Northern Territory Intervention

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

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

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

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

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...

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

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)

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...

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

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

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

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:

- News

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

New video of Ampilatwatja walkoff - Richard Downs & Harry Nelson in Melbourne

During October '09, Ampilatwatja's spokesperson, Richard Downs, conducted a speaking-tour along the east coast of Australia, talking at Universities, Workers' Unions, Indigenous communities and at public rallies in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, raising awareness of the walk-off against the NT Intervention and appealing for funds to help the walkoff camp to remain self-sufficient. A new video by Juice Media of this tour has been made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJKEl9asqQ

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WGAR News: Reinstating the RDA (Racial Discrimination Act) (26 Oct 09)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Reinstating the RDA (Racial Discrimination Act)
Other NT Intervention Articles
Other Aboriginal Articles

REINSTATING THE RDA (RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT):

Indymedia Australia:
Racial Discrimination Act to be restored for Northern Territory Aborigines
http://indymedia.org.au/2009/10/15/racial-discrimination-act-to-be-resto...

WGAR News: Reinstatement of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) (21 Oct 09)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Reinstatement of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA)
NT Intervention articles
Other Aboriginal articles

REINSTATEMENT OF THE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT (RDA)

- Urgent Action

Amnesty International Australia - Working to Protect Human Rights:
No conditions, no excuses Mr Rudd
http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/21865/

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WGAR News: Northern Territory Intervention into Aboriginal communities (17 Oct 09)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
NT Intervention articles
Other Aboriginal articles

NT INTERVENTION ARTICLES:

- Background on the Northern Territory Intervention

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Northern Territory National Emergency Response
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Territory_intervention

interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com
stoptheintervention.org
rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com
wgar.info

- Media Releases & Statements

Council of Churches of Western Australia: