tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88560103067321341012024-03-13T19:08:33.797-07:00Melbourne Anti-Intervention CollectiveWe are an group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people committed to fighting against the racist Northern Territory Intervention.
With a shared belief in self-determination and grassroots activism, we work closely with the communities affected by the NT Intervention and others opposed to it. Our group is open to all--join us!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-58540106588083303602011-10-17T21:32:00.000-07:002011-10-17T21:32:26.126-07:00Film Screening: Our Generation<span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday, October 22</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Occupy Melbourne, City Square, cnr Collins & Swanston sts, City<br />
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OUR GENERATION is a powerful and upfront documentary on the Australian Aboriginal struggle for their land, culture and freedom – a story that has been silenced by the Australian Government and mainstream media.<br />
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Driven by the remote Yolngu of Northeast Arnhem Land, one of the last strongholds of traditional Aboriginal culture in Australia, as well as the voices of national indigenous leaders, historians and human rights activists, the film explores the ongoing clash of cultures that is threatening to wipe out the oldest continuing culture in the world.<br />
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With music by John Butler Trio, Yothu Yindi, Xavier Rudd, Gurrumul, Archie Roach, Goanna, Saltwater Band and more.<br />
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Film screening hosted by Occupy Melbourne Indigenous Working Group.<br />
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For more info on the occupation, visit http://occupymelbourne.org/</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-15987017523922097332011-09-05T23:45:00.000-07:002011-09-05T23:45:49.150-07:00BALLERRT MOOROOP STRONG SPIRIT FESTIVAL<div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="dtstart">Friday, September 16 at 6:30pm</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="location vcard"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a class="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Northcote-Uniting-Church/154007091301166"><span class="fn org">Northcote Uniting Church</span></a></b></span></div><div class="adr"><div class="street-address" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>251 High St</b></span></div><div class="locality" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Northcote, Australia</b></span></div></div></div><br />
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Keep checking in with <a href="http://ballerrtmooroop.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://ballerrtmooroop.org</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>/</a> for more updates on the campaign. </span><br />
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Join us for a very special night to celebrate Indigenous culture and raise awareness of the struggle to save Ballerrt Mooroop College, Melbourne's last Indigenous school. The Ballerrt Mooroop Strong Spirit Festival brings you an amazing mix of four of the most gifted Indigenous performers in the country and the high energy, socially conscious music of Melbourne's best local talent. There will also be a deadly Koori kids dance pe<span class="text_exposed_show">rformance, a Welcome To Country ceremony by Auntie Barbara Williams Weston, speakers from the school and an art auction where you will have the chance to bid on some unique pieces donated by local and international artists. This is a licensed event and food will be available. <br />
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This promises to be an amazing night you definitely won't want to miss!<br />
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<b>KUTCHA EDWARDS</b> is a Mutti Mutti man from Balranald, New South Wales. As well as being an exceptionally talented singer/songwriter, he has received numerous awards for his work in human rights and Indigenous education. In 2001 he was named National Indigenous Person of the Year for his leadership in education and performance as well as the the Best Male Artist at the Deadly Vibes Awards. [<a href="http://www.kutcha-edwards.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.kutcha-edwards.</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>com/</a>] <br />
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<b>JOHNNY MAC</b> and <b>MERIKI HOOD</b>, <b>aka LADY LUCK</b> are two of the most gifted MCs in the country. Johnny Mac has been writing and performing hip-hop for10 years and has been a presenter at 3CR community radio, where he has won awards for the “Beyond the Bar” prison broadcasts. Meriki Hood is the Queen of Payback records where is taking the music industry by storm and showing the world what a real Aboriginal female MC can do! [<a href="http://www.paybackrecords.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.paybackrecords.</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>com.au/</a>]<br />
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JESSIE LLYOD is from far north Queensland and comes from a strong lineage of Australian Aboriginal musicians. She studied music in Perth where she performed and toured with her award winning band Djiva for seven years. She is now a successful solo performer and in 2009 was nominated as Female Artist of the Year at the Too Solid Awards. [<a href="http://www.jessielloyd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.jessielloyd.com</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>/</a>]<br />
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<b>JULIA MAHATUWE</b> has been described as “Bjork meets Madonna meets John Pilger.” Peacefully armed with a provocative fusion of original songs, D.I.Y-synthesiser sound-tracks, dance-ritual and footage gathered from around the world, her music manifests to make a difference. From refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border to Britain's Glastonbury festival, she unites music with a commitment to Indigenous rights in a powerful, moving performance. <br />
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<b>MATTRIKS</b> is a Melbourne based artist making a name for himself with his unique blend of hip-hop, folk-hop, beat-box and good vibes. Currently spearheading the positive charge from community record label Kinship Records, he has released two albums as well as playing at many festivals around the country where he always pleases audiences with his positive, socially aware music. [<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/mattriks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.reverbnation.co</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>m/mattriks</a>]<br />
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<b>SQUID SQUAD</b> are a a theatrical, high-energy 7 piece act who fuse funk, soul, hip-hop, metal, jazz, dubstep, electronic samples and gypsy grooves with booty shakin' ease. They are regularly joined by many different artists such as dancers and a magician and with a guaranteed conga line at every performance, their music is not to be missed! [<a href="http://www.myspace.com/squidsquadband" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.myspace.com/squ</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>idsquadband</a>] <br />
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We acknowledge that this event takes place on Aboriginal land. <br />
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-7170706640550646012011-08-22T06:16:00.000-07:002011-08-22T06:16:47.870-07:00Online Petition to Save Melbourne's Last Aboriginal SchoolTo Martin Dixon, MP, Victorian Minister of Education<br />
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Whilst the Ballerrt Mooroop College (BMC) committee were planning to improve their current programs and further meet the needs of Victorian Indigenous educationally disengaged children and youths, the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and the Glenroy Specialist School (GSS) were holding meetings to not only poach BMC's adjacent sporting and the community open-space reserves, but to bulldoze the school's cultural precinct and the multi purpose Gymnasium / 'Gathering Place'.<br />
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BMC was not properly consulted throughout this process, in fact, were not told of the plans at the beginning of the process at all.<br />
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Following the protest by BMC a mediation process between GSS and BMC was put into place and a 'compromised draft plan' was being developed between the two schools. The Victorian Government through DEECD completely undermined the mediation process and outcomes and ordered the GSS original plan to be built while BMC were waiting to discuss the issue with you, which your department was well aware of.<br />
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We request that work on the building is stopped immediately and proper consultations are put into place with all parties, including local residents, who are losing their valued open-space recreational land. Many local residents have advised us that they don't like the way the DEECD is seen to have set up one disadvantaged group against the other.<br />
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We also request a meeting with you to further explain our situation.<br />
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Go here to sign the petition:<br />
<a href="http://www.ballerrtmooroop.org/node/77">http://www.ballerrtmooroop.org/node/77</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-40281019481448128722011-08-22T05:43:00.000-07:002011-08-22T05:43:48.490-07:00Statement for Amnesty Homelands campaign from Rosalie Kunoth-MonksHello,<br />
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My name is Rosalie Kunoth-Monks. I am an Amntayerr and Alyawerr woman born by a creek bed in a small community called Utopia in 1937.<br />
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Today I am fighting for that community's survival, and I am asking for your help.<br />
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My homelands, the place where my family and community have lived for generations, could soon be lost. The government is stripping funding for essential services on our homelands; effectively forcing us into larger towns and cities like Alice Springs.<br />
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This means we could soon be forced to choose between living in third world conditions in our own country, or abandoning our way of life. If we are forced to leave it will sever our sacred connection to the land that has held us, our language and our traditions since time immemorial.<br />
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What we've learned is that the government isn't listening, so we need to come together as Australians and speak out. Will you stand with me, and call on the Australian government to respect Aboriginal homelands? <a href="http://ow.ly/5ZkFw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">http://ow.ly/5ZkFw</span></a><br />
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Rather than listening to us, the government still acts like they know what's best for Aboriginal people. But on my homelands life expectancy is longer and health is better. In Utopia, we've been 'closing the gap' for a long time!<br />
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That's because here we can live with our way of life intact. People like my aunt Kathleen, who has exhibited her art in Milan and Tokyo but still paints her stories of this land most days at the local women's centre. Or Joycie - a talented young community health worker who combines traditional bush medicine with Western medicine. We don't want to move to larger towns where we'll be dispossessed of our land and feel like second or third class citizens.<br />
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This is our way of life, our culture, our home - and the government has no right to make us abandon it. Together we're turning a special painting into a visual petition - with each name represented in a dot on the painting. Add yours now: <a href="http://ow.ly/5ZkFw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">http://ow.ly/5ZkFw</span></a><br />
