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WGAR News: 45th anniversary of Gurindji Wave Hill walk-off - Kalkarindji NT - 26-28 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 28/08/2011 - 11:00am

Newsletter date: 28 August 2011

Contents:
* 45th anniversary of Gurindji Wave Hill walk-off
* Amnesty International Australia: 'Tell the government: don't abandon homelands'
* Interviews with Emma Davidson of Equality Rights Alliance
* Productivity Commission report into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage
* 'strong corporations, strong stores, strong communities' report
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

* 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF GURINDJI WAVE HILL WALK-OFF:

45th Anniversary - Wave Hill Walk-Off - Gurindji Story

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Amnesty International Australia action: 'Tell the government: don't abandon homelands'

Interviews with Emma Davidson of Equality Rights Alliance

Productivity Commission report into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage

'strong corporations

'strong corporations strong stores strong communities' report

5 Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 30 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 2:16pm

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Event: Tue 30 August 2011: Carlton, Melbourne, Vic
Book launch: "Walk With Us"
- Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
To be launched by Hon Sally Brown and Melissa Brickell
Brought to you by 'concerned Australians': http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
Event details: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/WWU_booklaunches.html
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/melbourne-book-launch-of-walk-with-us-aboriginal...
Event details: [scroll down page] http://stoptheintervention.org/

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Melbourne book launch Walk With Us - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

5 Sydney Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 25 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 9:47am

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Event: 3 July to Sun 25 September 2011: Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: FREEDOM RIDERS
- Art and activism 1960s to now
Sydney University Art Gallery
"A unique and daring exhibition has pulled together some of the most important political artworks produced by NSW's leading Aboriginal artists and put them in one room for the public to see." ABC News
Event details: http://sydney.edu.au/museums/events_exhibitions/art_gallery_exhibitions....
Featured in Video: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/07/01/3259282.htm

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WGAR News: Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 23/08/2011 - 4:41pm

Newsletter date: 23 August 2011

Contents:
* Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Research review: 'Does new evidence from NT women undermine supposed benefits of income management?'
* Interview with Equality Rights Alliance's Emma Davidson
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 23 August 2011
* Muckaty Voices and Our Generation screening at 'Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival'
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Research review: 'Does new evidence from NT women undermine supposed benefits of income management?'

Interview with Equality Rights Alliance's Emma Davidson

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 23 August 2011

Muckaty Voices and Our Generation screening at 'Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival'

WGAR News: Equality Rights Alliance Report: Women's experience of Income Management in the NT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 21/08/2011 - 9:35am

Newsletter date: 21 August 2011

Contents:
* Report: Women's experience of Income Management in the NT
* Homelands: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks's call to government
* Amnesty Online Petition: 'Don’t abandon Aboriginal homelands'
* Anti-Intervention campaigners back call for Homelands funding
* Online Petition: Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
* Federal Court dismisses Yindjibarndi appeal
* Submission: Children of the Intervention
* More on Kimberley gas plant
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Online Petition: Save Ballerrt Mooroop College

Federal Court dismisses Yindjibarndi appeal

Submission: Children of the Intervention

'Keep the Kimberley' - rally at State Library, Melbourne, 14 August 2011

Submitted by peter on Thu, 18/08/2011 - 10:00am

Organisers estimated up to a thousand people answered the call for Melbourne solidarity with the campaign to stop industrialisation of the still-pristine Kimberley - many of them wearing red 'to represent the Pindan (red dirt) of the region's remarkable terrain, the blood of this country'.

The callout was posted to this site:

Help stop the Gas Plant at Walmadan (James Price Point) and protect the Kimberley!

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2 Adelaide Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 15/08/2011 - 4:39pm

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Upcoming Event: Central Adelaide, SA
Adelaide Kimberley Support Rally postponed – a bigger better event is already being planned, date and details soon!
Event details: http://www.savethekimberley.com/wp/2011/07/13/upcoming-events/

Event: Mon 22 August 2011: Adelaide, SA
'Our Generation' Community Screening
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/
Event details: http://unione.unilife.edu.au/Clubs/Event.aspx?CID=267&EID=1498
Event details: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=233274766693612

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'Our Generation' Adelaide Film Screening

130th Justice and Peace Candlelight Walk - Adelaide

Adelaide Kimberley Support Rally postponed

4 Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 15 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 15/08/2011 - 4:20pm

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Event: 27 May to Sun 9 October 2011: Kalgoorlie, WA
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: Thu 18 August - Sun 30 October 2011: Wiluna to Perth, WA
Walk Away from Uranium Mining
"By coming to Wiluna you will be supporting Traditional Owners in their opposition to uranium mining."

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3 Melbourne Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 15 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 15/08/2011 - 3:10pm

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Event: Ongoing protest: Glenroy, Melbourne, Vic
Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
This Koori Pathways School is under threat
"The Local Indigenous Community is campaigning to keep the Glenroy Koorie Pathway School on Wurundjeri Country at its current Hilton Street Glenroy site."
Campaign Updates: http://ballerrtmooroop.org/

Event: Wed 7 September 2011: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Indigenous Social Justice Association:
Discussion of Justice Reinvestment

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9 NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 15 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 15/08/2011 - 12:44pm

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Event: 3 July to Sun 25 September 2011: Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: FREEDOM RIDERS - Art and activism 1960s to now
Sydney University Art Gallery
"A unique and daring exhibition has pulled together some of the most important political artworks produced by NSW's leading Aboriginal artists and put them in one room for the public to see." ABC News
Event details: http://sydney.edu.au/museums/events_exhibitions/art_gallery_exhibitions....
Featured in Video: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/07/01/3259282.htm

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Building Bridges Course 2011