Northern Territory Intervention

WGAR News: Euahlayi tribal leader Michael Anderson addresses Occupy crowd in London

Newsletter date: 15 December 2011

Contents:
* Michael Anderson addresses Occupy crowd in London
* Gerry Georgatos: Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Canberra, January 26 2012
* Recordings from the Forum: Hot Politics - Radioactive Waste Management in Australia
* National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples: Leaders meet in Canberra
* ANTaR: Act now to ensure a free and equal future for Aboriginal and TSI young people
* Greens Penny Wright: Native Title Wins Few and Far Between

WGAR News: ABC Video: Kimberley gas hub opponents claim legal victory

Newsletter date: 11 December 2011

Contents:
* ABC: Kimberley gas hub opponents claim legal victory
* Michael Anderson: Aboriginal sovereignty confirmation expected soon
* Yananymul Mununggurr addressing 'The case against the NT Intervention'
* New Updated Version of Our Generation is out
* Tom McMahon: Govt fails to heed lessons of the Intervention
* What's Working: Language and Wellbeing
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

WGAR News: Djiniyini Gondarra message to ALP conference; Analysis by Hilary Tyler and Paddy Gibson

Newsletter date: 7 December 2011

Contents:
* Herald Sun: Aboriginal leader takes fight to Europe
* ABC: Major Arnhem Land employer in financial trouble
* Video: Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra message to ALP conference
* Dr Hilary Tyler and Paddy Gibson: Still no evidence for Macklin’s Intervention
* Jon Altman: The cunning of consultation: school attendance and welfare reform
* 2SER's Razors Edge: Labor looking lost on Poverty
* Eva Cox: Stronger Futures demands are un-Australian
* Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition: support needed!
* What's Working: Valery's Bus

WGAR News: Interviews with Dianne Stokes, Kylie Sambo and Barbara Shaw

Newsletter date: 3 December 2011

Contents:
* Interview with Dianne Stokes and Kylie Sambo re Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* MAPW: Risks of transporting radioactive waste to Muckaty
* Interview with Barbara Shaw, vocal opponent of the NT intervention
* Michael Anderson: Aboriginal tribal leader off to Europe to challenge Australian sovereignty
* Aboriginal Tent Embassy to mark 40th anniversary
* Michael Mansell: Why The Preamble Is A Hollow Gesture
* ANTaR: Govt commits to act to reduce Aboriginal imprisonment
* Michele Harris, 'concerned Australians': Opinion - NTER Evaluation 2011

Upcoming Melbourne Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 3 events from 5 December 2011

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Event: Mon 5 December 2011: Belgrave, Melbourne, Vic
Our Generation Film Screening
Cameo Cinemas
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/vic/event/27340/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about-2/
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Fri 20 January 2012: RMIT entrance, Melbourne, Vic
Indigenous freedom-fighters commemoration:
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
"To commemorate the execution of the indigenous
freedom fighters Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner"

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Upcoming Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 8 events from 30 November 2011

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Events: 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 December 2011: Paddington, Sydney, NSW
Documentary Film - The Tall Man
"... a vivid portrait of an Australian island enraged
by the death of an Aboriginal man while in custody
of the local, predominantly white-run police force."
Cinema Release Date: Thu 17 November 2011
Chauvel Cinema Paddington
Event details, incl. film review and interview with the director: http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/films/coming-soon/thetallman-film/

WGAR News: "Ramingining Elders say no to the second Intervention!"

Newsletter date: 30 November 2011

Contents:
* "Ramingining Elders say no to the second Intervention!"
* MAPW Fact Sheet: Transport of radioactive waste to Muckaty
* Socialist Alliance: 'Intervention mark II' a new whitewash
* What's Working: Mapuru Enterprises
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 19 events from 30 November 2011

* "RAMINGINING ELDERS SAY NO TO THE SECOND INTERVENTION!":

- Statement

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 26 November 2011

Newsletter date: 26 November 2011

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Event: Ongoing Protest: James Price Point, Kimberley, WA
Kimberley gas plant protest
Save the Kimberley info: http://www.savethekimberley.com/
Kimberley gas plant threatens Aboriginal culture: http://ccr.uws.edu.au/2011/06/22/kimberley-gas-plant-threatens-aborigina...
Aboriginal elder Elsta Foy at the protest camp: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3296152.htm
Protest updates: http://www.savethekimberley.com/wp/blog/

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WGAR News: "Cooperation not intervention: a call for a new direction in the Northern Territory"

Newsletter date: 26 November 2011

Contents:
* Stronger Futures is the same intervention says Amnesty
* "Cooperation not intervention: a call for a new direction in the Northern Territory"
- Joint Statement from ACOSS, APO NT and many others
* "Stand against Macklin’s decade of discrimination - No second Intervention!"
- Joint Statement from IRAG, DARC and STICS
* SNAICC: Elders and representatives express anger over future of NT Intervention
* Pat Turner: Cutting Centrelink cash won't stop indigenous truancy
* Interview with Paddy Gibson about the new school attendance measures

Upcoming Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 9 events from 20 November 2011

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Event: Sun 20 November 2011: Mullumbimby, NSW
Our Generation Film Screening
With live music by Xavier Rudd and
Q&A with the filmmakers and
special guest Yolngu elder Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about-2/
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Fri 25 November 2011: Camperdown, Sydney, NSW
Launch of the 2011 Social Justice and Native Title Reports
Australian Human Rights Commission
The launch will include: