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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)

WGAR News: Productivity Commission statistics highlight continuing Stolen Generation: Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR)

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:38:10 +0000

Newsletter date: 27 November 2014

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WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

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Massive poverty levels ignored in election campaign

2060 — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 03:40:23 +0000

Why have the major parties totally ignored the issue of poverty?

2.3 million Australians now live below the official poverty line.

"In a wealthy country like Australia, it is not acceptable for more than 2.3 million people, nearly 600,000 of whom are children, live below the poverty line," Senator Rachel Siewert, Australian Greens spokesperson for families and community services said today.

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Citizens Lobby with Life on the Brink

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:49:26 +0000

Kiss your old climate good-bye. That's the word from scientists and measuring agencies on all fronts.

Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock program (1 hour) in CD quality here (56 MB):

http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show.mp3

Or try the faster loading, lower quality Lo-Fi version (14 MB) here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show_LoFi.mp3

John Vidal of the Guardian was among the first to report that measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere at Hawaii's Mauna Loa observatory hit an all-time new high in February 2013 at 396.8 parts per million.

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The Labor-Greens carbon tax hoax

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:47:07 +0000

By Patrick O’Connor, SEP candidate for Melbourne: 6 July 2012 Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax finally came into effect on July 1. The Labor government and its de facto coalition partner, the Greens, marked the occasion by again boasting of the measure’s environmental and social credentials.

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To the beleaguered league from the future

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:18:17 +0000

by Christian Bentley

It is easy to notice that we have two Coalitions in this country, as the ever so observing Mr. Abbott so politely feels the need to whine about to every corner of Australia.

But who cares? Both are incompetent. Both are unwilling to change for the better. Both are old, both are obsolete, both are clueless, and both are so desperate to cling on to every and any form of power that they have left, so much so as that they'd sell their souls to keep it.

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Green illusions and the carbon tax: article by Tim Anderson

Anonymous — Sun, 01 May 2011 07:38:36 +0000

Below is a very interesting article that Tim Anderson, an academic from Sydney Uni published on his Facebook page. It includes in my opinion a very cogent critique of the embrace by the Greens and the environment movement of "market solutions" to Climate Change such as the Carbon Tax and Cap and Trade schemes. He highlights the foolishness of believeing that anything other than direct investment in renewables, regulation and removal of subsidies to fossil fuel will bring our emmissions down.

Green Illusions and the Carbon Tax: By Tim Anderson

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Australian Senate motion is an insult - people will continue to die in custody and be incarcerated at unbelievable rates

Gerry Georgatos — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:30:17 +0000

The Human Rights Alliance: Deaths in Custody: Australia's horrific record - The Australian Senate lets us down. Motion is an insult.

The Australian Senate approved the Greens Motion to acknowledge the rising Aboriginal incarceration rates and deaths in custody in lieu of Friday 15, April which marks twenty years since the release of the 339 recommendations and Final Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

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Gillard announces interim carbon tax to tackle carbon pollution and climate change

takver — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:05:40 +0000

Australia is to get a carbon tax from 1 July 2012 as one cornerstone policy for tackling the challenges of climate change, announced Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Greens leader Senator Bob Brown, and Independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor in Canberra yesterday. The interim carbon tax is proposed to run for 3-5 years, rising by a set amount each year, to be followed by a full cap and trade emissions trading scheme linked to international markets. There would be no international offsets allowed for the interim mechanism and agricultural emissions would initially be excluded from the tax.

Related: Youtube videos - Press Conference | Christine Milne | Press Conference photos

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Greens sell out big time to federal ALP

Flowerpower — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:36:16 +0000

In return for the ALP "considering" policies such as a free dental system, fortnightly meetings with the PM and most ludicrously a committeee to "investigate" a carbon price the Federal Greens have entered into a formal partnership with the Gillard led ALP. Given the ALP has already stated it will not be introducing any price on carbon until after the next election, the Greens have sold their soul for less than crumbs!

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ACT government takes the lead in climate action emission reduction targets

takver — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:07:31 +0000

The ACT Government has announced cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2020, and 80 per cent by 2050, based on 1990 levels. The targets were announced by Minister for the Environment Climate Change and Water, Simon Corbell when tabling the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Bill 2010 in the ACT legislative assembly.

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Stand Up For Refugees - rally 13 August 2010

peter — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:42:15 +0000

NZ Green Party MP Keith Locke was one of those who addressed a 500-600 strong gathering outside the Melbourne Town Hall last night at the end of a rally called by the Refugee Action Collective under the banner "Stand Up For Refugees".

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Upper Hunter Valley coal mine defeated by thoroughbred industry

takver — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:11:21 +0000

Greenpeace and the Greens have cautiously welcomed the decision by Kristina Keneally and the NSW Government to stop the Bickham coal mine, north of Scone in the upper Hunter Valley, from going ahead, saying it is a win for local community action. It was a strong well funded campaign by the thoroughbred horse industry and its economic contribution to the state economy along with community action which halted the proposed open-cut coal mine.

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Greens sell out for power in Tasmania

Flowerpower — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:25:39 +0000

The Tasmanian Greens under the leadership of Nick McKim have joined the pro-business, anti-environment and corrupt Tasmanian ALP to form a Coalition government in exchange for two cabinet positions. This actions reflects how the Green party can be trusted to be an agent of true, radical change in Australia.

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Sea Shepherd finds whalers as Greens pressure government on whaling spy flights

takver — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:39:35 +0000

The Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker has found and re-engaged the Japanese whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru at at 67 degrees 10 minutes South and 67 Degrees 07 Minutes East. The Nisshin Maru and two harpoon vessels were found on February 6, 2010 at approximately 0430 hours (Melbourne time).

The Sea Shepherd flagship, the Steve Irwin, is en route to join the action after refueling and reprovisioning at Fremantle in late January.

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

Contents:

WGAR News: Productivity Commission statistics highlight continuing Stolen Generation: Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR)

Massive poverty levels ignored in election campaign

Citizens Lobby with Life on the Brink

The Labor-Greens carbon tax hoax

To the beleaguered league from the future

Green illusions and the carbon tax: article by Tim Anderson

Australian Senate motion is an insult - people will continue to die in custody and be incarcerated at unbelievable rates

Gillard announces interim carbon tax to tackle carbon pollution and climate change

Greens sell out big time to federal ALP

ACT government takes the lead in climate action emission reduction targets

Stand Up For Refugees - rally 13 August 2010

Upper Hunter Valley coal mine defeated by thoroughbred industry

Greens sell out for power in Tasmania

Sea Shepherd finds whalers as Greens pressure government on whaling spy flights