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The thought of leaving my homelands - I couldn't imagine it. I want my grandchildren to be citizens of the globe - but first and foremost, to be solid in their identity as Aboriginal people of the Alyawerr and Anmatyerr tribal groups; with their language, their responsibilities and the care of their land intact.<br />
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Help this untold story be heard and stand in solidarity with me now: <a href="http://bit.ly/DontAbandonHomelands" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">http://bit.ly/DontAbandonHomelands</span></a><br />
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Thank you,<br />
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RosalieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-19098354075877113072011-04-16T15:36:00.000-07:002011-04-16T15:39:32.031-07:00Second NT intervention on table<div class="story-intro" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">from The Australian 6 Apr 2011</span><br />
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>A SECOND federal intervention into the Northern Territory is being considered by Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin.</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://s-external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=9ee0c3bb690f6c22a8d04b54d87f228a&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fresources1.news.com.au%2Fimages%2F2010%2F12%2F18%2F1225973%2F266153-jenny-macklin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://s-external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=9ee0c3bb690f6c22a8d04b54d87f228a&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fresources1.news.com.au%2Fimages%2F2010%2F12%2F18%2F1225973%2F266153-jenny-macklin.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><br />
</strong></div></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Macklin said significant action was still needed to improve conditions on remote communities.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">In Adelaide yesterday, Ms Macklin said the Gillard government would not rule out a another federal takeover of key services when the intervention, initiated by the former Howard government in 2007, ends next year.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">"The legislation for the NT emergency response goes until August next year, so all of these issues will be considered over the next year or so," Ms Macklin said.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">"If we look around the Northern Territory, we can see that there has been some significant improvements," she added.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">"But I'll be the first person to say there needs to be a really, really serious long-term investment by the commonwealth and the Northern Territory in services and support."</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">M<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">s Macklin said indigenous communities needed a good police presence, strong school attendance rates and healthy children.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The NT government refused to comment on the possibility of another intervention.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span></span>However, Opposition Leader Terry Mills said he would support one if Aboriginal people were involved in the development of programs, and it was carried out "with conviction" by the people on the ground.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">"There is no question as to the requirement of an urgent response," Mr Mills said. "We can't afford a casual or a delayed response."</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">Both the Central and Northern land councils refused to comment.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">The Howard government launched the intervention in 2007, on the back of the <em>Little Children are Sacred </em>report, which identified high levels of child abuse in indigenous communities.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">Last month, Tony Abbott called on Julia Gillard to work with him on developing a new intervention, which would see more police and teachers sent into the Territory, compulsory work-for-welfare programs established and stricter enforcement of alcohol restrictions.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">Ms Macklin's comments yesterday comes as the Australian Federal Police's role in the intervention and a trial program to boost school attendance rates wind down.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">Officers from the AFP were sent into remote communities in 2007, with the goal of establishing police stations and building trust between law enforcement and locals.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">The officers will leave the Territory by July 1.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></div><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message">ANTaR Victoria has been in touch with the government regarding the current dispute at the Lake Tyers Community and is appealing to raise funds to support the Lake Tyers Blockaders. ANTaR Vic is currently accepting donations on their behalf. Donations can be made by cheque, money order,<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> credit card, cash or through Give Now.<br />
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Address: ANTaR Victoria, 67 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065<br />
Phone: (03) 9419 3613<br />
Email: antar@antarvictoria.org.au<br />
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Alternatively, contact blockade spokeswoman Leanne Edwards directly to donate into her account on 0488 195 217.</span></span></h3><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">MAIC activists leaflet unionists and IWD marchers. Many of whom signed petitions and made donations. Great support!</div></div>MAIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09273134692391223775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-55850009198038958982011-03-07T05:36:00.000-08:002011-03-08T04:10:10.478-08:00TODAY!! Snap action against Jenny Macklin's IWD cocktail party<div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">Join MAIC at the 'International Women's Day Rally for Equal Pay', today at 5.30pm at the State Library of Victoria. </span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jasmine Ali will be speaking for MAIC, specifically addressing the inequalities that Aboriginal women face due to the exploitative NT Intervention. </span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">We welcome people to join the march following the speeches. Alternatively, MAIC welcomes activists to attend a protest of Jenny Macklin's appearance at a IWD cocktail party at the Bella Union bar (inside Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets). We will begin the protest at 6.30pm, but welcome people to attend after the march as well. </span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">MAIC supports the objectives of IWD, however the hypocrisy of the Minister of Indigenous Affairs speaking at this event, whilst administering a program that is continuing the oppression of Aboriginal women, is not something we can let go without criticism...and action!</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please invite everyone you know to this snap action--women and men are welcome at both. See you at the rally and then at Trades Hall! </span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">Last year, a resolution was released by Indigenous women at the <b><i>Defending Indigenous Rights</i> Conference </b><b>Alice Springs</b><b> 6-9 July 2010<span style="font-weight: normal;">, it is timely to re-publish this statement below. </span></b></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><b>Women’s Statement</b></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">To Prime Minister Julia Gillard:</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">We, the women, mothers, grandmothers, aunties, sisters in support of our men who are the shared caregivers of the NT wholeheartedly demand the NTER be abolished immediately.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">The media has heralded your promotion to PM as a breakthrough for women. All this talk is a slap in the face for Aboriginal women whose communities are being devastated by this government’s racist intervention.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">For three years the removal of our human rights has been justified with lies about protecting women from violence and feeding our children. We are living proof of the damage it has caused to us as Indigenous peoples of the NT who are trying to survive, live and practice our way of life. Shame on you!</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">We call on you, and Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, to abolish this law that takes away our human rights as Indigenous peoples of this country.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">Minister Macklin consistently claims that women support Income Management and the Intervention. This is not the truth. Under current policies we have no choice and no change and now a big cloud is covering our struggle and journey. The Working Futures policy is about closing our homelands and communities. This is damaging and destructive to our families, our language, law, culture, everything that is important to us. This is our identity, passed down through generations, and this is what makes us the oldest unique culture in the world.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">Income Management, cuts of the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP), the bi-lingual education ban in schools, compulsory five year leases over our land and housing – all these measures are taking away our control over our lives and our communities. Your legal discrimination against us has given a licence to racists to abuse us in the street, in supermarkets and to attack our kids at school.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">We call for the immediate end of the NT Intervention and the resignation of Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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<b>Women earn on average 18% less than men and the gender pay gap is getting worse! This International Women’s Day, take to the streets to demand action on pay justice.</b><br />
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Rally Tuesday 8 March, 5:30 pm <br />
State Library, Corner of Swanston Street and Latrobe Street <br />
Followed by a lively march to a range of city targets ending at Parliament House!<br />
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We demand:<br />
• Wipe out the gender pay gap: equal pay for women! <br />
• End the NT Intervention: Scrap the basic cards; fund jobs and services in Indigenous communities on award wages!<br />
• Abolish youth and disability wages: pay the full adult rate for all!<br />
• Stop the exploitation of overseas students and temporary residents – prosecute employers who pay less than the award wage!<br />
• Fund pay equity: tax the rich, scrap handouts to big business and stop the war!<br />
• For affirmative action & fully funded training programs to end the sex segregation of the workforce!<br />
• End the mandatory double domestic shift: Free 24 hour childcare! Fully funded social services! All carers to be paid a living wage!<br />
• Scrap Centrelink enforced dependency on partners and parents – an independent living wage for all!<br />
• Victory to the community sector workers and federal public servants now – no gradual phase-in period!<br />
• Union democracy: the right of union members to decide the goals and priorities of their unions through full discussion and majority vote. Free speech within unions!<br />
• Strengthen our unions: scrap WorkChoices lite! Abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission!<br />
