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Lawyer claims discrepancy in PM's slush fund explanation

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-22/lawyer-claims-discrepancy-in-pm-sl...

A lawyer who worked with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the 1990s says there is a two-and-a-half-year discrepancy in her explanation of when she knew about a loan for a house she lived in.

The property in question, on Kerr Street in Fitzroy, was allegedly paid for in part by funds taken from a union slush fund Ms Gillard helped set up.

BIG THANKS to the National Indigenous Times and its very special journalist Gerry Georgatos in exposing the FMG hand in dividing the Yindjibarndi and then in keeping up the coverage - because of this mainstream media got the guts to run with a story not looking too pretty for Andrew Forrest and FMG!
Conflicting information, interests and land owners dog FMG

Fortescue Metals Group has had its East Pilbara iron ore operations caught in disputes over conflicting information, conflicts of interest and the authority of traditional owners.

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Internet Activists on Red Alert Ahead of United Nations Conference

November 14, 2012 by Alex Fitzpatrick

Internet activists are warning that next month’s meeting of the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations body charged with overseeing global communications, may have significant and potentially disastrous consequences for everyday Internet users.

MANILA, Philippines – As the first female chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited the country for the first time and met with Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III Friday morning, debt watchdog Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a protest near the Malacañan Palace, in solidarity with the peoples of the Eurozone.

“For FDC, the IMF is dead, a walking dead,” said the group’s president, Ricardo Reyes. “The sooner we bury this economic zombie, the better for the economies and the peoples of the world.”

Newsletter date: 22 November 2012

Contents:
* The Wire: Call for indigenous commissioners to head up abuse investigation [Interview with Tjanara Goreng Goreng]
* ABC: Abused Indigenous children 'must be heard' [Tjanara Goreng Goreng]
* SNAICC News: Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: FMG [Fortescue Metals Group] actions warrant further investigation
* ABC 7.30 Videos: Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) and Fortescue Metals Group (FMG)
* Background to the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC)

By Tim Roxburgh

A victim of sexual abuse has called for male and female Indigenous Australians to be among the commissioners appointed to head up the recently announced royal commission.

Tjanara Goreng Goreng is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Canberra.

As a child she was sexually abused at a convent in Rockhampton. She took her case through the courts and one priest was jailed for his crimes. But others haven’t been able to find justice.