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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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Indigenous land claimants, Greens, vow to fight nuclear waste dump at Muckaty

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 15/03/2012 - 6:19pm

Indigenous representatives of Muckaty, Greens and environmentalists are vowing to fight the nuclear waste dump passed by the Australian Senate on March 13.

The Greens spokesperson for nuclear issues, Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam, said Labor and the Coalition colluding to pass the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill in the Senate today was "just the beginning of the next phase in the campaign to stop this waste dump".

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"Pay the Rent" - say Nyoongars - "Stronger Futures can go straight to hell"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 15/03/2012 - 5:19pm

Gerry Georgatos
With the Stronger Futures debacle in the Australian Senate the following could not be more timely. Nyoongar rights advocate and CEO of Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, Robert Eggington has gathered together with several prominent Nyoongars, and a large number of the Nyoongar community, to announce their own Native Title proposals for the state government to consider.

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From Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation - Stolen Wages Rally - March 28

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 12/03/2012 - 9:29pm

To all Media networks

There will be a large gathering of Aboriginal People on
28 MARCH, 2012
COMMENCING 11:00 AM
at the corner of Riverside Drive and Victoria Avenue
for a march to Parliament House .

The march route will be up St Georges Terrace,
stopping momentarily at the Office of Premier and Cabinet.

At Parliament House the speakers will address issues such as

STOLEN WAGES - RECENT EX GRATIA ANNOUNCEMENT

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To get the justice done, the splintered, shard-like "left" needs to coalesce

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 09/03/2012 - 11:32pm

Gerry Georgatos

The compassionate left wing screams for social justice and argues for our governments and society's institutions to have a heart and help people from the bottom end up, and to desist with the proposition that they can achieve for the downtrodden by working from the top end of town and down.

The bona fide left wing is fractious and forever splintering and yet it calls out for groundswells of people power to coalesce in mass social movements which will give rise to cultural waves.

WA primary school in race row - Back to the 1950s!

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 09/03/2012 - 1:51am

Gerry Georgatos

A Western Australian primary school principal has taken the state back forty years with a race row after he targeted all the Aboriginal students in trying to address misbehaviour.

The northern Perth primary school of Neerabup was the talk of its local communities when on Friday, March 1, its principal Brett Lewis tried to address alleged discipline problems by ordering to a special meeting all Aboriginal children from Years 3 to 7 - all of them together.

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Stolen wages remain stolen with $2,000 offer

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 08/03/2012 - 10:05am

by Gerry Georgatos The Stolen Wages campaign has taken an almighty setback in Western Australia when the state government tossed up a disturbingly paltry compensation offer - and which requires one to extinguish all rights to any further claims if they accept the offer.

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Premier Colin Barnett

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WGAR News: "The tent embassy: fact v fiction, black v white" by Chris Graham

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 20/02/2012 - 9:03am

Newsletter date: 20 February 2012

Contents:
* "Aboriginal meetings across Australia to build national unity government" by Michael Anderson
* "The tent embassy: fact v fiction, black v white" by Chris Graham
* More on the Tent Embassy protest on Invasion Day

* "ABORIGINAL MEETINGS ACROSS AUSTRALIA TO BUILD NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT" BY MICHAEL ANDERSON:

- Media Release

Aboriginal meetings across Australia to build national unity government
http://www.indymedia.org.au/2012/02/17/aboriginal-meetings-across-austra...

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More on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest on Invasion Day

Aboriginal meetings across Australia to build national unity government

Peacefully protesting the CHOGM Business Forum

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 26/10/2011 - 12:37pm

On the 25 October 2011, Julia Gillard along with the head of Woodside addressed the Gala ball at the CHOGM business forum at the Burswood Casino in what is to be the first of a week of CHOGM events and protests.

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WGAR News: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on Q and A; Interviews with Djiniyini Gondarra and Michael Anderson

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 26/10/2011 - 11:02am

Newsletter date: 26 October 2011

Contents:
* Rosalie Kunoth-Monks - panellist on Q and A live from Darwin
* Interview with Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra - Yolgnu embassy proposed
* Interview with Michael Anderson - Sovereignty and Native Title
* Evidence - Free Policy Making? The Case of Income Management by Eva Cox
* Eva Cox: The lack of evidence for the benefits of Income Management
* What's Working: Tjuwumpa Rangers
* Chapter of Book: The Doctrine of Discovery in Australia
* Protesters shut down Macklin press conference
* More on APY Lands

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