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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

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

WGAR News: $1.3 billion Native Title deal divides Noongar peoples: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 09/07/2013 - 2:05pm

Newsletter date: 10 July 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: $1.3 billion Native Title deal divides Noongar peoples
* ABC News: Tent embassy group rejects native title offer
* Tracker: Native title deal angers WA Tent Embassy
* SBS World News Video: WA govt offers native title deal to Noongar group
* Tim Bray, CCI: State Government Native Title offer to provide positive benefits
* University of Otago, NZ: Setting up the Tent Embassy [Nyoongar Tent Embassy]
* Background to the Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Heirisson Island (sacred site of Matagarup), Perth, WA

Geography:

Western Australia

Keywords:

Gerry Georgatos

Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Vicky Validakis - Australian Mining

Vicky Validakis - Australian Mining - Protestors line up to stop Whitehaven's Maules Creek mine

WA Tent Embassy

sacred site of Matagarup - Heirisson Island

WA Native Title offer

ABC News - Tent embassy group rejects native title offer

Tracker - Native title deal angers WA Tent Embassy

$1.3 billion Native Title deal

SBS World News Video - WA govt offers native title deal to Noongar group

WGAR News: Torres Strait region pushes for autonomy: Jeremy Geia, NITV News

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 02/06/2013 - 5:51pm

Newsletter date: 3 June 2013

Contents:

* Jeremy Geia, NITV News: Torres Strait region pushes for autonomy
* Jeremy Geia, SBS Radionews: Torres Strait continues autonomy push
* NIRS: New push for Torres Strait self governance

* Ian Lloyd Neubauer, TIME: Australia's Aborigines Launch a Bold Legal Push for Independence
* Audio Boo: Audio - Fred Hooper, Murrawarri Republic - 4ZZZ
* Audio Boo: Audio - Murrawarri Republic - Fred Hooper, spokesperson - 'The wire'
* Background to the Murrawarri Republic declaration

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

WGAR News: Declarations of Independence advanced at Brisbane Treaty Talks: Sovereign Union

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 23/05/2013 - 5:52pm

Newsletter date: 24 May 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Declarations of Independence advanced at Brisbane Treaty Talks
* Sovereign Union Media Release: Declarations of Independence advanced at Brisbane Treaty Talks
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, about the Brisbane Treaty Talks
* CAAMA Radio's Paul Wyles interviews Michael Anderson about the struggle to decolonize and achieve independence

* Sovereign Union: Italian Media: Birth of the Republic of Aboriginal Murrawarri

Geography:

New South Wales

Keywords:

Michael Anderson

Tracker Magazine

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Sovereign Union

Goomeroi Sovereign Tent Embassy

Murrawarri Republic declaration

Republic of Aboriginal Murrawarri

Aboriginal independence

Brisbane Treaty Talks

National Treaty Talks

Convenor of the Sovereign Union

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Michael Anderson Convenor of the Sovereign Union about the Brisbane Treaty Talks

CAAMA Radio's Paul Wyles interviews Michael Anderson about the struggle to decolonize and achieve independence

Sovereign Union - Italian Media - Birth of the Republic of Aboriginal Murrawarri

ABC's Kelly Fuller interviews Michael Anderson - one of the 19 native title applicants from the Gomeroi people

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Journalist Chris Graham about the latest stories in Tracker Magazine

WGAR News: Murrawarri people take sovereignty campaign to UN: Jeremy Geia, NITV News

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 15/05/2013 - 1:00pm

Newsletter date: 16 May 2013

Contents:

* Murrawarri Republic: Queen Recognises Murrawarri Republic
* Jeremy Geia, NITV News: Murrawarri people take sovereignty campaign to UN
* NITV's Jeremy Geia, SBS Radionews: Indigenous 'republic' to go to UN
* Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Murrawarri Republic
* Background to the The Murrawarri Republic
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Sovereign Union: Goomeroi People call for a mining freeze on sacred lands [Transcript from NITV News - Jeremy Geia report]

Geography:

New South Wales

South Australia

WGAR News: Ongoing racism and abuse at Brisbane [Aboriginal] Sovereign Embassy: Sovereign Union

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/05/2013 - 2:07pm

Newsletter date: 4 May 2013

Contents:

* Michael Anderson: Don't sign your sovereign rights away with ILUAs [Indigenous Land Use Agreements]
* The Stringer: Ceding Sovereignty for a few crumbs
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson & Mary Graham
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* Sovereign Union: Ongoing racism and abuse at Brisbane Sovereign Embassy
* Sovereign Union Audioboo: Musgrave Park Arrests - Wayne Coco Wharton Interview

