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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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Thousands of donors rescue top Green politician from bankruptcy

Submitted by Diet Simon on Sun, 14/06/2009 - 5:46pm

Thousands of Australians have rescued Australia's top Green politician, Senator Bob Brown, from a legal bill that would have bankrupted him. He ran up the bill defending his native Tasmania's magnificent old growth forests against logging.

In a note of thanks for donations to court costs he said the action against him was "typical of the pressure tactics used by the native forest logging industry".

Here's the text of a round-robin email from him:

Dear Friend,

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