Western Australia

WGAR News: APO NT calls for joint Territory/ Commonwealth Board of Inquiry into Alcohol: APO NT

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 07:39:44 +0000

Newsletter date: 30 June 2013

UPDATE: WGAR News: NT move to mandatory alcohol rehabilitation sparks controversy: Malcolm Sutton, The Guardian UK (3 Jul 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/07/02/wgar-news-nt-move-to-mandatory-alcoho...

Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill, Northern Territory Government, Australia
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/07/03/background-to-the-nt-alcohol-mandator...
(Last updated: 3 July 2013)

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Sorry Day - Western Australia - Are we sorry? May 26

Gerry Georgatos — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:42:01 +0000

Sorry Day today in WA - May 26

and The Apology February 13, 2008

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/02/13/2162031.htm

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/police-evict-protesters-from-...

http://www.nit.com.au/opinion.html
People are not the property of people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3_VZ-T5mZI

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd:
"Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.

We reflect on their past mistreatment.

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Defending Indigenous Rights

Western Australia

Forest Rescue heighten protest actions to save forests - however many arrests

Gerry Georgatos — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:38:45 +0000

Gerry Georgatos
Forest Rescue Australia (FRA) has heightened its protest actions halting Warrup logging on an almost daily basis - however at the price of arrests. A Forest Products Commission (FPC) spokeswoman confirmed that protestors had entered work areas on three separate days in the last ten days and on two occasions had locked themselves on to two logging machines while work continued in other parts of the operation.

On Monday 19, FRA protestors entered the Warrup logging area and one protestor managed to lock himself on to a logging machine for 15 hours.

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"Pay the Rent" - say Nyoongars - "Stronger Futures can go straight to hell"

Gerry Georgatos — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:19:35 +0000

Gerry Georgatos
With the Stronger Futures debacle in the Australian Senate the following could not be more timely. Nyoongar rights advocate and CEO of Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, Robert Eggington has gathered together with several prominent Nyoongars, and a large number of the Nyoongar community, to announce their own Native Title proposals for the state government to consider.

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The south west of WA is drying up - climate change everywhere

Gerry Georgatos — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:17:14 +0000

Gerry Georgatos

This summer the south west of Western Australia has experienced a record series of heatwaves - eight, and climate trends during the last four decades show a rise in temperatures and a drying climate. According too the Weather Bureau and CSIRO WA's south west is drying faster than other part of the country and scientists say it will have a transforming effect on agriculture and the habitats, and there will be an increased risk of bushfires.

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From Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation - Stolen Wages Rally - March 28

Gerry Georgatos — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:29:50 +0000

To all Media networks

There will be a large gathering of Aboriginal People on
28 MARCH, 2012
COMMENCING 11:00 AM
at the corner of Riverside Drive and Victoria Avenue
for a march to Parliament House .

The march route will be up St Georges Terrace,
stopping momentarily at the Office of Premier and Cabinet.

At Parliament House the speakers will address issues such as

STOLEN WAGES - RECENT EX GRATIA ANNOUNCEMENT

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WA primary school in race row - Back to the 1950s!

Gerry Georgatos — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:51:16 +0000

Gerry Georgatos

A Western Australian primary school principal has taken the state back forty years with a race row after he targeted all the Aboriginal students in trying to address misbehaviour.

The northern Perth primary school of Neerabup was the talk of its local communities when on Friday, March 1, its principal Brett Lewis tried to address alleged discipline problems by ordering to a special meeting all Aboriginal children from Years 3 to 7 - all of them together.

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International news and opinion

Perth

Western Australia

Nyoongar

Stronger but fewer cyclones for Australia says CSIRO scientist

takver — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:27:37 +0000

New research by CSIRO scientists is showing a trend for fewer tropical cyclones forming off the Western Australian coast, but those that do form may become more intense and potentially destructive. The results apply across the Australian region according to CSIRO in an interview with Dr Debbie Abbs from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.

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Social media inspires the Occupy movements - coming to Australia - let us see how 'justice' responds when these movements are on 'their' doorstep.

Gerry Georgatos — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:19:30 +0000

So-called social media movements in the Middle East and North Africa have been applauded by western governments. Leaders of the so-called 'free world', including Barack Obama asked leaders of these nations to respect the will of the people, to respect their right to freedom of speech and the right to protest, and in many cases for national leaders to step down.

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Death in custody should be explored before the criminal justice system and the buck should not be passed as happens. 2,300 Australian deaths in custody since 1980

Gerry Georgatos — Sun, 01 May 2011 01:57:59 +0000

In terms of culpability and liability the death of the Warburton Elder in the back of a prisoner transport typifies so many unwarranted deaths in custody in Australia including the Palm Island death in custody, the impaling death of the young man in Redfern, and so many thousands of other deaths. Australia has a long tragic history of deaths in custody, and is not limited to the horrific record during the last 31 years which has claimed in excess of 2,300 lives.

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Warburton Elder

prisoner transport van

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Corrective Services

the Royal Commission