Gomeroi culture and heritage pays the price for bungling and cultural management failure. Gomeroi people implore Minister Hunt to declare an emergency stay of works to protect and investigate Whitehaven’s actions.
Category: Aboriginal Struggle
Was originally set up as part of Mulrunji campaign and Sam Watson’s Senate campaign in 2007
Brisbane Blacks: Invasion Day 2014 MixTape
Gomeroi community demands protection
Gomeroi community demands Federal Environment Minister Hunt protect family graves from Whitehaven mine
Gomeroi community demands Federal Environment Minister Hunt protect family graves from Whitehaven mine
Gomeroi Elders and community members have issued a statement today (attached) imploring Federal Environment Minister Hunt to protect their ancestor’s graves at the Maules Creek mine operated by Whitehaven in regional NSW.… Go to Article
Thou shalt not steal – Coal Miners invade Gamilaraay country
Coal Miners invade Gamilaraay country
Traditional owner Paul Spearim speaks with environmental engineer Trevor Berrill and PShift’s Ian Curr about moves by Whitehaven Coal, Idemitsu, Boggabri Coal and Santos to invade Gamilaraay country and to destroy the environment in the process.… Go to Article
Gomeroi elders pull no punches on Whitehaven coal
From Gomeroi Traditional Owners
Gomeroi people protest at Whitehaven Coal office
Gomeroi Traditional Owners will this morning hold a protest at the Whitehaven Coal office in Boggabri after what the Elders describe as Whitehaven’s failure to respect burial sites and allow them to salvage cultural heritage artefacts at the controversial Maules Creek coal mine project.… Go to Article
Bringing back Dundalli – Aboriginal Warrior
They are still around though their culture changed
No battle scars or initiation marks on their black chest
New battle fields to enter and fights to conquer
Still Aboriginal warriors are amongst the best.… Go to Article
The Genealogy of Terra Nullius
ANDREW FITZMAURICE
This article examines the genealogy of the term terra nullius, which remains elusive even as it is now clear that the term is absent from the eighteenth – and early nineteenth century historical record.… Go to Article
PShift Retrospective 2013
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
He said: History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.… Go to Article
Mandela memorial: history from an a to an z, in a tea-cup.
what began, as i saw it, as an historical storm in a tea-cup became, due to the frantic efforts of a few people, a lesson and rebuttal on rewriting history or the attempt thereof.… Go to Article
Aboriginal shareholders ‘driven off land’ by rising rents in remote Lake Tyers community
By Jeff Waters
Aboriginal shareholder-owners of Victoria’s remote Lake Tyers community say they are being driven off their land, because even though they collectively own the freehold property, they are being charged what they say are ever-increasing rents.… Go to Article
Sinking below sight
The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth. It’s justice
Bryan Stevenson – US death row attorney
FOUR years ago I moved with no great enthusiasm and a troubled child to Logan City, one of Australia’s ten poorest urban areas.… Go to Article
Xmas day lunch at Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
Mirarr safety fears remain despite Ranger visit
Traditional owners in Kakadu National Park still fear for the health of their country after a technical team visited the Ranger Uranium Mine today, following a series of pollution spills and safety breaches.… Go to Article
Justice for Kevin Hall
… What happened on Invasion Day 2014?
On January 26th 2014, we rallied outside QLD Parliament in Brisbane City at 10am.… Go to Article
FOLEY
The trailer for Gary Foley’s one-man show – FOLEY.
Performing at the Street Theatre in July 2013 as part of the Centenary of Canberra.… Go to Article
Unions without a Cosa?
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler from Novara and Resonance fm discuss the ’3Cosas’ campaign and forthcoming strikes throughout UK higher education.… Go to Article
Aboriginal delegation to Santos, “Stop before it’s too late!”
… Go to ArticleTo all Gamilaraay people living in Brisbane who would like to be a part of this, please turn up to Musgrave park at 9.00am to be painted up in Gamilaraay designs.
indigenous social justice association: on a public meeting and other things
some final things for 2013 as we wind up for the year.
tonight, thursday, and apologies for the short reminder here, we will be holding our meeting at the redfern community centre at the block at 7pm to further our call for solidarity from those groups and individuals previously invited by letter to discuss the upcoming tj rally, amongst other solidarity actions.… Go to Article
nt land rights act, 1976 and government thuggery
the following information provided by both ms. michelle harris of the concerned australians group and the attached letter from dr. djiniyini gondarrra shows without equivocation the very clear message that the collaboration of the federal government and the northern land council is utterly wrong at law.… Go to Article
Brisbane Embassy Food Program/Court Costs Fundraiser
Come join us for a night of spoken word, hip hop and perhaps even a song or two on acoustic guitar.… Go to Article
Native Title vs Land Rights
[Aboriginal people please note that some of the elders quoted in this text are deceased]
By Callum Clayton-Dixon [from Brisbane Blacks]
NgaNyaywaNa
Before delving into how Native Title legislation weighs up against true Land Rights, we must first take a look at how the debate began.… Go to Article
Strengthened Pride
“It was a pretty brutal place, but there was no slavery in Australia”
– Prime Minister Scott Morrison
“This is about Aunty Dawn Daylight’s experiences as a child slave at the All Hallows’ convent in Brisbane in the 1950’s and 60’s.… Go to Article
NSW Aboriginal communities launch a ‘Culture Ride’
NSW Aboriginal communities launch a ‘Culture Ride’ against state heritage reform that “gags” Aboriginal voices
RALLY
10.30am, Archibald Fountain – Hyde Park, Sydney
to march to NSW Parliament House
Aboriginal Elders and community members from rural areas such as Maitland and Gunnedah will travel to Sydney tomorrow to call for Aboriginal community control of Aboriginal heritage sites.… Go to Article
Posthumous pardon in 1931 Alabama rape case
It is a great day for freedom.
— Sheila Washington, Scottsboro Boys Museum
Posthumous pardon in 1931 Alabama rape case – Americas – Al Jazeera English.… Go to Article
Justice for the bowraville children
find attached the leaflet for the rally/march to be held this coming thursday 21/11 beginning at 10am at hyde park north, near the hyde park fountain.… Go to Article
US spies in Australian Parliament?
A senior official has left open the prospect that parliamentary communications in Australia could be monitored by US intelligence through a “back door” provided by Microsoft operating systems.… Go to Article
Will the Pilliga turn into the head of an octopus?
Winangaya dhawun. Respect the land
Kamillaroi elder Maureen Sulter
Attached is the flyer and map of location for the culture ceremony to be held at the Pilliga Protection Camp this Saturday the 16th of November.
… Go to Article Death-in-custody of mark mason and coroners court outcome
herewith the statement from the family of mark mason who was shot by police in collarenebri on the 11th november, 2010.… Go to Article
Invitation to Pilliga Protection Camp Culture Week
Here is the information regarding the Pilliga Protection Culture Week.
Attached is the flyer and map of location for the culture ceremony to be held at the Pilliga Protection Camp this Saturday the 16th of November.… Go to Article