Woodside

WGAR News: Opponents of James Price Point gas project welcome go-ahead for platform: The Guardian

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 03:02:00 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 August 2013

Contents:

* Eliza Borrello, ABC News: Mining policy: where the parties stand - Kimberley gas

* The Guardian: Opponents of James Price Point gas project welcome go-ahead for platform
* ABC News: Woodside gains federal approval to develop the Browse Basin gas field
* Peter Klinger, The West Australian: Cabnberra backs floating gas hub
* Peter Klinger, The West Australian: Gray paves way for Browse FLNG

* Ben Collins, ABC North West WA: Why Kimberley gas might burn Barnett again
* Perth Now: Barnett digs in for onshore Browse gas

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Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: Oxfam report mocks Native Title: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 28 May 2013 23:36:26 +0000

Newsletter date: 29 May 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Oxfam report mocks Native Title
* Oxfam Australia: Mining
* Oxfam Australia and CAER: The right to decide: company commitments and community consent
* SBS Radionews: Mining benefits 'not getting to Indigenous people'
* 3CR Community Radio: Earth Matters [Refusal to honour native title & Indigenous land use agreements]
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

* SBS Radionews: Indigenous focus on land and sea management

* ABC: Waste dump opponents 'not going to back down'

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Woodside Decision a Great Outcome: The Directors of Save The Kimberley

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:05:22 +0000

Newsletter date: 10 May 2013

Contents:

* The Directors of Save The Kimberley: Woodside Decision a Great Outcome
* YouTube: Thank you - for uniting to stop the gas hub! - TheWildernessSociety
* WA Today: James Price Point land acquisition likely
* Greens Senators Scott Ludlam and Rachel Siewert; WA Greens MLC Robin Chapple: The emperor needs to let go of James Price Point
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Gas Wars
* Tracker: Woodside backs floating LNG for Browse
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

Geography:

Western Australia

WGAR News: New CLC chairman warns mining companies he will renegotiate royalties!: CAAMA Radio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:44:02 +0000

Newsletter date: 28 April 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA Radio: New CLC chairman warns mining companies he will renegotiate royalties!

* Robin Chapple MLC, WA Greens: Birriliburu IPA declaration ceremony [IPA: Indigenous Protected Area]

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Woodside & Government will not pay $1.5 billion
* Robin Chapple MLC, WA Greens: Broome ratepayers left in lurch by JPP halt
* NIRS: Broome should get benefits without gas hub: Mitch Torres
* ABC Video: Celebrating the end of James Price Point but floating a future for Browse

Geography:

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: "We have won and it is over - the project is dead": Hands off Country on the Kimberley

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:12:07 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 April 2013

Contents:

* Hands off Country: "We have won and it is over - the project is dead"
* Respect and Listen: NIT - A Kimberley victory
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Barnett can't walk away from important Kimberley investments
* Ryan Emery, NITV: James Price Point gas hub too expensive: Woodside
* SBS Radionews Audio: Woodside abandons James Price Point gas hub
* SBS Radionews Audio: Reaction to scrapping of WA gas hub plan
* NIRS: New designs for James Price Point to be explored
* YouTube: Woodside JPP Pullout

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Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Kimberley investments

Premier Barnett

Kimberley’s Aboriginal peoples

WA Greens MLC - Robin Chapple

land acquisition

Kimberley environment

campaigners

No Gas campaign

Greens Leader Christine Milne

We have won and it is over - The Project is dead - Hands off Country on the Kimberley

Ryan Emery - NITV - James Price Point gas hub too expensive: Woodside

SBS Radionews Audio - Reaction to scrapping of WA gas hub plan

Peter Robertson - New Matilda - How We Stopped James Price Point Gas Hub

Greens Leader Christine Milne - Greens congratulate James Price Point campaigners

ABC - Indigenous gas deal should be honoured - Bergmann

The Stringer - Premier Barnett apologises to Kimberley’s Aboriginal peoples

WA Greens MLC - Robin Chapple - Barnett to strip Woodside Browse lease

WGAR News: Woodside pulls out of Kimberley gas hub: The Wilderness Society

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:32:23 +0000

Newsletter date: 13 April 2013

Contents:

* Woodside - ASX Announcement: Woodside to Review Alternative Browse Development Concepts
* The Wilderness Society: Woodside pulls out of Kimberley gas hub
* The Stringer: Woodside dumps gas hub
* The Wire Audio: Woodside dumps James Price Point gas hub
* Greens Senators Rachel Siewert and Scott Ludlam: Thank you! James Price Point
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens welcome decision to abandon James Price Point
* Robin Chapple, WA Greens MLC: Kimberley still at risk as Woodside halts JPP
* Hands off Country: Do I dare believe?

