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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: August 2009
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Monday, August 10, 2009. ALP strangles Aboriginal communities for land. In Darwin, NT Shelter executive officer Toni Vine-Bromley told ABC News on July 5, “Overcrowding creates conflict and family dysfunction and all those kind of problems. It also impacts on people’s health, their ability to study or get an education, or get food in the fridge and all those things that are really what you would just normally take for granted.”. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Discrimination agai...
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: July 2007
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Friday, July 27, 2007. Justice for Mulrunji now! Photo: Palm Island by Kathy Newnam. Justice for the Innocent: A Benefit Gig for the Doomadgee Family of Palm Island. The Arena, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, August 11. Tickets $42 booking fee available from music shops and. Justice for the Innocent, offers an excellent chance for Murris and their supporters to get together and hear great music while supporting Aboriginal peoples’ struggle for justice. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: October 2008
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Friday, October 17, 2008. Intervention review expected to back land grab. The review’s expected endorsement of the intervention should come as no surprise: PM Kevin Rudd and Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin handpicked a group that would give them the review outcome they wanted. From Direct Action,. Sydney, Australia www.directaction.org.au. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Discrimination against Aboriginal people is not, as ruling-class apologists like to pretend, the out...
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: Aboriginal deaths in custody: the product of a racist system
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Thursday, April 8, 2010. Aboriginal deaths in custody: the product of a racist system. A year later Hurley won an appeal against Clement’s findings in the Townsville District Court, which ordered a new coronial inquest. Last June, the Queensland Court of Appeal ruled Clement’s findings be set aside, but it also found the process of the decision made by the Townsville court was “flawed”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Discrimination against Aboriginal people is not, as ru...
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: June 2009
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Macklin seizes Alice Springs Aboriginal town camps. There are 188 houses and 72 tin sheds in the camps, usually overcrowded due to gross underfunding of housing construction by successive federal and NT governments. The myth that Aboriginal community organisations receive more per capita government money than non-Aborigines is completely false. The money that they do receive has to maintain services like aged care which, in areas predominantly i...Discr...
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: November 2008
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Free Lex Wotton – political prisoner. Lex Wotton is a political prisoner. He is behind bars for speaking out against the murder of his friend. He is behind bars because he is an esteemed leader of his community. Meanwhile, Hurley and the hundreds of other cops who have murdered in cold blood, walk free. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. Intervention review expected to back land grab. In May 2006 (after an ABC TV Lateline. Gray a...
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: December 2008
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Monday, December 8, 2008. Labor steps up racist NT land grab. A statement from women at a Prescribed Area People’s Alliance (PAPA) meeting in Alice Springs on September 29 said: “For old people the intervention is bringing up bad memories of the past, the old days, the ration days, the dog tag days and the mission days.”. The NTER is forcing Aboriginal people away from their traditional lands to already overcrowded town camps in Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine and Tennant Cr...
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: April 2009
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Friday, April 10, 2009. Mona Mona people fight Qld government land grab. This decision was a complete surprise to residents, who angrily rejected this attempt as another in a long line of injustices visited upon them and their ancestors by the governments of Queensland and Australia. "We’re not going to be bullied any more. We’ve been bullied all our lives", responded Mona Mona Action Group chairperson Gerald Hobbler. On the Djabugay Community. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: December 2007
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Friday, December 7, 2007. Photo: Wotton and Chitts on Palm by Kathy Newnam. Police treat the people on Palm Island like inmates and provide a poor response if they are needed. If you phone the police station outside of business hours you get put through to Townsville, 65km away on the mainland. People have to question what would have happened if Mulrunji had been white? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The forcible expropriation of tribal lands, destruction of tribal economies and...
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* Fight for Aboriginal Rights: June 2008
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Fight for Aboriginal Rights. Friday, June 20, 2008. Coolbaroo Club Film Screening. Direct Action Cinema presents. 7pm Friday 27th June Entry $5. Cheap meal available from 6:30pm. An award-winning documentary about post-war race relations in Australia. For 14 years, from 1946 to 1960, in the city of Perth, Western Australia, the Coolbaroo Club was a meeting place and a community focus for the local Aboriginal community. This documentary includes many of the club’s members telling their own stories. Discri...
