In a November 25 media release, Michael Anderson, a spokesperson for the Gumilaroi Nation, accused the federal and WA state governments of not having the intestinal fortitude to stand against the multinationals who seek to destroy Aboriginal culture. He was commenting on the threatened destruction of ancient Aboriginal rock art on the the Dampier Archipelago, resulting from the $50 billion Pluto Gas natural gas project by Woodside Energy on the Burrup Peninsula.
Avery West
In a November 27 media release, the WA-based Project SafeCom refugee right group, renewed its call for the abolition of Australias temporary protection visa (TPV) regime following a report in the same days Australian newspaper that an Iraqi asylum-seeker sent home by Australian officials was assassinated in Baghdad after being accused of being an Australian spy.