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WGAR News: NT leader: Nova Peris is wrong, Stronger Futures must go: STICS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/02/2013 - 1:44pm

Newsletter date: 4 February 2013

Contents:

* STICS: NT leader: Nova Peris is wrong, Stronger Futures must go
* 4 Feb 13 Event: STICS meeting - Guest speaker from the NT - Marie Ellis
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* ABC Radio National - Awaye!: The Letters Patent [1836 South Australia]
* change.org Petition: Jay Weatherill Premier of South Australia: Uphold the 1836 SA Letters Patent

* ACF: New Kimberley parks welcomed but jettison JPP gas hub plans

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Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Perth & WA events: Concert for the Kimberley: A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 3:52pm

Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sun 24 February 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Concert for the Kimberley:
A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle
The Wilderness Society WA Inc
"Join us in Fremantle on Sunday 24 February 2013
for a free, open-air concert featuring the
John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Ball Park Music,
special guest Dr Bob Brown, and others."
"This concert and rally is a call to arms for
all West Australians to stand up and protect

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 39 events from 4 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 2:28pm

Newsletter date: 3 February 2013

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Event: Mon 4 February 2013: Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Stop the Intervention Collective special meeting:
Guest speaker from the NT:
Marie Ellis, President Amoonguna community
"Marie Ellis has been a leading Aboriginal voice
opposing the Intervention and the devastation it
has caused at Amoonguna, her community near
Alice Springs. At this special STICS meeting,
Marie will give us the latest news from the NT
and discuss the struggle to re-establish community

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50 Shades of Black with Karla Hart & Della Rae Morrison

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 01/02/2013 - 11:45pm

The Blue Room Theatre Summernights & Yorga Waabiny Productions in association with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company and PICA are bringing on:

Fifty Shades of Black
By Karla Hart
Co-created with Della Rae Morrison & Monica Main

PICA Performance Space
Mon 11 Feb – Thurs 14 Feb & Sat 16 Feb @ 6.30

Media Contact:
Charley Caruso: 0427 477 370

Two of Western Australia’s finest and funniest female Noongar performers, bringing the laughs upfront, honest and straight from the heart.

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Senior law boss Phillip Roe would die first than surrender Goolarabooloo country

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/02/2013 - 7:00pm

Photo (by Julia Rau) - Goolarabooloo Matriarch Teresa Roe with son, Senior Law Boss Phillip Roe who said he would die first before surrendering Goolabaraloo Country to the proposed LNG hub. They stand on sand dunes where there are burial sites within proximity of the proposed gas hub.

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WGAR News: UN intervention called for at James Price Point: Hands off country

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 01/02/2013 - 2:08pm

Newsletter date: 2 February 2013

Contents:

* Hands Off Country: UN Intervention called for at James Price Point
* The West: Push for UN to visit gas hub
* Respect and Listen: Save the Kimberley: Report on Walmadany - James Price Point
* Hands Off Country: Video: Barnett Blooms in Broome
* The West: Premier coy on ways to stop FLNG
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* NIRS: Income management admin costs over a million a year: Report
[sic - actually the amount is over one hundred million a year]

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WGAR News: The burning issue of deaths in custody: Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 30/01/2013 - 2:34pm

Newsletter date: 31 January 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: The burning issue of deaths in custody - Aboriginal people die 5 times the rate of Apartheid South Africa
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The West: Offshore Browse move hard to stop: EPA
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* Tracker: Nova Peris wins NT Senate pre-selection
* ABC PM Audio: Nova Peris endorsed
* Tracker: Peris choice is 'extremely positive': Albo

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My 3 days in the Pilbara with Fortescue CEO: “Gerry, you’ll see for yourself, and nothing is off the record”

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 29/01/2013 - 5:12pm

National Indigenous Times award winning journalist, PhD researcher, an academic
with expertise in understanding racism and long-time social justice campaigner Gerry Georgatos has reflected on a recent look-in of Fortescue Metals Group operations.

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Jandamarra’s grand-daughter speaks out for Women’s Country

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 29/01/2013 - 4:21pm

Gerry Georgatos - The Native Title process is being called into question with a public stoush in the West Kimberley that for far too long has languished and has been kept out of the light of day. There is a divide between the Bunaba and Nyikina peoples in terms of Native Title claims and connection to Country – particularly over historical Women’s Country . A point of contention is whether the great warrior Jandamarra was Bunaba or Nikyina.

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