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By Chris White

Aboriginal peak bodies, community welfare and public health groups from around the country are calling for a new direction in policies affecting Aboriginal Australians based on cooperation, not ‘intervention’.

The groups support new investment in secure jobs for Indigenous Territorians but raise concerns about the proposed extension of a program that withdraws social security payments from parents whose children don’t attend school regularly.

HUMAN RIGHTS ALLIANCE MEDIA RELEASE:

DIAC UNLAWFULLY STEALS THE EARNINGS OF IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN
IN ADULT PRISONS AFTER THEIR RELEASE AND WRONGFUL INCARCERATION.

The Australian Federal Police, on behalf of the Australian Commonwealth Government, as a result of an inappropriate wrist bone scan misused to determine 'age', incarcerated scores of impoverished Indonesian children in Australian adult prisonS, as young as 13.

This week, the Government’s Murray Darling Basin Authority released a draft report with recommendations that ignore the basic science of what the river system needs to survive. Sign a petition to Environment Minister Tony Burke asking him to put science before politics.

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

Events: 1 to 7 December 2011: Brisbane, Qld
Documentary Film - The Tall Man
"... a vivid portrait of an Australian island enraged
by the death of an Aboriginal man while in custody
of the local, predominantly white-run police force."
Cinema Release Date: Thu 17 November 2011
Palace Barracks Cinema Brisbane
Event details, incl. film review and interview with the director: http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/films/coming-soon/thetallman-film/
Brisbane event details: http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/movies/thetallman/

http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr220.mp3

Collage selection of the most stupid, lying, and dangerous politicians of 2011

media samples, "A Fawkes In The Road" Archibold, "A Plea For Tony Abbott" Clarke and Dawe, "The Euro Sausage" Yes Minister

sounds: Peculiar, Bitrok, Chris Fisher,Tijuana Cartel

28:00 min 128 kbps stereo 25.8 MB

Newsletter date: 30 November 2011

Contents:
* "Ramingining Elders say no to the second Intervention!"
* MAPW Fact Sheet: Transport of radioactive waste to Muckaty
* Socialist Alliance: 'Intervention mark II' a new whitewash
* What's Working: Mapuru Enterprises
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 19 events from 30 November 2011

* "RAMINGINING ELDERS SAY NO TO THE SECOND INTERVENTION!":

- Statement

Occupy Melbourne returned the favour on Robert Doyle by launching a non-violent "raid" during the latest Council meeting. An obviously uncomfortable Robert Doyle and councillors listened to a "mic check" delivered message from Occupy Melbourne, which incidentally is a pretty good summary of why the Occupation exists (its better than the draft declaration if you ask me).

After a trip of nearly five and a half days from Normandy in France the 13th delivery of processed German nuclear waste reached the “temporary” storage hall in Gorleben, a village in northwest Germany at about 10 pm on Monday.

Police perpetrated massive violence and breaches of the law against demonstrators, injuring at least 416 with truncheons, gas, dogs, horses and water cannons.

The 25,000 activists were the second largest number ever in the area, which the government has also designated as the final waste repository in a geologically unsafe salt deposit.