Australia

"Australian holocaust" - The 'Federal intervention' Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:12
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Wed, 08/15/2007 - The Honorable Fred Chaney (AO) and Associate Professor Sue Stanton UOW (University of Woolongong) spoke to a well-attended Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture at the Charles Darwin University last night

The theme:'40 years since the Referendum: Learning from the past, walking into the future' - was heavily influenced by the Federal intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal homelands

Rapacious Indonesian security forces

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:47
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian rights activists on Monday criticised a security pact with Indonesia, telling parliament in a submission that it could help Jakarta brutally put down separatist groups in the archipelago.

The pact, signed on the Indonesian island of Lombok in November, aims to smooth often-prickly ties between the two neighbours and underline Australian support for Jakarta's sovereignty over restive provinces including the Papua region.

Once again, white Australia is reminded of life behind its picture postcard

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:43
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Epidemics of disease ravage Aboriginal communities in Australia as they did the slums of 19th-century England. No wonder there are riots in Sydney.

Australian Government backs Terminator technology - ancient practice of seed-saving under threat

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:04
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Dear Friends,

Please consider signing up on this urgent petition sent by The Grail. There is a petition attached. Organisations can also endorse by going to www.banterminator.org Further information below. URGENT: Petition - Terminator Technology

The next meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity is March 21 -312006 so we need to submit as many signatures as possible by March 15.
Below is a media release on Terminator and find more background info at: http://www.banterminator.org

News Release, 22 February 2006