Newswire | Indymedia Australia

Sydney events: Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony + Freedom Rides and Anti-Racist activism

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 13/04/2013 - 2:34pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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

Event: Sun 14 April 2013: Appin, Sydney, NSW
Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony
"All are welcome to this annual memorial for the
Dharawal people who perished in the massacre of 1816."
Hosted by:
* the Winga Myamly Reconciliation Group and
Supported by:
* Campbelltown City Council,
* Wollondilly Shire Council,
* Camden Council,
* Sydney Catchment Authority,
* W.I.L.M.A,
* the NSW Reconciliation Council and
* the Aboriginal Communities of the Macarthur Region.

Geography:

Keywords:

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 43 events from 14 April 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 13/04/2013 - 2:15pm

Newsletter date: 14 April 2013

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

Event: Thu 28 March to Sun 14 April 2013: Belconnen, Canberra, ACT
I Do Have a Belief:
Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) Art Retrospective
Location: Belconnen Arts Centre
Producer: Gilbert Family
"I Do Have a Belief is an exhibition and events
celebrating the life of Kevin Gilbert and his contribution
to the local community, advancing human and political
rights and Aboriginal sovereignty at a national and
international level."
"The showcasing of his creative work includes

Geography:

Keywords:

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 13/04/2013 - 9:32am

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?

Geography:

Western Australia

test post

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 13/04/2013 - 6:09am

test

Is Australia's plus-70-year copyrort term unconstitutional?

Submitted by grputland on Fri, 12/04/2013 - 3:36pm

"I conclude that in Australia, extensions of copyright on existing works are unconstitutional unless We the People are justly compensated."

Geography:

Australia

Keywords:

human rights

expropriation

Background to Aboriginal Community Living Area Land Reform in the Northern Territory (NT)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 12/04/2013 - 3:22pm

Last updated: 13 October 2013

Contents:
* Regulatory changes have been made to Community Living Areas in the NT
* Outcomes Paper
* Submissions on the Discussion Paper
* WGAR Compilations

* REGULATORY CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO COMMUNITY LIVING AREAS IN THE NT

- News

'concerned Australians': Community Living Areas
[scroll down page] http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/

Geography:

Keywords:

Northern Territory Intervention

Stronger Futures

concerned Australians

Land Reform

community living area land reform

Greg Marks

NT Shelter

Community Living Areas

CLAs

Michele Harris

CLA

The Shortwave Report 4/12/13 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 12/04/2013 - 10:13am

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (April 12) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
(If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {35MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, the Voice of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio.

Geography:

Global/International

Keywords:

International news and opinion

shortwave

China Radio International

Radio Havana Cuba

Voice of Russia

Spanish National Radio

Radio Deutsche-Welle

NHK Japan National Radio

Nuclear conspiracy theories

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 12/04/2013 - 12:36am

Conspiracy theories conjured up by nuclear advocates are mostly harmless fun. But not when they involve trivialising the suffering of victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Geography:

Australia

Keywords:

anti-nuclear Fukushima

WGAR News: Community Living Area Land Reform in the NT: 'concerned Australians'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 11/04/2013 - 6:20pm

Newsletter date: 12 April 2013

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians': Community Living Areas (CLAs) - April 2013
* 'concerned Australians': Community Living Area Land Reform in the NT - April 2013 [Submission]
* Greg Marks: Community Living Area Land Reform in the Northern Territory - 7 April 2013 [Submission]
* 'concerned Australians': Submission to the Senate Committee on the Land Reform Section of the Stronger Futures Legislation - January 2012

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

2SER gags its own volunteers

Submitted by sasha on Thu, 11/04/2013 - 12:27am

One of Sydney’s major community radio stations, 2ser, has ordered its volunteer workforce not to speak to any other media outlets about the station.

The ruling is included in a new five page contract which has been leaked to Indymedia. (see pdf below)

About 200 volunteers work at the station which is based at the UTS campus. All volunteers were told to sign the contracts or they would have to leave the station.

