Newswire

We're writing with a quick update on the anti-discrimination bill you fought to strengthen, a bill that would have brought greater equality under the law to all Australians.

Unfortunately, despite a large number of champions both within and outside of Parliament (including more than 34,000 GetUp member actions), many of the reforms have been shelved. With just a few weeks of Parliament remaining this year, new Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the laws need further work, and likely won't be introduced before the election.

Newsletter date: 21 March 2013

Contents:

* SNAICC News: New booklet raises awareness of the impact of trauma on children

* ABC Alice Springs Audio Interview with Marie Ellis: Why we want our community back

* The Wire Audio: New push for dialysis in remote communities as 'service hubs' junked

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: From Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples

* Chris Graham At Large: Frenetic activity, bugger-all progress: the art of bureaucracy

* Other articles

* SNAICC NEWS: NEW BOOKLET RAISES AWARENESS OF THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA ON CHILDREN

- News

Newsletter date: 20 March 2013

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

Event: Tue 19 - Thu 21 March 2013: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Preparatory Meeting for Pacific Indigenous Peoples on the
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014
Co-hosted by:
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples; and
* New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council;
in collaboration with the
* Indigenous Peoples Organisations (IPO) Network of Australia
and * Global Coordinating Group
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and
Indigenous peoples from the Pacific are invited

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 20 March 2013: Parliament House, Canberra
International Day for the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination Panel
"21 March is the International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination. To commemorate this day the
Australian Human Rights Commission, in partnership
with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship
and the UN Information Centre for Australia,
New Zealand and the South Pacific, will hold a
high-level event at Parliament House in support

Open call to join the Climate Space at the World Social Forum in Tunisia, March 26-30, 2013

The 2013 World Social Forum will be held this March 26-30 in Tunisia, where only two years ago, a revolution began and resulted into a historic change that created a ripple effect on the region. Now, Tunisia is an inspiration to movements both old and new, across the globe.

Brisbane based coal company Ambre Energy is attempting to open up coal export business in Oregon in the US Pacific Northwest, but the locals aren't very impressed. Last Wednesday over 400 Oregonians rallied outside their Capitol building in Salem, Oregon to stop the Ambre Energy Morrow Pacific coal export project which would transport 8 million metric tonnes of coal annually by rail and barge down the Columbia river destined to be burnt in China, with the pollution returning by prevailing winds to the US and Canada.

It isn't over. Danger to women, children, wildlife.

Download/listen to Radio Ecoshock 130320 1 hour in CD Quality (56 MB)

http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130320_Show.mp3

Or use the faster downloading/lower quality Lo-Fi (14 MB)

http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130320_Show_LoFi.mp3

MYTH #1 THE ACCIDENT IS OVER

With the ten year anniversary since Australian forces joined an international 'coalition of the willing' to invade Iraq coming next Monday March 18th, we are pleased to let you know about many events happening around Australia to mark the occasion.