• Solidarity with low paid and exploited workers everywhere!</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><div style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><b>Details of the event that the Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin is speaking at:</b></div><div style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><b>International Women's Day</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<b>IWD</b>) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some countries like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday. The first IWD was run in 1911. International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.<br />
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This year is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>IWD Global Centenary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and we think that's something worth celebrating! The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>ACTU</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>VTHC</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are proud to be hosting a cocktail evening at historic Trades Hall.</div><div style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25em;">Join<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Ged Kearney</b>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>President Australian Council of Trade Unions</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Melba</b><b> Marginson</b>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Executive Director, Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women's Coalition</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to mark this important date</div><div style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25em;">Tickets $20.00 including food service and the musical stylings of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>La Mauvaise Reputation</i></b>.</div><div style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25em;">To register, contact<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Debbie Gower</b>, ACTU Event Manager by telephone<b>03-8676-7263</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dgower@actu.org.au" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>dgower@actu.org.au</b></a><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8856010306732134101" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></b><br />
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For more information about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>International Women's Day</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><i><b>CLICK HERE!</b></i></a></div></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-41933868217976380312011-03-04T15:40:00.000-08:002011-03-07T05:38:07.538-08:00We sent them a message<div style="color: #eeeeee;">What a way to start the year for MAIC! 300 people braved the Melbourne cold and drizzle, standing in solidarity with exploited workers in the Northern Territory, demanding Aboriginal rights. We chanted for equal pay and jobs with justice. We called for an end to the 'work for rations' system of many Aboriginal people living under the racist NT Intervention.<br />
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The march then continued up Swanston Street to Federation Square. For a moment, we claimed the stage of Fed Square chanting 'Always was, always will, Aboriginal land'. Jacob Grech as a representative of the Victorian Trades Hall Council accepted the thousands of signatures that we have received on our petition demanding justice for CDEP 'Aboriginal work-for-the-dole' workers. </div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">There will be video of the protest to come. But if you have any photos, please email them to us! <a href="mailto:melbourneaic@gmail.com" style="color: #cc0000;">melbourneaic@gmail.com</a></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjMCpmMvn3tTep0ZFhcQQpLsnTKKoN1VrmHSkLjmFh-leVyBGqo5v1LpmUy9HiPBoHdgVlQph_9CB9yahzO0YECC329yIowt5EjvzSZR3n32ixzjYrjRvdjFnA1jsP_CxfHQmUqG6-ukk/s1600/sit-down.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjMCpmMvn3tTep0ZFhcQQpLsnTKKoN1VrmHSkLjmFh-leVyBGqo5v1LpmUy9HiPBoHdgVlQph_9CB9yahzO0YECC329yIowt5EjvzSZR3n32ixzjYrjRvdjFnA1jsP_CxfHQmUqG6-ukk/s400/sit-down.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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This protest has given us a big boost for taking the campaign onward. The next step is to get more people involved and aware of what's happening under the NT Intervention. Come to our next MAIC meeting, which is a special forum THIS MONDAY.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eye Witnesses to Intervention Speak Out!</span></span></div><div style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Aboriginal Rights and Jobs With Justice: </span></b></div><div style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">ACTU Fact Finders report back on the NT Intervention with the Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective</span></b></div><ul style="color: #eeeeee;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Adam Frogley - National Tertiary Education Union</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Michele O'Neil - Textile Clothing and Footwear Union</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Lucy Honan - Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective</span></li>
</ul><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monday, 7th March 2011, 6.30pm at Trades Hall (New International Bookshop)</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">Australia's peak union body - The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">sent a delegation of union officials on a fact-finding mission to Central Australia in mid-November last year to speak to communities affected by the NTIntervention. The delegation comprised over 15 representatives from unions across the country. They met again in February to discuss union action on Indigenous rights.</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of particular concern is the new CDEP scheme, where Aboriginal workers in the NT are only paid a Newstart allowance through Centrelink. In many cases, workers have 50 per cent of these payments ‘quarantined’ onto a BasicsCard, to be spent only at designated shops.</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;">MAIC is holding a public meeting to hear about the experience of the trip and discuss how ordinary people and unions can help stop the intervention. This is your chance to come and hear what they saw, heard and learned.</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Promote this event! </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Byg4mpHxcVpMYTQ1MjVlYjMtMTVlYy00OTQ0LWE2ZWMtYzNmY2E4MGYwYzRk&hl=en" style="color: #cc0000;">Click here for a flyer</a></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Contact Lucy 0404728104 or </span><a href="mailto:melbourneaic@gmail.com" style="color: #cc0000;">melbourneaic@gmail.com</a></span><br />
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<div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5pm, Friday 4 March 2011<br />
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective demands an end to the exploitation of Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory. Under the Intervention policies, Aboriginal people are working for rations whilst living in extreme poverty with the government denying basic services. The NT Intervention is a determined attack on Aboriginal self-determination and has only lead to further disadvantage.</div><div style="color: black;"><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;">This rally demands an end to the NT Intervention, and we are drawing particular attention to the unfair working conditions that many Aboriginal people are being forced into. MAIC supports the 'Jobs with Justice' campaign, and we will be gathering signatures for a</span><a href="http://jobswithjustice.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/sihip_cdep_petition.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">petition</span></a> <span style="color: #eeeeee;">which will be tabled when parliament resumes.</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
The petition is being sponsored by the CFMEU (Construction Forestry and Energy Union) and Unions NT. It has a particular focus on the use of CDEP workers by the $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP). We are demanding backpay at appropriate award rates for all of these workers, along with an end to arrangements forcing people to work for the BasicsCard and investment in community based employment programs across all Aboriginal communities.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;">Stand up against racism. Stop the racist NT Intervention! </div><div style="color: black;"><br />
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Aboriginal leaders in central Australia have welcomed comments from the man who designed the Northern Territory intervention, agreeing that it has failed.<br />
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Former Liberal Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough introduced the intervention under the Howard government in 2007.<br />
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The policy banned alcohol in communities and restricted welfare payments.<br />
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Since Labor won government the intervention has remained in place, but Mr Brough says Labor has not delivered it properly.<br />
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Rosalie Kunoth-Monks from Utopia, 230 kilometres from Alice Springs agrees, although her agreement with Mr Brough ends there.<br />
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"It was a violation to human rights right from the beginning," she said.<br />
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"What we really needed was real empowerment. In other words, real investment and people to earn and merit what we've got on the communities."<br />
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Richard Downs from the Ampilatwatja community says the entire policy is wrong.<br />
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"[Mr Brough] waffles on about 'the next stage'. I don't know what the next stage is but he has totally disempowered the people here," he said.<br />
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"You know, I mean [they are] asking for a disaster, which is what they're getting now, with people migrating from homelands communities into townships into Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek."<br />
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Ms Kunoth-Monks and Mr Downs want the Government to end what they say is a racist approach.</span></span><div style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.833em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/27/3150052.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/27/3150052.htm</a></span></span><br />
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<div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;">The momentum for this Friday's rally to 'Stop the Racist NT Intervention' is certainly building. Don't stop now!<br />
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MAIC activists have been out at various community events collecting signatures on the petition, leafletting for the protest, and talking to people about the campaign against the exploitation of Aboriginal workers.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"> In the process we have been making some important links with unionists, environmental activists, media workers, performers etc. The campaign is going forward in great leaps. We welcome our supporters to get more involved to take advantage of this rising tide in support of Aboriginal rights!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnsfGzrdVAnibvFvlqc0fi6QYppF1_6qZsKzQK0vL8uxtqWZti9t9jpVFrZZ5QCjz8kPYQJl2ogcP1CfSyprY1-peu7s0PrjLu3Yk42N52Z0V2mgdUg1HccahpQq9uCqQw0cyOvKgVfxU/s1600/picket_of_fahcia_against_nt_intervention_in_melbourne_18_june_2010._credit_sue_bolton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnsfGzrdVAnibvFvlqc0fi6QYppF1_6qZsKzQK0vL8uxtqWZti9t9jpVFrZZ5QCjz8kPYQJl2ogcP1CfSyprY1-peu7s0PrjLu3Yk42N52Z0V2mgdUg1HccahpQq9uCqQw0cyOvKgVfxU/s1600/picket_of_fahcia_against_nt_intervention_in_melbourne_18_june_2010._credit_sue_bolton.jpg" /></a></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><br />