The legalistic document states:

Geography:

Keywords:

WGAR News: Mornington (Victoria) Book Launch: 'A Decision to Discriminate'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 10/04/2013 - 2:33pm

Newsletter date: 11 April 2013

Contents:

* Mornington (Victoria) Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate - 12 April 2013
* Megan Graham, Crosslight: Stronger Futures or just stronger measures?
* Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre: Compulsory Income Management Unfairly Targets Young People
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Pre-Election Interview: Nigel Scullion, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs

Geography:

Keywords:

Northern Territory Intervention

Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre

Mornington Victoria Book Launch - A Decision to Discriminate - 12 April 2013

Megan Graham - Crosslight - Stronger Futures or just stronger measures

Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre - Compulsory Income Management Unfairly Targets Young People

Amy McQuire - Tracker - Pre-Election Interview - Nigel Scullion - Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Amy McQuire - Editor of Tracker Magazine

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - The Stringer's interview with Tony Abbott - his must-do list for Aboriginal Australia

NIRS - WA Government in denial over Stolen Generations - Commentator

The Stringer's interview with Tony Abbott

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 10/04/2013 - 2:03pm

The Stringer’s interview with Tony Abbott – his “must-do” list for Aboriginal Australia
by Gerry Georgatos - thestringer.com.au
April 10th, 2013

The Leader of the Coalition, Tony Abbott has drawn up a “must do list” he said he would implement from the first day he became Prime Minister to deliver Aboriginal peoples from abject poverty.

WGAR News: National inquiry into Justice Reinvestment: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 10/04/2013 - 9:39am

Newsletter date: 10 April 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: National inquiry into Justice Reinvestment
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about The Australian Prison system
* CAAMA Radio: Priscilla Collins, NAAJA CEO on funding for NT youth
* SBS Living Black Audio: WA's Courts Raise Concerns Over Children In Hakea Prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Indigenous detention centres 'at crisis point'
* The Stringer: "Paraded like zoo animals"
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

Geography:

Keywords:

Aboriginal imprisonment

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about The Australian Prison system

CAAMA Radio - Priscilla Collins - NAAJA CEO on funding for NT youth

SBS Living Black Audio - WA's Courts Raise Concerns Over Children In Hakea Prison

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous detention centres at crisis point

SBS Living Black Audio - Looking at the health system and cancer

Suresh Rajan - The Stringer - Is Australia a Racist country

Tracker - Racist taunts an ongoing problem - inquiry

SNAICC News - The Australian Community Sector Survey due 19 April 2013

The Wire Audio - Experts cautiously welcome support for Aboriginal languages in NSW

Open letter: whose university is University of Sydney?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 3:13pm

Open letter: whose university is University of Sydney?

Hi.

I am one of the community members arrested at the first day of the 48 hours strike of the University of Sydney workers. I am now indefinitely banned by a university board from the university, after closely filming the assaults against my friends and others in the community who participated in the strike, and being arrested and assaulted myself by police. This is not an allegation, it is a truth.

The questions I want to ask are:

Geography:

Keywords:

International news and opinion

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 1:29pm

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

Geography:

Keywords:

refugees on hunger strike at MITA

Submitted by autonomousactions on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 12:50pm

In the late hours of the 7th April 28 refugees went on hunger strike at Broadmedows denetion centre (MITA).

These 28 refugees incluing 25 Tamils, two Burmese Rohingyas and one Iranian

Many of the refugees on hunger strike have been in detention for between 2- 4 years and have received negative ASIO results, ASIO does not need to give the person receiving the negative result a reason for the negative result.

All of the refugees stated they have risked their lives to seek assylum, they have been given false hope and false promises

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

human rights

asylum seekers

Freedom Flotilla: Lake Eyre to West Papua Press Release 09.04.2013

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 12:02pm

Uncle Kevin (Kev) Buzzacott, a Peacemaker from Arabunna Nation at Lake Eyre in South Australia and Jacob Rumbiak (exiled Foreign Affairs Minister from the Federated Republic of Occupied West Papua) have announced a new action of creative resistance against the apartheid of colonisation and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on Indigenous land in Australia and West Papua.

The Lake Eyre to West Papua Freedom Flotilla is a journey that hopes to reunite the history and peoples of a land that was once geographically and culturally connected.

Geography:

Keywords:

International news and opinion

Jack Flanella [ audio ]

Submitted by huxwell on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 11:14am

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/67580/74971/87875/?url=h...

Interview with the artist plus music

http://www.jackflanella.net

13:00 min 320 kbps stereo 30 MB

Geography:

Global/International

Australia

Keywords:

music

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

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 9:49am

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?

Geography:

Keywords:

Northern Territory Intervention

Aboriginal languages

income management