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WGAR News: Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - June 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 07/06/2011 - 11:14am

Newsletter date: 7 June 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia
* Prime Minister Julia Gillard visits Alice Springs today
* Bankstown Income Management forum, 20 June 2011 - Organised by STICS
* Central Australian delegates return from UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York
* Calls for Native Title reform
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

ABORIGINAL RIGHTS - UPCOMING EVENTS AROUND AUSTRALIA:

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

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Prime Minister Julia Gillard visits Alice Springs

Bankstown Income Management forum 20 June 2011 - Organised by STICS

Central Australian delegates return from UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York

Calls for Native Title reform

Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 23/05/2011 - 6:33pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 26/05/2011 - 9:00am to Fri, 03/06/2011 - 12:00pm

Location:

Different locations around Australia

Website:

http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home/get-involved/events/events-calendar

On May 26th Australia will mark Sorry Day and from May 27th to June 3rd it will mark Reconciliation Week.

To learn about events near you visit the Reconciliation Australian Events Calendar

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WGAR News: Indigenous Languages Forum - 8 May 2011, Mparntwe / Alice Springs

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 03/05/2011 - 12:03pm

Newsletter date: 3 May 2011

Contents:
* Indigenous Languages Forum - 8 May 2011, Mparntwe / Alice Springs
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Travelling exhibition tracing the fight for Indigenous civil rights from 1920 to 1970
* Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Aboriginal incarceration rates
* Other Aboriginal Articles

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES FORUM - 8 MAY 2011, MPARNTWE / ALICE SPRINGS

- Forum

Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory:
Indigenous languages - politics, policy, protection and practice

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Northern Territory Intervention

Jobs with Justice

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Indigenous Languages Forum

National Museum of Australia

From Little Things Big Things Grow

ABC’s 7:30 Report

16 human rights activists arrested outside Curtin IDC

Submitted by Flowerpower on Mon, 25/04/2011 - 7:56am

RRAN Press Release 24.4.2011 16 Refugee Rights Action Network protesters were arrested today. Six of the group were issued with move on notices - none were charged. All of the protesters have now moved on and will be spending the night in Derby before heading back to Perth. The Refugee Rights Action Network were protesting in solidarity with those inside who had requested on Thursday, via a 700 signatory letter, that a delegation from RRAN be allowed to enter the Curtin IDC in order to observe conditions inside the centre.
Related: Photos by Alex Bainbridge on Picasa -- Footage of arrests on Youtube

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Western Australia

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Curtin Detention Centre

Asylum seekers protest

Refugee protest spreads to Curtin, refugee supporters banned from visits

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 24/04/2011 - 3:51pm

Press release Refugee Action Coalition 24.4.2011 A hunger strike and sit-in involving 300 and more asylum seekers at Curtin detention centre is expected to escalate overnight. The asylum seekers are asking that they be allowed to see refugee supporters who have travelled from Perth and cities to see them over the Easter weekend. Already hundreds of asylum seekers have asked Serco if they can meet the refugee activists.

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Western Australia

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asylum seekers

Curtine Detention Centre

Convergence 2011

WGAR News: Two urgent petitions on the NT Intervention - sign by early May 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 24/04/2011 - 9:05am

Newsletter date: 24 Apr 2011

Contents:
* Jobs with Justice - Petition Lauch & Rally - May 5
* UN Petition to restore Human Rights to NT Aboriginal People - sign by May 7
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Australia’s Indigenous languages "Top 10 moments in the sun"
* Help Stop the Muckaty Radioactive Waste Dump - May 7-8
* Background to Muckaty Station nuclear waste dump
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

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Northern Territory Intervention

United Nations

Aboriginal languages

Petition to United Nations (UN)

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

Jobs with Justice

Muckaty Dump

aboriginal employment and unemployment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Lies preventing visits at Curtin Detention Centre as hunger strike begins by 300 detainees: Refugees being driven to suicide and mental illness

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 24/04/2011 - 8:11am

By Gerry Georgatos

(I have not had the chance to proof this article, it has been written on a laptop powered by a generator with a limited power supply, from nearby the Curtin Detention Centre as we are in grip of divisiveness between peoples.... please read and circulate widely. Please.)

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Western Australia

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asylum seekers

Curtin Detention Centre

WGAR News: Joint national call to action to reduce imprisonment of Indigenous people

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 16/04/2011 - 1:50pm

Joint National Call to Action to reduce imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Newsletter date: 16 April 2011

Contents:
* Call to Action to reduce imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
* Deaths in custody - 20 years since the Royal Commission
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

CALL TO ACTION TO REDUCE IMPRISONMENT OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE:

- Media Release

ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation:

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Northern Territory Intervention

human rights abuses

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Aboriginal incarceration

Aboriginal imprisonment

Indigenous imprisonment

Detention becomes a death sentence, anger grows at Curtin

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 30/03/2011 - 7:36am

Refugee Action Coalition Media Release March 29, 2011 Refugee supporters are appalled at the news that mandatory detention has taken another asylum seeker’s life, this time in the remote Curtin detention centre. The 20 year-old Afghan asylum seeker, Mohammad, committed suicide late yesterday (Monday) afternoon. He was found hanging in his room by others who returned to the accommodation block and found his room locked.

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Western Australia

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mandatory detention

Curtin Detention Centre

Perth setting new summer temperature records

Submitted by takver on Sun, 27/02/2011 - 6:54pm

It is a long hot summer in Perth with new temperature records being set. Perth has just broken its record for the greatest number of consecutive warm nights. The last 14 consecutive nights the temperatures has remained above 20 degrees. The previous record was 13 days in February-March 1985 and February-March 1990.

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