Ray Jackson, President ISJA

Ray Jackson: Yet another tragedy coming from police intervention in the Northern Territory but this time in Katherine where Mr. Lewis, an Aboriginal man and an amputee with major health problems, was arrested at a card game and held for 24 hours in the Katherine police cells.

Join our protest outside of the NSW coroners court at Parramatta Road, Glebe at 12.30 on Thursday, 1 November, 2012, to raise our support and solidarity with the families of Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Curti and Mr. Lewis. All three, in our opinion, have been badly treated at the hands of the justice system in the NT and NSW.

It is up to us to make that happen and I call on all readers of this post to make contact with the list (attached to article) to make your concerns and wishes known to those who run the system - But we need to do more than that - We need to become active and protest that the unnecessary deaths must stop.

People from communities of Kalkaringi, Lajamanu and Daguragu are today demanding that the Victoria Daly Shire and Central Desert Shire leave our communities immediately. We also want the Government Business Manager from the Intervention to leave our land now. They have no legal right to be here and are unwanted.

We want our community council to come back. We can run our own affairs and are sick of being bossed around by government and outsiders. Our communities have had so much damage done to them since 2007.

We will not be signing any more leases - this is Aboriginal land that we fought hard for and we must be in control.

Richard Downs

A second remote Northern Territory community has called for the government to leave town after the commonwealth failed to negotiate long-term leases before those imposed under the Howard government expired.

Residents of Ampilatwatja, about 325km northeast of Alice Springs, say they have asked the federal government to either hand over its assets to the local community development organisation or have them removed.

Richard Downs, a local leader and spokesman, said the offer was unfair, and that the community was angry at paternalistic treatment over the past five years. He said the community wanted to resume control over its own affairs.

Investigations reveal a trail of deceit in which records that prove the legitimacy of traditional Goolarabooloo lawman Joseph Roe's heritage claims have ignored and the Kimberley Land Council has also worked with Woodside and the state against the interests of some of its own clients.

Woodside has been prepared to tell the state government to withdraw warnings that it may be acting in breach of the law that could put its directors in jail. And the government has been happy to comply with its wishes.

The West Australian Government is under fire over its compensation offer to pay lost wages to thousands of the state's Indigenous workers.

Between 1905 and 1972, the government withheld up to three-quarters of the wages earned by workers on state-run Native Welfare Settlements, but they never got their hard earned money back.

An Indigenous Perth family grieving for the loss of their 28-year-old son is demanding to know if health authorities could have saved his life.

BJ Lawrence was suffering chest pains on July 29 and went to Charles Gairdner Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a chest infection and sent home with a course of antibiotics.

Bradley Lawrence says his son told the ambulance crew he was battling to breathe and the paramedic told him, "mate, you're talking to me so you must be breathing."

A speech by Willie Lynch, a British slave owner in the West Indies, brings home the cruel reality to all suppressed people around the world.

It was delivered on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712.

Lynch was invited to the colony of Virginia to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term "lynching" is derived from his last name.

An international conference in South Africa last month heard an Aboriginal woman professor from Townsville, Gracelyn Smallwood, blast Australia over land rights and the Northern Territory intervention ...

In an interview with Noosa Community Radio Gracelyn said she expects her three talks, based on her PhD thesis to go feral internationally. The thesis is to be published by a London publisher Routledge. - Overview includes audio files.

Sean Berg, an Adelaide lawyer, has spent over 10 years exploring various English archives for documents related to South Australia's foundation in 1836.

Berg says there is conclusive proof that British authorities fully intended the white settlement of South Australia to be a consensual act requiring treaties and bargains with the Aborigines, and payment for any land the colonists took up. This is at odds with the reality of the settlement, where no treaties, bargains or payments occurred.