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WGAR News: More organisations state support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly Statement

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 6:03pm

Newsletter date: 11 May 2012

Contents:
* Quakers in Australia support Yolngu Nations Assembly rejection of Stronger Futures Bills
* Josephite SA Reconciliation Circle in support of Yolgnu Nations Statement
* CRA: Catholic Religious support the Yolngu Nations Statement
* Women for Wik respectfully support the Yolgnu Elders' Statement
* STICS: From the bush to Bankstown - communities prepare to fight 'Stronger Futures' implementation
* Presentation Sisters Victoria - Letter to the Hon. Jenny Macklin
* Public Statement protesting against the Stronger Futures Bills

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Quakers in Australia support Yolngu Nations Assembly rejection of Stronger Futures Bills

Josephite SA Reconciliation Circle in support of Yolgnu Nations Statement

CRA - Catholic Religious support the Yolngu Nations Statement

Women for Wik respectfully support the Yolgnu Elders' Statement

STICS - From the bush to Bankstown - communities prepare to fight Stronger Futures implementation

Presentation Sisters Victoria - Letter to the Hon Jenny Macklin

Public Statement protesting against the Stronger Futures Bills

WFFR - Stronger Futures (SF) legislation is No Future

Amy McQuire - Sydney Launch of NT Consultations Report 2011

UnitingJustice - Uniting Church calls on Senators not to pass Stronger Futures legislation

Josephites urge Senate to reject Stronger Futures Bill?

Michael Brull - Shameful second intervention slips under the radar

Rachel Siewert - Greens set for debate on NT Intervention expansion

Two sides to the debate on logging forests and the issues that concern us all

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 3:43pm

What are the issues affecting forestry, timber harvesting, the loss of habitats? Environmental Scientist, Dr Beth Schulz says logging is a crime against nature. Forester and Chair of the WA division of Foresters of Australia, John Clarke says anti-logging protestors have got it wrong and that Western Australia's regrowth forests are thriving. Read the full article as the two sides of the forestry debate are presented

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The Australian prison system has failed; warehouses of illness & death. Bring on Bastoy for starters

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:30pm

Gerry Georgatos
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.

The two century old modern day prison experiment is failing, that is if we look at the spiralling incarceration rates, adult and youth, and if we look at re-offending rates, the recidivism.

My PhD research argues that people who enter the prison experience, who are incarcerated for relatively short or long terms leave the prison experience worse than they came in.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 8 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 1:23pm

Newsletter date: 8 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 30 events from 8 May 2012

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Event: 8 May 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Public Consultation:
National Anti-Racism Partnership Strategy
"Want to hear your thoughts on how racism
affects the community and what we should
be doing about it."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/events/index.html#may

Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud

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WGAR News: "Stronger futures or stolen futures - Bishops and Religious question legislation" ACBC

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 10:24am

Newsletter date: 8 May 2012

Contents:
* Graeme Mundine, ACM: "Stronger Futures Legislation. Points Against"
* ACBC Media Blog: Stronger futures or stolen futures - Bishops and Religious question legislation
* Video: Jeff McMullen: "Stand for Freedom" campaign against "Stronger Futures" policy
* ANTaR: Time now critical to set new path in NT
* Congress: Stop and Listen on the Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

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Submissions to the Parliamentary Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities

Graeme Mundine ACM - Stronger Futures Legislation - Points Against

Video - Jeff McMullen - Stand for Freedom campaign against Stronger Futures policy

ANTaR - Time now critical to set new path in NT

Congress - Stop and Listen on the Intervention

Video - Aboriginal protestors and WA police clashing at Nyoongar tent embassy

Four Corners TV - Judgement Day - High Court's Mabo judgement

Australia's South West forests dying - death of trees world-wide

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 07/05/2012 - 5:08pm

Gerry Georgatos
Disease and drought are threatening iconic South West forests, including Warrup, Yabberup, Arcadia, Kingston-Perup - in fact the whole region. Murdoch University researchers and international scientists are warning that thousands of Marri trees throughout the South West, including in the wineries regions, are dying or are already dead.

Professor Giles Hardy and Dr George Matusick from Murdoch University's Centre of Excellence for Climate Change Woodland and Forest Health said they are dying from the devastating from of tree cancer know as Marri canker.

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Control bill pushed to target Aboriginal peoples and to erode civil liberties

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 4:09pm

Gerry Georgatos
Australia-wide Aboriginal organisations, communities and rights advocates are more than just apprehensive of the consolidated push by State and Territory governments for the introduction of Criminal Association Control Bills better known as anti-association laws – in Western Australia, the Criminal Organisation Bill 2012 appears that it will be passed and within days.

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Renters Alliance coming to the Blackwood to meet the people and get the ball rolling

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 3:57pm

Gerry Georgatos
The renters’ rights movement that recently started in the Blackwood region has spread Australia-wide with the Renters Alliance swamped with emails and calls from distressed renters, said Lea Keenan, WA Renters Alliance co-ordinator.

As a result of the burgeoning movement other organisations have also begun highlighting the plight of renters, and rent stress, and of those in social housing, and the increasing hardship most face.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 36 events from 2 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 02/05/2012 - 12:30pm

Newsletter date: 2 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 36 events from 2 May 2012

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Event: 1 to 3 May 2012: Alice Springs
NTCOSS Conference 2012
Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS)
"NTCOSS aims to share information, ideas and practical
strategies to assist growing a fair Northern Territory by
exploring four key themes: ...
* Exploring Intercultural working - How or do we embrace
two way working, and in particular with Indigenous peoples

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WGAR News: "I feared I was going to die" National Indigenous Times exclusive

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 01/05/2012 - 6:28pm

Newsletter date: 1 May 2012

Contents:
* Interview with Steve Hodder on UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
* Keynote Address by NACCHO Chairperson Justin Mohamed
* NIT exclusive: "I feared I was going to die"
* Interim National Unity Government Assembly - 23 & 24 May 2012 - Wollongong, NSW
* Henry Reynolds: After Mabo, What About Aboriginal Sovereignty?
* Glenelg Shire Council recognises rights of Portland Embassy, Vic
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* ABC: Elder seeks judicial review of mining approval

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