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2013 Roberta Sykes Harvard Club Scholarship

The Roberta Sykes Indigenous Foundation, in conjunction with the Harvard
Club of Australia, is offering a fully funded scholarship for one Indigenous
Australian to undertake a postgraduate degree at Harvard University
commencing in August 2013.

Applications for the Roberta Sykes Harvard Club Scholarship close on 15
December 2012.

Are serious flaws within the UN fatal? The global ethical human rights vision for World Peace.

Anthony Ravlich

Chairperson

Human Rights Council (New Zealand)

10D/15 City Rd.

Auckland City.

Ph: (0064) (09) 940 9658

www.hrc2001.org.nz

The following is my response on Facebook to Jennifer Chim, President and Founder of the World Peace Elite Association, http://www.worldpeaceelite.org/index.php/component/content/article/76-fo... . Her post to me is at the end.

Dear Jennifer Chim,

Building solidarity and strengthening our struggles to address the economic and climate crisis in the fight to change the system

Last September 17, 2012, in an inspiring expression of solidarity from the South to the North, more than 35 social movements and civil society organizations from Asia together with regional networks, international organizations and social movements, sent a letter to our brothers and sisters in Occupy Wall Street on the occasion of the first anniversary of their struggle.

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch

Event: Sun 9 December 2012: Adelaide CBD, SA
(to mark International Human Right’s Day)
Note new date and location!
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Launched by:
* Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM
* Rosalie Kunoth Monks OAM
New venue: Pilgrim Hall, 12 Flinders St, Adelaide CBD
"This new book is an important historical record
that focuses on the Senate Committee Inquiry

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Event: Fri 23 November 2012: University of Canberra, ACT
Media & Indigenous Policy Symposium
Researchers:
* Kerry McCallum
* Michael Meadows
* Lisa Waller
* Michelle Dunne Breen
* Holly Reid
Guest speakers include:
* Pat Anderson, Chair, Lowitja Institute
* Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
* Jack Waterford, Canberra Times
* R. Warwick Blood, University of Canberra
* Peter Putnis, University of Canberra
"The Australian News Media and Indigenous Policymaking

Newsletter date: 17 November 2012

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

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Event: 17 November - 23 December 2012: Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Theatrical Documentary: Beautiful One Day
"Beautiful One Day is a theatrical documentary
about the irrepressible life and times of Palm
Island. Three theatre companies (Belvoir,
Ilbijerri, and version 1.0) came together in 2011
over a shared sense of outrage at the injustices
surrounding a death in custody in 2004. But,

Two Sydney councils have decided to raise the banned “Morning Star” flag to commemorate the national day of West Papua.

Marrickville Council and Leichhardt Council will both hoist the West Papuan flag on their town halls on Friday November 30.

The actual West Papuan Flag Day is on December 1st and is often a time of great tension in Papua.

Indonesian forces regularly crackdown on anyone raising the Morning Star flag on December 1st.

Coal seam gas has been touted as a green transitional fuel, far less polluting than coal, but a new study implies it may not be as green or climate friendly as the industry makes out. It hinges on the level of fugitive emissions produced in development and production of a gas field. A study by two scientists from Southern Cross University based in Lismore, northern NSW, detected much higher levels of the strong greenhouse gas methane around the Tara gas field on the Darling Downs of Queensland west of Brisbane.

Action: Getup! have started a Dirtier than Coal? campaign calling on Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet to commission urgent research into the climate impacts of coal seam gas, and to make sure that CSG companies start accounting, and paying, for fugitive emissions.