Gerry Georgatos
WA Police sent 140 to 200 special response police officers to Broome to escort Woodside workers and their machinery onsite at James Price Point where the gas hub precinct is being considered.
Newsletter date: 16 May 2012
Contents:
* The Wire: Aboriginal passport for refugees
* MR: Brisbane City Council to try to forcibly remove Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
* Gerry Georgatos: Police amassing at James Price Point [north of Broome, Kimberley, WA]
* Socialist Party: WA: Support the Nyoongar Tent Embassy! [Heirisson Island, Perth, WA]
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Interview with Elder Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra on Stronger Futures bill
* Rachel Siewert: Greens: Intervention funding could be stripped from existing programs
Click on the links for details of the events ...
Event: Wed 16 May 2012: Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane
National Day of Action
in solidarity with the people of Broome
"250 police have converged on Broome, Western Australia,
as the WA Government attempts to crush peaceful
community opposition to a proposed industrial complex
at James Price Point on the pristine Kimberley coast."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.kimberleycampaigner.com/stories/national-mobilisation-of-kimb...
Gerry Georgatos
The Salvation Army says life is getting bleaker for our poorest, and that the numbers of poor are increasing.
The Salvation Army's annual survey drew responses from more than 1700 folk and is backed by Shelters for the Needy spokesperson Lea Keenan who said that the nation's poor have grown and that more Australians are homeless than ever before.
Gerry Georgatos
Yamatji singer/songwriter, rights activist and Stolen Wages campaigner Phill Moncrieff has not given up in the fight for justice for the victims of the Stolen Wages in Western Australia.
In March 2012, the WA government said that the living victims only, and not any of families, will be eligible to apply for upto $2,000 from a Government Trust Scheme. The right to application to these funds has been limited to six months from late March and with the expectation that any further claims are extinguished.
Yamatji activist and singer/songwriter, long time campaigner for some justice for Aboriginal workers and their families of the Stolen Wages tragedy speaks in this radio interview in light of yesterday and today, and with a tribute to Tjandumarra O'Shane - justice has been denied by the WA government to the victims of the Stolen Wages.
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvOQUBFIs6I&feature=email
Undercurrent WTV interviews (13 minute segment) with various identities regarding the proposed anti-association Controls Bills which the NSW and SA High Courts have ruled against and which the QLD LNP is looking to repeal however in WA it appears it will be passed by the Liberals, Nationals and Labor.
Newsletter date: 15 May 2012
Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 32 events from 15 May 2012
Click on the links for details of the events ...
Event: Wed 16 May 2012: Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane
National Day of Action
in solidarity with the people of Broome
"250 police have converged on Broome, Western Australia,
as the WA Government attempts to crush peaceful
community opposition to a proposed industrial complex
at James Price Point on the pristine Kimberley coast."
Gerry Georgatos - INDYMEDIA first with this story - Australia needs Indymedia.
Today, Monday May 14, after yesterday's peaceful protest by 600 folk outside Broome Police Station, police are amassing in large numbers at Blacktank camp access route - to ensure Woodside Petroleum geophysical site work for the proposed gas hub precinct at James Price Point. Police are reportedly expected at Manari Road access (near Walmandan Tent Embassy), and Cape Leveque after between 140 to 250 police officers with riot gear arrived in Broome in the last several days.
With the increase of between 140 and 250 extra police in Broome for protection of Woodside as they continue to do destructive investigations at James Price Point, the Broome Community thought it a proper thing to present a letter of concern to the Police and as it was Mothers Day as well, each Community member presented the police a flower. Images © Rod Hartvigsen - Murranji Photography
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