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WGAR News: Aboriginal leaders call for apology over NT intervention; Darwin launch of Walk With Us

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 9:46am

Newsletter date: 9 November 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal Leaders call for apology over NT intervention
* Report on 'Consultations' - "A flawed process and not what people said"
* Darwin book launch of 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Video: Yuendumu Voices - Reflections on the Intervention
* National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF) to be voice to govt
* Interview with Jonathan Nichols, Editor of a APY Project
* Project: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition
* Jon Altman: The intervention is dead, long live the intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Report on 'Consultations' - A flawed process and not what people said

Darwin book launch of 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Yuendumu Voices - Reflections on the Intervention

National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF) to be voice to govt

Interview with Jonathan Nichols Editor of a APY Project

Project - Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 15 events from 9 November 2011

Fortescue Metals Group poised to destroy sanctuary of ancestral burials

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 26/10/2011 - 9:22am

Michael Woodley, CEO of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC), says Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is exploiting a State heritage system in crisis. As FMG prepare to launch into full-scale mining at Firetail/Solomon – Yindjibarndi call it Ganyjingarringunha – Mr Woodley believes their haste and defective heritage management practices risk a monumental disaster for this mountain sanctuary of Yindjibarndi sites dating back tens of thousands of years.

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Western Australia

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events from 25 October 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 25/10/2011 - 2:26pm

Newsletter date: 25 October 2011
Newsletter last updated: 25 October 2011 4:20pm

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

Event: Thu 18 August - Sun 30 October 2011: Wiluna to Perth, WA
Walk Away from Uranium Mining
"By coming to Wiluna you will be supporting Traditional
Owners in their opposition to uranium mining."
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/walk-away-from-uranium-mining
Event details: http://www.nuclearfreefuture.com/
Walk Schedule: http://footprints.footprintsforpeace.net/nffcampaign/upload/files/Wiluna...

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Northern Territory Intervention

'Our Generation' film screenings

Silicon Valley conference to stand up for Internet freedom - you can hear it streamed

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 10:29am

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Western Australia

Coming Sunday's Euro decisions will impact us, too

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 19/10/2011 - 1:29pm

"You don't represent us!" - Occupy protesters outside the German parliament last Saturday.

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Global/International

Western Australia

Rex Bellotti jnr. - Putrid reply from a government drowning in mining dollars

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 7:51am

Hear the younger brother describe the night Rex Bellotti Jnr was run over by a WA police 4WD

by ray jackson, president, indigenous social justice association

i have posted previously on the social and cultural disaster that arose from a dangerously driven wa police car driving on the wrong side of a curve/corner and smashing into the lower body of rex bellotti jnr. this occurred some 2 1/2 years ago but still the bellotti family, and especially rex jnr, are no nearer to a justice outcome or even some proper compensation to be paid.

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Western Australia

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Justice for Rex Bellotti Jnr

WGAR News: Advocates brief UN Committee on the Rights of the Child re Australia's performance

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 1:40pm

Newsletter date: 16 October 2011

Contents:
* Advocates brief UN Committee on the Rights of the Child re Australia's performance
* Amnesty chief tells Macklin - We will be watching
* Attempted suicides in communities affected by NT Intervention has doubled
* Arnhem Land leaders are gathering on Elcho Island
* Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott calls for scrapping of Olympic Dam expansion
* What’s Working: A Better Way - ANTaR's book of success stories
* More on APY Lands
* Apology to the Aboriginal People of Australia on behalf of Australians of Arabic background

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Northern Territory Intervention

Amnesty chief tells Macklin - We will be watching

Attempted suicides in communities affected by NT Intervention has doubled

Arnhem Land leaders are gathering on Elcho Island

Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott calls for scrapping of Olympic Dam expansion

What’s Working - A Better Way - ANTaR's book of success stories

WGAR News: Amnesty International head slams decades of neglect in remote Aboriginal communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 13/10/2011 - 9:56am

Newsletter date: 13 October 2011

Contents:
* Amnesty International cheif Salil Shetty visits communities in Utopia, NT
* Calls for implementation of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* Jon Altman: Homeland communities destroyed to save a bit of cash
* Amnesty International Australia Action: Tell the government: don’t abandon homelands
* Amnesty International Australia: Utopia Homelands featured on the 7pm Project
* What’s Working: Health-Utopia
* Rally against Income Management in Bankstown - 8 October 2011

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Northern Territory Intervention

Amnesty International cheif Salil Shetty visits communities in Utopia NT

Calls for implementation of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Jon Altman - Homeland communities destroyed to save a bit of cash

Amnesty International Australia Action - Tell the government: don’t abandon homelands

Amnesty International Australia - Utopia Homelands featured on the 7pm Project

What’s Working - Health-Utopia

Rally against Income Management in Bankstown - 8 October 2011

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 23 events from 13 October 2011

WGAR News: Tracker's Brian Johnston: Reality in APY Lands different from media agenda campaigns

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 09/10/2011 - 12:01pm

Newsletter date: 9 October 2011

Contents:
* Tracker's Brian Johnston: Reality in APY Lands is different from the media agenda driven campaigns
* APY Council general manager calls for full community consultation about their needs
* Head of Amnesty says govt's "top-down externally driven" efforts widen the gap
* Media re Barbara Shaw's Sydney speaking tour - 3-9 Oct 2011
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 9 October 2011
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

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Northern Territory Intervention

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 9 October 2011

APY Council general manager calls for full community consultation

Amnesty says govt's top-down externally driven efforts widen the gap

Media re Barbara Shaw's Sydney speaking tour Oct 2011

JOHN PAT – a death in custody – “We’ll get you, you black cunt.”

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/10/2011 - 10:18pm

Gerry Georgatos "We have to get rid of racist cops. I don't want to dwell on the past but I have grown up bitter," said Nyungar Elder Ben Taylor. Mr Taylor is on the mark when he says, "They have been killing our people for two hundred years."

On 28 September 1983 a young life came to an end that sent a community into tears before it became rage and outrage dulled into anguish and sorrow by the passing of time. The tears of 28 September 1983 filled Roebourne, breaking the hearts of its Yindjibarndi peoples. A mother lost her eldest son, 16 years young. John Pat's death contributed to the call for an inquiry into Aboriginal deaths. Some things have changed however not enough has changed. His mother Mavis remembers him every hour of every day and not just on September 28 - there is a hole in her heart that nothing can mend, such is a mother's pain.

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Western Australia

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Aboriginal deaths in custody

John Pat