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Sydney Events: Social Justice and Native Title Report + John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Fri 13 December 2013: Sydney, NSW
Launch of the Social Justice and Native Title Report 2013
Presenter: Mick Gooda, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
'Rights, Relationships and Responsibility- an agenda for change'

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Northern Territory Intervention

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Adelaide events: Candle Light Walk + SNAICC Training Workshops held Nationally in 2014

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Adelaide and South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Fri 6 December 2013: Adelaide, SA
155th 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

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Adelaide and South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Hobart Event: SNAICC is hosting 'Through Young Black Eyes' workshops

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 27/11/2013 - 10:04pm

Tasmania Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Events: various times during 2014: various locations around Australia including Tas
SNAICC Training Workshops will be held Nationally in 2014 -
Through Young Black Eyes & Working and Walking Together
SNAICC: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
Expressions of interest forms and flyers are available from the SNAICC training page:

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Tasmania Aboriginal rights events for your diary

NT Events: Don't frack the territory: film screening & discussion + John Pilger's film, 'Utopia'

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Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 28 November 2013: Museum & Art Gallery of NT
Don't frack the territory: film screening & discussion
"A screening of groundbreaking new documentary
"Fractured Country: an unconventional invasion".
Followed by a talk by NSW cattle farmer Phil Laird,
and an update on what's happening in he NT"

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Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Perth Events: Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse + Seminar: Boot prints: Deaths in Custody

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Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Fri 6 December 2013: Perth, WA
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Featuring guest speaker, Commissioner Helen Milroy
"Would you like to find out more about the Royal Commission
and how to be involved?
Do you want to share your story and provide information? ... "

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Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Gathering of Nations: Sovereign Union Communique of 24 November 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 26/11/2013 - 11:34am

Newsletter date: 26 November 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Sovereign Union Communique of 24 November 2013
* Ghillar (Michael Anderson), Sovereign Union: Sovereign Union and Our Political Future
* Callum Clayton-Dixon, Tracker: Sovereignty: not a radical concept
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Michael Mansell, The Guardian: An Indigenous female prime minister? Fairer representation would be a start
* Michael Mansell, Tasmanian Times: Mansell welcomes Bill Shorten's call for Aboriginal quotas - and suggests alternative idea

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WGAR News: Indigenous legal aid cuts must not go ahead: Greens Senators Rachel Siewert & Penny Wright

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 24/11/2013 - 2:48pm

Newsletter date: 25 November 2013

Contents:

* Greens Senators Rachel Siewert & Penny Wright: Indigenous legal aid cuts must not go ahead
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Come clean on Indigenous legal aid cuts: Greens
* Brooke Boney, NITV News: Nova Peris questions Indigenous legal aid cuts
* WGAR News: Coalition's proposed cuts 'a heartless decision' says ALSWA: Aboriginal Legal Service WA (9 Sep 13)
* Background to Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: White justice crippling a community

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AUSTRALIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT PENSION ARE YOU QUALIFIED ? The Australian Government have NO EMPATHY ?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 24/11/2013 - 12:56am

AUSTRALIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT PENSION ARE YOU QUALIFIED ?

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ACT

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human rights

Australia

WGAR News: Interview - John Pilger exposes Australia's shocking secret in Utopia: Australian Times

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 10:13am

Newsletter date: 24 November 2013

Contents:

* Paddy Gibson, Socialist Worker: Utopia: The brutal theft of a continent goes on in Australia
* Australian Times: Interview - John Pilger exposes Australia's shocking secret in Utopia
* Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist: An interview with the maker of Utopia, John Pilger
* The Stringer: John Pilger - 'Utopia' - launches in Australia in January
* JohnPilger.com : "Utopia will be launched in Australia in January"
* JohnPilger.com : Utopia reviews
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: 'Close the Gap' - failed: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 22/11/2013 - 12:57pm

Newsletter date: 23 November 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 'Close the Gap' - failed
* The Wire: Slowly, closing the gap [Featuring Jack Bulman and Associate Professor Gracelyn Smallwood]
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Policy change needed to close the gap
* SNAICC News: COAG report - Lessons for federal reform
* NACCHO AGM Perth 2013 health news: Aboriginal life expectancy increases to Close the Gap
* ABC The World Today: Positive news from efforts to 'close the gap'

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Australia