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MAIC has weekly meetings held at New International Bookshop in Trades Hall every Monday at 6.30pm. As well as organising protests like the one this Friday, we have also in the past toured speakers from the NT, held film screenings, done band nights, special forums, organised pickets, banner painting, you name it! The more people we have involved, the more we can do. <br />
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There is much to be done before the rally on Friday. We need all our supporters to make that final push in getting the word out there. Please <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183732604983257&index=1">share the event on Facebook</a> every day. Send emails around to folks in your networks. </div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;">Write letters to the newspapers and call up the ABC/SBS and ask them to cover the campaign against the NT Intervention. Make a call to your union, church or community group, asking them if they are going to be marching behind a banner at the protest. Print off a poster and put it up in your staff room or front window of your house. <br />
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All of these things are a big help. Also, just coming along to the protest on the day with some family, friends or work colleagues. <br />
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See you on Friday at 5pm at the State Library!</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">Protest: </span><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">Stop the Racist NT Intervention!</span></span><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff7f00; font-size: x-large;">Equal Pay and Jobs with Justice!</span><br />
<div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5pm, Friday 4 March 2011<br />
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne</span></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br />
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The collective extends its condolences to Mark's family and friends.</span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> An inspiring Aboriginal rights activist, Mark may be best known to people in Melbourne through his public battle with the Barkly Shire over work conditions in Ampilawatja in the Northern Territory. Mark leaves an enduring legacy through his courageous stance over this issue as well as his other work campaigning against the injustice of the Northern Territory Intervention. The community of activists and unionists in Melbourne that have been fighting in solidarity with those in the Northern Territory were spurred on by Mark's commitment. He will not be forgotten.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> The ordeal that Mark was put through after he stood up to the management at Barkly Shire was appalling. After reporting on a public health hazard, a risk both for the workers he was responsible for and the broader population of Ampilawatja, Mark was fired from his job and he and his two sons were evicted from their house with only two hours notice. Mark experienced further persecution when ridiculous charges were made on him by police, all for his vigorous defense of the dignity of a town being strangled by oppressive government policy. It is highly commendable that Mark withstood the avalanche of personal attacks and held firm his determination to fight for what was right.</span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> In July of last year, I saw Mark give his first public speech at the Defending Indigenous Rights conference in Alice Springs. Like many activists in Melbourne, I had heard Mark's story of his experiences at Ampilawatja and I was eager to hear him tell his story in person. It was one of the highlights of the conference and inspired myself, and I'm sure many others, to get further involved in the Aboriginal rights struggle. Following on from the publicity generated by the scandal at Ampilawatja, Mark embarked on a speaking tour where he told his story and detailed the exploitation of Aboriginal workers on the CDEP 'Aboriginal work-for-the-dole' scheme. In Brisbane and Sydney, he was able to raise awareness of what was happening under the NT Intervention to hundreds of workers on construction sites and wharfs, as well as students and activists.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> Mark was passionate about winning justice for Aboriginal workers, and this was reflected in his most immediate plans to organise amongst construction workers in the town camps of the Northern Territory. He was also slated to be the CFMEU delegate at this week's ACTU Indigenous Conference in Darwin.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> That an inspiring Aboriginal activist has lost his life at such a young age, only 37, is a tragedy and a profound loss to the campaign for Aboriginal rights in Australia. We take heart from the strong spirit that Mark showed, particularly in these last couple of years where we fought alongside him against the Intervention. We will draw on Mark's legacy to keep fighting for the dignity of Aboriginal workers that he was so passionately dedicated to.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> Alex Ettling on behalf of Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective</span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <b style="color: #eeeeee;">Mark Fordham's funeral will be held on Thursday 17 February 2011 at the mosque in Alice Springs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><div><div><span class="h4" id="q_12e26f71aba52594_1" style="color: #500050; cursor: pointer; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div></div></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-32451783969510073002011-02-07T20:26:00.000-08:002011-02-08T00:06:53.978-08:00Help build the upcoming protest<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Are you starting to see those red, black and yellow hands all over Melbourne?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> Over </span>the last couple of weeks, MAIC volunteers have been all over town, putting up posters and leafletting. </span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The campaign against the NT Intervention is definately kicking up a gear, and MAIC welcomes anyone who would like to get more involved to get in touch with us. Come along to our weekly collective meetings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then on the other weeks, we get down to activity, which also provides an opportunity to more informally discuss what's happening with the NT Intervention. On these days, we might be painting banners, working on articles, going off in a small group to put up posters, writing media releases etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have any special skills, we would love you to share them with us! Or if you are just enthusiastic and want to lend your had to fighting for Aboriginal rights--that's great too! Get in touch. </span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you can't make the Monday meetings, there are there are other useful things to do. Promote the upcoming protest in your community, workplace, school etc. We have a bunch of posters and leaflets that can be collected any time from the foyer of New International Bookshop. Getting your union or community organisation to endorse the rally and circulate information on the campaign is also a really useful thing to spread awareness about the degradation of the Intervention and the need to fight against it. </span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This week, from Thursday to Sunday, there will be a range of events that will be of interest to Aboriginal people (art openings and film screenings). We hope to leaflet for the rally and gather signatures for our petition. If you would like to join in, send us an email: </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">melbourneaic@gmail.com</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Together, we can defeat this racist Intervention!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">Protest: </span><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">Stop the Racist NT Intervention!</span></span><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff7f00; font-size: x-large;">Equal Pay and Jobs with Justice!</span><br />
<div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5pm, Friday 4 March 2011<br />
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><br />
Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective demands an end to the exploitation of Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory. Under the Intervention policies, Aboriginal people are working for rations whilst living in extreme poverty with the government denying basic services. The NT Intervention is a determined attack on Aboriginal self-determination and has only lead to further disadvantage.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><br />
This rally demands an end to the NT Intervention, and we are drawing particular attention to the unfair working conditions that many Aboriginal people are being forced into. MAIC supports the 'Jobs with Justice' campaign, and we will be gathering signatures for a<a href="http://jobswithjustice.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/sihip_cdep_petition.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">petition</span></a> which will be tabled when parliament resumes.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><br />
The petition is being sponsored by the CFMEU (Construction Forestry and Energy Union) and Unions NT. It has a particular focus on the use of CDEP workers by the $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP). We are demanding backpay at appropriate award rates for all of these workers, along with an end to arrangements forcing people to work for the BasicsCard and investment in community based employment programs across all Aboriginal communities.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><br />
We are calling for endorsement for this rally, and we invite community groups and unions to march alongside us.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><br />
If you would like to support the campaign and collect signatures for the petition at your workplace/campus/ neighbourhood, please get in touch with us or come along to our weekly meetings.<br />
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MAIC meets every Monday at 6.30pm at the New International Bookshop in Trades Hall.</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; margin: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A Further Conversation with Elders:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bringing you up to date with the impacts of living under the Intervention</span></span><br />
Monday, 7 February 2011, 5.45pm - 7pm <br />
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In May 2010 elders, Rosalie Kunoth Monks OAM from Utopia in Central Australia and Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM from Galiwin’ku in Arnhem Land joined in conversation with Professor the Hon Alastair Nicholson AO giving their views on the Northern Territory Intervention.<br />
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Since then they have visited Geneva and shared their concerns with the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On 7 February 2011 Rosalie and Djiniyini will visit us in Melbourne to share with us the response of the United Nations.<br />
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They will be accompanied by a number of other elders and leaders from across the Territory and together they will share with us what has been happening in the period since last May and highlight the changes that are taking place in the various communities and homelands from Arnhem Land to the Central Desert. Those who met with Rosalie and Djiniyini last year will remember their distress and despair brought about by over three years of Intervention.<br />
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Professor The Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne<br />
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Rosalie Kunoth Monks OAM from Utopia in Central Australia<br />
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Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM from Galiwin’ku in Arnhem Land<br />
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Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumanm AM, from Daly River, south of Darwin<br />
