Newsletter date: 21 June 2015
Contents:
* Analysis / Opinion: Matt Wordsworth, ABC News: Youth suicide at crisis levels among Indigenous population, experts warn
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: How many more kids stolen, how many more jailed, how many more must suicide?
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: When the right people lead then lives will be saved
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: A moral abomination - a narrative that is racialised, of human suffering and misery
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: While nothing done about extreme poverty, jail rates will double again
* Bio: Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer
* Bio: Jennifer Kaeshagen - Founder, Principal Editor and Producer of The Stringer
* About: The Stringer's Editorial policy: http://thestringer.com.au/about-us
* Background:
WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities
WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody
WGAR Background: Removal of Aboriginal children and the continuing Stolen Generation
* Crisis Support - Talk to Someone - 24-hours/day 7-days/week:
Lifeline - Crisis Support and Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/
Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467 https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/
Beyond Blue - Talk it through with us: 1300 22 4636 http://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/get-immediate-support
WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
- Analysis / Opinion
ABC News: Youth suicide at crisis levels among Indigenous population, experts warn
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-14/youth-suicide-at-crisis-levels-amo...
14 Jun 15: " ... The issue of youth suicide has always been a problem, but in 2008 it passed a critical threshold. That year, suicide overtook road crashes as the number one cause of death for Queenslanders aged between 15 and 24 years old. But it is among Indigenous children that the rate truly rings alarm bells. ... Queensland coroner Terry Ryan, who cited the ABS in his recent inquest into two young suicide victims, said Indigenous children accounted for almost half of the suicides of children aged between 10 and 17 in Queensland between 2004 and 2012. ... " By Matt Wordsworth, a political and investigative reporter and former presenter of 7.30 Queensland
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: How many more kids stolen, how many more jailed, how many more must suicide?
http://thestringer.com.au/how-many-more-kids-stolen-how-many-more-jailed...
16 Jun 15: "Once again, do we have to wait for a United Nations Commissioner to shine the light on inequalities so as to bring Australia’s media, institutions and the majority of Australians up to speed on the horrific high rates of child removals, jailing and suicide rates? How long does the narrative of human misery and suffering have to get before Australia’s chattering classes, political parties, media chiefdoms and many human rights organisations begin to package these tragic issues with unrelenting focus, as issues that need to be chased down with sustained coverage? It is the same old deal - it has to get catastrophic before we begin to shed any light, before a beacon of hope. ... " By Gerry Georgatos
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: When the right people lead then lives will be saved
http://thestringer.com.au/when-the-right-people-lead-then-lives-will-be-...
20 Jun 15: " ... Suicide prevention should be one of the most urgent priorities of our times – globally and nationally. The rates of suicide should be known, disaggregated and unmasked as the humanitarian crisis that in effect it is - though little known, suicide is one of the issues of our times. ... One in ten deaths by suicide, this is a moral abomination. Wholesale Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention can only succeed if it includes the redressing of inequalities in reference to the social determinants – homelessness, housing, social infrastructure, education - the elimination of extreme poverty. Without the strengthening of social health, far too many will lapse under pressures ... " By Gerry Georgatos
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: A moral abomination - a narrative that is racialised, of human suffering and misery
http://thestringer.com.au/a-moral-abomination-a-narrative-that-is-racial...
19 Jun 15: "Aboriginal and/or Torres youth are 26 times more likely to be in detention than non-Aboriginal youth. By 2025 they will be 40 times more likely to be in detention. From a racialised lens they are already being jailed in juvenile detention at the world’s highest rate. ... One in every 28 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander boys have been in juvenile detention and one every 113 girls has been in juvenile detention. There are more than 10,000 adult Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders in Australian prisons. That translates to one in 35 of all Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders in prison. From a racialised lens I have estimated that this is the highest jailing rate in the world. I also estimate that 1 in 20 of all Aboriginal and/or Torres Islanders have spent time in jail. ... " By Gerry Georgatos
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: While nothing done about extreme poverty, jail rates will double again
http://thestringer.com.au/while-nothing-done-about-extreme-poverty-jail-...
