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On Day 6 of Occupy Melbourne, a number of protesters joined an action by Friends of the Earth ACE collective at the Melbourne Office of BHP Billiton, timed to coincide with the company's London AGM.

Having marched up Swanston Street to chants of ‘BHP BP Shell/ You can all/Go to hell’ and ‘System Change not Climate Change’, and escorted by about ten uniformed police - with at least one not-very-undercover plain clothes officer - protesters arrived at the headquarters to find it protected by even more.

Below are some links to sets of photos of Occupy Perth

http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=155671

http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=155668

http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=155666

The People's Kitchen at Occupy Brisbane needs your help! We need donations of non-perishable food and other supplies - below is a list of items that we need, but feel free to bring whatever you can. Drop donations in to the kitchen at Post Office Square.

Feel free to drop by to lend a hand in the kitchen at any time.

Thanks heaps for your support!

Food

* cooking oil
* gluten free ready made meals
* gluten free snacks
* quick oats
* rice
* vegeta vegie stock
* long life milk
* soy milk
* instant coffee
* lentils
* chick peas

Kathy Kelly arrives in Australia tomorrow from the U.S. for an 8 week speaking tour. I'm writing to you personally to encourage you to attend her events in your city. The tour website is http://kathykellytour.org.

Breaking News: Reports are coming out of West Papua of Indonesian police and army firing on people attending the Papuan Congress.

Report by West Papua media on October 19 states:

Confirmed report from credible sources on the ground from credible West Papua media stringers.

TNI troops have opened fire on Congress at 1530 Jayapura time.

by Harsha Prabhu via Facebook Sat 15t October saw Byron Bay, Australia's easternmost point, join over 900 cities across the globe (in addition to every state in the US) in a world-wide day of action in solidarity with Occupy Wall St.

Several hundred people converged on Railway Park in the heart of town, with signs that read: "Poverty is the result of structural violence", "No jobs on a dead planet", "Open your heart, be informed, be brave, be free", "Be rich in spirit and greed shall fall away" and "Keep your money, we want change".

Below is a great new video from "Bravo Charlie TV" posted on Youtube about the third day of Occupy Melbourne. Great to hear the reasons people are coming down to the demonstration. Keep the citizen journalism coming!

Occupy Melbourne marches on the ASX (day 3) | 14 people state their case | What is yours?

Sydney, 18 October 11 - - The Crown doesn’t legally own anything in Australia because Queen Victoria and the House of Lords said so in an 1875 Act. Nor were the Australian colonies of the time “to derogate from the rights of the tribes or people inhabiting such islands or places, or of chiefs or rulers thereof”.

The startling findings are cited in a media release by Michael Anderson, Aboriginal activist and last surviving member of the four young Black Power men who started the Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972.