New Laws that extend Income Management (IM) Australia-wide (23 May 10)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/… Go to Article

Mulula Tabil ban Dancers Of Minjerriba
(Sand and the Sea of North Stradbroke Island)

“Revitalising Our Culture”

Traditional dance/didgeridoo performance, workshops, guided tours and traditional dance supplies.… Go to Article

Hi

Just a reminder about the event below. Please support this important fundraiser for Palestine.

You are invited to:

Benefit Concert DVD Launch and Dinner
Saturday 29 May 6.30pm
Kurilpa Hall 174 Boundary St West End
$25/20 (children under 12 free)
Bookings essential 0400912550 or phil RSVP 22 May

All proceeds to Union Aid Abroad- APHEDA projects in the West Bank, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip (See photos below)
Featuring the Phil Monsour Band for more info http://www.philmonsour.com/… Go to Article

The next talk in the 17 Group at 6/20 Drury St West End on Wednesday the 2nd of June at 7pm will be of interest to anyone who was involved in the politico-cultural radical movement of the 60s and the 70s.

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Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture 2010

Dr Ros Kidd – ‘One of the Great Scandals of Australia’s History: Aboriginal Labour in 20th Century Queensland’

5.30pm Thurs 20th May

Level 2 TLC Building

16 Peel St

South Brisbane

free admission

refreshments available

Ros Kidd was awarded a doctorate by Griffith University in 1994 for her groundbreaking research into government control of Aboriginal people in Queensland between 1840 and 1988.… Go to Article

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0517/Sagging-in-polls-Australia-s-government-toughens-stance-on-asylum-seekers/%28page%29/2

Sagging in polls, Australia’s government toughens stance on asylum seekers

Australia’s Labor government, which recently fell behind in the polls for the first time since taking power, has imposed a freeze on asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.… Go to Article

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Phil Monsour News and Information You are invited to: Benefit Concert DVD Launch and Dinner Saturday 29 May 6.30pm Kurilpa Hall 174 Boundary St West End $25/20 (children under 12 free) Bookings essential 0400912550 or phil RSVP 22 May All proceeds to Union Aid Abroad- APHEDA projects in the West Bank, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip (See photos below) Featuring the Phil Monsour Band for more info http://www.philmonsour.com/

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Dear Refugee Advocates,

Iranian refugees are escaping into Turkey- see story below.

A very few have come to Australia following the protests after the rigged elections in Iran.… Go to Article

Video and discussion night:

With Babies and Banners:
Story of the women’s emergency brigade

“With Babies and Banners” pays tribute to the women — some of them factory workers and some of them wives — who helped win one of the greatest victories of the US labor movement: the 1937 sit-down strike at the General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan.… Go to Article

~Support the Brisbane bus to Alice Springs for the “4 Days in July” National Aboriginal Convergence!~

Come along to this excellent event!… Go to Article

“The Circle of Silence – A Personal Testimony Before, During and after Balibo” by Shirley Shackleton Paperback $34.95 Available at Avid Reader Shirley Shackleton was launched into an unexpected life as a human rights activist when her journalist husband Greg Shackleton was killed in East Timor in 1975.

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Thousands of Afghans have protested in the eastern city of Jalalabad against the alleged executions of a number of Afghan refugees in Iran.… Go to Article

[Aboriginal News]
I can explain, with rocks and leaves

When I read the story below, about whether Australia is racist or not, I finished with two questions uppermost in my mind.… Go to Article

[Aboriginal News]
PRESS STATEMENT
12 May 2010

FAIRA CALLS FOR AJUDICATION ON RACIST LAWS
An Aboriginal anti-racism group calls upon the Australian Government to immediately refer the new Northern Territory intervention laws to the established international tribunal on racial discrimination.… Go to Article

It was fortuitous that visiting UC Law Professor George Bisharat was in Australia when the OECD decision to embrace Israel as a member was announced.

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It was fortuitous that visiting UC Law Professor George Bisharat was in Australia when the OECD decision to embrace Israel as a member was announced. … Go to Article

Hi to all

You may be interested in this video of a lecture by David Harvey in London about the present economic crisis.… Go to Article

[Aboriginal News]

Dear Colleagues

You should be aware by now that the Australian Government has submitted its ‘periodic report’ to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).… Go to Article