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		<title>Gerry Georgatos</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerry Georgatos is a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, and an award winning investigative journalist. He forayed into journalism for several years. His predominant work is in suicide prevention research and in unveiling racism and in articulating the ways forward. In 2011, he left a management background and the tertiary sector and found [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Butler</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Butler was born in Darwin in the Northern Territory, following his Mother’s (Emily Ann Gordon) forced removal from his Grandmother (Nana Eliza Gordon) where together they had lived in the detention centre known as ‘The Bungalow’ in Alice Springs. Emily was taken to the ‘Bagot Reserve’ detention centre in Darwin and it was here [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicola Butler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicola Butler was born in Rose Park South Australia. Nicola’s family descends from the Eastern Aranda and Luritja peoples of the central desert regions on her Father’s side and Scottish, English, German and Swedish on her Mother’s side. Nicola’s partner Andrew descends from the Ngarrindjeri peoples from the Coorong and the Barngala peoples from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Suresh Rajan</title>
		<link>https://thestringer.com.au/writer-5-765</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suresh Rajan is a former president of the Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia. He is a regular contributor on the subject of multiculturalism to media in Perth and has been so for many years. Suresh is also an Ambassador for people with disabilities and is the President of the National Ethnic Disabilities Alliance (NEDA). [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramdas Sankaran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramdas Sankaran is a professional  medical and psychiatric social worker with substantial senior managerial experience within Commonwealth &#38; State public services and the community services sector. He has extensive experience in implementing a range of programs and projects and has advanced the cause of Human rights, multiculturalism, Aboriginal Reconciliation and substantive equality for thirty years. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lester Ranby</title>
		<link>https://thestringer.com.au/lester-ranby-2899</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lester Ranby is a television news producer and journalist. All his working life he has worked in the television industry, mainly in news and documentary production. In recent years he has worked for the Reuters news agency, bringing Australian news to an international audience. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Four Arrows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), aka Don Trent Jacobs, has doctorates in health psychology and in curriculum. Former Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and a tenured professor at Northern Arizona University, he is currently on faculty in the College of Educational Leadership and Change at Fielding Graduate University. Author of numerous articles, chapters and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Brian Steels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Brian Steels is Director of the Asia Pacific Forum for Restorative Justice and coordinates the Institute for Restorative Justice &#38; Penal Reform in Australia. Dr Steels is also a Researcher at Curtin University at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies and his work among Aboriginal Communities as a researcher and counselor is well known. Brian [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Debbie Kilroy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debbie Kilroy OAM MLB, BSocWk, GDFMenH, GDLPrac and former prisoner, is the CEO of Sisters Inside Inc., an independent community organisation which advocates for the human rights of women who have been criminalised. Debbie is a passionate activist for the implementation and monitoring of human rights within women’s prisons and advocates strongly against discriminatory and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Jess Beckerling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jess Beckerling is the convenor of the WA Forest Alliance. She has been campaigning for native forest protection since she was 17 when she deferred from her degree in politics and economics to join an old growth forest blockade near Pemberton. Jess is now living in WA&#8217;s south west with two young children while studying [&#8230;]]]></description>
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