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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

Gerry Georgatos
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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$100,000 a day on police to escort Woodside workers while Aboriginal youth dies

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 6:05pm

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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.

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More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

WGAR News: "Brisbane City Council to try to forcibly remove Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy" MR

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 10:38am

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

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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

Socialist Party - WA - Support the Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Interview with Elder Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra on Stronger Futures bill

Rachel Siewert - Greens - Intervention funding could be stripped from existing programs

3CR Radioactive Show - Lizards Revenge Festival

Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 6 events from 16 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 10:19am

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...

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Poverty is increasing, life is getting harder say The Salvos, Shelters for the Needy, Renters Alliance, Human Rights Alliance

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 10:09am

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.

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Phill Moncrieff says WA Labor must commit to justice for Stolen Wages victims

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 7:21am

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.

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Phill Moncrieff speaks on the Stolen Wages injustices

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 6:47am

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

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXeGMYrDp6E

YouTube - 13 minutes of interviews in reference to the Criminal Organisations Controls Bills (anti-association)

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 15/05/2012 - 2:52pm

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.

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