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Media release: By Michael Anderson, leader of the Euahlayi nation, Goodooga, northwest NSW, 25 December 2010.
Members and associates of the New Way Sovereignty Summit are closer to bringing to an end the farcical notion that Australia is a free and independent sovereign international state. Independent legal researchers have submitted to the United Nations in 1999 a bundle of documents, titled The Concealed Colony, that clearly demonstrate that Australia’s standing in the international community is a lie, supported by a convention of denial on the part of the international community.

Indigenous peoples and rural communities are facing the destruction of their livelihoods as natural forest on Palawan island, Philippines is being destroyed for palm oil and mining while other traditional food zones and non timber forest products reserves are being replaced by oil palm plantations.

Palawan is part of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve programme, with 49 animal and 56 plant species listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as globally threatened.

The crew on board the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker have recovered illegal unmarked longlines and buoys in the southern ocean set to target an endangered species, the Patagonian toothfish, also known and marketed as Chilean sea bass. A vessel was seen in the distance, but when hailed by radio fled from the Bob Barker.

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This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

By Diet Simon

Generally speaking, we’re not happy, are we, with the way the media deal with climate change.

We get the disasters, we get the deniers, we get the appealers, we get the scientific stuff way over our heads that we put down after three paragraphs or switch off after 30 seconds on air.

And yet the media are our main source of information on climate change. So how can they do it better?

That question was addressed by more than 1,500 delegates from 95 countries at a forum in Bonn, Germany, from 21 to 23 June this year.

A WikiLeaks appeal to protect media freedom has been published in the prestigious German daily newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, as a large advertisement.

It was funded by the Campact online activism group.

The ad (http://bit.ly/zeitungsanzeige) demands that Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Amazon immediately resume business relations with WikiLeaks.

“Putting themselves above the law, the quasi-monopolists are trying to make the revelations platform run aground financially,” Campact writes in an email to its supporters.

Sydney - Aborigines account for half of Australians held in detention under the youth criminal justice system, figures released Tuesday showed.

The Institute of Health and Welfare said indigenous Australians aged 10-17, who represent just 5 per cent of the age group, were 24 times more likely to be incarcerated than other youngsters.

Another report released by the Institute of Criminology said Aboriginal women were 12 times more likely to break the law and were also over-represented as victims of crime.

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FOR IMMEDIATE MEDIA RELEASE

December 20, 2010

The Chairwoman of the nation's largest Aboriginal organisation has called on the NSW Government to re-look at a police report which contains "fresh and compelling evidence" surrounding the disappearance and murder of three Aboriginal children from a country mission two decades ago.

In late 1990 and early 1991, Colleen Walker, aged 16, her four-year-old cousin Evelyn Greenup, and 16-year-old Clinton Speedy each disappeared from the Bowraville Mission over a period of six months. The children lived three doors from each other.