Pay Justice Action, 'a grassroots initiative of the Freedom Socialist Party', http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/9, organised a rally and march to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. At about the same time, Jenny Macklin, Minister for Indigenous Affairs, was due to address an IWD cocktail party at the Victorian Trades Hall ...
Melbourne's Anti-Intervention Collective organised a protest under the banner "Jobs with Justice, not Work for Rations". After speeches at the State Library there was a march down Swanston Street to Federation Square, where the stage was occupied for more speakers and the formal handing over of a petition for delivery to the CFMEU in the NT...
See report on the MAIC website, http://maicollective.blogspot.com/2011/03/we-sent-them-message.html, and also on this site - http://indymedia.org.au/2011/03/05/melbourne-anti-intervention-rally-432011
Newsletter date: 3 March 2011
Contents:
* Indigenous survival: Where to from here? - Symposium on the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
* The Desecration of The Sacred Alum Mountain
* ACTU Indigenous Conference in Darwin
* Two Surveys on racial relations in Australia
(1) Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Research Project
(2) Australian Reconciliation Barometer
INDIGENOUS SURVIVAL: WHERE TO FROM HERE?
- SYMPOSIUM ON THE 2007 DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research:
Newsletter date: 1 March 2011
Contents:
* Legislation enabling a nuclear waste dump to be built at Muckaty passes House of Representatives
* Background to Muckaty Station nuclear waste dump
* Aboriginal 'Freedom Ride' re-enacted
* Activist Jude Kelly from the Aboriginal Tent embassy gives up citizenship
* Importance of bilingual education in remote Indigenous schools
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
LEGISLATION ENABLING A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP TO BE BUILT AT MUCKATY PASSES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Newsletter date: 27 Feb 2011
Contents:
* UN Universal Periodic Review of Australia 2011
* WCC Statement on the Situation of Indigenous Peoples of Australia
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
UNITED NATIONS:
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF AUSTRALIA 2011
- Special Compilations
Background info:
Human Rights Law Resource Centre:
http://www.hrlrc.org.au/content/universal-periodic-review-of-australia/
Newsletter date: 25 Feb 2011
Contents:
* A Further Conversation with Elders
(7 Feb 2011 Forum at Melbourne Uni)
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
A FURTHER CONVERSATION WITH ELDERS (7 FEB 2011 FORUM AT MELBOURNE UNI)
"A Further Conversation with Elders" Forum was an initiative of 'concerned Australians': http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
- Special Compilations:
'concerned Australians':
Media release on New Way Sovereignty Summit
Goodooga, northwest NSW, 4 February 11 - - “We have not had the shackles of control removed from our feet. We continue to be captives at the will of the government and their collaborators. We do not have liberators who work to free our people,” says Aboriginal political activist, Michael Anderson, announcing the next New Way Sovereignty Summit.
In the Worimi Nation in a town called Bulahdelah about one hour north of Newcastle is Boolah Dillah, better known to most people as Bulahdelah or The Alum Mountain. This mountain is a hugely significant Aboriginal sacred place that also has many significant sites.
In the year 2000 the roads and traffic authority announced that they had plans to build a new section of highway which would be blasted up to twenty five metres deep through this sacred mountain which would desecrate this sacred place and destroy its significant sites.
Under blue skies and the towers of RMIT people gathered to remember two Tasmanian aborigines who were executed on this site in Melbourne on January 20, 1842. There is a growing campaign to acknowledge this forgotten history and to give recognition to Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner as freedom fighters resisting the invasion and European settlement of Australia.
Photoset: Commemoration of Freedom Fighters Youtube videos: Robbie Thorpe - Welcome to country; Joseph Toscano; Sharon Firebrace; Herman Wainggai; Adam Bandt
The news that the Brighton historic area beside the Jordan River has received listing as one of Australia's outstanding heritage places is a fantastic boost to the chances of saving the area from destruction, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre legal director Michael Mansell said. "The listing places the significance of the Jordan River area alongside Kakadu National Park, Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef. This is just a wonderful Christmas present to the people of Tasmania from the Australian Government."
