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A new study analysing an Antarctic Peninsula ice core has determined that there has been a ten fold increase in melt intensity over the last 600 years. I reported recently that the Antarctic Peninsula summer melt season prolonged by global warming according to research from the British Antarctic Survey.

Newsletter date: 16 April 2013

Contents:

* Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Living Black Audio: How Are The Children In Hakea Being Treated?
* The Stringer: Egg on face for State Government over children in adult jail
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Commission seeks to intervene in juvenile detention case
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Human Rights Commission to intervene in Hakea children court case
* Tracker: WA judge orders juvenile jail evidence
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australian Bureau of Statistics on prison rates

It's a simple idea: a world where no one is powerless and anyone, anywhere, can create the change they want to see.

Australians are using Change.org to save their local bus route, tackle homophobia in the AFL, win safer conditions for Coles factory workers, and stop trees being cut down at a primary school -- bringing that vision to life across the country.

By Christine Milne

Labor plans to spend $13,850,000,000 on fossil fuel subsidies for big mining companies in the next four years. Let's change that.

The Greens would end these subsidies and use the money to care for people - not for big mining corporations. Please, sign our petition to cut them in this year’s Budget.

Labor is forcing families into poverty by cutting vital support for single parents, sometimes by up to $100 a week. Planning to give nearly $14 billion to some of the most profitable companies in history at the same time is the symptom of a moral crisis.

Great news! Woodside announced that it is shelving its plans for a gas processing hub at James Price Point.

Woodside would have built a huge industrial development in the middle of whale calving grounds, threatening dugong habitats and burial sites – against the wishes of many traditional custodians and community members.

This is a huge victory for a place that is too precious to lose, and for a community that has such a strong relationship with this magnificent country. Both of us have been in Broome this week, and it’s fantastic to be celebrating this news with relieved locals.

It’s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to gain exclusive control over the seeds of life – the source of our food. They’re trying to patent away varieties of our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them for seed and risk being sued if they don’t.

Newsletter date: 15 April 2013

Contents:

* Nicole Watson, Tracker: We must continue calls for Treaty
* Greg Dyett and Jeremy Geia, SBS Radionews Audio: Claim renews sovereignty campaign
* NIRS: Call to charge up sovereignty campaign
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* The Stringer: Department changes from Indigenous to Aboriginal

* Croakey: We must do far more as a country to acknowledge the First Australians: Prof Lesley Barclay

* Jeremy Geia, NITV News: Row over Canberra's traditional owners

* Other articles

President Vladimir Putin ended up into NBI's Suspected Person Register because of his 'connections' to Russia Hell Angels

Head Chief of Police Command, Mikki Paatero, stated that there is nothing to compare when it comes down to this data seepage, not even data snooping attempts on skier Mika Myllylä or Anneli Auer cases. /1/

Jutta Urpiainen (Social Democrat Party), Ministry of Finance Treasury, made a statement according to which ”it has been embarrassing” that President Valdimir Putins name got into Central Criminal Police Black List. /2/

Adelaide and South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Sat 16 February - Sun 21 April 2013: Adelaide, SA
Exhibition: Good Strong Powerful
"In partnership with Arts Access Darwin,
this touring exhibition will showcase the extraordinary
works that have been produced through Art Centres
in the Northern Territory by established and
emerging Indigenous artists with disabilities."
"The exhibition includes artists from
Ngaruwanajirri on Bathurst (Tiwi) Island,