, WA
* Background to the Aboriginal Tent Embassies
* Other articles

* KOORI MAIL: FRONTIER WARS REMEMBERED ON ANZAC DAY:

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Koori Mail: Frontier wars remembered on ANZAC Day
[scroll down page] http://www.koorimail.com/index.php

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Ray Jackson - ISJA - NSW police 'too deadly'!

Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy Bulli NSW

Corroboree at Brisbane Sovereign Embassy - Musgrave Park

Let's Talk - Live from Moree Tent Embassy NSW

Update on the Nyoongar Tent Embassy Perth WA

Warrup forest logging halted as FRA protestor, like spiderman, webs between two trees

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 23/04/2012 - 2:57pm

Gerry Georgatos
A Forest Rescue Australia (FRA) activist halted logging in Warrup after he constructed a "spider's web" between two trees that blocked an access way for logging vehicles into Warrup coupe 06.

Sean Gransch built a makeshift "spider's web" between the two trees in the early morning hours of Tuesday April 23. At 4am in the morning he climbed the platform in the middle of the "web" and stayed there for the day. The platform dangled about 15 metres above the access way.

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Barristers stand up for Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 23/04/2012 - 2:29pm

Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal barrister Stephanie Monck has taken up the cause to defend the rights of Nyoongar Tent Embassy. Ms Monck has contacted the chief executive officer, Peter Edwards, of the Perth City Council and notified him she is acting "on behalf of large number of Nyoongar people who are taking part in or supporting the use of Heirisson Island (Matagarup) for a number of purposes, including for a peaceful political protest."

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This is our sacred place despite police and council

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 23/04/2012 - 2:27pm

Gerry Georgatos
The five clans predominant in Nyoongar Tent Embassy stand defiant in refusing to leave Matagarup, three months after setting up the camp.

Elder Bella Bropho said, "We are still here at the Nyoongar Tent Embassy. We stand in peaceful protest for our sovereignty. We stand against the deal proposed by the WA government and the SWALSC representatives."

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WA's top cop wants to lock up kids - most of them Aboriginal kids

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 23/04/2012 - 2:22pm

Gerry Georgatos
WA's top cop, police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said the courts need to lock up repeat juvenile offenders sooner rather than later. He claims this will reduce home invasions while scoring the children an earlier shot at rehabilitation.

He has previously said that more than half (63%) of these offenders are Aboriginal youth. WA has the highest incarceration of Aboriginal youth in the country, both in terms of total numbers and in proportion to population.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 23 events from 23 April 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 23/04/2012 - 1:07pm

Newsletter date: 23 April 2012

Contents:
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 23 events from 23 April 2012
* Justice Reinvestment Campaign for Aboriginal Youth NSW
* "How many more suicides before we open our eyes and ears?"
* Other articles

* UPCOMING ABORIGINAL RIGHTS EVENT AROUND AUSTRALIA - 23 EVENTS FROM 23 APRIL 2012

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Event: Tue 24 April 2012: UTS, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW
Public Lecture: UTSpeaks: More Intervention
"Will the Government’s Stronger Futures law
reforms aid indigenous communities or

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Justice Reinvestment Campaign for Aboriginal Youth NSW

How many more suicides before we open our eyes and ears?

Renters stress hits the Blackwood - time for a renters alliance Australia-wide

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 1:01pm

Gerry Georgatos
We have all heard about mortgage stress however renters' stress has received comparatively little mention according to Lea Keenan, coordinator of the WA Renters Alliance. Ms Keenan said that rising rents are not confined to Perth and the north west however "are just as out of control in the south west."

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