Aboriginal Rights

John Pilger to appear at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Sunday August 9th.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:42:13 +0000

Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of only two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a BAFTA. His epic Cambodia Year Zero is ranked by the BFI as one of the ten most important documentaries of the 20th century. "John Pilger unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth and tells it as it is" (Harold Pinter). "Pilger’s work has truly been a beacon of light in dark times" (Noam Chomsky).

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Anti-war. anti-racism

Aboriginal Rights

media commentary.

True allies don't claim Aboriginal land

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:24:49 +0000

by Hamish Chitts, Scottish (MacGregor & Fraser clans)

Many allies of the struggle for Aboriginal sovereignty still proudly identify as being Australian. While many understand some of the history of genocide and theft on this continent they fail to understand how their Australian identity perpetuates that genocide and theft. We also need to learn and understand that the notion of being Australian and the country of Australia was not founded on feelings of independence but founded on ideas of white supremacy.

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WGAR News: Aboriginal 'recognition' - a cover for assimilation: Paddy Gibson, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:14:53 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 March 2015

WGAR News: A selection of Fantastic Aboriginal Rights articles

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:49:42 +0000

Newsletter date: 31 January 2015

Tauto Sansbury and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on the "Freedom Summit" a gathering of grassroots Aboriginal community leaders

Karun — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:46:54 +0000

Perth Indymedia speaks to esteemed elder of South Australia's Narrunga people Tauto Sansbury and Australian of the Year, leader of the Utopia homelands Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on the "Freedom Summit", the most significant gathering of grassroots Aboriginal community leaders in recent history which was held in Alice Springs.

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Aboriginal elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

Aboriginal elder Tauto Sansbury

Aboriginal Rights

Freedom Summit

Open Letter from Nyungah Land and Culture Protector Iva Hayward-Jackson

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:57:41 +0000

Recently The Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately one hundred and fifty remote Aboriginal communities in the State of Western Australia.

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WGAR News: First Nations response to G20 meeting: Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy, Facebook

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:08:05 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 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)

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Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy - BASE

WGAR News: Anderson: You cannot benefit from murder ... Time does not erase murder: Sovereign Union

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 25 May 2014 02:43:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 May 2014

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* Sovereign Union: Anderson: You cannot benefit from murder ... Time does not erase murder
* Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy: Mega-charities killing Aboriginal people
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Loner - Black protest music to bring on the hope

* Nadine Schoen, The Stringer: Aboriginal issues, in the context of a capitalist system
* Nadine Schoen, Green Left: Way forward for Aboriginal struggle

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WGAR News: Survival Day - Andrew Davis' response to Warren Mundine: The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 04:18:34 +0000

Newsletter date: 3 February 2014

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* WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day Events: Sunday 26 January 2014

* The Stringer: Survival Day - Andrew Davis' response to Warren Mundine

* CAAMA Radio: Mansell shares his thoughts on Australia Day celebrations
[Featuring veteran Tasmanian Aboriginal rights campaigner Michael Mansell]

* Amy McQuire, The Guardian: Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible

* Nakkiah Lui, The Guardian: Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebration

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WGAR News: Calling all Aboriginal Nations to Canberra 9 am 23 - 24 November 2013: Sovereign Union

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 01:54:22 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 October 2013

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* Calling all Aboriginal Nations to Canberra 9 am 23 - 24 November 2013: Sovereign Union National Meeting on asserting our sovereignty
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley, Historian and veteran Aboriginal rights campaigner

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Monica Morgan, Manager of the Indigenous Rights Program at Amnesty International Australia

* CAAMA Audio: Do we really know our history? [Featuring Professor Ian Clark]

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ACT

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Australia

Background to constitutional recognition of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 06:39:21 +0000

Last updated: 30 April 2014

- Compilations

WGAR News: 'concerned Australians': Survey of Aboriginal Adults residing outside the Northern Territory on The Intervention and Stronger Futures Legislation, Constitutional Change and Treaties (30 Apr 14)
[scroll down page] http://indymedia.org.au/2014/04/29/wgar-news-police-checks-targeting-abo...

WGAR News: ... (7 Mar 14)
http://indymedia.org.au/2014/03/06/wgar-news-michael-mansell-talks-treat...
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Aboriginal sovereignty

First Nations Peoples

constitutional recognition

Sovereign Treaty

constitutional reform

Constitution Reform

Tasmanian Aboriginal rights events for your diary: National Close the Gap Day

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:45:20 +0000

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

Event: Thu 21 or Fri 22 March 2013: Tasmania
National Close the Gap Day
"A day for Australians to join together and remind
political leaders to close the life expectancy gap
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
within a generation." ATSI Support
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
still die 10-17 years younger than other Australians.
Closing this health gap cannot be done overnight.
We need a long-term commitment with adequate
funding, and investment in real partnerships." Oxfam

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WGAR News: Year in review - Indigenous affairs in 2012: SBS World News Audio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:06:08 +0000

Newsletter date: 2 January 2013

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* SBS World News Audio: Year in review: Indigenous affairs in 2012

* SBS World News Video: Black rights campaigners call for more action on social media racism

* Online Save The Kimberley Book: Kimberley at the Crossroads - The case against the gas plant
* pindanpost: No Gas at Price’s Point, Broome ... marching across Australia
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* Ian Thorpe and Jeff McMullen, SMH: As a society we must take action

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aboriginal resistance

SBS World News Video - Black rights campaigners call for more action on social media racism

Online Save The Kimberley Book - Kimberley at the Crossroads - The case against the gas plant

pindanpost - No Gas at Price’s Point Broome - marching across Australia

Ian Thorpe and Jeff McMullen - SMH - As a society we must take action

Russell Skelton - SMH - In spite of Hollows

the dark goes on

CAAMA - Veteran campaigner questions Native Title amendments

ABC Message Stick - Pemulwuy - Australia's first ever Aboriginal resistance fighter

Pemulwuy - The Movie Petition

We are lucky Bob Carr was not appointed Indigenous Affairs Minister!

Gerry Georgatos — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:04:17 +0000

Gerry Georgatos

Former NSW premier, Bob Carr, autocratically selected by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, without it going to a vote of even the Cabinet, to fill the vacant Senate position meant Warren Mundine, who lobbied for the senatorial vacancy was overlooked - and who would have been the first ALP Aboriginal federal parliamentarian in the hundred year history of the party. The Prime Minister has publicly said that she values Mr Carr’s advice and that she has often consulted him on a range of issues.

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Warren Mundine's brave face but gutted - our source correct about Senator Bob Carr!

Gerry Georgatos — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:23:12 +0000

Gerry Georgatos Former ALP president and Bandjalung man, Warren Mundine is putting on a brave face after being denied the opportunity to become the first Aboriginal federal Labor politician.

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