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Yananymul Mununggurr, from Yirrkala East Arnhem Land<br />
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Again we are fortunate to have Mr Jeff McMullen AM joining us as the facilitator for the evening.<br />
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This is a free public event however <a href="http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=97945975-5056-B405-513FB62123BF42DA&flushcache=1&showdraft=1">r</a><a href="http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=97945975-5056-B405-513FB62123BF42DA&flushcache=1&showdraft=1">egistration </a>is required to attend.<br />
<a href="http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=97945975-5056-B405-513FB62123BF42DA&flushcache=1&showdraft=1">Please register here.</a><br />
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If there are particular topics you would like to be covered in the Conversation, please send a brief email and if time permits we will endeavour to include it.<br />
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Venue Theatre G08<br />
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Contact Person For queries: Dianne Costello<br />
Contact Details d.costello@unimelb.edu.au or Tel: (03) 8344 1153<br />
RSVP Contact Via the on-line registration formUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-45583500799964687452011-01-23T02:27:00.000-08:002011-01-23T02:54:11.180-08:00Invasion Day: Join MAIC at the Share the Spirit Festival<div class="content has-terms">Date and Time: Wednesday, 26th January - 1pm - 4pm <br />
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Join MAIC at the Share the Spirit Festival this Wednesday . We will be holding stall, come along to find out what MAIC has coming up in 2011 and to sign the petition in support of SIHIP workers in the Northern Territory.<br />
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It's that time of year again and Songlines has put together its best ever lineup for this years FREE Share the Spirit Festival.<br />
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Taking place every year on Survival Day, otherwise known as Australia Day or Invasion Day – Share the Spirit has been created by Aboriginal people for all Australians to come together and celebrate the country’s Indigenous culture through music, performance workshops, information stalls, and most importantly through personal exchanges between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.<br />
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On top of the non-stop music, Share the Spirit will also host community market stalls where Indigenous artists and designers from all over Victoria will be selling locally made crafts, traditional artefacts, t-shirts, bags, CDs, photographs and paintings.<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We will be discussing the sort of activity we want to do in 2011 to put pressure on the government to scrap this racist Intervention. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of last year, MAIC decided to hold a rally in early March. We will be discussing how to build this big action, and the events surrounding Invasion Day (January 26th) and the anniversary of the apology (February 13th). </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are collecting signatures to demand 'jobs with justice' for Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory. Help us with this task by organising a stall. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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We have been supporting the campaign to defend Ballerrt Mooroop College because we think a great injustice is occurring. The imposition of this non-Indigenous school on Aboriginal land is an attack on the idea of educating in a cultural way. Simply put, it is an extension of cultural genocide against Aboriginal people. </div><div id=":59"> </div><div id=":59">What we see in the Northern Territory under the Intervention, we see happening in Melbourne. Will not give up the the fight to defend Aboriginal self-determination. We will fight to save this school!<br />
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The demonstration on Wednesday night in Bourke Street mall was a fantastic showing of supporters around the school. Over a hundred people gathered to listen to speeches from prominent activists such as Gary Foley and Robbie Thorpe, and educators around the school. We also heard from Greens MP Sue Pennecuik and had John Leemans in the Northern Territory address the rally by phone to offer solidarity from those fighting against the NT Intervention. <br />
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We chanted <span style="color: #cc0000;">"education and land, goes hand in hand!"</span> and <span style="color: #cc0000;">"always was, always will be Aboriginal land"</span>, and got many signatures for the petition. A great show of support for Aboriginal education!<br />
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On our publicity material we passed on notice that the bulldozers were scheduled to roll in to the school grounds to demolish the gymnasium THIS FRIDAY. As a result of our ongoing campaign, it appears that the bulldozer has been called off... for now. This is a great victory for us, and all those that have supported the campaign should be very excited that we are having an impact!<br />
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The community around the school has asked that supporters still come to the school THIS FRIDAY to offer their solidarity and to join in discussions about where the campaign is at. This is their message:<br />
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</b> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Gathering: </b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Friday, 17 December 2010</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Come down at <span style="font-size: medium;">9am</span> for a brief on where the school stands with the government and building blockage. We need your support.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Come for breaky – bacon and eggs. Come and be ceremonially smoked at our ceremonial grounds. Sausage sizzle lunch.<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Last day of the school year!!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<b>Gary Foley</b>: Academic/Writer/Activist</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dotty Bamblett</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: President of the school council</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gary Murray</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: Broadmeadows Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (BLAECG)<br />
<b>Sue Pennicuik</b>: The Greens</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Will it only be a matter of weeks of the Liberals being in power before the Baillieu Government sends its first bulldozer into a Victorian school? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
The Department of Education has approved the construction of another school directly on the land of Ballerrt Mooroop College. To make way for this new school the Aboriginal community is losing their gymnasium and ceremonial grounds. Why must this new school be built on Aboriginal land?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Following more than 200 years of brutal dispossession, Aboriginal people deserve the right to educate their children in their own culture, with full access to the best resources. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ballerrt Mooroop College is the only Aboriginal school in Melbourne. The state government has made several attempts to close the school, and has already closed down the primary school and years 11-12, leaving only years 7-10. There was no proper consultation with the school community when the decision was made to allow Glenroy Specialist School to build on their land. The government is now pitting one disadvantaged school against another, forcing them to compete for the same meager resources. Glenroy Specialist School should be found an appropriate site that does not require the appropriation of Aboriginal land, and they should be given all the resources they need for their students. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The reality is that the government is trying to strangle Ballerrt Mooroop College out of existence, and they are attempting to force Aboriginal children into mainstream schools. However, there is insufficient support in mainstream schools for the particular disadvantage and experience of racism that many Aboriginal students have to endure. Mainstream schools don’t value Aboriginal culture, language and families. This is why Koori schools were set up in the first place, and why people fought so hard to save Northlands Secondary College when the last Liberal Government shut it down back in the 90s.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective (MAIC) has been campaigning in support of Aboriginal self-determination and against the attacks on bi-lingual education as part of our fight against the Northern Territory Intervention. We support the fight back against these same racist methodologies here in Melbourne.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">We ask people to join us in protest to defend Ballerrt Mooroop College and support the following demands written up by the school community:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">• Don't demolish our gym<br />
• Proper funding for facilities for health and culture<br />
• Allow increased enrolments of Koori students<br />
• Rights to consultation and proper planning for the school.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Jasmine Ali 0405 317 787 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Dotty Bamblett 0433 090 933</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Sharon Firebrace 0401 414 967 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffcc33; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; color: #cc0000; font-size: 24pt;">Music Day @Ballerrt Mooroop College </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">noon to 5pm, Sunday, 12 December 2010 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ballerrt Mooroop College, 208 Hilton Street, Glenroy, Melways 16 H1. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gold coin donation. Contact: 0430167145 or 0433090933 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Featuring: Tjimba and the Young Warriors, Bart Burns Band, Johnny Mac and Lady Luck (open mic). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-42409018090078938992010-11-27T16:34:00.000-08:002010-12-01T06:26:35.060-08:00Sack Macklin Protest @Readings<blockquote>Reportback: Another excellent action by MAIC! Jenny Macklin was so intimidated by our our presence that she didn't dare show up to spread her lies. We held a lively speak-out outside Readings and spoke to lots of new people about the NT Intevention and our next action concerning the attack on Ballerrt Mooroop College. There were some excellent speeches, and we gave out lots of flyers. We'll be out in force again on December 15th!</blockquote><br />
Tuesday, 5.30pm, 30 November 2010<br />
Readings Bookstore, 309 Lygon St, Carlton<br />
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Breaking news!! We have heard that due to our protest action, Jenny Macklin has pulled out of the event. This is the power of our dissent at work!<br />
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We are not sure if it is just a red herring, and she will still turn up though. The protest is still on, and whether Macklin shows or not, we can be sure she knows about us, and will be keeping tabs on our action. Let's show the racist backers of the Intervention like Russell Skelton that we are not going to put up with any more lies about Aboriginal communities.<br />
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"Stop, stop, stop the Intervention! Sack, sack, sack Jenny Macklin!"<br />
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Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin will be at Readings Bookstore promoting Russell Skelton's new book 'King Brown Country'. Macklin has spun many lies and a great deal of deception surrounding the NT Intervention. No doubt, she will be using Skelton's book about Papunya as another opportunity to justify this racist policy.<br />
