Robbie Thorpe summed up the mood in Melbourne: "Instead of celebrating the invasion help us stop this war and we can have a real day to celebrate together. Inclusive of all people in this country..." Robbie Thorpe on the Australian Genocide.

In Brisbane there was jubilation as Manslaughter charges were announced regarding the Death in Custody on Palm Island. [Second report]

Australia Day Commemorates the European Invasion | Indigenous Resistance Fighters Remembered | Indigenous Resistance in the Hidden Frontier War in Victoria]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10119&category_id=11 Eureka Dawn Walk: Justice for David Hicks 2006-12-13T11:09:46 culture Melbourne Indymedia The Eureka152 Dawn Lantern Walk will be conducted this year in Ballarat as a remembrance of the injustice being suffered by David Hicks. "David Hicks is an Australian citizen and a great great grandson of a Eureka stockader," said the Dawn Walk producer Graeme Dunstan. This year is Eureka's 152nd anniversary.

December 9 has been declared an International Day of Action for David Hicks. According to Major Mori, all it would take is for the Attorney-General to make a telephone call [to Washington] and David would be coming home. Major Mori has slammed the new Guantanamo Commissions after the US Supreme Court ruled the Military Commissions illegal.

Peacebus.com | Sedition Charter |
Eureka 2005 | Eureka 2004 (1, 2) | Eureka 2003]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10121&category_id=11 Ballarat: Eureka Australia Day Medals Awarded 2006-12-13T11:14:24 culture Melbourne Indymedia The fight to defend rights and liberties of the Australian gold-miners 152 years ago still resonates with activists today with the presentation of the Eureka Australia Day Medals by the Anarchist Media Institute.

The Military attack on the Eureka Stockade on 3rd December 1854 was commemorated in Ballarat with a Diggers March, a Dawn Lantern Walk, a vigil at the Eureka Monument (audio), a Dawn Oration (audio), and a 12km march through the streets of Ballarat to Bakery Hill and the old Ballarat Cemetery. [Full Story]

More Audio: Comments on the history of the Diggers Memorial (audio) and Soldiers Memorial (audio).

Reclaiming the Radical spirit of the Eureka Rebellion
Wikipedia: The Eureka Stockade]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10033&category_id=11 Autogeddon - a Comedy on Car Culture 2006-10-08T00:34:00 culture Melbourne Indymedia A comedy play about the end of the world by motorcar has become a cult hit in Melbourne. Autogeddon the play is based on an epic poem :

"Half the world’s paychecks are auto-related,
Half the world’s resources are auto-devoted,
And half the world will be involved in an auto-accident
At some time during their life.
Take the precaution of attaching the chrome fender to a car,
Hit someone over the head with it, and kill them?
Six months suspended.
Licence briefly withheld."
  Excerpt from the poem by Heathcote Williams.

Ubuntu: Freedom on the Desktop | Melbourne events | Linux Australia | Linux Users Victoria]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=9909&category_id=11 Mabo Day Celebrated 2006-06-15T16:19:59 culture Melbourne Indymedia 2006 marks the 14th anniversary of Mabo Day, the date when the High Court of Australia handed down its landmark decision in the Mabo case in 1992, finding that there was prior occuption and ownership of the land, thus overturning the doctine of Terra Nullius. It could form the basis for reconcilation based on justice between indigenous Australians and those who have settled here from Europe and other parts of the globe. [Full Story]

Make MABO DAY - 3 June - an Australian Public Holiday]]>