WGAR News: Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders: Global Freedom Movement Media

Newsletter date: 17 April 2015

Contents:

* Extended Insightful Audio/Video Interview: Aimee Devlin & Brendan D. Murphy, Global Freedom Movement Media:
Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders [Featuring Bella & Herbert Bropho]

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Matargarup, home to the homeless - a safe space - take heed City of Perth Councillors
* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Jennifer Kaeshagen sets up The First Nations Homelessness Project

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Another misguided reductionist plan to reduce rates of suicide & self-harm

* News Analysis: NACCHO Health & Justice News: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 24th anniversary but still in crisis
* News Analysis: NACCHO Prison Health News: Prisons are a poor substitute for primary and mental health care
* News Analysis: Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: Change the narrative to stop Aboriginal incarceration
* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: We are about to stop jailing fine defaulters - to the critics, do not naively criticise this away

* Upcoming Event: 6th SNAICC National Conference - 15-17 September 2015, Perth: For Our Children - Community Voices: Sharing Knowledge & Practice
* Upcoming Event: facebook: Special Forum: 7 May 2015, Adelaide: ‎'How would you like to be me?' "key issues facing First Peoples today"
[Panel includes: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Michael Ghillar Anderson, Alison Anderson, Tauto Sansbury, Jeff McMullen & Gerry Georgatos]

* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
* WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities
* WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody
* WGAR Background Info Web-Pages

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

- Extended Insightful Audio/Video Interview

Global Freedom Movement Media: Land Grab In The Outback:
Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders

http://globalfreedommovement.org/land-grab-in-the-outback-australia-unit...
4 Apr 15: "Right now we are in the midst of a battle to prevent the final corporate takeover of the traditional homelands of the landmass commonly known as "Australia" by hostile foreign powers of the NWO (a.k.a. the “Australian Government”). It is a thinly veiled process of displacement, "assimilation," and ultimately genocide which has outraged great swathes of not only the Australian population, but even significant activist groups abroad. ... Joining Gerry Georgatos will be Bella and Herbert Bropho, other elders and young people, to share their stories live from Matargarup."

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: Matargarup, home to the homeless - a safe space - take heed City of Perth Councillors
http://thestringer.com.au/matargarup-home-to-the-homeless-a-safe-space-t...
11 Apr 15: "Homelessness is on the increase. Children - babies and toddlers - sleeping on Australia’s streets, in cars, in condemned squats and traps, in alleyways, in tents in bush outskirts off city highways or in caravan parks minus the caravan. Australia’s cities are harsh on the homeless; they have no homeless friendly precincts. Take one of Australia’s wealthiest cities - Perth - it is extraordinarily harsh on its poorest - the homeless. But in Perth, for 40 days now, a safe space for the poorest, a friendly precinct has been manufactured - Matargarup refugee camp. ... " By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist

- News Analysis

The Stringer: Jennifer Kaeshagen sets up The First Nations Homelessness Project
http://thestringer.com.au/jennifer-kaeshagen-sets-up-the-first-nations-h...
22 Feb 15: "The Stringer is not just your average news site. Founded by Jennifer Kaeshagen, The Stringer coordinates advocacy in addition to its news reporting, features and opining. Ms Kaeshagen early this year made a personal commitment to attempt to house over the course of 2015 one hundred First Nations people experiencing homelessness in Perth, Western Australia. Without delay she launched The First Nations Homelessness Project. On track to housing 100 people, seven weeks into this year she has found homes for 12 people. ... " By Gerry Georgatos

"To support or be supported by The First Nations Homelessness Project, email contact@thestringer.com.au or phone/text 0449 655 282." Jennifer Kaeshagen, coordinator

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: Another misguided reductionist plan to reduce rates of suicide & self-harm
http://thestringer.com.au/another-misguided-reductionist-plan-to-reduce-...
11 Apr 15: "Yesterday, the Northern Territory Government released another near useless policy plan in the hope that it can reduce rates of suicide, self-harm and the impacts of self-harm. It will not achieve any of this because it does not go to the heart of the problems. It does not go to overall social health, does not go to the suite of social determinants and to the suite of psycho-social determinants, to self-determination, to what ‘empowerment’ should and truly means. The Government’s reported, the NT Suicide Prevention Strategic Action Plan 2015-2018, is more cheap hogwash, ... " By Gerry Georgatos

- News Analysis

NACCHO Health & Justice News: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 24th anniversary but still in crisis
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
http://nacchocommunique.com/2015/04/15/naccho-health-justice-news-aborig...
15 Apr 15: "We believe that with investment in early intervention, and prevention and diversion strategies to address the root causes and help break the cycle of contact with the criminal justice system, we can reduce incarceration and violence rates. But it will take a concerted effort by communities, organisations and governments - an effort that lives on beyond election cycles. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people know the issues intimately - we live them every day - and how they can start to be addressed, but we can’t do it alone."

"Shane Duffy chairman of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services and Kirstie Parker co-chairwoman of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples write in todays Australian ... "

- News Analysis

NACCHO Prison Health News: Prisons are a poor substitute for primary and mental health care
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
http://nacchocommunique.com/2015/04/13/naccho-prison-health-news-prisons...
13 Apr 15: "An ongoing issue in Australia, which we have failed to reverse - just as we have failed to close the gap - is the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our prisons. Nationally, the rate of imprisonment for ATSI people was 13 times higher than for non-Indigenous people at June 30, 2014. This figure covers a diverse situation across the nation. In Western Australia, ATSI men and women are 18 times more times likely than non-Indigenous Australians to be imprisoned in WA, whereas in Tasmania the rate is four times higher."

