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Monday March 26, 11:30 to 1pm at WA state parliament - Walk for Justice Rally

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 25/03/2012 - 4:54pm

On the steps of Western Australia's State Parliament - please gather and bring everyone you know, everyone who will care - The Walk for Justice, from Albany (Friday March 23) finishes up at the steps of state parliament in a call for justice for Aboriginal folk whose predicaments are long drawn out, neglected, dismissed, lost to the cowardices of various prejudices and racisms shoved down our throats generation after generation.

Monday (26 March), 11:30am, West Australian State Parliament

It is a call for justice, your presence will be part of the call

Spread the word

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"Deep into the eyes of racism" - Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Thursday March 22

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 24/03/2012 - 4:35pm

Gerry Georgatos
Two of Nyoongar Tent Embassy's stalwarts had not been to the Embassy for more than a week. Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation's Robert Eggington and John Pell were in Perth city on planning duties for the March 28 Stolen Wages march and rally when Mr Eggington was urged on by a spiritual sense and looked at Mr Pell, "Johnny, lets go to the Embassy."

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WGAR News: Call for delegates to interim Aboriginal unity government assembly

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 24/03/2012 - 2:19pm

Newsletter date: 24 March 2012
Last updated: 1 May 2012

Contents:
* Call for delegates to interim Aboriginal unity government assembly
* GLW: Brisbane’s Aboriginal embassy deserves wide support
* Perth police invade Nyoongar Tent Embassy
* STICS: Aunty of deaths in custody victim speaks out against 'Stronger Futures'
* Photograph your feet and 'Stand For Freedom'
* More on Petition opposing an extension of NT Intervention
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

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GLW - Brisbane’s Aboriginal embassy deserves wide support

Perth police invade Nyoongar Tent Embassy

STICS - Aunty of deaths in custody victim speaks out against Stronger Futures

Photograph your feet and Stand For Freedom

More on Petition opposing an extension of NT Intervention

Greg Dickson in New Matilda - Scrymgour's Bad Language

ABC 7.30 - National radioactive waste dump faces resistance

120000 people take part in National Close the Gap Day

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 24 March 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 24/03/2012 - 2:01pm

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

Event: 11 February 2012 to 26 May 2012: South Bank, Brisbane, Qld
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...

Event: Tue 28 February to Sun 25 March 2012: Adelaide, SA
Exhibition: Deadly: in-between heaven and hell
Tandanya NACI and Adelaide Festival

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Greenies obsessed with old trees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 24/03/2012 - 10:21am

In a startling rebuke to “greenies” in the south west, Dr Chrissy Sharp, former Greens MLC, fired both barrels at greens and forest managers at a World Forestry Day dinner held in Bunbury last night.

Dr Sharp stated that the real risk facing WA’s native forests was climate change and that drying out of the forest was a potential calamity. Her concern was that greenies were totally focussed on reservation of old trees, totally ignoring the far more pressing need to manage stands of young regrowth trees.

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Carnaby's Cockatoo suffers 37 per cent population decline in one year

Submitted by takver on Fri, 23/03/2012 - 10:39am

Flocks of Carnaby's Black Cockatoo are iconic sights for the people of Perth, the Swan River Region and the forests of the South west. But comparing two population surveys in 2010 and 2011 showed a 37 percent decline in numbers across the Swan river region. That is a 37 per cent decline in one year.

According to Statistical modelling based on the 2011 Great Cocky Count the population of Carnaby’s cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) in the Swan Region was between 5200 and 8600 birds. A year earlier it was estimated that the population was 8000 to 10,000.

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WGAR News: Stand For Freedom campaign delivers a petition to the Senate signed by 33,000 people

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 22/03/2012 - 10:30am

Newsletter date: 22 March 2012

Contents:
* ANTaR: 33,000 Australians Oppose Stronger Futures Bills
* Our Generation: New Study Guide launched
* ABC Sunday Nights Audio Interviews: Extending the NT intervention
* Tracker: Stronger Futures would not beat a legal challenge: judge
* Jeff McMullen: The Way Ahead: The new land grab
* More on Senate Committee's 'Stronger Futures' report
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* SBS Living Black: Barbara Shaw speaks out about Australia Day protests

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Northern Territory Intervention

More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

Background to Stronger Futures new NT Intervention laws

Our Generation - New Study Guide launched

ABC Sunday Nights Audio Interviews - Extending the NT intervention

Tracker - Stronger Futures would not beat a legal challenge - judge

Jeff McMullen - Tracker - The Way Ahead - The new land grab

More on Senate Committee's Stronger Futures report

SBS Living Black - Barbara Shaw speaks out about Australia Day protests

Natalie Wasley - Green Left - Traditional owners to fight Ferguson's nuclear waste dump

Welcome to our website - Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Government’s Closing the Gap report card

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 26 events from 22 March 2012

Sovereign Union - Open letter to the PM from Sovereign Union spokesperson

Gerry Georgatos - Deaths in custody and Aboriginal incarceration rates

ANTaR - 33000 Australians Oppose Stronger Futures Bills

Forest Rescue heighten protest actions to save forests - however many arrests

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 21/03/2012 - 10:38pm

Gerry Georgatos
Forest Rescue Australia (FRA) has heightened its protest actions halting Warrup logging on an almost daily basis - however at the price of arrests. A Forest Products Commission (FPC) spokeswoman confirmed that protestors had entered work areas on three separate days in the last ten days and on two occasions had locked themselves on to two logging machines while work continued in other parts of the operation.

On Monday 19, FRA protestors entered the Warrup logging area and one protestor managed to lock himself on to a logging machine for 15 hours.

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Call for supporters to Nyoongar Tent Embassy - government has ordered police in, they are there now

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 21/03/2012 - 2:03pm

Nyoongar Tent Embassy has sent a call out for supporters to assist at Heirisson Island (Mattagarup).

Apparently 100 police have arrived at the Embassy and with news media piling in.

Talkback radio is piling heaps of pressure for government, council and police action to close it down. However just as many people have been calling into the talkback programs supporting and arguing on behalf of the right of the Embassy.

Premier Colin Barnett has publicly said that action 'will be taken' and that the Embassy has gone off 'for long enough'. He wants not tents, and campers sleeping over.

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Warrup family picnic in protest to FPC decision

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 20/03/2012 - 4:58pm

Gerry Georgatos
The Doreen Mackman motion upheld by the Bridgetown-Greenbushes council asking the Forest Products Commission (FPC) to preserve forest settings around the tramway through the Warrup has been considered by the FPC.

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