My name is Stephanie O鈥橠onnell, but I also go by 鈥渢he girl from the plane鈥.
On December 19, my partner and I were at Sydney Airport on our way to Heathrow via Beijing. We had booked the cheapest flight available and were waiting to check in for flight CA174, when a plucky activist approached us.
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West Papua independence leader Benny Wenda has launched an to help those affected by Cyclone Pam which has caused much loss of life and destruction throughout many Pacific nations.
鈥淚 urgently need help for my Brothers and Sisters in the Pacific particularly in Vanuatu and other islands who have lost everything due to the cyclone disaster we have all seen on the TV news," Wenda, the Spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement of West Papua, said.
Residents and activists from the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy will be protesting against the developer threatening to instigate a new development on the land known as the 鈥淭he Block鈥.
The protest will take place on Saturday, March 21, starting at 11am at the Tent Embassy opposite the Redfern Community Centre.
Developer DeiCorp recently advertised its Redfern developments by saying: 鈥淭he Aboriginals have already moved out, now Redfern is the last virgin suburb close to city.鈥
Land rights activists gathered outside the New South Wales Parliament 鈥 on the land of the Gaddigal people 鈥 today to protest against the closure and removal of services of remote Western Australian Aboriginal communities.
Protests against the forced closure of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia were held across Australia on March 19.
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