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With the increase of between 140 and 250 extra police in Broome for protection of Woodside as they continue to do destructive investigations at James Price Point, the Broome Community thought it a proper thing to present a letter of concern to the Police and as it was Mothers Day as well, each Community member presented the police a flower. Images © Rod Hartvigsen - Murranji Photography
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Last updated: 5 December 2013

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WGAR News: ... (5 Dec 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/12/04/wgar-news-forty-uranium-mines-is-the-...
"Contents:
* Ryan Emery, SBS Radionews: Elder pleads with BHP "don't make me bankrupt"
* Ryan Emery & Greg Dyett, SBS Radionews: Indigenous elder appeals to BHP Billiton
* Babs McHugh, ABC Rural: Aboriginal elder Kevin Buzzacott gets no answer from BHP AGM ... "

WGAR News: ABC News: Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott loses legal fight against Olympic Dam mine expansion (27 Oct 13)

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Australia

Aboriginal opposition to new Northern Territory Intervention laws. The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples is joined by more than 36,00 Australians, including church leaders and celebrities condemning the “Stronger Futures” laws as discriminatory, and as another step in the land grab for mining

Australia to get new non-nuclear submarines.

South Australia:

Aborigines’ High Court win against the State govt over land rights.

Academic guilty of scientific fraud – a second time!
Media release dated May 2012
An academic at the prestigious Harvard University, Mr. Van Wallach has been shown to have committed scientific fraud for a second time.
A paper published last month showed that Van Wallach in 2009 committed an act of fraud to attempt to steal naming rights for a genus of Cobras from an Australian zoologist, Raymond Hoser.

Global Snake audit yields over 100 species in 25 unclassified genera.
Media release 10 May 2012
An audit of most of the world’s advanced snakes utilizing results of several molecular studies has found more than 25 genera of unassigned or improperly assigned snake species.
In a series of papers published last month in issues 10-12 of Australasian Journal of Herpetology, over 110 species of snakes were shown to have been placed within genera they were not phylogenetically a part of.

It has been more than a month since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she was postponing indefinitely plans to overhaul the current indigenous jobs strategy.

She needs to realize (the sooner the better!) that doing so will only prolong the endemic financial troubles that many indigenous communities face. »

RAC Press Release> Fellow detainees rescued a Tamil refugee who had attempted suicide by hanging from a roof beam at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre at 1.30 am this (Friday) morning.

The Tamil refugee, the first Tamil to receive a negative ASIO finding had been in detention for 37 months. He was taken to hospital by ambulance, unconscious and with a weak pulse. His present condition is not known. The refugee is in his early thirties.

Angry TAFE teachers and students attended a rally today to protest the massive cuts to TAFE vocational education and training in the Victorian Budget handed down on May 1, 2012. The implications of massive defunding is a softening up of the public TAFE institutes for privatisation. The budget cuts will mean substantial redundancies of teachers, especially in smaller regional TAFE institutes, a major increase in course fees, and loss of subsidiary student services such as study skills assistance, library services and counselling.

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Mardi Grass in Nimbin is a movable feast: of colour, music and social networking along with mind-bending substance ingestion. The marijuana harvest is in and the green hills and valleys of Nimbin are awash with the best buds known to man. I used to live in Nimbin in the early nineties and always try and make the pilgrimage to Nimbin at this time if I'm in the country. Consequently, I've been to quite a few Mardi Grasses, not that I can claim to remember too much of what went down. I was in Nimbin at the first Mardi Grass in 1993. Compared to today it was a modest affair, with perhaps a hundred people in attendance.