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In a rare decision The Cairns Regional Council has voted to stop fluoridating its water supplies, calling the practice ‘involuntary mass medication’.

The Queensland Government last year changed the law to give councils control over fluoride policy.

Cairns Mayor Bob Manning says 'mass medication' must not proceed without community consent.

The move will save the council about $400,000 a year.

Nearby Townsville is now also looking at the issue and could follow Cairns.

Goodooga, northwest NSW, 6 February 13 - - Neither an act of recognition nor a constitutional reform referendum will make any difference to the position and treatment of Aborigines, says sovereignty campaigner, Michael Ghillar Anderson.

The Convenor of the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia warns in a media release that the proposed Act of Recognition breaches Aboriginal rights and freedoms under international law.

The chances that the ban of weapons enabling remote control of the human nervous system would be enacted seemed to be very low still at the beginning of this year. But on January 21 Globalresearch published the article „Psychotronic and Electromagnetic Weapons: Remote Control of the Human Nervous System”

Newsletter date: 8 February 2013

Contents:

* Accent of Women, Radio 3CR: "Marie Sailor, an Aboriginal elder whose wages were stolen"

* "Landmark Stolen Generations Test Case Begins in Perth" Media Statement
* Tracker: Stolen Gen victims begin landmark compensation trial

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews William Hayward of ATSILS
* Background: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander responses to Royal Commission into child sexual abuse

* NIRS: Health provider regrets lack of community control

* NIRS: Territorians continue to speak out against funding cuts

Newsletter date: 7 February 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO Aboriginal Health News Alerts: Treatment not prison for our mob
* The Wire: Jail costs far outweigh rehabilitation
* Tracker: Jail should be a last resort for non-violent offenders: report
* AHRC: Social Justice Commissioner welcomes new report
* Greens Senators Rachel Siewert & Penny Wright: Drug and alcohol treatments to reduce crime, boost health
* NITV News: Minister backs calls for Indigenous offenders' rehab
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gino Vumbaca & John Heron

Newsletter date: 6 February 2013

Contents:

* "Urgent Protest on the Governments constitutional recognition bill" [Thu 7 February 2013]
* "Recognition Bill forced on First Nations people against their will" Press Release
* NIRS: No jurisdiction for Act of Recognition: Sovereignty campaigner
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Other articles

* "URGENT PROTEST ON THE GOVERNMENTS CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION BILL" [THU 7 FEBRUARY 2013]

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Urgent Protest on the Governments constitutional recognition bill

Open letter to Michael Rolik CEO and the Board of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Dear Michael and Board,

Thank you Michael for your recent letter outlining the specific “What Mardi Gras won't do” and “What Mardi Gras will do” clauses, which are the reasons for rejecting the ARAMIS (Raelian Association of Religious Minorities) Expression of Interest in the Parade.

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George Orwell was right - media collage

media samples, Addicted To War Why - the US can't kick Militarism, Starwars sample, Halliburton Proud To Serve Our Troops, Defense Spending Lets Play Call To Duty Dude, Lord Of War samples, Is This Endless War On Terrorism The New Normal TYA, The Business of War, Why We Fight [sample], We Are Addicted To A War Economy, Terrorism Our Way Of Life

Tasmanian Liberals are vowing to postpone the heritage listing of native forests, further delaying a resolution of the decades-long community division.

Last Thursday the Tasmania Labor Government announced protection of 170,000 hectares of forests as part of the proposed forestry peace deal.

Liberal Senator Richard Colbeck told ABC on Friday the party opposed the deal on the grounds that it poses problems for mining and undermines parliamentary scrutiny of the peace agreement.

Senator Colbeck's clarification on how the protection does so has been sought.