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WGAR News: NT nuclear waste dump plans contested

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 10/05/2011 - 10:21am

Newsletter date: 10 May 2011

Contents:
* NT nuclear waste dump plans contested
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Interview with Walpiri man Ned Hargraves on the NT Intervention
* Speech by Aboriginal activist Barbara Shaw on the NT Intervention
* Video: Lake Tyers fight for rights to self-determination
* Background to blockade by Aboriginal women of Lake Tyers
* More on Tracker, the Aboriginal rights-based magazine
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles

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Northern Territory Intervention

Tracker Magazine

Muckaty nuclear waste dump

blockade by Aboriginal women of Lake Tyers

WGAR News: Interviews with Barb Shaw and Michael Anderson; speeches by Pat Anderson and Les Malezer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 07/05/2011 - 1:39pm

Newsletter date: 7 May 2011

Contents:
* Speech by Pat Anderson, co-author of the "Little Children are Sacred" report, on the NT Intervention
* Interview with Barbara Shaw, of the Intervention Rollback Action Group, on the NT Intervention
* Justice for Aboriginal workers in the NT - Petition to be presented to Parliament next week
* Interview with Michael Anderson on the New Way Sovereignty Summit, now concluded
* Background to New Way Sovereignty Summit, last updated 6 May 11
* Speech by Les Malezer, Co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

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Northern Territory Intervention

New Way Summit

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

New Way Aboriginal Summit

Jobs with Justice

Tracker Magazine

New Way Sovereignty Summit

Little Children are Sacred

Intervention Rollback Action Group IRAG

Koori Mail

Town camp leader speaks in Sydney: Stop the Intervention, justice for Aboriginal workers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/05/2011 - 12:21pm

Stop the Intervention Collective

Media release 4/5/11 for immediate release

Town camp leader speaks in Sydney: Stop the Intervention, Justice for Aboriginal workers

Barbara Shaw, a town camp leader from Alice Springs, will speak out in Sydney on Thursday May 5 against recent calls for a “second Intervention”.

A coalition of unions, the Greens and Aboriginal rights groups are staging the rally, highlighting gross breaches of Aboriginal workers rights under the NT Intervention. The rally will take place at 12pm outside the office of Indigenous employment Minister Mark Arbib.

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Northern Territory Intervention

WGAR News: Indigenous Languages Forum - 8 May 2011, Mparntwe / Alice Springs

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 03/05/2011 - 12:03pm

Newsletter date: 3 May 2011

Contents:
* Indigenous Languages Forum - 8 May 2011, Mparntwe / Alice Springs
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Travelling exhibition tracing the fight for Indigenous civil rights from 1920 to 1970
* Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Aboriginal incarceration rates
* Other Aboriginal Articles

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES FORUM - 8 MAY 2011, MPARNTWE / ALICE SPRINGS

- Forum

Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory:
Indigenous languages - politics, policy, protection and practice

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Jobs with Justice

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Indigenous Languages Forum

National Museum of Australia

From Little Things Big Things Grow

ABC’s 7:30 Report

WGAR News: "Keep the poison out of Muckaty" - community rally on May 7, 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 30/04/2011 - 9:23am

Newsletter date: 30 April 2011

Contents:
* Join the Tennant Creek community for a rally on May 7
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Aboriginal Sovereignty to the International Court of Justice
* Les Malezer defends National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* Tony Abbott in Alice Springs, Northern Territory
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* More on the First Nations political party
* Other Aboriginal articles

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Northern Territory Intervention

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

Aboriginal sovereignty

Muckaty Dump

First Nations political party

International Court of Justice ICJ

Darwin gathering for Aboriginal people living in prescribed areas under the NT Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 29/04/2011 - 10:06am

WGAR News

Newsletter date: 29 Apr 2011

Contents:
* Request for Support for Prescribed Area Peoples’ Alliance Gathering - Darwin June 19-21, 2011
* Deaths in Custody: A Crikey Investigation
* Aboriginal summit - Call for dramatic return to proactive political action
* First Nations political party and the NT elections
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

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Northern Territory Intervention

Aboriginal summit in Canberra

PAPA Prescribed Area People's Alliance

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

New Way Aboriginal Summit

Aboriginal deaths in custody

New Way Sovereignty Summit

First Nations political party

WGAR News: Two urgent petitions on the NT Intervention - sign by early May 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 24/04/2011 - 9:05am

Newsletter date: 24 Apr 2011

Contents:
* Jobs with Justice - Petition Lauch & Rally - May 5
* UN Petition to restore Human Rights to NT Aboriginal People - sign by May 7
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Australia’s Indigenous languages "Top 10 moments in the sun"
* Help Stop the Muckaty Radioactive Waste Dump - May 7-8
* Background to Muckaty Station nuclear waste dump
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

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Northern Territory Intervention

United Nations

Aboriginal languages

Petition to United Nations (UN)

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

Jobs with Justice

Muckaty Dump

aboriginal employment and unemployment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

WGAR News: Elders speak out on the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 21/04/2011 - 9:34am

Newsletter date: 21 Apr 2011

Contents:
* Elders speak out on the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Tracker: New magazine focusing on Aboriginal rights launched
* Co-Chairs of National Congress of Australia's First Peoples elected
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
* More on New Way Sovereignty Summit, at Easter, in Canberra
* Commemorating Indigenous people who died in the Frontier Wars
* Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

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Northern Territory Intervention

New Way Summit

aboriginal land rights

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

New Way Aboriginal Summit

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Tracker Magazine

Bess Price Q&A

Aboriginal elders

New Way Sovereignty Summit

WGAR News: Joint national call to action to reduce imprisonment of Indigenous people

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 16/04/2011 - 1:50pm

Joint National Call to Action to reduce imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Newsletter date: 16 April 2011

Contents:
* Call to Action to reduce imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
* Deaths in custody - 20 years since the Royal Commission
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

CALL TO ACTION TO REDUCE IMPRISONMENT OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE:

- Media Release

ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation:

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Northern Territory Intervention

human rights abuses

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Aboriginal incarceration

Aboriginal imprisonment

Indigenous imprisonment

WGAR News: Deaths in custody and Aboriginal incarceration rates

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 14/04/2011 - 10:10am

Newsletter date: 14 April 2011

Contents:
* Deaths in custody and Aboriginal incarceration rates
* Muckaty Traditional Owners speak out
* Background to Muckaty Station nuclear waste dump
* Interview with Leanne Edwards from Lake Tyres Aboriginal community
* Background to blockade by Aboriginal women of Lake Tyers
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal Articles

DEATHS IN CUSTODY AND ABORIGINAL INCARCERATION RATES:

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Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:

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