Geography:

Western Australia

WGAR News: Legal action threatened by Indigenous groups against the CSG industry: The Wire

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:29:01 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 April 2013

Contents:

* The Wire Interview: Legal action threatened by Indigenous groups against the CSG industry
* Tracker: Gas firms accused of sacred site damage
* Tracker: Sacred sites 'destroyed by Qld gas plants'

* Herald Sun: NT land owners tour Spanish nuclear dump
* Tennant & District Times: Muckaty mob on tour
* Media Release: Nuclear waste in the spotlight, Muckaty in the frame: Red dirt exhibition raises red flag in Canberra
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

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WGAR News: Aboriginal Community Controlled Health vital to closing the gap: NACCHO

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:55:57 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 March 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO: Aboriginal Community Controlled Health vital to closing the gap

* Mary Micallef, For the ISJA Melbourne Team: What’s the cost of imprisonment?
* Alison Thorne, ISJA Melbourne: Launch of John Pat 30
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody! Remember John Pat
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* CAAMA: Walpiri lawman talks about saving his culture!

* NITV News: Indigenous women gather at UN to stop domestic violence

Geography:

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National Day of Action

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Aboriginal imprisonment

Monsoonal Vine Thicket

Mary Micallef - For the ISJA Melbourne Team - What’s the cost of imprisonment

Alison Thorne - ISJA Melbourne - Launch of John Pat 30

National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody - Remember John Pat

CAAMA - Walpiri lawman talks about saving his culture

NITV News - Indigenous women gather at UN to stop domestic violence

NITV News - Quitline not a political football says Calma

Hands off Country - Woodside planning drilling in Endangered Ecological Community Monsoonal Vine Thicket

Greens' Show Points to Gas Hub Rejection - Media Release

WGAR News: Goolarabooloo calls for protection of cultural sites: The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 05:40:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 March 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Goolarabooloo calls for protection of cultural sites
* ABC Radio National Awaye!: Lurujarri Dreaming
* Walk the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail in 2013
* An LNG Plant at James Price Point?
* Hands off Country: Woodside are back in Country 2013
* Hands off Country: If Woodside enter the sand dunes through the Monsoonal Vine Thickets they will be acting out side the law
* The Stringer: Kimberley voters send strong message - "do not build the Gas Hub"

Geography:

WGAR News: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms: The Wilderness Society

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:36:19 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 March 2013

Contents:

* NITV News: Festival for the Kimberley in Sydney
* The Wilderness Society: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms
* ABC AM: WA Liberals promise national park on re-election
* Broome Community No Gas Campaign: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds and to intervene to stop Woodside drilling works
* Hands off Country: Bob Brown Speaking at a Broome No Gas forum
* Greens Senator Scott Ludlam: Together, we're fighting for James Price Point

Geography:

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Kimberley Campaign News

Kimberley national park

Broome Community No Gas Campaign

Shell

burial grounds

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam

NITV News - Festival for the Kimberley in Sydney

ABC AM - WA Liberals promise national park on re-election

Broome Community No Gas Campaign - Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds and to intervene to stop Woodside drilling works

Hands off Country - Bob Brown Speaking at a Broome No Gas forum

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam - Together we're fighting for James Price Point

Environs Kimberley - Kimberley rainforest listed as endangered by Australian Government

Róisin Mortimer - Friends of the Earth Australia - James Price Point gas hub controversy

Conservation Council of Western Australia - Protect the Kimberley and Prevent More Carbon Pollution

WGAR News: Protest over land council mining plans: Mel Barnes, Green Left

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:16:31 +0000

Newsletter date: 28 January 2013

Contents:

