Seven Eureka Day Medals will be awarded this year Award winners will be include indymedia.org.au/2013/12/01/effigy-of-maurice-newman-to-be-burnt-as-part-of-eureka-dawn-commemoration-in-ballarat Jacob Rumbiak, the Foreign Minister in exile of the West Papuan Independence Movement and the most senior Minister of the West Papuan Independence Movement currently not in an Indonesian jail. Jacob was imprisoned for over a decade and tortured by successive Indonesian governments, before fleeing to Australia where he has been at the forefront of the struggle for an Independent West Papua, representing his people in forums around the world. Another will be Dr Gary Foley, who as a Aborignal Land Rights activist was a founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, now a historian, playwright, actor and broadcaster, he is the most radical, caustic and independent voice of Aboriginal Australia. Also receiving Eureka Day Medals will include three others to individuals - Elizabeth Conolly, Gwen Goedeckie and Ruth Martin - and two to collectives - No Maccas in the Dandenong Ranges/Hills/Tecoma and the International Organisation for a Participatory Society. indymedia.org.au/2013/12/01/effigy-of-maurice-newman-to-be-burnt-as-part-of-eureka-dawn-commemoration-in-ballarat
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