indigenous

WGAR News: Stronger Futures 'fundamentally racist': Ada Lee, South Sydney Herald

Newsletter date: 11 March 2013

Contents:

* Ada Lee, South Sydney Herald: Stronger Futures 'fundamentally racist'
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* YouTube: Letters Patent Protest, South Australia - MAV Media

* PShift: Traditional owner - james bonner - supports tent embassy in Musgrave Park
* YouTube: Sovereignty is an Australian question - SovereignEmbassy
* Brisbane City Council Heritage Citation: Musgrave Park

The IPA and a strong left voice

The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is a body formed to push a right wing agenda. let us say that their agenda is very right wing. The believe in the smallest of government, individual liberty, private wealth, low taxation, and the market economy, unencumbered by government regulation.

I write about this group because I see a chasm between who is being represented int he main stream media. The IPA floods the media with opinion pieces which oft are printed. There is no balance of contributions from the left.

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WGAR News: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms: The Wilderness Society

Newsletter date: 9 March 2013

Contents:

* NITV News: Festival for the Kimberley in Sydney
* The Wilderness Society: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms
* ABC AM: WA Liberals promise national park on re-election
* Broome Community No Gas Campaign: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds and to intervene to stop Woodside drilling works
* Hands off Country: Bob Brown Speaking at a Broome No Gas forum
* Greens Senator Scott Ludlam: Together, we're fighting for James Price Point

WGAR News: "ALSWA, Governor McCusker, McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing"

Newsletter date: 7 March 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: ALSWA, Governor McCusker, McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing
* NIRS: Legal service slams WA mandatory sentencing push
* CAAMA: Calls for release of juvenile prisoners being held in a men's prison
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The Stringer: Taoundai Conference brings on the Aboriginal Liberation Movement

* NIRS: Funding still not reaching communities: Smallwood

Sydney events: Rex Bellotti + Kimberley Festival + Unsettling Suite + This Heaven + Shane Phillips

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 6 March 2013: Sydney, NSW
Part of the National Day of Action for
Justice for Rex Bellotti in Perth, WA
Rally outside office of Police Integrity Commission (PIC) NSW
Organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association - Sydney (ISJA)
Event details: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Redfern-Waterloo/message/7099
ISJA Statement: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53467

Western Australia Aboriginal rights events: National Close the Gap Day + Lurujarri Dreaming Trail

Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 21 or Fri 22 March 2013: Western Australia
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.

Melbourne & Vic events: Waradgerie Weaver exhibition + Intern'l Women's Day + Reflect Exhibition

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 25 January - 10 March 2013: Ararat, Vic
Exhibition: Waradgerie Weaver - Lorraine Connelly-Northey
"The material she chooses for her artwork
has a strong personal significance.
She initially considered working with plants and
grasses, but decided that it was not appropriate
to use such materials as they did not express
the areas that bordered the different language
groups around her mother’s country."
"For this reason, she turned to the discarded

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Northern Territory events: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention + National Close the Gap Day

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 22 March - 20 April 2013: Parap, Darwin, NT
Cross Art Projects's exhibition:
Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Hosted by: 24HR Art
Opening at 6pm Fri 22 March 2013
"Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
is about the removal of citizen rights by the
Federal Government Intervention in the Northern Territory
(2007 to 2012) seen through the practices of
Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists."

Canberra events: Police, protests, prisons + Inter'l Day for Elimination of Racial Discrim'n Panel

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 7 March 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Police, protests, prisons: The repressive neoliberal state
"As police attacks on and high imprisonment
rates of indigenous people show, the police
are an instrument too of racist oppression."
Organised by Socialist Alternative
Event details: http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?view=details&id=684%3Apolice-protests-pri...

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Qld events: Ration Shed Tour + ANTaR Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Award + Close the Gap Day

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."