Land rights

26-28 June 2015: An art installation about the Yolngu people: S.O.S. Australia -restoring dignity will take place in Berlin

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:38:08 +0000

From the 26th till 28th of June the art installation S.O.S. Australia –restoring dignity will take place in Berlin.

The installation is about Yolngu people and their struggle for land rights, self-determination and a treaty.

The installation was developed in cooperation with Michele Harris from 'concerned Australians' and with the support of Yolngu people from Arnhem Land. It will be dedicated to Michele Harris.

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Australia

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Marion Caris - Berlin

Berlin from 26-28 June 2015

An art installation about the Yolngu people

Yolngu people

art installation

S.O.S. Australia - restoring dignity

'concerned Australians'

Berlin art festival

Berlin Action Week to support the rights of Aboriginal people - 23rd till the 28th of June 2015

WGAR News: Land Rights Act is under attack... yet again: Land Rights News - Central Australia

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:43:57 +0000

Newsletter date: 3 January 2015

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Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: The plan to undermine the Land Rights Act: Ian Viner, Respect and Listen

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:22:04 +0000

Newsletter date: 4 December 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

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Australia

Northern Territory

Background to 'The Freedom Summit': Alice Springs 27 - 28 November 2014

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:36:09 +0000

Last updated: 26 December 2014

Current: WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement: https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/26/wgar-background-to-the-national-free...

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WGAR News: Communique from The Freedom Summit: Alice Springs 27 - 28 November 2014

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 05:28:48 +0000

Newsletter date: 2 December 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

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Communiqué from The Freedom Summit

Alice Springs 27 - 28 November 2014

Freedom Summit delegates

Rex Granites Japanangka

Chris Tomlins

Original Sovereign Peoples and Heads of Nations

Independence

Sovereign Nations

United Tribes of our Lands

hereditary Elders and in the Heads of the Tribes

ancient Law Lore of the Land

continental common law of Australia

incarceration

continuing stolen generations

suicide epidemic

closing down Aboriginal communities in WA and SA

mass action on the streets

self-determination

WGAR News: Australia is committing genocide on a scale unequalled anywhere in the modern world: Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:13:41 +0000

Newsletter date: 30 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

TREATY - Change.org petition for Treaty - please sign and share

Gerry Georgatos — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:13:55 +0000

Petitioning the Australian Government, To the Prime Minister, To the Attorney-General
TREATY

Go the change.org petition site to read and sign the petition - here: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/to-the-australian-government-to-th...

TREATY is the justice - when TREATY is here, "that'd be the justice" said a Central Desert Elder to me.

When we settle for less, in general we are left with 'the less', period.

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WGAR News: "Statement by Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM regarding MOUs on township 99 year leases"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:31:53 +0000

Newsletter date: 11 November 2013

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians': Statement by Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM regarding MOUs on township 99 year leases
* The Wire: Traditional Owners reject 99-year leases [Featuring Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra]
* Lindy Kerin, NITV News: A modern day invasion threatens Aboriginal community [Featuring Reverend Djiniyini Gondarra]
* Patricia Karvelas, The Australian: Truancy army to get kids to school [99-year township lease]
* Patricia Karvelas, The Australian: Nigel Scullion faces rebellion on leases

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Northern Territory

WGAR News: Tasmania's Heritage Protection Weakens: SBS Living Black interviews Michael Mansell

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:15:56 +0000

Newsletter date: 10 August 2013

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* SBS Living Black's Marc Tong interviews Michael Mansell, Legal Director of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre: Tasmania's Heritage Protection Weakens
* CAAMA Radio's Pam Reilly interviews Nala Mansell McKenna, Aboriginal Cultural Officer at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre: Tasmanian Mob want a Say in their Heritage
* ABC News: Tasmanian Aboriginal community prepares for battle over heritage laws
* Audioboo: Tasmanian Aboriginal community prepares for battle over heritage laws

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SBS Living Black's Marc Tong interviews Michael Mansell

Michael Mansell - Legal Director of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre

Tasmanian Aboriginal community prepares for battle over heritage laws

Tasmanian Aboriginal community

Audioboo

Stoush brews over proposed Tasmanian heritage legislation

Tasmanian heritage legislation

Tasmanian heritage laws

WGAR News: Land rights are empty, Yolngu elder tells Rudd on bark petition anniversary: Guardian UK

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:45:38 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 July 2013 NAIDOC Week

Contents:

