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Adelaide events: 156th Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk + SNAICC Training Workshops in 2014

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Adelaide and South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sun 26 January 2014: Adelaide, SA
156th Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk
around Government House
"Join us on the Candle Light Walk to
call for a Treaty and Bill of Rights, and
to support the Ngarrindjeri and all other
Aboriginal people and the Stolen Generations,
their families and communities left behind,

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Perth Events: Boot prints: Deaths in Custody Seminar + Exhibits: Rosella Namok & Ampilatwatja Artists

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Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 10 December 2013: Bentley, WA
Special Seminar - Boot prints: Reading Inquests and Inquiries into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Professor Sherene Razack University of Toronto
Curtin University
" ... Are Aboriginal deaths in custody any different, then,
than other deaths where the dead are blamed for their own demise? ... "

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Canberra events: Insurgence Exhibition + On Country Exhibit + Engaging Indigenous Economy Conference

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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Now Open [as of 9 Dec 13]: Parkes, Canberra, ACT
Insurgence
Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
"The Insurgence exhibition explores art, with all its
revolutionary potential, deployed as a platform for politics."
"The museum welcomes all voices in the House-
Insurgence is the voice of proppaNOW. Insurgence builds on

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 7 December 2013

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Newsletter date: 7 December 2013

Updated: 9 December 2013

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WGAR News: Forty uranium mines is the plan for Western Australia: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 04/12/2013 - 4:31pm

Newsletter date: 5 December 2013

Contents:

* Ryan Emery, SBS Radionews: Elder pleads with BHP "don't make me bankrupt"
* Ryan Emery & Greg Dyett, SBS Radionews: Indigenous elder appeals to BHP Billiton
* Babs McHugh, ABC Rural: Aboriginal elder Kevin Buzzacott gets no answer from BHP AGM
* Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Forty uranium mines is the plan for Western Australia
* WANFA nuclearfree WA, YouTube: WANFA roadshow [an interview with Curtis Taylor]

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WGAR News: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage under attack: The Wire

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 6:35pm

Newsletter date: 4 December 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage under attack [Featuring Steven Talbott, spokesperson for the Gomeroi Elders of Gunnedah]
* Tracker: Community members protest NSW C&H laws

* Stop Pilliga Coal Seam Gas

* Audioboo: Audio: Long awaited Aboriginal Heritage Bill disappoints [Featuring Legal officer for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, Michael Mansell]
* Linda Seaborn, Green Left: Tasmanian Aboriginal community vow to fight heritage protection bill

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New South Wales

Queensland

Tasmania

WGAR News: WA Government supports end to suicide crisis but ironically cuts funding!: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 02/12/2013 - 3:06pm

Newsletter date: 3 December 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: WA Government supports end to suicide crisis but ironically cuts funding!
* NACCHO Aboriginal suicide prevention: Black Dog Institute launches app to try to save lives
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Family of 15 are being evicted from their home by Department of Housing

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Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Living Black Radio's Marc Tong interviews Kirstie Parker: Congress Opposes RDA Amendments

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 02/12/2013 - 11:50am

Newsletter date: 2 December 2013

Contents:

* SBS Living Black Radio's Marc Tong interviews Co-Chair of Congress Kirstie Parker: Congress Opposes RDA Amendments
* Geoffrey Brahm Levey & Helen Pringle, ABC The Drum: Why the 'Bolt laws' should stay
* ABC Lateline: "Professor Gillian Triggs, the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission discusses freedom of speech."
* Marina Freri, SBS Radionews: Groups combine to oppose Racial Discrimination Act change
* Brooke Boney, NITV News: Attorney-General under fire over Racial Discrimination Act

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Australia

WGAR News: First Peoples groups criticise the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 01/12/2013 - 8:03pm

Newsletter date: 2 December 2013

Contents:

* Croakey - the Crikey health blog: Indigenous groups call for specific focus from Royal Commission into child sexual abuse
* The Stringer: First Peoples groups criticise the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse
* Background: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander responses to Royal Commission into child sexual abuse

* SNAICC News: SNAICC Training! Through Young Black Eyes
* SNAICC News: UP Child Rights campaign and Universal Children's Day

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Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: NSW Parliament votes for inquiry into Bowraville murders: Amy McQuire, Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 30/11/2013 - 7:29pm

Newsletter date: 1 December 2013

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: NSW Parliament votes for inquiry into Bowraville murders
* Background to the Bowraville murders by Amy McQuire, Editor of Tracker
* Mid North Coast Greens: Parliamentary inquiry into the Bowraville murders
* Rachel Evans, Green Left: Bowraville campaign wins inquiry into murders
* Michaela Whitbourn, Canberra Times: New South Wales: Bowraville murders: inquiry to give families chance to be heard
* Matt Deans, Coffs Coast Advocate: Parliamentary Inquiry called into Bowraville murders

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New South Wales