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MAIC will be setting up an information stall outside the shop and standing in opposition to the racism of the government. <br />
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There has never been any decent consultation with Aboriginal communities about the Intervention, yet Macklin is free to tell her racist lies all around the country at events such as these.We will be distributing information that Macklin does not want you to see. This is the real testimonies and opinions of Aboriginal people who have been living under the NT Intervention.<br />
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Bring your placards, banners and loud voices. Stop the racist NT Intervention!<br />
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Invite people to attend on Facebook by clicking <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108679812533378" style="background-color: #f1c232; color: #cc0000;">here </a><br />
Print a flyer for the action by clicking <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Byg4mpHxcVpMMmYyMjJjYTgtYmU3MC00MTUyLWEwYTAtZTZkY2RiOGExZTYz&hl=en" style="background-color: #f1c232; color: #cc0000;">here</a><br />
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<div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">From the Readings website:</span></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><div class="header" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px 0px; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 12px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="date" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 525px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase;">readings bookshop EVENT</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>| Tuesday 30 November 2010 at 6:30pm</span></div><h2 style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 3px 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 525px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.readings.com.au/event/russell-skelton-in-conversation-with-jenny-macklin" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Russell Skelton in conversation with Jenny Macklin</a></span></h2><div class="byline" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 525px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053</span></div></div><div class="postContent" style="border-width: 0px; color: #111111; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 440px;"><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Set with the backdrop of Papunya, a Northern Territory Aboriginal community whose history showed so much promise but whose dysfunction is now more prominent that its famous artwork,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">King Brown Country</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a book that has to be published. It goes to the core of Indigenous issues today to expose unmitigated misery, shocking levels of domestic violence and sex abuse and extreme alcohol and substance dependency. But above all, it reveals how a powerful fiefdom was allowed to rule unchallenged and unchecked to the great detriment of a once secure community and explains why the intervention was necessary, and why it may not work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">King Brown Country</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a powerful and shaming portrait of a community in crisis.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Russell will be in conversation with Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Free, but please book on 9347 6633.</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div></div></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-45347199207918559822010-11-19T15:16:00.000-08:002010-12-01T06:34:00.713-08:00Chris Graham and Gary Foley Public Talk + MAIC music fundraiser<div style="background-color: #f1c232; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span>Racism in the Media: </span></div><div style="background-color: #f1c232; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Lie that Built the Northern Territory Intervention</span></div><div style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A special presentation by Walkley Award-winning journalist <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chris Graham</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">With an introduction by <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gary Foley </b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">Reportback:</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">It was a great night, on Friday! Thanks to Chris Graham and Gary Foley for their insightful and engaging words. And thank you to all the MAIC supporters for getting behind another successful event to accelerate this campaign. </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hopefully you were inspired by Friday night's events. We are calling people out for is the "Sack Macklin Protest @Readings" on Tuesday at 5.30pm. Bring your placards and loud voices. We are going to show Jenny Macklin that there is opposition to this racist Intervention!</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Friday, 7pm, 26 November 2010</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Venue: New Council Chambers (next to the Bella Union Bar), Trades Hall (cnr Lygon and Victoria St), Melbourne</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cost: Free (donations accepted)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHrQNiJCf7AwKhm4wWl4_uQXhadcv-IwnU61FCA1HP6xes8enbkRX19jyYAvhsuqfdwIxKUlRte4UEs6Yn9K15BRuV8xINxYofQ_JLO_RfwPL9i9ubiUDSrAair2fYmD7p31JJmdczmueZ/s1600/Tony_Jones_wideweb__470x3760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHrQNiJCf7AwKhm4wWl4_uQXhadcv-IwnU61FCA1HP6xes8enbkRX19jyYAvhsuqfdwIxKUlRte4UEs6Yn9K15BRuV8xINxYofQ_JLO_RfwPL9i9ubiUDSrAair2fYmD7p31JJmdczmueZ/s320/Tony_Jones_wideweb__470x3760.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Join Chris Graham for an expose about a fraudulent ABC Lateline program which aired in the lead-up to the intervention, entitled ‘Sexual slavery reported in Indigenous communities'.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Lateline story helped the federal government mount the case for the NT intervention. But as Graham will reveal, the story was built on a gigantic fraud. The scandal surrounding this story has already destroyed several careers, sparked a series of parliamentary brawls and high level government, an apology to federal parliament, not to mention police raids on homes in Canberra and Central Australia.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The spotlight on Lateline's reporting has already seen an ‘anonymous youth worker' unmasked as a ministerial adviser, and a doctor caught prescribing Viagra to an alleged paedophile.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The scale of the fraud perpetrated by Lateline, and the determination of the ABC to whitewash this scandal and avoid any further scrutiny will leave your head spinning," said Chris Graham.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"If you think you know what media behaving badly looks like, then you need to think again.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Lateline's reporting led directly to the greatest human rights abuse against Aboriginal people certainly of my time, and probably in the last half century.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Northern Territory intervention has harmed Aboriginal people; it's caused starvation; it's seen a dramatic rise in reports of self-harm incidents; it's driven children away from school; it's wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. In short, it's been a disaster for the nation's most disadvantaged citizens, the people who could least afford it.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The media has always played a crucial role in creating an environment where governments can get away with race politics during election campaigns. In this case, the government couldn't have done it without Lateline."</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I've worked in the media for more than 20 years, almost half of that in Indigenous affairs, so I already had a pretty mixed view about the conduct of many of my colleagues.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Even so, I've always had a very positive image of ABC news and current affairs. It was one news source I felt I could really trust.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I don't feel that way anymore."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMPRYwkuxOAkgu-5D55xf4cMNo62TP5Skl7WLH4rG4VN9Jucl3W18y1WyPmmdED2ovRGwITSPJqp0jWO_oSqCpNSjnFtOaG2qre8m-YhIsk32F3D6dYxFRt_Afl_KIzKQWXeauuMbcKaf/s1600/Chris+Graham+presentation+-+version+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMPRYwkuxOAkgu-5D55xf4cMNo62TP5Skl7WLH4rG4VN9Jucl3W18y1WyPmmdED2ovRGwITSPJqp0jWO_oSqCpNSjnFtOaG2qre8m-YhIsk32F3D6dYxFRt_Afl_KIzKQWXeauuMbcKaf/s640/Chris+Graham+presentation+-+version+1.png" width="451" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chris Graham is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, and a former editor of the National Indigenous Times.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">Promote the event! Full size poster available <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Byg4mpHxcVpMMTc3NDcxMzctMDIxYi00OGJhLTlhYjAtOTY3N2JlNWEyYmI0&hl=en" style="color: #cc0000;">here</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Please stick around after the event for 'Liberation Bound', a music fundraiser in the Bella Union Bar for MAIC featuring hip hop and reggae acts. Cost is $10/8, or $5 if you have attended the Chris Graham event. </span> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMj-w0DE8y6tI4zHToPwAve6gmCz8FeoBMouOD4uD3Mr3TNInkHmk5p67JIXindxFZozeXCEafnZU9Heym_S1QA3U2rLRLo30ymfLNHEQQuOH7N6RY1hBiEO4UojxkVhBGg7pL39RSjOQJ/s1600/liberation+bound+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMj-w0DE8y6tI4zHToPwAve6gmCz8FeoBMouOD4uD3Mr3TNInkHmk5p67JIXindxFZozeXCEafnZU9Heym_S1QA3U2rLRLo30ymfLNHEQQuOH7N6RY1hBiEO4UojxkVhBGg7pL39RSjOQJ/s400/liberation+bound+2.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-75082576046335575432010-11-08T03:57:00.000-08:002010-11-19T15:40:13.420-08:00Bilingual Education forum<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEjEo8oXFIPstGKzkosny1dziWmR2v5ScEszYLMNT_fApo_hKUcUn3blTGIN_AvK-xZeOX1Z-pmUyUSetIKgL5I4wiOgeoiBOHDSt6taMsWoj-lP1SU31urnvcba7__nAZajIndPfnG7d/s1600/don't+cut+off+our+tongues.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEjEo8oXFIPstGKzkosny1dziWmR2v5ScEszYLMNT_fApo_hKUcUn3blTGIN_AvK-xZeOX1Z-pmUyUSetIKgL5I4wiOgeoiBOHDSt6taMsWoj-lP1SU31urnvcba7__nAZajIndPfnG7d/s320/don't+cut+off+our+tongues.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Melbourne Anti Intervention Collective presents a public forum... </span></div><div style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The NT Intervention:</span></div><div style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why Teachers and Communities are Breaking the Ban on Bilingual Education</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Thursday 6.30pm, 18 November 2010</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">James Hardie Theatre, Architecture Building, The University of Melbourne</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speakers:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Senior teacher from Bilingual school (to remain anonymous until video link up)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rosa McKenna, Friends of Bilingual Learning</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary Merkenich, Teacher and Unionist</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lucy Honan, Melbourne Anti Intervention Collective</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bans on teaching in Aboriginal language for the first four hours of the school day were introduced in 2008 following the roll out of the Northern Territory Intervention in 2007. Under the guise of “closing the gap” on Aboriginal disadvantage the Racial Discrimination Act was suspended, Aboriginal community land has been seized and community organisations, jobs and access to welfare payments have been dismantled.