* National NAIDOC Week 2013 theme: We value the vision: Yirrkala Bark Petitions 1963
* Richard Trudgen, The Stringer: What Happened to the Second Bark Petition?
* Oliver Laughland, The Guardian UK: Land rights are empty, Yolngu elder tells Rudd on bark petition anniversary [Featuring Galarrwuy Yunupingu]
* The Stringer: Monica Morgan says much more needs to be done [Featuring Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights campaigner]

* NATIONAL NAIDOC WEEK 2013 THEME: WE VALUE THE VISION: YIRRKALA BARK PETITIONS 1963

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National NAIDOC Week 2013

National NAIDOC Week 2013 theme - We value the vision - Yirrkala Bark Petitions 1963

Yirrkala Bark Petitions 1963

Richard Trudgen

What Happened to the Second Bark Petition

Richard Trudgen - The Stringer - What Happened to the Second Bark Petition

Oliver Laughland

Yolngu elder Galarrwuy Yunupingu

bark petition anniversary

PM Kevin Rudd

Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights campaigner Monica Morgan

The Stringer - Monica Morgan says much more needs to be done

WGAR News: Walkatjurra Walkabout: 3CR: Featuring Scott Ludlam, Kado Muir, Mia Pepper & Dave Sweeney

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:12:05 +0000

Newsletter date: 12 July 2013

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* Community Radio 3CR: Walkatjurra Walkabout. A new mine, an old fight. [Featuring Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Kado Muir, Mia Pepper and Dave Sweeney]
* Background to the Walkatjurra Walkabout: Stepping out against uranium mining

* David T. Rowlands, Green Left: Australian atomic massacre still ignored
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: How Land Rights were won… and almost lost

* Tracker: Native title tax bill passes Senate
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

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WGAR News: NAIDOC Week: Still Supporting Yolngu in Their Fight for Rights: 'concerned Australians'

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 01:36:27 +0000

Newsletter date: 8 July 2013

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians': NAIDOC Week: Still Supporting Yolngu in Their Fight for Rights
* ABC Darwin Video: The seed for land rights: Yirrkala Bark Petitions [Featuring Wali Wunungmurra, a signatory of the petitions]
* SBS Radionews Audio: Celebrating 50 years since the Yirrkala Bark Petitions [Featuring NAIDOC Committee chairperson Anne Martin]
* Bob Gosford, Crikey: The Yirrkala Bark Petitions. How an old typewriter helped change the course of Australian history

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Northern Territory

WGAR News: Wide ramifications for EPA decisions from trial: David Weber, ABC [JPP gas hub case]

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:48:57 +0000

Newsletter date: 11 June 2013

Contents:

* ABC: Chief Justice reserves decision in gas hub case
* David Weber, ABC: Wide ramifications for EPA decisions from trial [JPP gas hub case]
* ABC: Greens call for EPA to explain board behaviour
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* ABC Mildura - Swan Hill: Fighting for land nothing new for Aboriginal elder
* ABC Mildura - Swan Hill: Were Aborigines Australia's first 'squatters'?
* Audio Boo: Fighting for land nothing new for Murra Wurra Paakintji woman

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WGAR News: We must renew calls for national land rights: Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:53:07 +0000

Newsletter date: 3 March 2013

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, Tracker Editorial: We must renew calls for national land rights
* Chris Munro, Tracker: Aboriginal Ink: Voices of the voiceless
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Land Rights: Breaking new ground
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance
* Tracker: NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office
* Gary Foley, Tracker: The Contrarian: How Bob Hawke killed land rights
* Brian Johnstone, Tracker: Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

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Chris Munro - Tracker - Aboriginal Ink - Voices of the voiceless

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Land Rights - Breaking new ground

Emma Murphy - Green Left - NT Shale gas boom set to meet resistance

Tracker - NSWALC councillors confront protestors at head office

Gary Foley - Tracker - The Contrarian - How Bob Hawke killed land rights

Brian Johnstone - Tracker - Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights

Aunty Bonita Mabo, wife of Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo: My reflections on the Mabo Decision 20 years on

Gerry Georgatos — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 11:05:43 +0000

Courtesy of The National Indigenous Times - Wednesday May 30 edition - Editor Stephen Hagan's interview with Aunty Bonita Mabo, wife of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo

http://nit.com.au/chat/1147-aunty-bonita-mabo-wife-of-eddie-koiki-mabo-c...

Who's your mob Aunty Bonita?

I was born in Ingham in north Queensland. My people (Neehows) are from the Malanbarra Clan from Palm Island on my mother's side.

My Dad can trace his people to Tanner Island in Vanuatu.

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