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Newsletter date: 4 June 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO health news: Healing the Fault Lines: uniting politicians, bureaucrats and NGOs for improved outcomes in Aboriginal Health
[Speech of prominent Aboriginal Territorian Olga Havnen]
* Debra Jopson, Global Mail: You Call That Racism?
[Northern Territory Aboriginal activist Olga Havnen]
* Triple R - Melbourne Independent Radio: Audio: Kulja and Donna talk to Chips Mackinolty about the Northern Territory Intervention
* Nine News: Let us take charge, indigenous NGOs say

Rebuilding soils through carbon sequestration and mitigating fossil fuel emissions sounds like a win-win solution all around. A reason the Liberal and National Parties in Australia adopted it as a major part of their 2010 Direct Action climate change policy. But a new international study by Australian and UK scientists said soil carbon programs while important, have many limitations, and provide too much false hope in mitigating emissions from fossil fuels.

Last Thursday the Human Rights Commission called on the Government to reconsider offshore processing, labelling the 'no advantage' policy as unclear and a potential violation of international law.

These concerns are shared by GetUp members, who over the past few weeks have sent in thousands of messages calling for our government to take immediate steps to shut down the Manus Island detention centre, currently home to twenty-two vulnerable children.

Messages like this one, from Mary in Victoria:

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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

Event: 27 May until 3 June 2013: various locations in Australia including Victoria
National Reconciliation Week: Let's Talk Recognition
"It is a time to celebrate and build on the respectful
relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people and other Australians."
"National Reconciliation Week is framed by two
key events in Australia’s history, which provide
strong symbols for reconciliation:
* 27 May 1967- the referendum ...

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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

Event: 27 May until 3 June 2013: various locations in Australia including NSW
National Reconciliation Week: Let's Talk Recognition
"It is a time to celebrate and build on the respectful
relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people and other Australians."
"National Reconciliation Week is framed by two
key events in Australia’s history, which provide
strong symbols for reconciliation:
* 27 May 1967- the referendum ...

by ray jackson

on 6 march this year i posted a long explanation of the peter clarke death in custody in alice springs hospital having been held for too long in the alice springs gaol before being transferred for health reasons.

i am reposting because the initial request for at least 100 people to pledge $150 over a period of 3 months was very underwhelming in the generosity of those 100.

by mid-april only $550 had been raised. i have a copy of that statement and the funds donated are still sitting there. quite safe.

Racialised imprisonment - http://thestringer.com.au/racialised-imprisonment/#.UamCeEBTCaU
by Gerry Georgatos - May 28th, 2013
Australia has a history since colonialisation of racialised violence and hence racialised imprisonment. Aboriginal peoples deal the with the worst of Australia’s racialised imprisonment – throughout the criminal justice system – from sentencing regimes to the effects of having become the world’s most incarcerated peoples.

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