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WGAR News: Repealing the race hate laws isn't 'freedom' to Indigenous people: Siv Parker, The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 30/03/2014 - 12:14pm

Newsletter date: 31 March 2014

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* Siv Parker, The Guardian: Repealing the race hate laws isn't 'freedom' to Indigenous people
* ABC News: Warren Mundine maintains criticism of Coalition's proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act
* Professor Gillian Triggs, President, Australian Human Rights Commission: Proposed changes to the Race Discrimination Act: Bad cases make bad law
* Tim Soutphommasane, Canberra Times: Are we to favour bigotry over the right to live unaffected by it?

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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.

Marriage discrimination in Australia - a summary

Submitted by bjcrossley on Thu, 22/09/2011 - 8:36am

Subsection 5(1) of the Australian Marriage Act 1961 defines marriage as ‘...the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.’ In these nineteen words, Australian law promotes inequality, marginalises and discriminates against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) Australians. Same sex marriage, the celebration and recognition of love and commitment by members of the same gender, is outlawed by the Australian Government in the grotesquely out-dated Marriage Act 1961.

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Rally and March for Equal Marriage Rights - Melbourne, 13 August 2011

Submitted by peter on Thu, 18/08/2011 - 9:38am

Drag queens provided a colourful finale to a rally that really shouldn’t have been necessary, a point made by more than one speaker – seven years since the re-writing on the Marriage Act to exclude same-sex couples, and seven years of rallying and campaigning for equality is seven years too long.

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WA Minister ADMITS MISLEADING Parliament - Australia lied to by Prime Minister Gillard - Minister Redman, Minister O'Brien, Premier Barnett, Minister Bowen, Minister O'Connor, Prime Minister Gillard MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY. Scandal-in-waiting.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 11/08/2011 - 4:31pm

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Thursday, 11 August 2011 2:12 PM

MEDIA RELEASE FROM GERRY GEORGATOS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ALLIANCE:

MINISTER TERRY REDMAN, MINISTER SIMON O'BRIEN AND PREMIER BARNETT MUST RESIGN.

MINISTER CHRIS BOWEN, MINISTER BRENDAN O'CONNOR, ATTORNEY-GENERAL ROBERT MCCLELLAND MUST RESIGN.

PRIME MINISTER JULIA GILLARD HAS LIED TO THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE AND MUST RESIGN. MS GILLARD IMPRISONS CHILDREN IN ADULT PRISONS.

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HRA media release: Ruwuan, Roshan and Tharanga NEED our help. We have to stop the rot and the suffering.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 09/08/2011 - 10:19pm

HUMAN RIGHTS MEDIA RELEASE: THREE SRI LANKAN ASYLUM SEEKERS IN LIMBO - Their suffering continues. From Christmas Island to Prison to freedom to Darwin. More Lies. On October 22, 2009 the NOR 66 risked the high seas in a direct journey from Sri Lanka to Christmas Island, 27 days, with 30 Asylum Seekers. Three of them were Rwuan T. Senavirathna, Roshan Warnakulasuriya Fernando and Tharanga Warnakulasuriya Fernando (these two are cousins). Their are lives are at risk if they are returned to Sri Lanka.

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UN Observers need to be stationed at all Australian Detention Centres. Asylum Seekers punished at Christmas Island.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 20/07/2011 - 1:51pm

The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:

19.7.2011

Overnight the Christmas Island Detention Centre roof protest escalated with the response a severe lockdown. Christmas Island Detention Centre is now as bad as Woomera and Baxter. UN Observers must be located in these unlawful Detention Centres.

The Christmas Island roof top protest unnecessarily escalated and once again there was no appropriate de-escalation, mitigation or humanity.

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Children accused and sentenced as 'people smugglers' - Children in Australian adult prisons. Children or adults? Hero humanitarians or impoverished 'smugglers' (crew)? Law is an ass when age determination practices do not go beyond reasonable doubt.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 13/06/2011 - 4:12pm

Indonesian 'crew' who assist in the passage of Asylum Seekers are charged with 'people smuggling' by Australian authorities. However there shall come a time when members of the legal fraternity will raise the question as to the legal standing of these charges. If the passengers who are seeking Asylum are for instance all granted refugee visas and security clearances by Australia then how is it possible for anyone to be charged with 'people smuggling'?

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Kalgoorlie-Boulder, and the racism that impedes advancement by Aboriginal peoples and the enrichment of multiculturalism

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 11/06/2011 - 6:36pm

It is sadly unbelievable and appalling in the fact that those with the capacity for change and progress argue that they are lost for solutions. Steve Pennells writes a good descriptive piece, page 28 June 11 in The West Australian, however despairingly quotes the confounded WA Indigenous Affairs Minister Peter Collier, the WA Nationals Brendan Grylls and Kalgoorlie MP John Bowler. In terms of Aboriginal disparity they agree that they do not know what the solutions are. How dare Peter Collier maintain the Indigenous Affairs portfolio?

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16 year old in Australian Adult Prison! Three charged and committed to trial together BUT from different SIEVs. CDP Prosecutor and Defence teams get facts wrong!!! System falling apart. Circulate widely please.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 05/06/2011 - 2:40pm

The Human Rights Alliance

URGENT: Media Release:

WE BEG THE MEDIA TO DO THE RESEARCH THAT THE PROSECUTION (CDPP) and DEFENCE TEAMS HAVE NOT DONE. MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE UNDERWAY - and everyone else please CIRCULATE this WIDELY.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/9142753/boy-in-adult-jail-says-h...

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