* Mel Barnes, Green Left: Protest over land council mining plans

* Brisbane Times: Indigenous rally on Australia Day in Qld
* SMH: Sodden but not sunk: How Queenslanders marked Australia Day
* Sovereign Union: Invasion Day March Brisbane 2013
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Background to Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, Qld

* SBS Radionews Audio: Reviewing the MDGs: Pt 2 [Millennium Development Goals]

Geography:

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Aboriginal sovereignty

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Operation Kimberley Miinimbi

Broome Community No Gas

Aboriginal freedom fighters

Brisbane Times - Indigenous rally on Australia Day in Qld

SMH - Sodden but not sunk - How Queenslanders marked Australia Day

Sovereign Union - Invasion Day March Brisbane 2013

SBS Radionews Audio - Reviewing the MDGs - Pt 2 - Millennium Development Goals

Operation Kimberley Miinimbi Update - No place sacred as Woodside prepares to destroy burial sites and ancient culture for gas in the Kimberley

Broome Community

Broome Community No Gas Campaign - Why is the Broome Community opposed to the development

Green Left - Aboriginal freedom fighters commemorated

Goolarabooloo law bosses lift the ante in battle with Woodside over gas hub

Gerry Georgatos — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:08:23 +0000

Gerry Georgatos - Story
Damien Kelly - Photo - Goolarabooloo Law Bosses, Phillip Roe and Richard Hunter with Eric Hunter in traditional pelican head dress - the pelican is the head dress of their particular Goolarabooloo group and symbolic of Walmandan (James Price Point) country.

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Promotion:

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WGAR News: 200 Aboriginal Maralinga victims denied compensation: Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:06:31 +0000

Newsletter date: 21 January 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: 200 Aboriginal Maralinga victims denied compensation
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: Goolarabooloo Law Bosses lift the ante in battle with Woodside over gas hub
* Background to Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: Lobby restaurant incident - January 26, 2012 - Will Prime Minister Gillard finally admit the truth and apologise?

Geography:

Keywords:

Aboriginal sovereignty

Gerry Georgatos

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Walmadan Tent Embassy

Maralinga

Indymedia Australia

Aboriginal victims of Maralinga

Aboriginal victims

Prime Minister Gillard

Lobby restaurant

January 26 2012

Aboriginal Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary

mandatory sentencing

Murujuga National Park

Burrup Peninsula

Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Goolarabooloo Law Bosses lift the ante in battle with Woodside over gas hub

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Lobby restaurant incident - January 26 2012 - Will Prime Minister Gillard finally admit the truth and apologise

Amnesty - Plans to toughen mandatory sentencing in WA a step in the wrong direction

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Murujuga National Park at long last - however the struggle is not over

WGAR News: Woodside given go-ahead to destroy Aboriginal sites at James Price Point: Robin Chapple

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:54:22 +0000

Newsletter date: 19 January 2013

Contents:

* Robin Chapple MLC: Woodside given go-ahead to destroy Aboriginal sites at James Price Point
* Greens leader Senator Christine Milne: Burke must intervene as Barnett rubber stamps destruction of Aboriginal heritage at James Price Point
* The Wilderness Society: Woodside given permission to drill in Kimberley
* News re Woodside and James Price Point, Kimberley Region, WA
* Background to Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA

* Other articles

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Greens leader Senator Christine Milne - Burke must intervene as Barnett rubber stamps destruction of Aboriginal heritage at James Price Point

The Wilderness Society - Woodside given permission to drill in Kimberley

News re Woodside and James Price Point - Kimberley Region WA

Walmadan Tent Embassy

Kimberley Region

Aboriginal heritage

More on the Walmadan anti-gas hub campaign

peter — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:12:49 +0000

Melbourne supporters of the campaign against the Woodside gas hub project at Walmadan/James Price Point in WA have continued their activities: on Saturday September 24 there was the second Community Gathering at Northcote Uniting Church, organised by Walmadan is Calling (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Walmadan-Country-is-Calling/14653525208854...), and on September 27 there was a candlelight vigil at the Victorian Parliament House, organised by United Peoples of Australia (http://www.facebook.com/United.Peoples.of.Australia?sk=info).

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