Muckaty

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Muckaty Traditional Owners at Federal Court in Melbourne for start of case against a nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land

peter — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 05:56:18 +0000

Muckaty Traditional Owner and hip-hop artist Kylie Sambo, seen here with supporters outside the Federal Court in Melbourne, and Traditional Owner Dianne Stokes were in town for the start of the long-awaited challenge to the nomination of of Aboriginal land at Muckaty as a site for Australia’s first national nuclear waste dump.

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WGAR News: Petition for a commission: dump the Muckaty dump plan: Beyond Nuclear Initiative

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 15 May 2014 01:25:49 +0000

Newsletter date: 16 May 2014

Contents:

* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: Petition for a commission: dump the Muckaty dump plan
* CommunityRun Petition: Dump the Muckaty Dump: Its time for responsible radioactive waste management
* NuclearFreeNT, YouTube: MUCKATY Television Advertisment
* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: May 25 Rally: No nuclear waste dump at Muckaty
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump in NT

* The Wire - West Arnhem Regional Council: Our environmental achiever [Featuring Alice Eather]

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Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Lawyer and Social Justice group has good news for Muckaty Mob: CAAMA Radio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 03:44:55 +0000

Newsletter date: 11 April 2014

Contents:

* Damien Williams & Paul Wiles, CAAMA Radio: Lawyer and Social Justice group has good news for Muckaty Mob ... [Featuring Natalie Wasley & Lizzie O'Shea]
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump in NT

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Wiluna Martu peoples against uranium mining
* 3CR Community Radio Radioactive Show interviews Yvonne Margarula, Jacqui Katona & Jo Vallentine about the Jabiluka blockade
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Territory top of the mining ranks but bottom of barrel deal for First Peoples

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New South Wales

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Muckaty no Solution for Sydney's Radioactive Waste: Australian Greens

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 02:07:42 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 March 2014

Contents:

* Jon Altman, Tracker: Evidently: Mining is not forever

* Australian Greens: Muckaty no Solution for Sydney's Radioactive Waste
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory

* Emma Lancaster, The Wire: Gomeroi people call on Environment Minister to stop destruction of sacred sites [Featuring Dolly Talbott - Gomeroi elder and spokesperson]

* The Wilderness Society: Farmers and community stand strong to protect the Pilliga from coal seam gas

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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: Muckaty nuclear waste dump update April 2013: Nat Wasley, Ohms Not Bombs

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:34:47 +0000

Newsletter date: 24 April 2013

Contents:

* Nat Wasley, Ohms Not Bombs: Muckaty nuclear waste dump update April 2013
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Mitch Torres about James Price Point proposed gas hub development
* Zebedee Parkes, Green Left: Kimberley win strengthens anti-gas campaign
* DesignBuild: Federal Government Pushes for Floating LNG
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* Other articles

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Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud: burn magazine

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:23:19 +0000

Newsletter date: 31 March 2013

Contents:

* burn magazine: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
* Canberra opening of 'Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud': Sun 7 April 2013
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* Helen Musa, Canberra CityNews: Exhibition honours true believer
* Canberra opening of 'I Do Have a Belief' - Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) Art Retrospective: Sat 6 April 2013
* Sovereign Union: The Murrawarri Republic declaration
* NITV News: Aboriginal activists meet Black Power founders

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Aboriginal imprisonment

Muckaty nuclear waste dump

children in adult prisons

Ray Jackson

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Tiga Bayles

Let's Talk

Closing the Gap

Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud

Indigenous Social Justice Association

Traditional Languages

Canberra opening of Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud - Sun 7 April 2013

Helen Musa - Canberra CityNews - Exhibition honours true believer

Canberra opening of I Do Have a Belief - Kevin Gilbert - 1933-1993 - Art Retrospective - Sat 6 April 2013

Sovereign Union - The Murrawarri Republic declaration

NITV News - Aboriginal activists meet Black Power founders

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Ray Jackson - President - Indigenous Social Justice Association

WGAR News: Who Gets To Develop James Price Point?: Deborah Ruiz Wall, New Matilda

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:03:44 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 February 2013

Contents:

* Deborah Ruiz Wall, New Matilda: Who Gets To Develop James Price Point?
* ABC: Wilderness Society challenges gas hub approvals
* Kimberley Page: Rachel Siewert on gas hub emmisions
* The West: Govt defends axing of greenhouse gas controls
* Kimberley Campaign Events
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* The Wire interviews Manawangu (Muckaty) Traditional Owners Isobel Phillips & Doris Kelly
* Tennant & District Times: Nuke waste in focus, Muckaty in the frame

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ABC - Wilderness Society challenges gas hub approvals

Kimberley Page - Rachel Siewert on gas hub emmisions

The West - Govt defends axing of greenhouse gas controls

Kimberley Campaign Events

The Wire interviews Manawangu Traditional Owners Isobel Phillips & Doris Kelly

Tennant & District Times - Nuke waste in focus - Muckaty in the frame

WGAR News: Muckaty Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival: BNI

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:58:05 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 February 2013

Contents:

* BNI: Nuclear waste in the spotlight, Muckaty in the frame: Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival
* Event: Exhibition by Human Rights Activist, Jagath Dheerrasekara: Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud: 14 Feb - 22 Mar 13
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* SNAICC News: Know your rights - Resource on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

* Sovereign Union: The Apology is still an empty vessel

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Muckaty nuclear waste dump

Adelaide Fringe festival

Jagath Dheerrasekara

Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud

UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The Apology

Indigenous defence service

40-year leases

BNI - Nuclear waste in the spotlight - Muckaty in the frame - Northern Territory exhibition to open at Adelaide Fringe festival

Event - Exhibition by Human Rights Activist Jagath Dheerrasekara - Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud - 14 Feb - 22 Mar 13

SNAICC News - Know your rights - Resource on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - UNDRIP

Sovereign Union - The Apology is still an empty vessel

NIRS - Kowanyama wants housing but not with 40-year leases

SBS Radionews Audio - Remembering Indigenous defence service

The Wire - Cultural ties improve vocational opportunities

WGAR News: "Government remains deaf to the data on income management"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:58:24 +0000

Newsletter date: 13 December 2012

Contents:

* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Government remains deaf to the data on income management
* Paddy Gibson, Overland literary journal: Income management in the Northern Territory: racism is still the issue
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Allyson Horn, ABC: NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

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Northern Territory Intervention

Income Management - IM

Eva Cox - The Conversation - Government remains deaf to the data on income management

Paddy Gibson - Overland literary journal - Income management in the Northern Territory - racism is still the issue

Allyson Horn - ABC - NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump

Robin Chapple MLC - WA government bungles Browse land seizure again - Grylls' incompetence reaches new heights

Senator Rachel Siewert - Greens say Barnett should abandon compulsory acquisition

Fighting Ferguson's nuclear dump

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:02:06 +0000

Fighting Ferguson's Dump

Natalie Wasley

In February 2010, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson introduced the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill into the House of Representatives, saying it represented "a responsible and long overdue approach for an issue that impacts on all Australian communities".

The legislation names Muckaty, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, as the only site to remain under active consideration for a national nuclear waste dump.

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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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Protest as Martin Ferguson arrives at Growth Challenge conference in Melbourne - 30 June 2011

peter — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:35:03 +0000

The speakers list at a conference entitled ‘Growth Challenge – Riding the Resources Boom to Lasting Prosperity’ had been described as “A Who’s who that’s Screwing You” (see the callout on this site - ), but in the event it was only Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson who attracted a concerted protest, courtesy of Friends of the Earth ACE collective, who brought Mr Nuke Death with them…

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