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Aunty Ruby's funeral will be at St Mary's Catholic Church, Swanston Street, Erskineville, at 2 pm today, Wednesday 5 October.

By Suvendrini Perera

Aboriginal activist and trained lawyer Michael Anderson says a recent appeal court decision implies that Australian courts have no jurisdiction over Aborigines because they have never ceded sovereignty to the white invaders.

On Friday 30th September Mr Anderson appeared in a NSW District Court hearing an appeal by Ms Nicholson-Kitchener against her conviction for using an uninsured motor vehicle at Deniliquin and driving without a license.

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Event: Tue 4 October 2011: Chippendale, Sydney, NSW
Sydney speaking tour of anti-intervention campaigner Barb Shaw
Evening Meeting with Amnesty Demand Dignity Campaign
"This meeting is not to be missed as Barbara Shaw,
a delegate to the UN's permanent forum of Indigenous
Issues will be joining us. Barbara is a Mt Nancy town
camp resident from Alice Springs, and appeared
shortly in 'Our Generation' (2010).
Our main focus topic will centre on Amnesty

There were protests on Thursday 29 September in Melbourne,Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo at the Baillieu government's policies on renewable energy development in Victoria, with the slashing of the solar feed tariff and prohibitive restrictions on the location of new wind farms.

'The laws give landholders the right to veto any wind development within 2 km of a dwelling and ban them completely within 5km from regional cities. Other whole regions like the Macedon Ranges are excluded from any wind farm developments.

Melbourne supporters of the campaign against the Woodside gas hub project at Walmadan/James Price Point in WA have continued their activities: on Saturday September 24 there was the second Community Gathering at Northcote Uniting Church, organised by Walmadan is Calling (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Walmadan-Country-is-Calling/14653525208854...), and on September 27 there was a candlelight vigil at the Victorian Parliament House, organised by United Peoples of Australia (http://www.facebook.com/United.Peoples.of.Australia?sk=info).

Media reports from Japan this week highlight that the Japanese Fisheries Agency is likely to send the whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary near Antarctica later this year. A US$27 million boost to security for the whaling fleet is likely, despite the country still reeling from it's triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown. The injection of more Government money into the program is likely to be controversial locally when many people are still homeless as a result of the disasters and when many rebuilding programs still require funding.

by Gerry Georgatos During the last month Indymedia Australia and The National Indigenous Times in Editions 231 and 233 have highlighted the plight of the Western Australian Nyungar family whose young son, the eldest of their six children, was hit by a police-four-wheel drive. The incident occurred on March 6, 2009 and in that time the struggle for some justice and meaning had been lost in a vacuum of inhumanity, and only recently largely thanks to The National Indigenous Times and to Indymedia Australia and to the consequent awareness-raising have we prised some piecemeal gains.
Campaign resources: Belloti Support Group on Facebook -- Justice for Rex Bellotti Campaign Website
Background articles on IndymediaJustice for Rex Bellotti(4/8/2011) -- Justice for Rex Bellotti Jnr an inch closer - new witness and calls for an inquiry(1/9/2011)

Some of the judge’s reasoning in finding Murdoch journalist Andrew Bolt in breach of the racial discrimination act for his articles imputing that fair-skinned Aborigines identified as Aborigines only to get advantages.

Federal Court of Australia

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Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103 (28 September 2011)
Last Updated: 28 September 2011
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103

SUMMARY

BROMBERG J
28 SEPTEMBER 2011
MELBOURNE
SUMMARY

Listen to this Radio Ecoshock special on Indonesian peat fires and India coal mania here: http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock11/ES_110928_Show_LoFi.mp3

While we worry about the economy here, developments in Indonesia and India could change the climate for generations.

Nobody is reporting on this. The peat fires in Sumatra are blanketing Singapore and Malaysia. None can put them out. Huge carbon emissions. Last time, these fires in 1997 doubled the rate of increase in greenhouse gas emissions globally.