Traditional Owners

WGAR News: Fight to save traditional lands from a mine: Adrian Burragubba, Wangan & Jagalingou elder interviewed by Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 22:32:21 +0000

Newsletter date: 11 April 2015

WGAR News: Stop Adani Destroying Our Land and Culture: Wangan & Jagalingou People, YouTube video

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:21:21 +0000

Newsletter date: 2 April 2015

WGAR News: New 'Protect Arnhem Land' (PAL) website

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:08:54 +0000

Newsletter date: 8 December 2014

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: From my father's death bed to the must-do to end the suicides: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 30 May 2014 01:31:55 +0000

Newsletter date: 31 May 2014

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: From my father’s death bed to the must-do to end the suicides
* Geoff Bagnall, The Stringer: Scullion hits out at Traditional Owners [Courtesy of The National Indigenous Times]
* Dr Woolombi Waters, The Stringer: Woolombi Waters says "let’s listen"
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* NACCHO: Aboriginal controlled health services can close the gap in employment
* NACCHO: Alliance sets sights on final elimination of blinding trachoma in Central Australia

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Radioactive Show: Maralinga - Muckaty - Medicine: 3CR Community Radio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:00:15 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 December 2013

Contents:

* 3CR Community Radio: Radioactive Show: Maralinga - Muckaty - Medicine
[Featuring Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Barb Shaw, Penny Phillips, Isobel Phillips & Michael Fonda]
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* RTRFM: Understorey: Regulating the Nuclear Village
[Featuring Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Uncle Glen Cooke, Kado Muir & Della Rae Morrison]

* Tracker: Federal govt suspends Ranger operations

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WGAR News: "Statement by Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM regarding MOUs on township 99 year leases"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:31:53 +0000

Newsletter date: 11 November 2013

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians': Statement by Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM regarding MOUs on township 99 year leases
* The Wire: Traditional Owners reject 99-year leases [Featuring Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra]
* Lindy Kerin, NITV News: A modern day invasion threatens Aboriginal community [Featuring Reverend Djiniyini Gondarra]
* Patricia Karvelas, The Australian: Truancy army to get kids to school [99-year township lease]
* Patricia Karvelas, The Australian: Nigel Scullion faces rebellion on leases

Geography:

Northern Territory

WGAR News: March and Music for Muckaty, Tennant Creek, May 25: BNI Beyond Nuclear Initiative Audio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:29:34 +0000

Newsletter date: 26 June 2013

Contents:

* BNI: Audio uploaded - March and Music for Muckaty, Tennant Creek, May 25
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* ABC Video: Aboriginal group to challenge shale gas agreement
* Tracker: Native title challenge to Canning gas bill
* Hands off Country: Why does this government pretend that it does not need to speak to anybody?
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

* Jeff McMullen, Tracker: The Way Ahead: The new land grab
* Emma Murphy, Green Left: Traditional owners battle for a healthy river

Geography:

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Keeping Them Home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 26 May 2013 03:32:10 +0000

Special Sorry Day Edition
http://www.nsdc.org.au
"National Sorry Day offers the Community the opportunity to acknowledge the impact of the policies spanning more than 150 years of forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families."

Newsletter date: Sorry Day - 26 May 2013

Contents:

* Petition: Keeping Them Home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews renowned journalist Jeff McMullen about child removals and the importance of families

Geography:

Northern Territory

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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Keywords:

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: 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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