16 Jun 15: "A few years ago Australian Corrective Services were claiming that the national prison population had finally begun to decrease. I disputed this. A few years later the prison population has increased by nearly 15 per cent. In the next ten years Australia will near double its prison population whereas it took twenty years from 1992 to 2012 to double the national prison population. The majority of the prospective doubling of the prison population will be borne by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders who will comprise around three quarters of the increase in future prisoners. In 2025, more than half the Australian prison population will be comprised of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders. Today, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders comprise 28 per cent of the national prison population. ... " By Gerry Georgatos
- Bio
Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer
http://thestringer.com.au/gerry-georgatos-contributing-editor-and-journa...
"Gerry Georgatos is a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, and a multi-award winning investigative journalist. His predominant work is in suicide prevention research and in unveiling racism and in articulating the ways forward. ... His social justice campaigns include his ongoing work with the homeless, asylum seekers, people in prison and post-release, his anti-drugs campaigns, fighting racism and discrimination, and his freedom of speech campaigns. Gerry has completed two Masters trying to understand racism and the ways forward. He has fought a number of campaigns, often at great personal toll, in trying to eliminate racism, ... Gerry is currently completing a PhD on Australian Custodial Systems and Australian Deaths in Custody. ... "
- Bio
Jennifer Kaeshagen - The Stringer
http://thestringer.com.au/production-manager-contributing-editor-writer-...
"Jennifer Kaeshagen is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She has Unit Co-Ordinated, Lectured and Tutored in Media and Communications Studies at The University of Notre Dame, Fremantle and Murdoch University, and is currently completing her PhD - The phenomenology of the biopic. Jennifer is the Founder of The Stringer. Jennifer is The Stringer’s Principal Editor and Producer. Jennifer contributes irregularly articles to The Stringer however also coordinates various advocacy through The Stringer. Jennifer has been successful in housing homeless families and individuals and currently coordinates The First Nations Homelessness Project."
- About
The Stringer’s Editorial policy
[scroll down page] http://thestringer.com.au/about-us
"Independent news media contributes to the unfolding landscape of human rights and social justice. It is The Stringer’s aim to provide every opportunity to the rise of voices that far too often are denied. If The Stringer believes in the importance of a story we will sustain coverage - this is what The Stringer terms through-care journalism. The Stringer has become known for breaking stories that others initially were not prepared to investigate and report. The Stringer’s contributors are experts in their fields, our policy is to not indulge armchair journalism. The Stringer looks forward to working as hard as we can to bring to you the stories that matter. ... "
- Background
WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-suicide-and-self-...
(last updated: 11 June 2015)
WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-justice-reinvestment...
(last updated: 14 June 2015)
WGAR Background: Removal of Aboriginal children and the continuing Stolen Generation
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-removal-of-aborigina...
(last updated: 30 May 2015)
- Crisis Support - Talk to Someone - 24-hours/day 7-days/week :
Emergency:
For immediate assistance when life may be in danger
Call 000
https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/emergency
Lifeline's 24/7 hotline
13 11 14
Crisis Support and Suicide Prevention services
https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/
Suicide Call Back Service
1300 659 467
Twenty-four hours a day seven days a week
The Suicide Call Back Service provides free nationwide professional telephone and online counselling for anyone affected by suicide.
https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/
Beyond Blue
1300 22 4636
Depression. Anxiety.
Talk it through with us, day or night
http://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/get-immediate-support
Useful national contact numbers - Suicide Prevention Crisis Contacts
http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Suicide_Pr...
Mens Line
1300 78 99 78
MensLine Australia is a professional telephone and online support and information service for Australian men
http://www.mensline.org.au/
Kids Help Line
1800 55 1800
aged 5 - 25 yrs
http://www.kidshelp.com.au/
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