central australia

CLC: Communities have their say on intervention

http://www.clc.org.au/media/releases/2008/Interventionsurvey.asp

      Between 1940 and 1945, sixty-one German cities with a total population of
      25 millions were destroyed or devastated in a bombing campaign initiated
      by the British government. Destruction on this scale had no other purpose
      than the indiscriminate mass murder of as many German people as possible
      quite regardless of their civilian status. It led to retaliatory bombing
      resulting in 60,000 British dead and 86,000 injured.

7th United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,

United Nations, NY: April 2008

INTERVENTION by Barbara Shaw, FAIRA

Madam Chair, distinguished members, Indigenous brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen,

My name is Barbara Shaw.  I am a Kaytetye-Arrernte woman from Central Australia.  I am here to speak on behalf of the Indigenous grass-roots people of Central Australia, on the Australian Government’s policy of Intervention.

Anti-nuclear protesters confronted CLP candidate for Lingiari, Adam Giles, outside his Alice Springs office at 8:30 this morning.

About thirty protesters challenged Mr Giles to oppose the proposed nuclear waste dump. One of them stood beside Mr Giles wearing an "I'm with Stupid" t-shirt. Giles drove away, sarcastically remarking "don't get a job or anything while I'm gone"

Related: Melbourne Vigil Against the Nuclear Waste Dump