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WGAR News: Embassy warriors found 'Not Guilty': Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 16/03/2013 - 7:26pm

Newsletter date: 17 March 2013

Contents:

* Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy: Brisbane Sovereign Embassy warriors found 'Not Guilty'
* NIRS Audio: Brisbane Embassy members have charges dropped
* Christine Flatley, Brisbane Times: Aboriginal tent embassy charges dropped
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies

* SNAICC News: New approaches are needed to child protection - or we risk another Stolen Generation

* Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane: Let's Talk Interviews
- Nicole Watson, researcher with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning

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Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Chris Graham

Jeff McMullen

Brisbane Sovereign Embassy warriors found Not Guilty

another Stolen Generation

Let's Talk Interviews

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy - Brisbane Sovereign Embassy warriors found Not Guilty

NIRS Audio - Brisbane Embassy members have charges dropped

Christine Flatley - Brisbane Times - Aboriginal tent embassy charges dropped

SNAICC News - New approaches are needed to child protection - or we risk another Stolen Generation

Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane - Let's Talk Interviews

Sovereign Union - Australia's admissions against their own interest - an alert to the Canberra Centenary

SBS Audio Radionews - NT mainstreams Indigenous services

Nicole Watson - researcher with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning

Aunty Lilla Watson and Mary Graham

WGAR News: Greatest challenge for Giles is to remedy the ills resulting from intervention: SMH

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 15/03/2013 - 4:39pm

Newsletter date: 16 March 2013

Contents:

* NIRS Audio: Adam Giles first Indigenous head of state
* The Wire Audio: Chief Making History
* The Wire Audio: A new image for CLP
* SBS Audio Radionews: NT leadership shock makes history
* SBS Audio Radionews: Reaction to NT leadership coup
* SBS World News Video: Giles becomes first Indigenous head of government
* SBS World News Video: NT chief minister changes govt policies
* Jeff McMullen, SMH: Greatest challenge for Giles is to remedy the ills resulting from intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Adam Giles

CLP

NT leadership coup

Indigenous head of government

NT chief minister

Northern Territory Chief Minister

Aboriginal Chief Minister

Tangentyere

Mills

Jeff McMullen

NIRS Audio - Adam Giles first Indigenous head of state

The Wire Audio - Chief Making History

The Wire Audio - A new image for CLP

SBS Audio Radionews - NT leadership shock makes history

SBS Audio Radionews - Reaction to NT leadership coup

SBS World News Video - Giles becomes first Indigenous head of government

SBS World News Video - NT chief minister changes govt policies

Jeff McMullen - SMH - Greatest challenge for Giles is to remedy the ills resulting from intervention

Bob Gosford - Crikey - Statement by Adam Giles Northern Territory Chief Minister

Bob Gosford - Crikey - How Adam Giles and his mates seized power in the NT

Tracker - Tangentyere welcomes new Chief Minister

Tracker - Giles becomes first Aboriginal Chief Minister

Fortescue dirty tricks claim two more heads

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 14/03/2013 - 10:38pm

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION, 14 March 2013 - Fortescue dirty tricks claim two more heads

Yesterday the National Indigenous Times (NIT) reported that Bruce Woodley, chairman of the Wirlu-Murra Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (WMYAC), was “bullied and intimidated” into standing down because he told ABC’s 7.30 and the NIT that FMG and its “snake in the grass” agent, Michael Gallagher, controlled WMYAC; and because he sent letters complaining of malfeasance at WMYAC to ORIC and ASIC.

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FMG

Fortescue Metals Group

Melbourne & Vic events: National Close the Gap Day + Marxism Conference + Radioactive Exposure Tour

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 13/03/2013 - 7:29am

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 21 or Fri 22 March 2013: Victoria
National Close the Gap Day
"A day for Australians to join together and remind
political leaders to close the life expectancy gap
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
within a generation." ATSI Support
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
still die 10-17 years younger than other Australians.
Closing this health gap cannot be done overnight.
We need a long-term commitment with adequate

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Qld events: Ration Shed Tour + ANTaR Closing the Gap Award + Close the Gap Day + Embassy Corroboree

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 7:37pm

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Sat 16 March 2013: Cherbourg, Qld
Ration Shed Tour
"When our Elders were moved off the land and
taken to Cherbourg they were cut off from their
traditional sources of food and were given
weekly rations of mainly flour, sugar, tea, sago,
rice, split peas and meat. The rations were
given from a wooden shed which we have
restored and call The Ration Shed Museum.
We use the Ration Shed as a space to tell our stories."

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Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Sydney events: Justice for The Bowraville Children March + Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 5:37pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 13 March 2013: Sydney, NSW
Lecture meeting: Dr Mike Donaldson - on the ancient art
sites of the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of WA
Event summary: http://oceanicartsociety.org.au/calendar.html
Event summary: http://oceanicartsociety.org.au/index.html
Event details: http://oceanicartsociety.org.au/lectures.html

Event: 13 February - 13 March 2013: Bathurst, NSW
Strong Spirit Strong People Strong Culture
"The name of the exhibition is borrowed from

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Canberra events: First Australians Resistance Exhibition + Elimination of Racial Discrim'n Panel

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 5:14pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: from 13 March 2013: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others

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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 13 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 3:35pm

Newsletter date: 13 March 2013

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ILC keeping Aboriginal men In The Long Grass

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 1:57pm

Today in the Northern Territory along the Roper Bar road on the Aboriginal Alawa people owned Station of Warrigundu you will find no activity. The part time Aboriginal station staff was sat down in early December last year by the lease holders of the property, the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC). While sitting down for two or three months over a wet period is nothing new in the top end, the pay systems the Aboriginal boys operate under within the ILC is.

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WGAR News: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 11/03/2013 - 6:25pm

Newsletter date: 12 March 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds
* Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: Kimberley rally forces response from Labor and Liberal
* The Stringer: Broome voters send a strong message - don’t build the gas hub
* SMH: Hot contest in Kimberley gas hub seat
* Independent Australia: Kimberley's gas hub to become industrial wasteland - Greens
* WA 2013 Vote: Barnett Woodside Gang Up on Broome Community
* WA 2013 Vote: Liberal Bloom Admits James Price Point Start About Complete Kimberley Resource Development

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