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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

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 26 February to 3 March 2013:
South Bank Parklands, Brisbane, Qld
Clancestry
"Clancestry is a festival celebrating the arts and
cultural practices of the world's First Nation's
Peoples. The festival draws on rich spiritual
culture and provides a space to connect with
other clan groups across the country and the
globe. In presenting performances, workshops,
free events and conversations the festival
moves beyond transactional contact into

The "Crikey" independent journalism website reports that Indigenous academic, Marcia Langton, and the ABC have defended a lack of disclosure over last year's Boyer Lectures, despite tens of thousands of dollars in cash for Langton's research being sourced from resources giants Rio Tinto, Woodside and Santos.

Newsletter date: 23 February 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Newstart bad news for the income-managed [Annie Hastwell interviews Barbara Shaw]
* 'concerned Australians': Murray Bridge launch of 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Dr Norman Sheehan, a consultant with Link-Up

* Other articles

* THE WIRE: NEWSTART BAD NEWS FOR THE INCOME-MANAGED [ANNIE HASTWELL INTERVIEWS BARBARA SHAW]:

- Audio Interview

Friends of the Earth's Radioactive Exposure Tour will take place from Friday March 29 to Sunday April 7. These tours have exposed thousands of people first-hand to the realities of 'nuclear racism' and to the environmental impacts of the nuclear industry.

From The Northern Territory News, February 20th, 2013* -- ABORIGINAL people will go out and "smash a window" just to get an airconditioned room in youth detention, visit family and get three meals a day, an indigenous politician has said.

Stuart MLA Bess Price said many of her relatives and friends were in youth detention - despite her best efforts to keep them out of trouble.

"We try our best to encourage our young people ... don't drink and don't get yourself into trouble because you will go to jail," she said.

One of the Directors of Sea Shepherd Australia, Bob Brown conducted an interview Wednesday afternoon in which he called for the Australian Government to intercede directly with Tokyo over the Nisshin Maru ramming of 4 ships in the Southern Ocean and also called for an Australian naval presence to uphold international law in Antarctic waters. Bob Brown is a former leader of the Australian Greens and a former Tasmanian Senator.