WA

WGAR News: Queensland's Stolen Wages to the Crime and Misconduct Commission: SBS Living Black

Newsletter date: 21 April 2013

Contents:

* SBS Living Black Audio Interview: Queensland's Stolen Wages to the Crime and Misconduct Commission
* SBS; AAP Video: Katter party fights for stolen Indigenous wages
* SBS Radionews Audio: Katter backs Queensland stolen wages return
* NIRS: Stolen Wages rally calls for compensation
* Tracker: CMC should probe stolen wages: Katter

* Central Land Council: Education is the key says new CLC Chair
* NIRS: Maurie Japarta Ryan to lead CLC

WGAR News: "We have won and it is over - the project is dead": Hands off Country on the Kimberley

Newsletter date: 18 April 2013

Contents:

* Hands off Country: "We have won and it is over - the project is dead"
* Respect and Listen: NIT - A Kimberley victory
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Barnett can't walk away from important Kimberley investments
* Ryan Emery, NITV: James Price Point gas hub too expensive: Woodside
* SBS Radionews Audio: Woodside abandons James Price Point gas hub
* SBS Radionews Audio: Reaction to scrapping of WA gas hub plan
* NIRS: New designs for James Price Point to be explored
* YouTube: Woodside JPP Pullout

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WGAR News: Woodside pulls out of Kimberley gas hub: The Wilderness Society

Newsletter date: 13 April 2013

Contents:

* Woodside - ASX Announcement: Woodside to Review Alternative Browse Development Concepts
* The Wilderness Society: Woodside pulls out of Kimberley gas hub
* The Stringer: Woodside dumps gas hub
* The Wire Audio: Woodside dumps James Price Point gas hub
* Greens Senators Rachel Siewert and Scott Ludlam: Thank you! James Price Point
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens welcome decision to abandon James Price Point
* Robin Chapple, WA Greens MLC: Kimberley still at risk as Woodside halts JPP
* Hands off Country: Do I dare believe?

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WGAR News: Legal action threatened by Indigenous groups against the CSG industry: The Wire

Newsletter date: 9 April 2013

Contents:

* The Wire Interview: Legal action threatened by Indigenous groups against the CSG industry
* Tracker: Gas firms accused of sacred site damage
* Tracker: Sacred sites 'destroyed by Qld gas plants'

* Herald Sun: NT land owners tour Spanish nuclear dump
* Tennant & District Times: Muckaty mob on tour
* Media Release: Nuclear waste in the spotlight, Muckaty in the frame: Red dirt exhibition raises red flag in Canberra
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

WGAR News: Money for Aboriginal disadvantage being chewed up by white bureaucrats!: CAAMA

Newsletter date: 8 April 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA: Money for Aboriginal disadvantage being chewed up by white bureaucrats!
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT minister blames welfare dependence for violence

* NITV News: Indigenous children to learn native language
* SBS Radionews Audio: Indigenous languages to be taught in NSW schools
* SBS Radionews Audio: Support for NSW school Indigenous language plan
* Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation - Language
* Greg Dickson, Fully (sic), Crikey: Creative Australia lends extra support to Indigenous languages, but is it enough?

WGAR News: Federal Government green light uranium mining for WA: The Stringer

Newsletter date: 5 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Federal Government green light uranium mining for WA
* The Wire Audio: Safety concerns over uranium mine
* Background to the Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA)

* Deborah Ruiz Wall, New Matilda: Welfare Or Gas Money In The Kimberley?
* The Stringer: Legal action commences on EPA's approval for James Price Point Gas hub
* Hands off Country: Shake Your Head in Disbelief
* Ingetje Tadros: Pelican corroboree - welcome to Seashepherd in Walmadan
* News re Floating offshore gas processing

Loggers intimidate and assault activists in Warrup Forest

Forest Rescue Media Release

14 March 2012

Forest Rescue has been waging a Non Violent Direct Action battle with the WA state government's Forest Products Commission (FPC) in order to secure the last remaining Numbat habitat in our southwest - the Warrup Forest near Bridgetown in WA. The forest is one of the last remaining intact colonies of the Numbat, of which less than a thousand remain in the wild. The Numbat was originally found across the whole of southern Australia.

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Protest at BHP Billiton AGM, Melbourne, 17 November 2011

Traditional owners and environmentalists descended on the Melbourne Convention Centre on Thursday 17 November for the BHP Billiton AGM. Using proxies, some twenty Aboriginal elders and supporters gained access to the meeting, while others held a protest outside.

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