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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230204T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230204T235959
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SUMMARY:1939 Cumeragunja Mission Walk-off
DESCRIPTION:In 1939 the Aboriginal people walked off Cumeragunja Mission in New South Wales in protest at living conditions and restrictions.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1939-cumeragunja-mission-walk-off-2023-02-04/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230205T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230205T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20191202T012633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T055822Z
UID:4418-1675555200-1675641599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:Cape York Peninsula Heads of Agreement Signed
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/cape-york-peninsula-heads-of-agreement-signed-2023-02-04/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230208T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230208T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20191213T042755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191213T042755Z
UID:4433-1675814400-1675900799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1973: Woodward Royal Commission into Land Rights
DESCRIPTION:On this day in 1973 the Woodward Royal Commission into Land Rights in the Northern Territory was established. The Central Land Council situate this event in its historical context here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1973-woodward-royal-commission-into-land-rights-2023-02-08/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230212T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230212T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20191217T012533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191217T012533Z
UID:4481-1676160000-1676246399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1965: Freedom Ride in Australia Begins
DESCRIPTION:A group of Sydney University students organised a bus tour through western and coastal New South Wales towns in 1965. As the National Museum of Australia website explains: \n\n\n\nTheir purpose was threefold. The students planned to draw public attention to the poor state of Aboriginal health\, education and housing. They hoped to point out and help to lessen the socially discriminatory barriers which existed between Aboriginal and white residents. And they also wished to encourage and support Aboriginal people themselves to resist discrimination. The students had formed into a body called Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA) in 1964 to plan this trip and ensure media coverage. \n\n\n\nCharles Perkins\, an Arrente man born in Alice Springs\, who was a third year arts student at the university\, was elected president of SAFA. The group included Ann Curthoys who would later write a history of these events\, Jim Spigelman who would later become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Darce Cassidy\, an arts student who was also a part-time reporter for the ABC. \n\n\n\n Source: https://indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights/freedom_ride\,_1965
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1965-freedom-ride-in-australia-begins-2023-02-12/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Freedom-riders-at-Bowraville.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230212T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230212T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20191219T033045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T033045Z
UID:4482-1676160000-1676246399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2005: Murder of Sr Dorothy Stang in Brazil
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2005-murder-of-sr-dorothy-stang-in-brazil-2023-02-12/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230213T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230213T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20191219T033720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T033720Z
UID:4484-1676246400-1676332799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2008: Apology to the Stolen Generation by the Australian Government
DESCRIPTION:On this day Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized to Indigenous Australians\, and especially the Stolen Generation\, for past government policies of removing First Nations children from their families. The National Museum of Australia explains here how the journey to a national apology began with the Bringing Them Home Report. \n\n\n\nWatch the apology in the video below.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2008-apology-to-the-stolen-generation-by-the-australian-government-2023-02-13/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230213T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230213T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20191219T034516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T034516Z
UID:4485-1676246400-1676332799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2015: Death of Faith Bandler AC
DESCRIPTION:Faith Bandler AC\, activist for Indigenous and South Sea Islander rights\, passed away on this day in 2005. An obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald highlighted her achievements: \n\n\n\nFaith Bandler changed people’s hearts and minds in support of human rights and social justice. Her smile\, no doubt\, helped. The National Trust listed her as a national living treasure in 1997 and the Herald\, in 2001\, included her among the 100 most influential Australians of the 20th century. The Good Weekend\, in 2011\, included her in a list of 50 women considered the most influential in the world. \n\n\n\nHer greatest achievement was her 10-year campaign for Aboriginal rights leading to the 1967 referendum which changed the Constitution and included Aborigines in the census. She worked for Aboriginal education and housing\, was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and the Australian Republican Movement\, campaigned for the rights of South Sea Islanders and wrote six books\, including Wacvie (1977)\, a biographical novel about her father. \n\n\n\nRead the full text here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2015-death-of-faith-bandler-ac-2023-02-13/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230216T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230216T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20191219T033245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T060055Z
UID:4483-1676505600-1676591999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1958: Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders established
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1958-federal-council-for-the-advancement-of-aborigines-and-torres-strait-islanders-established-2023-02-13/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230217T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230217T235959
DTSTAMP:20260521T223107
CREATED:20200106T011411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T011411Z
UID:4498-1676592000-1676678399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2014: Murder of Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati in offshore immigration detention on Manus Island
DESCRIPTION:Today we remember twenty three year old asylum seeker Reza Barati who was killed in riots at the Regional Processing Centre (RPC) on Manus Island. A Senate Committee inquiry later found that the Australian Government had failed in its duty to protect him\, and other asylum seekers\, from harm. Here is an extract from the conclusions of the Committee. \n\n\n\n8.5        In summary\, the committee has found that the events of 16 to 18 February 2014 at the Manus Island RPC were eminently foreseeable\, and may have been prevented if transferees had been given a clear pathway for the assessment of their asylum claims. Many of the problems at the centre had their origins in the events of July to October 2013\, when the centre was transformed from a mixed facility into a single adult males facility and experienced a massive influx of new transferees\, reaching more than double the initial intended capacity of the centre in the space of approximately 12 weeks. The inability of the centre’s infrastructure to cope with this influx\, combined with the complete absence of any clear refugee status determination and resettlement framework to deal with these asylum seekers\, created an environment where unrest and transferee protests were the inevitable result.  8.6        It is clear from evidence presented to the committee that the Australian Government failed in its duty to protect asylum seekers including Mr Barati from harm.  Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs report\n\n\n\nThe Manus Island RPC was found to be unconstitutional by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court in 2016 and was shut in 2017. A number of detainees were transferred to the Bomana Immigration Detention Centre.  \n\n\n\nIn November 2019 a delegation of representatives from the Australian Catholic community traveled to Papua New Guinea to gain a deeper understanding of conditions for asylum seekers there. Read their statement here. \n\n\n\nIndependent MP Andrew Wilkie has made a complaint about the conditions of detention in Bomana to the International Criminal Court (ICC). \n\n\n\nAs SBS News report\, Director of the jurisdiction\, complementary and cooperation division of the ICC office of the prosecutor\, Phakiso Mochochoko has found that the conditions of detention “appear to have constituted cruel\, inhuman or degrading treatment.”  Read more here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2014-murder-of-iranian-asylum-seeker-reza-barati-in-offshore-immigration-detention-on-manus-island-2023-02-17/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Overseas / regional
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