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NT events: Manuwangku Exhibition + Bridging the Gap Seminar: Working with Yolngu in Arnhem Land

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Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Tue 27 August 2013: Tennant Creek, NT
Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Opening: Tue 27 August 2013
Venue: Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Cultural Centre
"Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud is a
series of photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
presenting the community and country around Muckaty,
120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the NT."
"For over five years this area has been the focus

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Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Adelaide events: Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk + Who is to blame for Australia's terrible racism?

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 29/07/2013 - 4:10pm

Adelaide and South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Fri 2 August 2013: Adelaide, SA
151st Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk
around Government House
Gather at dusk on the first Friday of the month
(except January and February)
"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,
in their call for Peace and Justice."

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Perth and WA events: Turtle & Trail Talk + Nyoongar Tent Embassy Human Rights Training

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Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 6-14 & 17-25 August 2013:
North of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, WA
The Lurujarri Dreaming Trail
Walk the Trail with us in 2013
As of 29 July 13:
"6-14 August: fully booked
17-25 August: fully booked"
"Feel free to contact us if you would like to
get some more information or if you would like
to register your interest for the Lurujarri
Heritage Trail 2014."
"In 1987, Paddy Roe initiated the Lurujarri Heritage

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WGAR News: Background to the Protect Arnhem Land Campaign, Northern Territory (NT), Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 28/07/2013 - 2:46pm

Newsletter date: 28 July 2013

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WGAR News: Protect Arnhem Land Campaign: Respect and Listen [Northern Territory - NT, Australia] (25 Jul 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/07/24/wgar-news-protect-arnhem-land-campaig...

WGAR News: Arnhem Land Traditional Owners call for an end to fracking: The Stringer (22 March 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/03/22/wgar-news-arnhem-land-traditional-own...

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Green Left TV - YouTube - We need sea and land rights in Arnhem land - Featuring Mrs. Eather - a community activist from Maningrida

NIT National Indigenous Times - Traditional Owners stand up to US miner in Sydney protest

Protect Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land Traditional Owners call for an end to fracking

LeftandCorrect - YouTube - Protect Arnhem Land from Paltar Petroleum - Sydney

Cam Walker - Friends of the Earth

Respect and Listen - Protect Arnhem Land - Background Info

Protect Arnhem Land Awareness Day

Katrina Channells

Respect and Listen - Protect Arnhem Land - From the Environment Centre NT - Maps and Letters on Paltar oil exploration

Reporter Jane Bardon

Matt Brann

WGAR News: Protect Arnhem Land Campaign: Respect and Listen [Northern Territory - NT, Australia]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 24/07/2013 - 3:41pm

Newsletter date: 25 July 2013

Contents:

* Respect and Listen: Protect Arnhem Land Campaign
* Respect and Listen: Protect Arnhem Land - Sydney 18 & 19 July 2013 Event Compilation
* Protect Arnhem Land community group: Traditional owners accost oil company offices [19 July 2013]
* Respect and Listen, Vimeo: Celebrate the Kimberley - Protect Arnhem Land [18 July 2013]
* Green Left TV, YouTube: Protect Arnhem land! [Sydney 19 July 2013]
* Respect and Listen, Vimeo: Protect Arnhem Land - Protest Action at Paltar HQ, Sydney [Uncut version, 19 July 2013]

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Australia

Northern Territory

Sydney

WGAR News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 23/07/2013 - 7:07pm

Newsletter date: 24 July 2013

Contents:

* SNAICC News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of Mr Andrew Jackomos [as first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth]
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Victorian appointment for Aboriginal children and young people
* Tracker: Vic gets commissioner for Koori youth
* SNAICC News: National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day - 4 August 2013

* Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) Submission - Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill 2013 (NT)
* Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

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Australian Human Rights Commission

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

CROAKEY

NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

Human Rights Law Centre - HRLC

ANTaR Health Campaign - Take Action

first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth

Aboriginal children and young people

commissioner for Koori youth

National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day - 4 August 2013

Bill Ivinson

Lyla Dreise

Aboriginal Type 2 Diabetes

Michelle True

CEO of Diabetes Qld

Aboriginal type-2 diabetics

Indigenous men gather for health summit

A Step Forward For Indigenous Disability

ABC Indigenous - DisabilityCare

National Aboriginal heath plan

Grattan Institute

Aboriginal health gap

AMA

WGAR News: James Price Point: Victory or Loss?: Arena Magazine Feature [Kimberley Region, WA]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 22/07/2013 - 4:20pm

Newsletter date: 23 July 2013

Contents:

* Arena Magazine Feature: James Price Point: Victory or Loss?
* Greens Senators Rachel Siewert, Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters: What future for the Kimberley?
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The fight goes to Canberra [Aboriginal rock art]

* Len Collard and Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Simplistic offer to Noongars cannot extinguish Native Title nor solve years of neglect
* Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: Barnett makes weak native title offer

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New South Wales

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: National day of action gives birth to a national body: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 21/07/2013 - 3:45pm

Newsletter date: 22 July 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: National day of action gives birth to a national body
* Let's Talk's Karen Dorante interviews Gerry Georgatos, a Human Rights Advocate completing a PHD in Deaths in Custody
* Penny Wright, The Guardian UK: Australia's culture of incarceration has gone too far
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT going backwards on black deaths in custody
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Rising rates of Aboriginal women into prison can no longer be overlooked

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Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Treaty, sovereignty, empowerment the key factors for meaningful Recognition: NIT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 20/07/2013 - 8:19pm

Newsletter date: 21 July 2013

Contents:

* NIT: Your Say: Treaty, sovereignty, empowerment the key factors for meaningful Recognition
* Let's Talk - NAIDOC Day Constitutional Symposium featuring Panel Members Prof. Megan Davis, Dr Robert Anderson OAM and Aunty Mary Graham
* Jim McIlroy, Green Left: Forum debates Aboriginal rights constitution change [Journalist Jeff McMullen chaired the event.]
* NIRS: NLC Chair suggests Land Rights Act be protected in the Consitution
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

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Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Inaugural Meeting of the Peoples Council of the Murrawarri Republic

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 18/07/2013 - 8:18pm

Newsletter date: 19 July 2013

Contents:

* Murrawarri Republic: Inaugural Meeting of the Peoples Council of the Murrawarri Republic
* Background to the Murrawarri Republic declaration

* Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: ILUA (Indigenous Land Use Agreement) = Indigenous Land Under Attack

* Michael Anderson: Gomeroi Protest against Whitehaven Coal
* Maules Creek Community Council: Aboriginal workers walk off the job - Whitehaven in protest at Maules Creek coal mine

* Brisbane Blacks Monthly: Mabo Lawyer - Native Title Agreements Affirm the Sovereignty of the British Crown

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