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Canberra events: First Australians Resistance Exhibition + Elimination of Racial Discrim'n Panel

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 5:14pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: from 13 March 2013: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others

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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 13 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 3:35pm

Newsletter date: 13 March 2013

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ILC keeping Aboriginal men In The Long Grass

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 1:57pm

Today in the Northern Territory along the Roper Bar road on the Aboriginal Alawa people owned Station of Warrigundu you will find no activity. The part time Aboriginal station staff was sat down in early December last year by the lease holders of the property, the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC). While sitting down for two or three months over a wet period is nothing new in the top end, the pay systems the Aboriginal boys operate under within the ILC is.

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WGAR News: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 11/03/2013 - 6:25pm

Newsletter date: 12 March 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds
* Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: Kimberley rally forces response from Labor and Liberal
* The Stringer: Broome voters send a strong message - don’t build the gas hub
* SMH: Hot contest in Kimberley gas hub seat
* Independent Australia: Kimberley's gas hub to become industrial wasteland - Greens
* WA 2013 Vote: Barnett Woodside Gang Up on Broome Community
* WA 2013 Vote: Liberal Bloom Admits James Price Point Start About Complete Kimberley Resource Development

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Alex Bainbridge - Green Left - Kimberley rally forces response from Labor and Liberal

The Stringer - Broome voters send a strong message - don’t build the gas hub

SMH - Hot contest in Kimberley gas hub seat

Independent Australia - Kimberley's gas hub to become industrial wasteland - Greens

WA 2013 Vote - Barnett Woodside Gang Up on Broome Community

WA 2013 Vote - Liberal Bloom Admits James Price Point Start About Complete Kimberley Resource Development

More News re Kimberley election

WGAR News: Stronger Futures 'fundamentally racist': Ada Lee, South Sydney Herald

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 11/03/2013 - 12:55pm

Newsletter date: 11 March 2013

Contents:

* Ada Lee, South Sydney Herald: Stronger Futures 'fundamentally racist'
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* YouTube: Letters Patent Protest, South Australia - MAV Media

* PShift: Traditional owner - james bonner - supports tent embassy in Musgrave Park
* YouTube: Sovereignty is an Australian question - SovereignEmbassy
* Brisbane City Council Heritage Citation: Musgrave Park

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Northern Territory Intervention

treaty

Muckaty nuclear waste dump

sovereignty

Stronger Futures

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Musgrave Park

Wave Rock

Letters Patent Protest

Indigenous doctors

cave art

YouTube - Letters Patent Protest - South Australia - MAV Media

PShift - Traditional owner - james bonner - supports tent embassy in Musgrave Park

YouTube - Sovereignty is an Australian question - SovereignEmbassy

Brisbane City Council Heritage Citation - Musgrave Park

NITV Footage - Michael Anderson - Nicole Watson and Dianna Murray - A discussion of Sovereignty and Treaty

NIRS - Efforts for more Indigenous doctors praised

Debra Jopson - The Guardian UK - Australian uranium discovery threatens ancient indigenous cave art

Malarndirri McCarthy - NITV News - Mercedes-Benz apologises over Wave Rock video

Songlines - Government answers to Greens questions regarding Muckaty radioactive sites matters

WGAR News: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms: The Wilderness Society

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 09/03/2013 - 1:36pm

Newsletter date: 9 March 2013

Contents:

* NITV News: Festival for the Kimberley in Sydney
* The Wilderness Society: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms
* ABC AM: WA Liberals promise national park on re-election
* Broome Community No Gas Campaign: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds and to intervene to stop Woodside drilling works
* Hands off Country: Bob Brown Speaking at a Broome No Gas forum
* Greens Senator Scott Ludlam: Together, we're fighting for James Price Point

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Kimberley Campaign News

Kimberley national park

Broome Community No Gas Campaign

Shell

burial grounds

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam

NITV News - Festival for the Kimberley in Sydney

ABC AM - WA Liberals promise national park on re-election

Broome Community No Gas Campaign - Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds and to intervene to stop Woodside drilling works

Hands off Country - Bob Brown Speaking at a Broome No Gas forum

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam - Together we're fighting for James Price Point

Environs Kimberley - Kimberley rainforest listed as endangered by Australian Government

Róisin Mortimer - Friends of the Earth Australia - James Price Point gas hub controversy

Conservation Council of Western Australia - Protect the Kimberley and Prevent More Carbon Pollution

WGAR News: "ALSWA, Governor McCusker, McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 07/03/2013 - 1:25pm

Newsletter date: 7 March 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: ALSWA, Governor McCusker, McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing
* NIRS: Legal service slams WA mandatory sentencing push
* CAAMA: Calls for release of juvenile prisoners being held in a men's prison
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The Stringer: Taoundai Conference brings on the Aboriginal Liberation Movement

* NIRS: Funding still not reaching communities: Smallwood

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Aboriginal Health Workers

Racist attack via Facebook

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - ALSWA Governor McCusker McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing

NIRS - Legal service slams WA mandatory sentencing push

CAAMA - Calls for release of juvenile prisoners being held in a men's prison

The Stringer - Taoundai Conference brings on the Aboriginal Liberation Movement

NIRS - Funding still not reaching communities - Smallwood

NACCHO Support - In a time of need the Lowitja Institute is asking for your support to Close the Gap

The Wire - Indigenous Australian research institute Lowitja faces possible closure

RHEF - A Unique Profession - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Workers

Let's Talk - Clancestry Conversation - Kinship and Identity - Just who is Black enough

Sydney events: Rex Bellotti + Kimberley Festival + Unsettling Suite + This Heaven + Shane Phillips

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 05/03/2013 - 12:30pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 6 March 2013: Sydney, NSW
Part of the National Day of Action for
Justice for Rex Bellotti in Perth, WA
Rally outside office of Police Integrity Commission (PIC) NSW
Organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association - Sydney (ISJA)
Event details: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Redfern-Waterloo/message/7099
ISJA Statement: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53467

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Western Australia Aboriginal rights events: National Close the Gap Day + Lurujarri Dreaming Trail

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 05/03/2013 - 12:03pm

Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 21 or Fri 22 March 2013: Western Australia
National Close the Gap Day
"A day for Australians to join together and remind
political leaders to close the life expectancy gap
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
within a generation." ATSI Support
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
still die 10-17 years younger than other Australians.
Closing this health gap cannot be done overnight.

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Melbourne & Vic events: Waradgerie Weaver exhibition + Intern'l Women's Day + Reflect Exhibition

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 05/03/2013 - 11:37am

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 25 January - 10 March 2013: Ararat, Vic
Exhibition: Waradgerie Weaver - Lorraine Connelly-Northey
"The material she chooses for her artwork
has a strong personal significance.
She initially considered working with plants and
grasses, but decided that it was not appropriate
to use such materials as they did not express
the areas that bordered the different language
groups around her mother’s country."
"For this reason, she turned to the discarded

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary