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WGAR News: National inquiry into Justice Reinvestment: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 10/04/2013 - 9:39am

Newsletter date: 10 April 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: National inquiry into Justice Reinvestment
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about The Australian Prison system
* CAAMA Radio: Priscilla Collins, NAAJA CEO on funding for NT youth
* SBS Living Black Audio: WA's Courts Raise Concerns Over Children In Hakea Prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Indigenous detention centres 'at crisis point'
* The Stringer: "Paraded like zoo animals"
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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Aboriginal imprisonment

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about The Australian Prison system

CAAMA Radio - Priscilla Collins - NAAJA CEO on funding for NT youth

SBS Living Black Audio - WA's Courts Raise Concerns Over Children In Hakea Prison

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous detention centres at crisis point

SBS Living Black Audio - Looking at the health system and cancer

Suresh Rajan - The Stringer - Is Australia a Racist country

Tracker - Racist taunts an ongoing problem - inquiry

SNAICC News - The Australian Community Sector Survey due 19 April 2013

The Wire Audio - Experts cautiously welcome support for Aboriginal languages in NSW

WGAR News: Legal action threatened by Indigenous groups against the CSG industry: The Wire

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 1:29pm

Newsletter date: 9 April 2013

Contents:

* The Wire Interview: Legal action threatened by Indigenous groups against the CSG industry
* Tracker: Gas firms accused of sacred site damage
* Tracker: Sacred sites 'destroyed by Qld gas plants'

* Herald Sun: NT land owners tour Spanish nuclear dump
* Tennant & District Times: Muckaty mob on tour
* Media Release: Nuclear waste in the spotlight, Muckaty in the frame: Red dirt exhibition raises red flag in Canberra
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

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Freedom Flotilla: Lake Eyre to West Papua Press Release 09.04.2013

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 12:02pm

Uncle Kevin (Kev) Buzzacott, a Peacemaker from Arabunna Nation at Lake Eyre in South Australia and Jacob Rumbiak (exiled Foreign Affairs Minister from the Federated Republic of Occupied West Papua) have announced a new action of creative resistance against the apartheid of colonisation and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on Indigenous land in Australia and West Papua.

The Lake Eyre to West Papua Freedom Flotilla is a journey that hopes to reunite the history and peoples of a land that was once geographically and culturally connected.

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International news and opinion

WGAR News: Money for Aboriginal disadvantage being chewed up by white bureaucrats!: CAAMA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 9:49am

Newsletter date: 8 April 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA: Money for Aboriginal disadvantage being chewed up by white bureaucrats!
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT minister blames welfare dependence for violence

* NITV News: Indigenous children to learn native language
* SBS Radionews Audio: Indigenous languages to be taught in NSW schools
* SBS Radionews Audio: Support for NSW school Indigenous language plan
* Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation - Language
* Greg Dickson, Fully (sic), Crikey: Creative Australia lends extra support to Indigenous languages, but is it enough?

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Northern Territory Intervention

learn native language

NSW schools

Indigenous language

Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation

new NT Intervention laws

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT minister blames welfare dependence for violence

NITV News - Indigenous children to learn native language

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous languages to be taught in NSW schools

SBS Radionews Audio - Support for NSW school Indigenous language plan

Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation - Language

Greg Dickson - Fully sic - Crikey - Creative Australia lends extra support to Indigenous languages - but is it enough

NITV News - Indigenous expert welcomes Royal Commission

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 7 April 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 07/04/2013 - 9:10am

Newsletter date: 7 April 2013

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Event: 7 April until 4 May 2013: Forrest, Canberra, ACT
Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud
Canberra Opening Sun 7 April 2013
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Curated By Judith Crispin
To be opened by special guest speaker:
Ms Penny Phillips, Manuwangku (Muckaty) Traditional Owner
Venue: Manning Clark House Gallery: http://manningclark.org.au/
Gallery Opening Hours:
Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm
"Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud is a
series of photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara

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Sydney events: John Pilger's documentary The Secret Country + Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 07/04/2013 - 8:27am

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Mon 8 April 2013: Chippendale, Sydney, NSW
Meaningful Movies:
The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back
"Amnesty NSW and the Demand Dignity Network
invite you to a free screening of John Pilger’s
seminal documentary, The Secret Country-
The First Australians Fight Back. Examining the
history of the persecution of Indigenous Australians,
this 1985 film explores issues that are still
pertinent to current dialogue surrounding

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Victoria events: Film Real Program presents Black Screen + Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 06/04/2013 - 4:00pm

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sat 6 April 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Help Solidarity Salon Stand Up for the Burrup!
"The Burrup Peninsula needs your support.
Located in the Pilbara region, it contains the
world’s largest and most important collection
of ancient petroglyphs, or rock carvings.
This collection, contains over a million images,
and is so detailed that individual species can be
identified. The oldest engravings were created
35,000 years ago and only a fraction has

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Canberra events: CAEPR seminars: CDEP's sociology of work + Indigenous disability: Recent evidence

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 06/04/2013 - 2:43pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 28 March to Sun 14 April 2013: Belconnen, Canberra, ACT
I Do Have a Belief:
Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) Art Retrospective
Location: Belconnen Arts Centre
Producer: Gilbert Family
"I Do Have a Belief is an exhibition and events
celebrating the life of Kevin Gilbert and his contribution
to the local community, advancing human and political
rights and Aboriginal sovereignty at a national and
international level."
"The showcasing of his creative work includes

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I Do Have a Belief - Kevin Gilbert Art Retrospective

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud

WGAR News: Homeless NT people 'having rent deducted': SBS Radionews Audio

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 05/04/2013 - 2:25pm

Newsletter date: 6 April 2013

Contents:

* Amnesty Action: Stop universal rent deductions on Aboriginal homelands
* SBS Radionews Audio: Homeless NT people 'having rent deducted'

* Amnesty NSW free screening of John Pilger’s seminal documentary, 'The Secret Country' - Mon 8 April 2013
* johnpilger.com : The films and journalism of John Pilger: The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: From Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples

* Jon Altman, Tracker: From "Territory of Exception" to "Exceptional Territory"?

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universal rent deductions

The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back

seminal documentary

From Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples

Indigenous affairs portfolio

Indigenous people

Confirmation of Aboriginality

Amnesty Action - Stop universal rent deductions on Aboriginal homelands

Amnesty NSW free screening of John Pilger’s seminal documentary - The Secret Country - Mon 8 April 2013

Jon Altman - Tracker - From Territory of Exception to Exceptional Territory

The Wire - NT dumps Indigenous affairs portfolio

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous people abandoned by Labor

Nicola Butler - The Stringer - Butler calls for an end to the tyranny of our youth seeking Confirmation of Aboriginality

The films and journalism of John Pilger - The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back

WGAR News: Federal Government green light uranium mining for WA: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 2:49pm

Newsletter date: 5 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Federal Government green light uranium mining for WA
* The Wire Audio: Safety concerns over uranium mine
* Background to the Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA)

* Deborah Ruiz Wall, New Matilda: Welfare Or Gas Money In The Kimberley?
* The Stringer: Legal action commences on EPA's approval for James Price Point Gas hub
* Hands off Country: Shake Your Head in Disbelief
* Ingetje Tadros: Pelican corroboree - welcome to Seashepherd in Walmadan
* News re Floating offshore gas processing

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Western Australia