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Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 11 events from 27 March 2012

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Event: Tue 27 March 2012: Gladesville, NSW
Muckaty Waste Dump Update
Special talk by Nat Wasley, Beyond Nuclear Initiative
Hosted by Bennelong & Surrounds Residents for Reconciliation
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/muckaty-waste-dump-update-talk-in-gladesville-27...

Event: Thu 22 March 2012: various locations in NSW
(various dates throughout March 2012)
National Close the Gap Day
"National Close the Gap Day (NCTGD) is a way
for all Australians to join together and remind our

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Upcoming South Australia Aboriginal rights for your diary - 5 events from 26 March 2012

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Event: Thu 22 March 2012: various locations including SA
(various dates throughout Mar/Apr 12)
National Close the Gap Day
"National Close the Gap Day (NCTGD) is a way
for all Australians to join together and remind our
political leaders of their commitments to close
the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.
Our focus for 2012 is on the need for genuine,
meaningful partnership with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander health peoples at all

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National Close the Gap Day - various locations including South Australia

Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities - Public hearing in Adelaide on 2 April 2012

136th Justice and Peace Candlelight Walk in Adelaide on 7 April 2012

The Lizard's Revenge - Olympic Dam expansion music art festival protest

Monday March 26, 11:30 to 1pm at WA state parliament - Walk for Justice Rally

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 25/03/2012 - 4:54pm

On the steps of Western Australia's State Parliament - please gather and bring everyone you know, everyone who will care - The Walk for Justice, from Albany (Friday March 23) finishes up at the steps of state parliament in a call for justice for Aboriginal folk whose predicaments are long drawn out, neglected, dismissed, lost to the cowardices of various prejudices and racisms shoved down our throats generation after generation.

Monday (26 March), 11:30am, West Australian State Parliament

It is a call for justice, your presence will be part of the call

Spread the word

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Western Australia

"Deep into the eyes of racism" - Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Thursday March 22

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 24/03/2012 - 4:35pm

Gerry Georgatos
Two of Nyoongar Tent Embassy's stalwarts had not been to the Embassy for more than a week. Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation's Robert Eggington and John Pell were in Perth city on planning duties for the March 28 Stolen Wages march and rally when Mr Eggington was urged on by a spiritual sense and looked at Mr Pell, "Johnny, lets go to the Embassy."

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Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 24 March 2012

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Event: 11 February 2012 to 26 May 2012: South Bank, Brisbane, Qld
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...

Event: Tue 28 February to Sun 25 March 2012: Adelaide, SA
Exhibition: Deadly: in-between heaven and hell
Tandanya NACI and Adelaide Festival

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Stop rape and murder for mining profit

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 21/03/2012 - 8:32am

When security forces of a Canadian mining company brutally evicted Mayan families from their villages in Guatemala, eleven women were raped, a community leader was killed, and a young man paralyzed. Now villagers are standing up and suing HudBay Minerals for these horrific crimes -- but they need our help to match the corporate legal firepower and win their case!

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Upcoming Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 12 events from 18 March 2012

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Event: Sun 18 March 2012 10pm: ABC Local Radio
Interview and Discussion on the Northern Territory
* Anglican Bishop of the NT Greg Thompson
* Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM
* Graeme Mundine
* Jeff McMullen
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/03/16/interviews-and-discussion-on-the-nort...

Event: 21 March 2012: various locations internationally
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Event details: http://www.un.org/en/events/racialdiscriminationday/

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Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 27 events from 17 March 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 17/03/2012 - 12:12pm

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Event: Tue 28 February to Sun 25 March 2012: Adelaide, SA
Exhibition: Deadly: in-between heaven and hell
Tandanya NACI and Adelaide Festival

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Indigenous land claimants, Greens, vow to fight nuclear waste dump at Muckaty

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 15/03/2012 - 6:19pm

Indigenous representatives of Muckaty, Greens and environmentalists are vowing to fight the nuclear waste dump passed by the Australian Senate on March 13.

The Greens spokesperson for nuclear issues, Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam, said Labor and the Coalition colluding to pass the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill in the Senate today was "just the beginning of the next phase in the campaign to stop this waste dump".

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"Pay the Rent" - say Nyoongars - "Stronger Futures can go straight to hell"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 15/03/2012 - 5:19pm

Gerry Georgatos
With the Stronger Futures debacle in the Australian Senate the following could not be more timely. Nyoongar rights advocate and CEO of Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, Robert Eggington has gathered together with several prominent Nyoongars, and a large number of the Nyoongar community, to announce their own Native Title proposals for the state government to consider.

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