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The attempt to decimate bilingual programs was a territory government decision, but mimics perfectly the punitive logic of the federal intervention. Communities and Aboriginal culture are being attacked for the problems caused by all governments' chronic failure to support programs of self determination for Aboriginal people. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These schools are the first casualties of NAPLAN- NAPLAN data from 2008 was used to justify the bans, but as Senator Trish Crossin and Dr Brian Devlin and have shown, the literacy and numeracy data was deliberately misconstrued to suggest bilingual schools were under performing. In fact, there is overwhelming international evidence that bilingual learning is educationally sound, and the closure of the programs is a human rights violation.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So what is behind the bilingual bans, why are Aboriginal communities resisting the ban and what we can do?</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contact: Shannon Price 0422 802 984</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Invite people to attend on Facebook by clicking <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129466597107120" style="background-color: #cc0000; color: #f1c232;">here</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Print a leaflet/poster by clicking <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Byg4mpHxcVpMYjgwYmRjMjItZWNjZi00NDk4LWE2YjAtODZkMjc4ZmI4NzVj&hl=en" style="background-color: #cc0000; color: #ffd966;">here</a><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Print this brochure on bilingual education and MAIC's campaign by clicking <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Byg4mpHxcVpMNThmNjUzMDYtZGE2MS00YmFlLTkxMDctMzI0NmVjYmVmY2Rm&hl=en" style="background-color: #cc0000; color: #ffd966;">here</a><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-87148923697701193842010-11-03T19:32:00.000-07:002010-11-03T21:02:09.633-07:00How The West Was Lost<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Join us </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">This Monday!!</span><span style="font-size: small;"> as we look back at the past history of unions and Aboriginal struggle, as well as discussing the current situation with the NT Intervention.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJWMQ4_cUOlb_pSUuGzA-E1LO-nyEFPTmtctAwbTitgFT-gWm-zFBcxVJPvCq4q1WhEShJCW-ETp3R7ORpMIgPGNl8xza65CTGPGvQkE_1gKrCb7qjdkQ6hGktJr-Lzq3dxDCR3PXQ8K9/s1600/How+the+West+Was+Lost+-+large+gif.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJWMQ4_cUOlb_pSUuGzA-E1LO-nyEFPTmtctAwbTitgFT-gWm-zFBcxVJPvCq4q1WhEShJCW-ETp3R7ORpMIgPGNl8xza65CTGPGvQkE_1gKrCb7qjdkQ6hGktJr-Lzq3dxDCR3PXQ8K9/s1600/How+the+West+Was+Lost+-+large+gif.gif" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpzQz_60PjB-cX8f10AS3SuERX0ULuVIHIBWYJA0-s2xKDeTBJM7nKQSB01S1szJIOMsNz4GWAmrJ7OQ9DmoMfC79xJ9yk0z86ZPfGyuhBC-ISuC8nxEeOcd6SgVSk0U9-GmW2eYH4Fn_o/s1600/How+the+west+was+lost+-+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpzQz_60PjB-cX8f10AS3SuERX0ULuVIHIBWYJA0-s2xKDeTBJM7nKQSB01S1szJIOMsNz4GWAmrJ7OQ9DmoMfC79xJ9yk0z86ZPfGyuhBC-ISuC8nxEeOcd6SgVSk0U9-GmW2eYH4Fn_o/s1600/How+the+west+was+lost+-+small.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective presents a screening of...</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'How The West Was Lost'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A documentary film about the 1946 Pilbara Strikes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">6.30pm, 8 November 2010</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">New International Bookshop - Trades Hall (cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton Sth)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</style><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">“A fascinating but rarely mentioned episode in australian history.” - The Age.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> WINNER! 1987 Human Rights Documentary Film Award.<br />
NOMINATED FOR 5 AFI AWARDS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the 1940s in the north-west of Australia, a secret congress was organized by Pilbara Elders Dooley Bin Bin and Clancy McKenna, alongside white unionist and communist Don McLeod. It was an unprecedented gathering, with over a dozen interpreters present to deal with the 23 languages of the many Aboriginal groups present.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">This congress decided to organize a strike in the Pilbara region to demand better wages and conditions, and to draw attention to the treatment generally of Aboriginal people in Western Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">On 1 May 1946, Aboriginal workers walked off the sheep stations, marking the beginning of a carefully organized strike that was to last three years. It is considered one of the most significant (and least known) political actions in Australian history, and went on to inspire the Land Rights movement of the 1960s.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Invite people on Facebook by clicking </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163171253713653&ref=ts" style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: small;">For more information on the 1946 Pilbara Strikes click</span><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Pilbara_strike" style="color: red;">here</a>. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b>Year:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>1987</div><div style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b>Classification:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>G</div><div style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b>Runtime:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>72 min</div><div style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b>Produced In:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Australia</div><div style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b>Directed By:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>David Noakes</div><div style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b>Produced By:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">David Noakes</span></span>,<span style="white-space: nowrap;"> Heather Williams</span></div><div style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><b>Language:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Njangamarda, Wanmun, Injibandi and English dialogue, English subtitles</div></span></span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856010306732134101.post-84144047154751721682010-10-29T07:28:00.000-07:002010-10-30T23:42:32.795-07:00Over 500 people march for Aboriginal rights in Melbourne<o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Friday's rally was surely one of the most inspiring Aboriginal rights rallies <st1:city><st1:place>Melbourne</st1:place></st1:city> has seen in a long time! Over 500 people took to the streets to protest against the racist NT Intervention, loudly chanting 'Jenny Macklin, you disgust us, equal rights, and jobs with justice!'. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">And we weren't alone, as people protested all around </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><st1:place>Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">--in </span><st1:place style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Alice Springs, Sydney</st1:place><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> and </span><st1:city style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><st1:place>Brisbane</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">. We had solidarity messages from </span><st1:city style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><st1:place>Perth</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">, Adelaide and Newcastle. And of course, there was the <a href="http://jobswithjustice.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/remember-wave-hill-gurindji-strike-again/" style="color: #33cc00;"><span style="color: #33cc00;">inspriring strike of </span>Gulrindji workers</a> in the lead up to this National Day of Protest. Here are some of the reports from various media outlets: </span><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/29/3052463.htm" style="color: #33cc00; font-family: trebuchet ms;">ABC</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">, </span><a href="http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/govt-slammed-for-aboriginal-enslavement-20101029-17731.html" style="color: #33cc00; font-family: trebuchet ms;">AAP</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">, </span><a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/29/generation-gap-over-twiggys-indigenous-jobs-campaign/" style="color: #33cc00; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Crikey</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">No one can do it alone, we need you to help us build a large, vibrant campaign against the NT Intervention. We want to see lots of new faces at the next meeting, with lots of ideas!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective (MAIC) meets every Monday, <st1:time hour="18" minute="30">6.30pm</st1:time> at the New International Bookshop (NIBS). The bookshop is easily found in the basement of the Trades Hall building (Lygon and Victoria Streets, <st1:city><st1:place>Carlton</st1:place></st1:city>).</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #33cc00; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Details of what's coming up:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #33cc00; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: red;">1st November (THIS MONDAY!!)</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><st1:place>Shannon</st1:place> does a short overview of the ‘Jobs with Justice’ campaign. And we discuss where to now for MAIC and the campaign. A great meeting to come to, if you’ve never been before! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcj7JVGEVArXhCCiv6_gx21L22pVqbYK3AW_GT1U0NdAMzlxwidw9yx1d9VWN-S0pcmQoB6fKC0vvEWGvE_xgD0n-Rg1r5MB0JxMWn1o-3XnfcbkQfepn3Qn9qSpFQRQ_1NlRIm-ud-G3Q/s1600/28oct-nt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcj7JVGEVArXhCCiv6_gx21L22pVqbYK3AW_GT1U0NdAMzlxwidw9yx1d9VWN-S0pcmQoB6fKC0vvEWGvE_xgD0n-Rg1r5MB0JxMWn1o-3XnfcbkQfepn3Qn9qSpFQRQ_1NlRIm-ud-G3Q/s320/28oct-nt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
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Speakers:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">+ Senior Indigenous Teacher from NT Bilingual School (video link)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">+ Rosa McKenna, Friends of Bilingual Learning, Ex principal of <st1:place><st1:placename>Yirrkala</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>School</st1:placetype></st1:place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">+ Mary McKernich, Australian Education Union Victoria Councilor<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">+ Lucy Honan, Melbourne Anti Intervention Collective<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Bans on teaching in Aboriginal language for the first four hours of the school day were introduced in 2008 following the roll out of the Northern Territory Intervention in 2007. Under the guise of “closing the gap” on Aboriginal disadvantage the Racial Discrimination Act was suspended, Aboriginal community land has been seized and community organisations, jobs and access to welfare payments have been dismantled.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The attempt to decimate bilingual programs was a territory government decision, but mimics perfectly the punitive logic of the federal intervention. Communities and Aboriginal culture are being attacked for the problems caused by all governments' chronic failure to support self determination for Aboriginal people. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Calex%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Calex%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_editdata.mso" rel="Edit-Time-Data"></link><style>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Speakers: Gary Foley (activist, Gumbainggir)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">, Robbie Thorpe (activist, Krautungalung), Adam Bandt (Greens - Member for <st1:city><st1:place>Melbourne</st1:place></st1:city>), Adam Frogley (Indigenous Coordinator, NTEU), Kevin Bracken (Victorian Trades Hall Council), Stephen Jolly (Councillor, City of <st1:city><st1:place>Yarra</st1:place></st1:city>) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Welcome to Country: Ringo Terrick (Wurundjeri)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Chair of Rally: Sharon Firebrace (activist, Yorta Yorta)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">We demand:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ Jobs with Justice NOT work for rations!