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The electoral office of Climate Change Minister Greg Combet was targeted by climate activists this morning. A banner was hung from the roof of the building saying "Make Polluters Pay, Fund Renewable Energy!", and four photovoltaic solar panels were put in place on the building roof.

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Australische Nachrichten Kommentar - [ German language ]

mit Wolfi

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Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM, senior elder and Dhurili Clan Nation
leader of the traditional Yolngu peoples of Northeast Arnhem Land, has
delivered a speech to the world's media outside the Australian High
Commission in London.

He expressed the deep hurt of Aboriginal people
in the Northern Territory caused by the Northern Territory
Intervention and other policies that breach their human and cultural
rights.

Rev. Dr. Gondarra announced the Global Call to Action for
Aboriginal Rights, whose statement has been signed by former

While all eyes focused on Canberra and the Federal Budget this week, the Victorian Government quietly announced that all discussions have been discontinued on retiring all or part of the Hazelwood brown coal fired power station. Environment groups strongly criticised the decision.

"Sadly, what this announcement seems to confirm is that the Coalition government has absolutely no plan to reduce greenhouse emissions in the state. Although environmental groups were unanimous in demanding the full closure and replacement of the ageing and dirty Hazelwood power station, the promised partial closure would have been a good step in the right direction" said Friends of the Earth campaigns co-ordinator, Cam Walker.

Newsletter date: 14 May 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal elder Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra raises international awareness of the NT Intervention
* Federal Budget and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
* More on Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles

ABORIGINAL ELDER REV. DR. DJINIYINI GONDARRA RAISES INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS OF THE NT INTERVENTION:

- Media Releases

'concerned Australians':

By John Pilger | World Citizen

The illegal eavesdropping on well-known people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known?

In his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70 per cent of the capital city press and the only national newspaper. Australia is the world’s first murdochracy, in which smear by media is power.

Media release by the Human Rights Alliance
Gerry Georgatos, Convener

The Human Rights Alliance is calling for a Senate Inquiry into the treatment of our Asylum Seekers. We are also calling for demarcated Investigators to enter Detention Centre facilities and inspect and report in the public interest on the condition of our Asylum Seekers, on whether there are adequate medical and psychological attention, and to report the extent of self harm and attempted suicides.

By Kitty Carra

A year ago this month, Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation (ANTaR Qld) released a media release and e bulletin entitled Rights, Justice and then Reconciliation.

At that point the family on Palm Island, and the broader Queensland
community, had been waiting a whole six years for a satisfactory
outcome on the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee.

One year later neither Hurley, nor any of the six other police
officers involved in bungling up the subsequent investigation, have
been held accountable for the tragic death of the perfectly healthy 36

The Human Rights Alliance, and every right minded person in Australia calls upon Adam Bandt to exercise his moral and legal propriety, his moral and political convictions and pull the pin on the ALP, a government representing a malaise of indifference to people, representing inhumanity.

Adam Bandt has the capacity to bring the warranted voice to our suffering Asylum Seekers.

Adam Bandt must not put his tenure as a parliamentarian before the warrants of the people.