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WGAR News: Walkatjurra Walkabout: 3CR: Featuring Scott Ludlam, Kado Muir, Mia Pepper & Dave Sweeney

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 10/07/2013 - 4:12pm

Newsletter date: 12 July 2013

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* Community Radio 3CR: Walkatjurra Walkabout. A new mine, an old fight. [Featuring Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Kado Muir, Mia Pepper and Dave Sweeney]
* Background to the Walkatjurra Walkabout: Stepping out against uranium mining

* David T. Rowlands, Green Left: Australian atomic massacre still ignored
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: How Land Rights were won… and almost lost

* Tracker: Native title tax bill passes Senate
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

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WGAR News: NAIDOC Week: Still Supporting Yolngu in Their Fight for Rights: 'concerned Australians'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/07/2013 - 11:36am

Newsletter date: 8 July 2013

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* 'concerned Australians': NAIDOC Week: Still Supporting Yolngu in Their Fight for Rights
* ABC Darwin Video: The seed for land rights: Yirrkala Bark Petitions [Featuring Wali Wunungmurra, a signatory of the petitions]
* SBS Radionews Audio: Celebrating 50 years since the Yirrkala Bark Petitions [Featuring NAIDOC Committee chairperson Anne Martin]
* Bob Gosford, Crikey: The Yirrkala Bark Petitions. How an old typewriter helped change the course of Australian history

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Northern Territory

WGAR News: Wide ramifications for EPA decisions from trial: David Weber, ABC [JPP gas hub case]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 10/06/2013 - 2:48pm

Newsletter date: 11 June 2013

Contents:

* ABC: Chief Justice reserves decision in gas hub case
* David Weber, ABC: Wide ramifications for EPA decisions from trial [JPP gas hub case]
* ABC: Greens call for EPA to explain board behaviour
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* ABC Mildura - Swan Hill: Fighting for land nothing new for Aboriginal elder
* ABC Mildura - Swan Hill: Were Aborigines Australia's first 'squatters'?
* Audio Boo: Fighting for land nothing new for Murra Wurra Paakintji woman

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WGAR News: We must renew calls for national land rights: Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/03/2013 - 4:53pm

Newsletter date: 3 March 2013

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial: We must renew calls for national land rights
* Chris Munro, Tracker: Aboriginal Ink: Voices of the voiceless
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Land Rights: Breaking new ground
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance
* Tracker: NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office
* Gary Foley, Tracker: The Contrarian: How Bob Hawke killed land rights
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

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Chris Munro - Tracker - Aboriginal Ink - Voices of the voiceless

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Land Rights - Breaking new ground

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance

Tracker - NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office

Gary Foley - Tracker - The Contrarian - How Bob Hawke killed land rights

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights

Aunty Bonita Mabo, wife of Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo: My reflections on the Mabo Decision 20 years on

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 03/06/2012 - 9:05pm

Courtesy of The National Indigenous Times - Wednesday May 30 edition - Editor Stephen Hagan's interview with Aunty Bonita Mabo, wife of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo

http://nit.com.au/chat/1147-aunty-bonita-mabo-wife-of-eddie-koiki-mabo-c...

Who's your mob Aunty Bonita?

I was born in Ingham in north Queensland. My people (Neehows) are from the Malanbarra Clan from Palm Island on my mother's side.

My Dad can trace his people to Tanner Island in Vanuatu.

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From Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation - Stolen Wages Rally - March 28

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 12/03/2012 - 9:29pm

To all Media networks

There will be a large gathering of Aboriginal People on
28 MARCH, 2012
COMMENCING 11:00 AM
at the corner of Riverside Drive and Victoria Avenue
for a march to Parliament House .

The march route will be up St Georges Terrace,
stopping momentarily at the Office of Premier and Cabinet.

At Parliament House the speakers will address issues such as

STOLEN WAGES - RECENT EX GRATIA ANNOUNCEMENT

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TERRA NULLIUS - and yet another venting in response to an incredibly dense individual

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 03/04/2011 - 6:42pm

SHILO HARRISON has written an impressive and well constructed article that should be read widely. The article signifies and identifies origins of thinking, inter generational premises, biases, prejudices and various attitudes and explains factual realities verse assumptions, and implications and imputations. Posted, by Gerry Georgatos.

Terra Nullius - and yet another venting in response to an incredibly dense individual
by Shilo Harrison on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 10:15am.New Terminology Does Not Make the Impossible Possible

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Victorian Traditional Owner Settlement Bill 2010

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 15/09/2010 - 10:35pm

Gary Murray 14 September 2010

The Traditional Owner Settlement Bill 2010 (Vic) creates certainty for developers, land and water proponents and the State. The state legislative regimes further weaken native title and cultural heritage rights and interests through the surrendering and withdrawal of native title rights and in the destruction and salvage of cultural heritage.

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WA government seizing Aboriginal land for gas project

Submitted by Flowerpower on Mon, 06/09/2010 - 10:01pm

The WA Government has announced it plans to seize landof land in the Kimberley for a massive liquefied gas project north of Broome. The project will be developed by Woodside, the same company currently planning to cheat East Timor out of billions of revenue. The WA Premier has apparently lost patience after two years of negotiating. The has sparked opposition from local Aboriginal groups, the KLC, the Wilderness Society and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).

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