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WGAR News: Gerry Georgatos, WikiLeaks Party WA Senate candidate, speaks out for First Nations Peoples

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 01/09/2013 - 12:11pm

Newsletter date: 1 September 2013

Editorial Note:

'WGAR News' monitors the media, including alternative media.
'WGAR News' gives priority to grassroots Aboriginal voices and grassroots voices in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples' rights.
'WGAR News' publishes information and opinions from a wide range of sources.
These opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of WGAR.
As such, 'WGAR News' does not endorse any particular political party, but simply includes information on political parties for the interest of readers.

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Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: Let's Talk interviews Gerry Georgatos on Justice Reinvestment & Aboriginal imprisonment

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 30/08/2013 - 6:23pm

Newsletter date: 31 August 2013

Contents:

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about Justice Reinvestment and Aboriginal imprisonment
* Greens WA spokesperson on Aboriginal issues, Robin Chapple MLC: Justice reinvestment or more prisons
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Prisoners Justice Day, not enough being done
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Magistrate laments mandatory sentencing laws

* ABC The World Today: Indigenous women the fastest-growing demographic among prisoners: report

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New South Wales

Victoria

Western Australia

WGAR News: Euahlayi Nation declares independence and asserts pre-existing and continuing Statehood

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 29/08/2013 - 5:05pm

Newsletter date: 30 August 2013

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* Euahlayi Nation Media Release: Euahlayi Nation declares independence and asserts pre-existing and continuing Statehood
* YouTube: Euahlayi Nation declares independence - NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* ABC Radio National - Breakfast: Australia's 'Sugar Slaves' remembered
* YouTube: Qld marks 150th anniversary of blackbirding NITV News - Sovereign Embassy
* SBS Radio News: South Sea Islanders mark sugar 'slave' days

* SBS Radio News: University offers Wiradjuri language course

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Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Euahlayi Nation Media Release

Euahlayi Nation

Euahlayi Nation declares independence - NITV News

Australia's Sugar Slaves remembered

150th anniversary of blackbirding

blackbirding

South Sea Islanders mark sugar slave days

University offers Wiradjuri language course

Wiradjuri language

upper western region of NSW

Queensland events: Sandcliffe Writers Festival + Ration Shed Tours + ACPA: Spirit of the Lore

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 29/08/2013 - 11:00am

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sat 31 August 2013: Queensland
Sandcliffe Writers Festival
Bracken Ridge library
"Indigenous Writers' Panels. "Aboriginal Men's Stories"
presented by novelist Sam Watson, poet Sam Wagan Watson,
and historian Joshua Walker. ...
"Aboriginal Women's Stories" presented by Elizabeth Engelbrecht
... novelist Sue McPherson ... and Aunty Ruth Heggerty ... "
Event details: http://www.989fm.com.au/events/sandcliffe-writers-festival/

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Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Canberra events: Education is the key, but what door does it open? + Stories from the Torres Strait

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 29/08/2013 - 10:28am

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 4 September 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Education is the key, but what door does it open?
The values of education for very remote NT young people
Presented by: John Gunter
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"This paper examines the nature of educational and employment
outcomes for Aboriginal people in very remote Northern Territory.
In particular, the differences between those who speak a local

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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Sydney Events: What is happening in the Kimberley?: Glen Klatovsky + Cultural Flows Films

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 29/08/2013 - 10:07am

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Mon 9 September 2013: Mona Vale, Sydney, NSW
Next Information night:
What is happening in the Kimberley?
Guest speaker: Glen Klatovsky
"Glen will update us on the current situation and future developments.
Will it retain its unique social and environmental heritage?
Or will it become another industrial zone? And
What it means for Aboriginal people."
Glen will show a short Documentary "Old Country New Country"

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 51 events from 29 August 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 29/08/2013 - 9:18am

Newsletter date: 29 August 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Wed 28 & Thu 29 August 2013: Melbourne, Vic
Puliima National Indigenous - Language & Technology Forum 2013
'Language is culture, culture creates values, values are the future'
"Puliima National Indigenous Language Forum is a biennial
event aimed at bringing people together from all over Australia
to explore pioneering project ideas, exciting products and

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WGAR News: Election 2013: Political Parties opposing the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 28/08/2013 - 1:20pm

Newsletter date: 28 August 2013

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Northern Territory Intervention

Australian Greens Policy - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Rosalie Kunoth - Monks OAM

AFNPP - Australia's First Nations Political Party

NT Aboriginal candidates

Background to NT Aboriginal candidates in the upcoming 2013 Federal elections

2013 Federal elections

AFNPP - Australia's First Nations Political Party policy positions

Socialist Alliance Policy - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights - The Northern Territory intervention - the new paternalism

Socialist Alliance

Katter's Australian Party National Website - First Australians

Katter's Australian Party

Socialist Alliance - 2013 Federal Election - Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs

Upcoming Events in Darwin featuring AFNPP candidates - 29 & 30 August 2013

NT events: Actor to Activist: With Rosalie Kunoth-Monks + A.F.N.P.P. Meet the candidates

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 28/08/2013 - 10:04am

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Tue 27 August 2013: Tennant Creek, NT
Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Opening: Tue 27 August 2013
Venue: Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Cultural Centre
"Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud is a
series of photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
presenting the community and country around Muckaty,
120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the NT."
"For over five years this area has been the focus

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Northern Territory

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indigenous

aboriginal

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary