Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20 - http://thestringer.com.au/
NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. Less than three months young The Stringer has been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.
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This week we introduce you to new contributors in Lester Ranby from Sydney, Mick Estens from the Northern Territory, Dr Binoy Kampmark from Melbourne and Dr Don Jacobs (Four Arrows) from Arizona, USA, in addition to regulars Nicola Butler in Adelaide, and Western Australia’s duo of Suresh Rajan and Gerry Georgatos.
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Some of our stories from the last week include:
Red Road Lost: A Story Based on True Events
May 20th 2013 by Four Arrows
Excising Australia
May 20th 2013 by Dr Binoy Kampmark
A nation turns its back on its children
May 20th 2013 by Lester Ranby
ILC keeping Aboriginal men in the long grass
May 20th 2013 by Mick Estens
The future of the family
May 20th 2013 by Jeff McMullen
My brother is at peace
May 20th 2013 by Suresh Rajan
Adopting? Or Stealing Children?
May 20th 2013 by Nicola Butler
Why are more prisoners dying from ‘natural causes’?
May 20th 2013 by The Stringer
Oxfam report mocks Native Title
May 20th 2013 by Gerry Georgatos
Rare indigenous victory fosters unprecedented possibilities
May 16th 2013 by Four Arrows
Police commissioner says time to help Aboriginal youth
May 16th 2013 by The Stringer
Homeless protest at Matagarup “we will not be swept away”
May 16th 2013 by The Stringer
12 to a house!
May 16th 2013 by The Stringer
Former Prisoners’ wages subsidy
May 16th 2013 by The Stringer
Dementia in Aboriginal peoples
May 16th 2013 by The Stringer
Sovereign wealth failure
May 15th 2013 by Gerry Georgatos
Homeless forever forgotten by the Commonwealth
May 15th 2013 by The Stringer
Hold the front page! We need free media – not an Order of Mates
May 12th 2013 by John Pilger
Some of The Stringer’s most widely read stories include:
South Africa, twenty years after Apartheid, doing better than Australia
May 11th 2013 by Gerry Georgatos
Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates
May 1st 2013 by Gerry Georgatos
Cuts to single parent payments lead to hardship
2nd April 2013 by Gerry Georgatos
Australia’s pathway to poverty – bridging visas
30th March 2013 by The Stringer
Australia’s Aboriginal children – The world’s highest suicide rate
27th February 2013 by Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer recommends the 11 minutes video - Costing Us The Earth by documentary filmmaker Sallie Coulson
http://thestringer.com.au/video-archive/
The Stringer recommends the 28 minutes audio from 3CR – The War on Iraq: 10 Years On
http://thestringer.com.au/audioradio-news/
There are scores more stories, localised, national and international, you can choose from to read – and share with others - http://thestringer.com.au/
The Stringer’s ‘Soundcloud’ lists an array of radio and audio interviews.
Anyone who would like to assist with Wheelchairs for Kids please contact us – the organisation builds hardened up wheelchairs for children in countries devastated by war, civil strife, abject poverty and it has reached 61 countries and 25,000 children. Most recently wheelchairs have been donated to Sri Lanka, the Congo and Libya. Millions more children wait. – You can contact Gerry Georgatos, who is the Wheelchairs for Kids Foundation manager, gerry_georgatos@yahoo.com.au - You can quickly find out more about Wheelchairs for Kids at our latest news video on the home page of The Stringer news site and in several articles on The Stringer.
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