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ Apply the Racial Discrimination Act in Full!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ Self determination now!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">For more on <st1:city><st1:place>Melbourne</st1:place></st1:city>’s campaign: <a href="http://www.maicollective.blogspot.com/" style="color: #eeeeee;" target="_blank">www.maicollective.blogspot.com</a><span style="color: yellow;"> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">For other actions in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Australia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.jobswithjustice.wordpress.com/" style="color: #eeeeee;" target="_blank">www.jobswithjustice.wordpress.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Contacts:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Sharon Firebrace 0401 414 967<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Lucy Honan 0404 728 104 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Sam Salvidge 0432 803 360</span></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Click </span></span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=14yGh2SR1EcGI4bTBi4vWRKKfx36ctCHNVsZO1HHkXiU&hl=en&authkey=CNH3--gM"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">for MAIC's </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">media release</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Click </span></span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0ByMEBSdl4OEyZTBkNzhlZTgtZTczYi00NjEzLTk4NGYtYTI4ZjJlNWU2MzU4&sort=name&layout=list&num=50"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">for a high quality rally </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">poster</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> to print out. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Worse than Workchoices</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The NT Intervention promised to deliver ‘real jobs’ for Aboriginal communities. Instead, thousands of waged jobs have been lost and Aboriginal organisations have been crippled as Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) close down.[i]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Under the new CDEP scheme designed by the federal Labor government, Aboriginal people no longer receive wages. They are being forced to work providing vital services such as rubbish collection, school bus runs, sewerage maintenance, construction and aged care in exchange for quarantined Centrelink payments.[ii]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">People are compelled to work 16 hours a week for $115 cash, plus $115 credit on a ‘BasicsCard’ which can only be used on ‘priority items’ in government approved stores. Aboriginal workers have described this as a return to the “ration-days’ when they were paid in food instead of cash.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Centrelink is threatening to cut off payments entirely if people do not participate. Unclear guidelines and the vulnerable position of many workers have seen cases of people working 30 hrs or more for no extra money.[iii] This is far worse than anything the Liberals inflicted on workers under Workchoices.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The Labor government committed to halving the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in a decade. But due to a continuation of Howard era policies such as the Intervention, Indigenous unemployment has drastically worsened from 13.8% in 2007 to 18.1% in 2009.[iv]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">500 ‘real jobs’ created to replace some of the lost CDEP positions in remote NT shire councils face the axe next year. The Commonwealth is refusing to guarantee ongoing funding of $8.5 million per year needed by the NT government to keep the jobs.[v] Many Aboriginal communities serviced by these shires already suffer atrocious living conditions – 500 more job losses will be devastating.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The NT Intervention shames <st1:country-region><st1:place>Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Despite recent amendments, the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) ruled in August that Intervention legislation provides clear evidence of “embedded racism” against Aboriginal people. [vi ] The UNCERD report said living conditions had deteriorated for Aboriginal people under the Intervention through loss of land, property, employment, legal rights and opportunities for cultural development. [vii]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Rather than abandon failed policy, the government is planning to spend $350 million (over 4 years) to expand income management across the NT.[viii ] This money is desperately needed to create real jobs in Aboriginal communities and ensure the provision of basic services.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The government must act immediately to:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ Guarantee the 500 threatened Shire jobs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ End compulsory income management<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ End current CDEP arrangements forcing people to work for the BasicsCard<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ Turn all CDEP positions into fully waged jobs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">+ Provide massive investment in job creation and service provision in all Aboriginal communities</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">see www.maicollective.blogspot.com for sources referenced </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYBA1wkPusHXwcDTrsH-TljUaY0Ycwc4-6XL3ED1N0zfm8h_5_vgmDEauwfY_eJ63vldZIHF4X0Ec5yL0iKS8AIyZYtGluS5OoPz0RiWkQ1Z29NTlsXYGbECA6JfNqcN-vTIdsvt7CmJv/s1600/jobs-with-justice-logo_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYBA1wkPusHXwcDTrsH-TljUaY0Ycwc4-6XL3ED1N0zfm8h_5_vgmDEauwfY_eJ63vldZIHF4X0Ec5yL0iKS8AIyZYtGluS5OoPz0RiWkQ1Z29NTlsXYGbECA6JfNqcN-vTIdsvt7CmJv/s320/jobs-with-justice-logo_web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; line-height: 26px;">________________________________</span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 20.4pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">How to support:</span></span></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 20.4pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">We seek:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 20.4pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">1. Your public endorsement of the ‘Jobs with Justice’ statement (your name will be printed in the Australian unless you state otherwise);</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">2. A donation of at least $100 to help with the cost of publication.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">3. Help advancing support for the statement through potentially</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">supportive organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Please email your endorsement to <a href="mailto:jobs.w.justice@gmail.com" style="color: #f1c232;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">jobs.w.justice@gmail.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or phone</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Marlene Hodder from the Intervention Rollback Action Group (<st1:place>Alice<br />
Springs</st1:place>) on 08 89525032.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 20.4pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Please forward your donation to:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Intervention Rollback Action Group</span><br />
<st1:address><st1:street><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">PO Box 8488</span></st1:street><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
<st1:city>Alice Springs</st1:city><br />
<st1:state>NT</st1:state></span></st1:address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> 0871<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 20.4pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Or by direct deposit to:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Bendigo Community Bank</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">A/c Name: Intervention Rollback Action Gr.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">BSB No: 633-000</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">A/c No: 134 157 049<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Please send a notice to <a href="mailto:jobs.w.justice@gmail.com" style="color: #ffd966;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">jobs.w.justice@gmail.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>when you have made a donation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 20.4pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Many thanks for your ongoing support.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: 19.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">___________________________________________</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 12pt;">Look out for the ‘<b>Jobs with Justice’ statement published in today’s <i>The Australian</i></b> with the help of organisations and people across the country including:</div><div style="line-height: 12.65pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;">Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc, Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (ALSWA), Aboriginal Support Circle – Older Women`s Network, Aboriginal Support Group Manly Warringah Pittwater Amoonguna Community Council Inc., ANTaR Armidale, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, Australian Nursing Federation, Australian Services Union (SA,NT,ACT&NSW branches), Brisbane Aboriginal Rights Coalition, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, Communist Party of Australia, concerned Australians, Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, Ethnic Child Care Family and Community Services Cooperative Ltd, Greens (NT & NSW), Gurindji stop-work meeting (October 20), Hoeroa Robert Marumaru (Maori ethnic community Brisbane), Intervention Rollback Action Group Alice Springs, La Perouse Botany Bay Aboriginal Corporation, Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, Leichhardt Council, Liberty Victoria, Maritime Union of Australia, Melbourne Unitarian Church Mutitjulu Community Aboriginal Corporation, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission, National Association of Community Legal Centres, National Tertiary Education Union, Ngoppon Together Inc, NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Peace & Social Justice Network VRM Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia (AYM office Qld) Socialist Alliance, Socialists Alternative, Solidarity, Solidarity Choir, South Coast Labor Council, Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney, Tangentyere Council, The Greek Orthodox Community of NSW Ltd, The Network of Immigrant and Refugee Women of Australia Inc, Tribal Warrior, Unions NT, UQ/QUT Students for Indigenous Rights, Urapuntja Aboriginal Corporation, Women for Wik, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom</div><div style="line-height: 12.65pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;">Prof. Jon Altman, Gil Appleton, Assoc. Prof. Barbara Baird, Prof. Larissa Behrendt, Judith Gamper, Vivi Germanos-Koutsounadis OAM, Dr Peter Gibson & Cathy-Anne Grew, Don & Estelle Gobbett, Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM,Marcia Guild, Brian Johnstone, John Leemans, Ian MacIndoe, Jeff McMullen, Wendy McMurdo (Greens Councillor Hornsby Shire), Sandra Milne, The Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC, George Newhouse, James Oaten, Christine Olsen, Linda Pearson, Stephen Sewell, Rachel Siewert (WA Greens Senator), Associate Professor Gracelyn Smallwood, Warwick Thornton,Anne Vadiveloo, Sam Watson, Bethany Wheeler, Alexis Wright, Josephine Zappia</div></span></span></span><br />
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