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The Australian Government has an official policy of opposing the Japanese whaling operation in the southern ocean whale sanctuary, but officially it is very quiet. Not so much as a peep from the media releases on the Federal Minister for the Environment Tony Burke MP or the Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Bob Carr's websites. This is despite several ship collisions between ships of the Japanese whaling fleet and 3 Sea Shepherd Australia vessels that have already occurred near Antarctica in the Australian Antarctic Territory and in Australia's marine search and rescue zone.

Newsletter date: 27 February 2013

Contents:

* Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: 20,000 turn out to save the Kimberley
* The Wilderness Society: Concert for the Kimberley - A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle
* The West Australian: Stars fire up gas hub protest
* ABC: Greens demand gas hub management plan details
* Hands off Country: Tony Burke is called upon to call a Public Inquiry
* The Stringer: Fifteen thousand call on Burke to stop the destruction of Aboriginal burial grounds at James Price Point
* ABC Radio National: Red Dirt Dreaming Part One - The Kimberley

Dear All,
With Nicola Roxon gone, we need the new Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, to support the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill through Commonwealth Parliament before September, or the Coalition is most likely to demolish it. If you only sign one electronic petition this year, please make it this one?

Video available: Captured UN's decision means peaceful revolutions justified.

Anthony Ravlich
Chairperson
Human Rights Council (New Zealand)
10D/15 City Rd.,
Auckland.
Ph: (0064) (09) 940 9658

Readers may be interested in listening to the following interview on the Vinny Eastwood Show. I explain the ‘permanent’ global rebalancing of power from the West to Developing Asia (including China and India) with peaceful revolutions justified in Western States.

Newsletter date: 26 February 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: International Prisoners Justice Day highlights Australia's horrific incarceration rates of Aboriginal peoples
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Dr Alice Clark, The Stringer: Housing and homelessness issues for Aboriginal and Islander Peoples living in South Australia

* The Stringer: One of Australia's worst massacres - 150 Yaburara men, women and children slaughtered

* Paddy Gibson, Solidarity Online: "Captain's pick" Nova Peris will make NT Labor's problems worse

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/66527/73860/86886/?url=h...

Poet and social commentator Vincent Di Stefano talks

http://thehealingprojectwebcast.blogspot.com.au

39:35 min 128 kbps stereo 37 MB

Newsletter date: 25 February 2013

Contents:

* arena: Opportunity Lost by Boris Frankel - Marcia Langton’s Boyer Lectures
* Andrew Crook, Crikey: Marcia Langton defends non-disclosure on mining cash before Boyers
* ABC Radio National: 2012 Boyer Lectures

* NIT: Native Title win
* Background to the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC)

* The Wire: Little steps towards closing the gap in tertiary education
* The Wire: Taking books out bush

* ARENA: OPPORTUNITY LOST BY BORIS FRANKEL: MARCIA LANGTON'S BOYER LECTURES

- Analysis / Opinion

At its commencement exercises in Perth, Australia, on February 19, Murdoch University conferred a doctorate degree, honoris causa, on Akbayan Representative to the Philippine Congress Walden Bello.

One of the country's leading institutions of higher learning, Murdoch University was founded in 1970 and named after Sir Walter Murdoch, a preeminent Australian philosopher and advocate of free speech.

Vincent Emanuele, a US veteran of the Iraq war, will speak in Sydney on Tues Feb 26.  

He will be in Sydney for a short time to promote a film 'On the Bridge', which is to be screened at the 'Big Picture Film Festival' later next week.