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Fracking the Canning Basin

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 09/05/2013 - 7:35pm

Gerry Georgatos - Western Australia’s Canning Basin (photo abc.net.au) will soon be talked about as the next resources mining frontier. The James Price Point $40 billion gas hub proposal for all intents and purposes has been dumped but the State’s Premier, Colin Barnett, will pitch the extraction of natural gas from the Canning Basin as the way to go in the pursuit of State revenue. Most of the gas will be exported.

The shale gas deposits of the Canning Basin are among the richest in the world.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 2:29pm

The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Prime Minister believes she will win September 14

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 1:00pm

Every poll nationwide portrays either a decisive or catastrophic defeat for the Australian Labor Party come September. But the Office of the Prime Minister has gone heavy into campaign strategies since late last year according to our source. These include not just make overs for the Prime Minister but the commissioning of their own polls and surveys.

Read the whole story here: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYR3A7W...

Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pm

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

In the United States, the Annie Casey Foundation’s report ‘No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration,’ has an assembly of juvenile crime statistics that evidence why locking up children does not work. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rates of adults and children than any other nation.

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WA events: Walkatjurra Walkabout + No Gas on the Kimberley Coast Party + Stop the Suicides

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 10:22am

Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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

Event: 4 until 29 May 2013: Yeelirrie to Leonora, WA
Walkatjurra Walkabout - Yeelirrie to Leonora
"The walk will continue to be a celebration of
Wangkatja country, a testament to the strength
of the community who have fought to stop
uranium mining at Yeelirrie for over forty years,
and a chance to come together and continue
to share our commitment to a sustainable
future without nuclear. It is a chance to
reconnect with the land, and to revive the

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Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 27

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 27/04/2013 - 10:16am

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The killing times

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 22/04/2013 - 11:29am

by Gerry Georgatos
April 20th, 2013

Courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/the-killing-times/
- The map is from the book ‘Where is thy brother? : inter-racial massacres since invasion’. Originally published in Judith Monticone’s Healing the land : a closer look at needs of the Australian (re)conciliation movement, by Healing the Land 1999. – courtesy of treatyrepublic.org

The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 20

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 20/04/2013 - 10:50pm

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20

NEWS update: There will be future interviews with our nation’s leaders on the myriad issues affecting Australians – including on our Asylum Seekers, homelessness, the economy and so on.
We are also keen to share with you that in the 55 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations for where we are at now. We are establishing both a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

Human Rights Overboard: Australia's Asylum Seeker Policy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 15/04/2013 - 8:50pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 16/04/2013 -

1:00pm to 1:45pm

Location:

University of Western Australia (UWA)- Arts Lecture Room 6 (ARL)

Contact Email:

anita_creasey@hotmail.com

Website:

http://rran.org/

The government's offshore processing is a policy in crisis. Attend this special forum with guest speakers Senator Scott Ludlam and refugee rights activist Cindy Nancarrow to hear how the system is failing refugees and what a humane alternative would look like.

Speakers:
- Scott Ludlum, Greens Senator for WA
- Cindy Nancarrow, RRAN activist who frequently visits refugees imprisoned in Yongah Hill Detention Center
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The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 14

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 14/04/2013 - 11:08am

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - April 14 - http://thestringer.com.au/

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