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Newsletter date: 3 March 2013

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial: We must renew calls for national land rights
* Chris Munro, Tracker: Aboriginal Ink: Voices of the voiceless
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Land Rights: Breaking new ground
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance
* Tracker: NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office
* Gary Foley, Tracker: The Contrarian: How Bob Hawke killed land rights
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

my apologies for the lateness of this statement but i became tied up in other areas.

AUSTRALIA

Uranium – still being hyped up by the industry, and a few politicians – and yet – even the Australian Uranium Association is now admitting that the prospects for the industry in Queensland, in particular, are not good. By their own reckoning Queensland’s uranium would fetch less than $4 billion at the current rate for Australian uranium sales. The $4 billion figure is of little relevance since the uranium price is too low for any mines to be viable in Queensland.

By Tracker, http://tracker.org.au/2013/02/helping-the-poorest-of-the-poor/

A small contingent from the NSW Aboriginal Land Council is travelling through the Philippines this month on a 14-day study tour of one that nation’s most respected Non-Government Organisations (NGO).


Gawad Kalinga (GK) – literally to “give care” – is an aid organisation famous for lifting more than 2,000 Philippine communities out of poverty.


NSWALC is investigating whether the GK model can be transplanted to Aboriginal communities in Australia.


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Newsletter date: 28 February 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Aboriginal youth could be silent victims in mandatory sentencing
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Legal service slams WA govt’s "despicable" plans for mandatory sentencing
* The Stringer: Feed the little children
* The Stringer: Sansbury and Franks say "enough" and time for the SA Government to act
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The Stringer: Aboriginal peoples finally to be included in SA Constitution - but 'no' to Treaty

Newstart allowance changes aren't popular with single mums generally but it's even worse for Aboriginal single mums in the Nnorthern Territory.

Income management already reduces their payments. The changes to Newstart reduce them even further.

Aboriginal activist and single mother of two, Barbara Shaw in Alice Springs explains what the cuts mean in an interview offered to 270 community radio stations.

http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=10056