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Oppose Intervention

By on March 1, 2012 in Aboriginal

Many are opposed to PM Gillard extending the Intervention in the NT. http://standforfreedom.org.au/

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Tent embassy protest justified

By on January 26, 2012 in Aboriginal

TV beat-up on justified protest. What is losing a shoe compared to losing a continent. http://wgwau.com/blog/2012/01/26/the-tent-embassy-debacle-from-a-protesters-pov/

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On Roxby

By on December 11, 2011 in Aboriginal, Environmental crisis

Rethink Roxby: Our Uranium fuelled Fukashima Adelaide Voices, Opinion by David Noonan, Independent Environment Campaigner. Australia uranium fuelled the Fukashima nuclear disaster yet our governments have just approved the world’s largest uranium project in BHP Billiton’s proposed new open pit mine at Roxby Downs. “We can confirm that Australian obligated nuclear material was at the [...]

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Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra against the ‘Second Intervention

By on December 6, 2011 in Aboriginal, Social justice

Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra criticises Gillard’s ‘Second Intervention’ otherwise known as ‘Stronger Futures in the NT’, a new Commonwealth Government initiative from Minister Macklin that maintains key racists powers introduced through Howard’s NT Intervention. Dr Gondarra is a Senior Elder from Elcho Island. This message was screened in Sydney on Saturday December 3, at a [...]

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Cooperation not intervention

By on November 29, 2011 in Aboriginal

Cooperation not intervention: a call for a new direction in the Northern Territory From ACOSS 23 November 2011 Aboriginal peak bodies, community welfare and public health groups from around the country are calling for a new direction in policies affecting Aboriginal Australians based on cooperation, not ‘intervention’. The groups support new investment in secure jobs [...]

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More by Brian Manning on Gurindji

By on November 28, 2011 in Aboriginal

Brian Manning cited in the NT MUA branch news november 2011. His full speech and poem cited earlier here http://chriswhiteonline.org/2011/09/2003/ “I took the photograph on the morning after I arrived in the Gurindji’s Camp in the dry bed of the Victoria River in august 1966. With the first load of food supplies to sustain the [...]

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Oppose Gillard’s Intervention

By on November 25, 2011 in Aboriginal

Opposition in the NT to Gillard’s Second Intervention Joint statement from Intervention Rollback Action Group (Central Australia), Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition and Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney – Friday November 25 2011 ‘Stand against Macklin’s decade of discrimination – No second Intervention! The Labor government has introduced Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory legislation that [...]

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Elliott Johnston speaks

By on November 20, 2011 in Aboriginal, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Labour Law, Public Policy, Social justice, US politics, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

Elliott Johnston’s title was ‘the rule of law’ but he soon turned to capitalism and politics and cites Don Dunstan and supports self-determination for aboriginal people, the environment and workers rights and more… Public Forum on the 5 October, 2004, to a packed Elder Hall University of Adelaide. Organised by Australian Options with the support [...]

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‘Red Silk’

By on October 13, 2011 in Aboriginal, Book Review, Social justice, Workers Rights

This earlier post was erased by a spam attack. Elliott Johnston has passed away. He is a working class hero.I was not able to attend the public celebration of his life in Elder Hall, Adelaide. You can get some idea of Elliott Johnston for those who did not know him in this book just published, [...]

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