Geography:

Keywords:

Michael Anderson

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Sovereign Union

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Aunty Lilla Watson and Mary Graham

Wayne Coco Wharton

Indigenous Land Use Agreements - ILUAs

sovereign rights

Ceding Sovereignty

Musgrave Park Arrests

Aboriginal actors

racially abused

Michael Anderson - Sovereign Union - Don't sign your sovereign rights away with ILUAs

The Stringer - Ceding Sovereignty for a few crumbs

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson & Mary Graham

Sovereign Union Audioboo - Musgrave Park Arrests - Wayne Coco Wharton Interview

4ZZZ Brisbane - BCC clash with Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy - Kevin Arjin Interview

Workers Bush Telegraph - Why the sacred fire is important to everyone

Australian - Aboriginal actors refused taxis four times before being racially abused

WGAR News: "Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 9:36am

Newsletter date: 4 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison
* Tracker: Legal bid to get WA kids out of adult jail
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley
* NITV: Northern NSW clans create 'Murrawarri Republic'
* Sovereign Union: A fight against paying rates on ancient homelands
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* 3CR Community Radio: Earth Matters

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

deaths in custody

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Indigenous health

National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

National Congress

Murrawarri Republic

imprison children

Olympic Dam mine

Indigenous carers

Indigenous children

indigenous jobs

Housing consultations

Tracker - Legal bid to get WA kids out of adult jail

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley

NITV - Northern NSW clans create Murrawarri Republic

Sovereign Union - A fight against paying rates on ancient homelands

3CR Community Radio - Earth Matters

3CR Community Radio - Radioactive Show

NITV News - Re-direct Indigenous health funding to community services

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous carers better for Indigenous children

SNAICC News - New resource on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Promising Practice Profiles

WGAR News: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud: burn magazine

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 30/03/2013 - 1:23pm

Newsletter date: 31 March 2013

Contents:

* burn magazine: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
* Canberra opening of 'Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud': Sun 7 April 2013
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* Helen Musa, Canberra CityNews: Exhibition honours true believer
* Canberra opening of 'I Do Have a Belief' - Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) Art Retrospective: Sat 6 April 2013
* Sovereign Union: The Murrawarri Republic declaration
* NITV News: Aboriginal activists meet Black Power founders

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Western Australia

Keywords:

deaths in custody

Aboriginal imprisonment

Muckaty nuclear waste dump

children in adult prisons

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Closing the Gap

Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud

Jagath Dheerasekara

Canberra openings

I Do Have a Belief

Art Retrospective

Murrawarri Republic

Aboriginal activists

Indigenous Social Justice Association

Traditional Languages

Canberra opening of Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud - Sun 7 April 2013

Helen Musa - Canberra CityNews - Exhibition honours true believer

Canberra opening of I Do Have a Belief - Kevin Gilbert - 1933-1993 - Art Retrospective - Sat 6 April 2013

Sovereign Union - The Murrawarri Republic declaration

NITV News - Aboriginal activists meet Black Power founders

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Ray Jackson - President - Indigenous Social Justice Association

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

Geography:

Northern Territory

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

NT intervention

Northern Territory Intervention

Muckaty nuclear waste dump

Stronger Futures

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Letters Patent Protest

Indigenous doctors

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: Let Aboriginal people manage their own affairs: Canberra & Brisbane Tent Embassies

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

Newsletter date: 12 February 2013

Contents:

* Aboriginal Tent Embassies in Canberra and Brisbane: Let Aboriginal people manage their own affairs
* Jon Lamb, Socialist Alternative: "They cannot put out the fire of sovereignty"
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* ISJA: TJ Hickey: Nine Long Years...Time for Justice?
* Event: Rally 9th Anniversary of TJ Hickey's death - 14 Feb 13
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT government cuts services, reverses Aboriginal gains
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Keywords:

NT intervention

deaths in custody

Northern Territory Intervention

Aboriginal imprisonment

Stronger Futures

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Jon Lamb - Socialist Alternative - They cannot put out the fire of sovereignty

ISJA - TJ Hickey - Nine Long Years - Time for Justice

Event - Rally 9th Anniversary of TJ Hickey's death - 14 Feb 13

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT government cuts services - reverses Aboriginal gains

ANTaR - Reporting progress towards closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians