indigenous rights

WGAR News: Forced Displacement of Aborigines in West Australia: Franciscans International & Edmund Rice International

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:49:42 +0000

Newsletter date: 13 January 2015

* Joint Urgent Appeal: Franciscans International & Edmund Rice International: Forced Displacement of Aborigines in West Australia
* Background: Franciscans International - a voice at the United Nations: Indigenous Peoples
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

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Aboriginal remote communities

Franciscans International

Franciscans International - a voice at the United Nations

Edmund Rice International

Forced Displacement of Aborigines

closure of WA and SA Aboriginal homelands

closure of WA remote communities

closure of SA remote communities

threat to close homelands/remote communities

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

The impact of budget cuts and government policies in the State of Queensland (Australia) on the exercise of the rights of Indigenous minorities

indigenous rights

Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

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: First Peoples' freedom summit: Late Night Live, ABC RN [Interviews with Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Michael Mansell & Tauto Sansbury]

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:51:44 +0000

Newsletter date: 28 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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Australia

Northern Territory

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aboriginal

Aboriginal elders and leaders

Aboriginal elders and leaders from across Australia

National Summit for Freedom - Alice Springs Thu & Fri 27-28 November 2014

Alice Springs

Mbantua Alice Springs

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM

Mparntwe Alice Springs

Alison Anderson

Roxley Foley - son of Dr Gary Foley

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

CAAMA - Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

Tony Abbott

PM for Indigenous Affairs

aboriginal land rights

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

Contents:

* 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

Canberra

Australia

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: "NACCHO praises release of FPDN 10 point plan for Aboriginal people with a disability"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:42:57 +0000

Newsletter date: 22 May 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO praises release of FPDN 10 point plan for Aboriginal people with a disability
* NACCHO chair welcomes Professor Kerry Arabena as the newly appointed Chair of Indigenous Health
* SBS Radionews: Indigenous suicide summit in Perth
* Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

* CAAMA Radio: Interview with Rod Little, a Director of the National Congress of Australia's First People
* CAAMA Radio: "Huge attitude change needed" to recognise Indigenous rights
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

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First People's Disability Network - FPDN

Aboriginal people with a disability

NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Professor Kerry Arabena

Chair of Indigenous Health

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

Indigenous suicide summit

National Congress of Australia's First People

Rod Little

NACCHO chair welcomes Professor Kerry Arabena as the newly appointed Chair of Indigenous Health

SBS Radionews - Indigenous suicide summit in Perth

CAAMA Radio - Interview with Rod Little - a Director of the National Congress of Australia's First People

CAAMA Radio - Huge attitude change needed to recognise Indigenous rights

Rally and march highlight new Stolen Generation in Queensland and gain father his grieving rights

Anonymous — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:37:08 +0000

by Brisbane Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park on Wednesday, May 2 Aboriginal people and their supporters held a rally and march in Brisbane today (Wednesday 2 May) to highlight the continued genocidal practice of removing large numbers of Aboriginal children from their families and their culture.

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How Ethiopia's plantations are killing a waterway vital to 100,000 tribal people

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:22:10 +0000

Efforts to re-direct the Omo River for irrigation are
drying up a key water source for tribes. © Survival

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Global/International

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human rights

indigenous rights

Survival International

Stolen wages offer a ‘slap in the face’ says WA Aboriginal Legal Service

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:51:38 +0000

ALSWA Media Statement
6 March 2012

The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (ALSWA) has slammed the WA State Government’s offer of up to $2000.00 to Aboriginal workers whose past wages were stolen by the state.

“This is a slap in the face and a cruel and heartless offer which offends the very notion of recompense,” said ALSWA CEO Adjunct Professor Dennis Eggington.

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Justice for Rex Bellotti Jnr

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:38:15 +0000

by Gerry Georgatos An Aboriginal youth, Rex Bellotti Jnr, aged 15 was run over by a police four-wheel-drive Holden Rodeo and more than two years have passed without any compensation, without any closure. When it comes to Aboriginal victims this is nothing new.

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Major Protest Ignites Education Department undermines Commonwealth and State Heritage Applications

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:49:09 +0000

Press Release 6th June At 7.00am today the VDEECD sent workers and police onto Ballerrt Mooroop College against the Community Picket to fence off two thirds of the school's land to start building a second school on the same site. There is currently a major Sit In and Blockade in protest at the education department's three year plan to build another school on the site when other schools have become vacant.

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Victoria

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indigenous rights

Ballerrt Mooroop College

Update on campaign in defence of Hickey family from police harrassment

Flowerpower — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:05:35 +0000

Well done to all those people who attended actions over the last couple of days and/or helped build them in defence of the persecuted Hickey family in Riverstone.

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Killer cops must be arrested, charged and jailed for murder, no more cover ups!!

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:11:01 +0000

Below is an article by Nathan Paull from the Townsville Bulletin which extensively quotes Palm Island Mayor Alf Lacey on the indigenous communities reaction to the outrageous decision by the Qld police to not charge the police who sabotaged the investigation into Cameron "Mulrunji" Doomadgee death at the hands of police whilst in custody on Palm Island.

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ANTaR update on Lake Tyer women's blockade - the blockade WILL continue!

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:22:24 +0000

A group of women have started a blockade at Lake Tyers Aboriginal community in Victoria's far south east. The spokesperson for the blockaders is Leanne Edwards.

They set up their blockade on International Women's Day and on Friday released a second statement affirming that their blockade continues after having met with people from Aboriginal Affairs Victoria and Minister Jeannette Powell's office and recieved no joy as to their concerns.

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Victoria

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indigenous rights

self-determination

No dump at Muckaty! Protests continue in Martin Ferguson's electorate, 24 February 2011

peter — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:20:28 +0000

To mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of Muckaty in the Northern Territory as the chosen site for a proposed national radioactive waste dump, members of Friends of the Earth ACE (Anti-nuclear and Clean Energy) Collective* toured part of Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's Batman electorate in search of an alternative dumping ground.

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