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WGAR News: Update on Aboriginal Summit in Canberra (23 Jan 10)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/01/2010 - 10:50am

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Contents:
Aboriginal Summit in Canberra
Making a submission on the NTER legislation amendments by 1 Feb 2010
Ampilatwatja Walk-off
Racist Website
Peace Walk for Aboriginal Sovereignty: 25, 26 Jan Canberra
Loan shark lends to Aboriginal Centrelink clients
UN Report on conditions of world's indigenous peoples
Recent attacks on Indian students in Melbourne
Other NT Intervention Articles

ABORIGINAL SUMMIT IN CANBERRA:

"NEW WAY SUMMIT: Our Way or No Way

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Lest we forget the war against Indigenous Australians

Submitted by takver on Sun, 17/01/2010 - 5:23pm

Dr Joseph Toscano writes on the commemoration of indigenous resistance and early Melbourne history and the need for a monument to the indigenous freedom fighters, Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, who were the first judicial executions in Melbourne on January 20, 1842.

Update: About 80 people attended commemoration - Photoset | Youtube Videos: Bunurong Elder Carolyn Briggs - No tolerance for racism | Gunnai activist Robbie Thorpe - Australia is a crime scene | Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner 2010 commemoration
Related: Time for a memorial to commemorate the Indigenous Resistance | Event Details | Lord Mayor Robert Doyle commemorated story of aboriginal resistance | Belgrave Survival Day (Event)

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WGAR News: Call to an Aboriginal summit in Canberra (13 Jan 10)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 13/01/2010 - 4:42pm

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Call to an Aboriginal summit in Canberra
Ampilatwatja Walk-off

CALL TO AN ABORIGINAL SUMMIT IN CANBERRA

- Media Releases

Indymedia Australia: “Overwhelming interest in Aboriginal summit”
http://indymedia.org.au/2010/01/13/%E2%80%9Coverwhelming-interest-in-abo...

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Michael Anderson

Richard Downs

Solidarity Action For Kulon Progo Farmers - 11 January 2010

Submitted by peter on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 2:10pm

In response to a call from the Kulon Progo farmers for support from Melburnians (see calendar item), the Melbourne Anarchist Club (MAC) organised a protest outside the Indonesian Consulate in Melbourne this morning. Called at short notice and falling on a day when temperatures were forecast to exceed 45 degrees, the gathering was not surprisingly small(about ten in all), but made its point.

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WGAR News: NT govt diverts $2 billion earmarked for Aboriginal and other disadvantage (6 Dec 09)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 09/12/2009 - 8:59am

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
NT government diverts $2 billion earmarked for Aboriginal and other disadvantage
Alice Springs town camp residents decide against appeal
Tangentyere Council, Alice Springs
Extension of Welfare Quarantining to Non-Aboriginal People
Council for Territory Co-operation
Will they be heard? report on "consultations"
NT Intervention Articles
Other Aboriginal Articles

NT GOVERNMENT DIVERTS $2 BILLION EARMARKED FOR ABORIGINAL AND OTHER DISADVANTAGE:

- News

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WGAR News: Income Management to be extended to include Non-Aboriginal People (30 Nov 09)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 02/12/2009 - 2:20pm

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Income Management to be extended to include Non-Aboriginal People
Other NT Intervention Articles

INCOME MANAGEMENT TO BE EXTENDED TO INCLUDE NON-ABORIGINAL PEOPLE:

- Media Releases

STICS - Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney
New Intervention laws still breach RDA
http://stoptheintervention.org/facts/press-releases/new-intervention-law...

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WGAR News: Will they be heard? - independent report on NT Intervention "consultations" (29 Nov 09)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 29/11/2009 - 8:43am

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Will they be heard? - independent report on NT Intervention "consultations"
Alice Springs Aboriginal Town Camps Court ruling

WILL THEY BE HEARD? - INDEPENDENT REPORT ON NT INTERVENTION "CONSULTATIONS":

- Report

Will they be heard? - a response to the NTER Consultations - June to August 2009
Introduction by the Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC
Prepared by Alastair Nicholson, Larissa Behrendt, Alison Vivian, Nicole Watson and Michele Harris

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NT intervention community consultations

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WGAR News: Visit to Australia by Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan (21 Nov 09)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 22/11/2009 - 4:21pm

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Visit to Australia by Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan
Government progress report on the NT Intervention
Upcoming NT Intervention Protests
Other NT Intervention Articles
Other Aboriginal Articles

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY GENERAL IRENE KHAN:

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National Indigenous Times:
Indigenous poverty as 'morally outrageous' as torture: Amnesty head
http://www.nit.com.au/story.aspx?id=19020

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Peter Garrett: 'beds are burning' protest - Melbourne 12 November 09

Submitted by peter on Thu, 12/11/2009 - 12:37pm

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts was in town to deliver a speech on energy saving, but environmentalists staged a welcome designed to remind him of speeches he delivered before he joined the ALP, in the days when he vigourously and vocally opposed policies he now defends ...

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Protest at BHP Billiton Melbourne office to mark AGM 09 in London - 29 October

Submitted by peter on Thu, 29/10/2009 - 9:59pm

Protesters gathered today at the Melbourne head office of BHP Billiton "in solidarity with communities around the world affected by BHP's mining activities, and to show dissent to the proposed expansion and proposed open pit at Olympic Dam uranium mine" (FoE Media release).

The rally also marked the release in London of an 'Alternative Annual Report':

[Quote from FoE media release]

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