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Bob Carr said that it is abominable that children are in adult prisons - therefore release them all, now. Now that the Governor of Kerobokan has supported the right to early parole for Schapelle Corby, Australia needs to keep its side and en masse release all the children - now.

The conversations between DFAT and their counterparts, between Australian and Indonesian foreign ministries have occurred in that the goodwill of a sentence reduction, early parole for Schapelle Corby was brought up alongside the urgent need for Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons to be released.

National Renters Alliance campaign - WA rally August - National day of rallies October

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 24/05/2012 - 9:20am

Interviews with the HRA's National Renters Alliance

It started in the Blackwood region of the South West of WA, and then became the WA Renters Alliance, and now it's a national movement with the National Renters Alliance campaign

In August there will be a renters rally for justice at WA's state parliament followed by a coordinated national day of rallies in October

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 21 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 2:40pm

Newsletter date: 21 May 2012

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Event: Wed 23 and Thu 24 May 2012: Wollongong, south of Sydney
Interim National Unity Government Assembly
of the Sovereign Union
Held at two locations:
Day 1 – Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong
Day 2 – Sandon Point Aboriginal Embassy
"All Aboriginal nations are being called on to send two
delegates - one man and one woman (if appropriate) to the
inaugural assembly of the Sovereign Union interim National
Unity Government in Wollongong Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24
May. ... "

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Cultural imperialism jailed Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons - and the prime minister's deaf ears

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 11:54am

Gerry Georgatos
Ali Jasmin was 13 years old when the Commonwealth of Australia locked him up in an adult prison for being a deckhand on a boat of Asylum Seekers, and hence for assisting people in the safe passage of Asylum to our shores. International maritime laws and the various United Conventions and protocols asserting the rights of those seeking Asylum would cast this young boy as a hero, and rightfully so however not the Australian government and its institutions.

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WGAR News: "Australia challenged at United Nations over NT laws" Statement of delegations to UN

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 21/05/2012 - 11:45am

Newsletter date: 21 May 2012

Contents:
* Statement: Australia challenged at United Nations over NT laws
* Background to UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
* UnitingJustice: Stronger Futures Call to Action
* Congress: Stop & Listen on New NT Laws Campaign update
* Solidarity: Yolngu nations reignite opposition to leases and Intervention
* SPC Statement of Support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly
* PHAA: Partnership approach missing in Stronger Futures legislation
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

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Background to UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

UnitingJustice - Stronger Futures Call to Action

Congress - Stop & Listen on New NT Laws Campaign update

Solidarity - Yolngu nations reignite opposition to leases and Intervention

SPC Statement of Support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly

PHAA - Partnership approach missing in Stronger Futures legislation

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Kevin Buzzacott

Interview with Sam Watson over Brisbane tent embassy eviction

GL - Eyewitness - Brisbane tent embassy eviction was an outrage

ABC - Portland tent embassy stands firm after 100 days - Vic

Perth Now - Swan Valley Nyoongar community returns to Lockridge camp - WA

WGAR News: "Brisbane police move on Aboriginal Tent Embassy" The Wire

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 18/05/2012 - 6:11pm

Newsletter date: 18 May 2012

Contents:
* The Wire: Brisbane police move on Aboriginal Tent Embassy
* Warwick Daily News: Protesters [from Brisbane Embassy] march on parliament
* NTEU: Indigenous business is Union business - Musgrave Park Tent embassy
* Change.org Petition: Mayor Graham Quirk: allow the return of the Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy to Musgrave Park
* Michael Anderson: Aborigines call for UN peacekeepers to protect them
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies

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Warwick Daily News - Protesters march on parliament

NTEU - Indigenous business is Union business - Musgrave Park Tent embassy

Change Petition - Mayor Graham Quirk - allow the return of the Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy to Musgrave Park

Michael Anderson - Aborigines call for UN peacekeepers to protect them

The Wilderness Society/Environs Kimberley media release May 17

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 17/05/2012 - 5:38pm

Environment groups ask Environment Minister Tony Burke to protect National Heritage listed dinosaur footprints in Kimberley from Woodside

Woodside jack-up barges could be on the verge of destroying National Heritage listed dinosaur footprints on the Kimberley coast today, according to information provided to conservation group Environs Kimberley. Woodside have not referred their proposal to Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke for approval.

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Broome Shire Rangers and WA Police issue move-on notices today to local civil anti-gas hub protestors at James Price Point

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 17/05/2012 - 2:38pm

In the last hour Broome Shire Rangers have been issuing move on notices to camped protestors, all civil, at the Manari Road camp - so it appears all dissent needs to be crushed.

Most of the campers at this time are local residents not happy with the prospect of a gas hub.

On all tents where there were campers were not nearby move-on-notices were stuck to them.

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The Kimberley's homelessness rates the worst in the nation - nothing in the budgets to help them

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 17/05/2012 - 12:35pm

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The Kimberley, tourist mecca and resource-rich, has the highest rate of homelessness in Australia, and just about all of this homelessness is Aboriginal folk. The Human Rights Alliance released a statement describing the homelessness tragedy of the Kimberley as a scandal, and as "despicable racism", and slammed state and federal governments for continuing to neglect the Kimberley's Aboriginal homelessness.

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