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Julia Gillard and the 'Slush Fund' - Royal Commission or Bust

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 23/11/2012 - 1:57am

Lawyer claims discrepancy in PM's slush fund explanation

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-22/lawyer-claims-discrepancy-in-pm-sl...

A lawyer who worked with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the 1990s says there is a two-and-a-half-year discrepancy in her explanation of when she knew about a loan for a house she lived in.

The property in question, on Kerr Street in Fitzroy, was allegedly paid for in part by funds taken from a union slush fund Ms Gillard helped set up.

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Conflicting information, interests and land owners dog FMG

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 22/11/2012 - 2:25pm

BIG THANKS to the National Indigenous Times and its very special journalist Gerry Georgatos in exposing the FMG hand in dividing the Yindjibarndi and then in keeping up the coverage - because of this mainstream media got the guts to run with a story not looking too pretty for Andrew Forrest and FMG!
Conflicting information, interests and land owners dog FMG

Fortescue Metals Group has had its East Pilbara iron ore operations caught in disputes over conflicting information, conflicts of interest and the authority of traditional owners.

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Environment Matters Seminar: Cash For Containers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 21/11/2012 - 2:00pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 28/11/2012 -

6:15pm to 8:00pm

Location:

City West Lotteries House 2 Delhi Street West Perth, WA 6005

Contact Name:

Conservation Council of Western Australia

Contact Phone:

9420 7266

Contact Email:

conswa@ccwa.org.au

Environment Matters - Cash for Containers

Come and hear from industry, local government and environment groups about why 10c refunds on drink containers like they have in SA & NT is so important for WA.

Guest Speakers Include:

Jeff Angel, Boomerang Alliance National Convenor

Wolfgang Ringel, TOMRA vice president

Rebecca Brown, WA Local Government Association Waste and RecyclingManager

Chaired by Piers Verstegen, CCWA Director

Date: 6.15-8pm Wednesday 28th November

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WGAR News: Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 20/11/2012 - 1:00pm

Background info page: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-aboriginal-sovereig...

Last updated: 20 November 2012

Contents:
* Aboriginal Sovereignty websites
* Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union - National Unity Government (MR: 25 May 2012)
* Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, ACT
* Aboriginal Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary, Canberra, ACT
* Brisbane Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, Qld
* Bulahdelah Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Bulahdelah, NSW
* Goomeroi Sovereign Tent Embassy, Moree, NSW

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 18 events from 11 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 12:46pm

Newsletter date: 11 November 2012

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

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

Event: Wed 7 to Sun 11 November 2012: Wollongong, NSW
Exhibition: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Project Contemporary Artspace
"The word ‘intervention’ is popular in the art and
architecture worlds, but in this context it condemns
the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER),
Australia’s "national emergency" policy introduced in 2007.

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Fortescue using legal system to destroy Yindjibarndi

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/11/2012 - 2:46am

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation — BULLETIN - http://yindjibarndi.org.au/

Wednesday 7 November 2012 - - Following last week’s news that Fortescue Metals Group’s "set up and funded" a native title splinter group to circumvent the Yindjibarndi people’s opposition to Fortescue's defrauding land access ‘agreement’; and reports of how an FMG agent worked as an ‘inside man’ to get FMG’s land access agreement signed "one way or another” —

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FMG/Yindjibarndi - mining deal bombshell - whistleblower blows the lid on Wirlu-murra

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 31/10/2012 - 6:45pm

The National Indigenous Times has run the story of the year - reporter Gerry Georgatos covers solicitor Kerry Savas' claims which blows the lid on the Wirlu murra and FMG - circulate this story, it's the big one that may change things - http://nit.com.au/news/2167-exclusive-mining-deal-bombshell.html
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN
http://yindjibarndi.org.au/
Wednesday 31 October 2012
ANOTHER WHISTLEBLOWER DROPS FMG MINING DEAL BOMBSHELL

Reclaim the Night Perth, 2012

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 27/10/2012 - 5:43pm

“1978 The first Reclaim the Night march takes place in Australia. Reclaim the Night is an annual march for women held on the last Friday in October to allow women to come together to speak out against violence and to celebrate strength”

- Reclaim the Night Australia

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Traditional Owner Phillip Roe confronts Woodside on sacred ground - Woodside security respond aggressively

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 21/10/2012 - 5:56pm

Gerry Georgatos - (courtesy of The National Indigenous Times - nit.com.au - and Image by Damian Kelly/Broome)
Last Thursday and Friday Gooloorabooloo Elder and Traditional Owner Phillip Roe confronted six Woodside security personnel and six Woodside contract scientists who entered a culturally sensitive area. The Woodside security responded aggressively and assaulted a person from Walmandan Tent Embassy who was filming. It was alleged one security guard tried to destroy the camera which during the assualt had fallen to the ground.

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Nauru - Governments normalising racism while people suffer and die - "there is the smell of death here"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 21/10/2012 - 11:35am

Gerry Georgatos
The veils and layers of racism are myriad – a trickle of humanity flees from persecution and horrific conditions, from civil strife, to our shores and Australian Governments react with racism, fall into the trap of justifying their racist actions, deeds and words and then normalise the racism and stereotype peoples.

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