| Recommendations delivered on Indigenous managed national park
The Victorian Environmental Assessment Council has delivered it's recommendations on the creation of a jointly managed national park in Yorta Yorta land. The Barmah Millewa collective has called on the Premier to honour the election promise to establish red gum national parks. Friends of the Earth
Major Victory for Yorta Yorta at World Indigenous Peoples Summit
In a call on the G8 to implement Indigenous Peoples rights, the Yorta Yorta have won significant support from Indigenous representatives from Asia, the Pacific, Europe and the Americas in their struggle for land justice and the right to practice and to enjoy their cultural heritage. Yorta Yorta media release.
Implementing the recommendations of the Bringing them Home report
The National Apology was a truly momentous occasion.
But our task now is to make sure that we don't look back on the apology to the Stolen Generations as merely a symbolic gesture. So please send your elected state and federal representatives an email asking them to implement all the recommendations of the Bringing them home report. ANTaR
Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act - Sign the petition
"The suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act remains a sticking point
and an international embarrassment for the Rudd Government. We do not
need the upcoming review to tell us that this aspect of the intervention
is and always will be morally wrong and ethically unjustifiable" (Senatar Rachel Siewart, who will present the petition in parliament in August). Petition
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