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Northern Territory events: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention + National Close the Gap Day

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Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 22 March - 20 April 2013: Parap, Darwin, NT
Cross Art Projects's exhibition:
Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Hosted by: 24HR Art
Opening at 6pm Fri 22 March 2013
"Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
is about the removal of citizen rights by the
Federal Government Intervention in the Northern Territory
(2007 to 2012) seen through the practices of
Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists."

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Canberra events: Police, protests, prisons + Inter'l Day for Elimination of Racial Discrim'n Panel

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 7:36pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 7 March 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Police, protests, prisons: The repressive neoliberal state
"As police attacks on and high imprisonment
rates of indigenous people show, the police
are an instrument too of racist oppression."
Organised by Socialist Alternative
Event details: http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?view=details&id=684%3Apolice-protests-pri...

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Qld events: Ration Shed Tour + ANTaR Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Award + Close the Gap Day

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 7:20pm

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sat 16 March 2013: Cherbourg, Qld
Ration Shed Tour
"When our Elders were moved off the land and
taken to Cherbourg they were cut off from their
traditional sources of food and were given
weekly rations of mainly flour, sugar, tea, sago,
rice, split peas and meat. The rations were
given from a wooden shed which we have
restored and call The Ration Shed Museum.
We use the Ration Shed as a space to tell our stories."

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Qld events: Ration Shed Tour + ANTaR Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Award + Close the Gap Day

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 5 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 6:42pm

Newsletter date: 5 March 2013

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Event: 23 February - 10 March 2013: Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW
'Unsettling Suite' - Performance Space
"Performance Space is delighted to present
Sarah-Jane Norman's installation and performance
project bringing together her entire Unsettling Suite
project into a dramatically charged exhibition
and series of live performances."
"Through works that are both beguiling and disturbing,
Unsettling Suite explores the ways that Australia's
history of colonisation plays out on the body, and

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WGAR News: Evidently: Finding the truth in the employment gap: Jon Altman, Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 11:28am

Newsletter date: 4 March 2013

Contents:

* Jon Altman, Tracker: Evidently: Finding the truth in the employment gap

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: We have your back [strong Aboriginal women on the frontline]

* NACCHO: Positive health gains for Aboriginal community controlled health organisations

* Jeff McMullen, Tracker: The Way Ahead: The Aboriginal Voice

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Behind Enemy Lines: Taking sentencing out of the court of public opinion
* Peter Robson, Green Left: NT introduces new mandatory sentencing laws

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Aboriginal community controlled health organisations

Amy McQuire - Tracker - We have your back - strong Aboriginal women on the frontline

NACCHO - Positive health gains for Aboriginal community controlled health organisations

Jeff McMullen - Tracker - The Way Ahead - The Aboriginal Voice

Amy McQuire - Tracker - Behind Enemy Lines - Taking sentencing out of the court of public opinion

Peter Robson - Green Left - NT introduces new mandatory sentencing laws

Northern Star- Call for Royal Commission into Bowraville murders

Indigenous Social Justice Association - ISJA - Action against police brutality

NIRS - Anti-police brutality rallies to be held four years after Bellotti incident

WGAR News: We must renew calls for national land rights: Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/03/2013 - 4:53pm

Newsletter date: 3 March 2013

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial: We must renew calls for national land rights
* Chris Munro, Tracker: Aboriginal Ink: Voices of the voiceless
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Land Rights: Breaking new ground
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance
* Tracker: NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office
* Gary Foley, Tracker: The Contrarian: How Bob Hawke killed land rights
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

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Chris Munro - Tracker - Aboriginal Ink - Voices of the voiceless

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Land Rights - Breaking new ground

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance

Tracker - NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office

Gary Foley - Tracker - The Contrarian - How Bob Hawke killed land rights

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights

WGAR News: Australia's Aboriginal children - The world's highest suicide rate: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 01/03/2013 - 3:37pm

Newsletter date: 2 March 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia’s Aboriginal children - The world’s highest suicide rate
* The Stringer: Youth suicides - toll higher than Afghan war deaths

* NIRS: Higher rates of severe disability for Indigenous Australians: Research

* SBS Living Black: Heal Our Youth - Or Jail Them?
* NIRS: Gooda: "Stop locking Aboriginal people up who don't need to be locked up"
* ABC Radio Australia: Call for NSW intervention program to include indigenous youth
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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The Stringer - Youth suicides - toll higher than Afghan war deaths

NIRS - Higher rates of severe disability for Indigenous Australians - Research

SBS Living Black - Heal Our Youth - Or Jail Them

NIRS - Gooda - Stop locking Aboriginal people up who don't need to be locked up

ABC Radio Australia - Call for NSW intervention program to include indigenous youth

WGAR News: Fears raised over burial sites near James Price Point: Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 28/02/2013 - 7:55pm

Newsletter date: 1 March 2013

Contents:
* The Wilderness Society: Broome takes over Sydney’s Martin Place
* Tracker: Fears raised over burial sites near James Price Point
* YouTube: Christine Milne on James Price Point - AustralianGreens
* YouTube: Rally For the Kimberley, Images Robin Chapple and Red Broome - Red Hand
* Robin Chapple MLC: Greens name and shame our biggest carbon emitters
* Perth Now: Sleeping giants square off in gas wars
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* Other articles

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The Wilderness Society - Broome takes over Sydney’s Martin Place

YouTube - Christine Milne on James Price Point - AustralianGreens

YouTube - Rally For the Kimberley - Images Robin Chapple and Red Broome - Red Hand

Robin Chapple MLC - Greens name and shame our biggest carbon emitters

Perth Now - Sleeping giants square off in gas wars

WGAR News: Aboriginal youth could be silent victims in mandatory sentencing: The Wire

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 27/02/2013 - 2:59pm

Newsletter date: 28 February 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Aboriginal youth could be silent victims in mandatory sentencing
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Legal service slams WA govt’s "despicable" plans for mandatory sentencing
* The Stringer: Feed the little children
* The Stringer: Sansbury and Franks say "enough" and time for the SA Government to act
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The Stringer: Aboriginal peoples finally to be included in SA Constitution - but 'no' to Treaty

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