- News Analysis

Croakey - the Crikey health blog: Change the narrative to stop Aboriginal incarceration
http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/04/10/change-the-narrative-to-stop-aborigi...
10 Apr 15: " ... The public health blog Croakey has launched a crowd-funding project that aims to produce a series of articles highlighting effective solutions for stopping the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In launching the #JustJustice project yesterday, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda said over-incarceration is a "public health catastrophe" and a "terrible waste of taxpayers’ money". ... " Melissa Sweet, health journalist and Croakey co-ordinator

- News Analysis

The Stringer: We are about to stop jailing fine defaulters - to the critics, do not naively criticise this away
http://thestringer.com.au/we-are-about-to-stop-jailing-fine-defaulters-t...
14 Mar 15: "Prison is a heartbreaking experience - a damaging one. In general it is my view that people come out of prison worse than what they went in. Wherever possible I would support any policy that ensures other options to jailing people. One quarter of the Western Australian prison population is comprised of poverty related fine defaulters. The prison experience ruins lives. I was disturbed by the ill-informed comments of a couple of well-meaning grassroots activists who criticised an alternative option to the jailing of fine defaulters. ... " By Gerry Georgatos

- Upcoming Event

6th SNAICC National Conference - 15-17 September 2015, Perth
For Our Children - Community Voices: Sharing Knowledge & Practice

Hosted by The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC)
http://www.snaicc.org.au/conference/
" ... This will be the first SNAICC National conference held at Perth's Convention Centre, located on the northern bank of the Swan River in the land of the traditional owners the Noongar people. ...
The conference has become the largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family issues conference in the southern hemisphere. It will feature local and international keynote speakers and over 70 concurrent sessions, yarning circles and workshops to choose from.
Delegates and speakers will gather from around the country and some from overseas to discuss our challenges and share our knowledge and experiences in raising happy, healthy and confident children in our communities.
As well as providing a powerful and inspiring learning experience for all attendees it will also provide opportunities to meet and experience some the richness and culture of our Aboriginal communities in the west. ... "

[Ed. note: Early Bird registration to the conference will open from 4 May 2015. To register and for all the latest updates visit the conference website at www.snaicc.org.au/conference ]

- Upcoming Event

facebook: Special Forum: ‎'How would you like to be me?'
Hosted by First Nations' Advocates for Rights and Equality
https://www.facebook.com/events/348209758701730/
Allan Scott Auditorium, Uni SA, ... Adelaide
Thursday 7th May 2015

"Dear Friends. If you only go to one thing this year, this must be it. On Thursday 7th May, we are holding a very special forum with an incredible panel of speakers from across the nation. Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Michael Ghillar Anderson, Alison Anderson, Tauto Sansbury, Jeff McMullen and Gerry Georgatos will all bring their wealth of knowledge, experience and perspectives on the key issues facing First Peoples today. This forum is about a dialogue between our guests and you our audience to share ideas for a better future. Bring your family, friends and your neighbours because this forum will be eye opening, inclusive and constructive. Also, entertaining us with his song 'How would you like to be me?' will be Aboriginal rap artist Caper. ... " Nadine Schoen

Public Forum Flyer: http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement

- Background

WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/08/background-plans-to-close-aboriginal...
(last updated: 16 April 2015)

- Background

WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-the-aboriginal-so...
(last updated: 12 April 2015)

- 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: 27 February 2015)

- Background

WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-justice-reinvestment...
(last updated: 4 April 2015)

- Background

WGAR Background Info Web-Pages
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-info-web-pages
(last updated: 16 April 2015)

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WGAR News: WA Government Deregisters World's Oldest Rock Art Collection As Sacred Site: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/05/08/wgar-news-wa-government-deregisters-...

Contents:

* News Analysis: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: WA Government Deregisters World's Oldest Rock Art Collection As Sacred Site
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Tim Douglas & Wilfred Hicks - Burrup Rock Art Site - spiritual & cultural importance
* Audio: Ninah Kopel, The Wire: 'Sacred' title eroded from ancient Indigenous art [Featuring Robin Chapple, Judith Hugo & Thor Kerr]
* Media Release: Greens spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs Robin Chapple MLC: Ancient rock art not sacred enough
* News Analysis: Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF): ACF raises serious concerns about Aboriginal sacred sites de-listing in WA
* News Analysis: Simon Ludgate, Your News Wire: Call for review of protection of ancient Aboriginal sites in Western Australia
* News Analysis: Simon Ludgate, Your News Wire: Australian heritage site in danger from government sanctioned mining

* Background Video: Robin Chapple MLC, Greens (WA): FARA 2015 Burrup/Murujuga heritage tour [FARA: Friends of Australian Rock Art]
* Background: Facebook: Stand Up for the Burrup: https://www.facebook.com/StandUpForTheBurrup
* Background: Jude Dineley, Australian Geographic: Burrup Peninsula rock art among world's oldest

* Homepage of the Aboriginal Heritage Action Alliance (AHAA): http://aboriginalheritagewa.com/
* News Analysis: AHAA: Kimberley Land Council condemn AHA amendments and community closures at United Nations
* Video: Robin Chapple MLC, Greens (WA): The KLC petition on the amendments to the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972
* Audio Interview: AHAA: Late Night Live: Threats to Aboriginal heritage [Featuring Clayton Lewis & Prof Peter Veth]
* Videos: NITV News: WA Whistleblower 1: Allegations of Bullying, Intimidation in WA Dept of Aboriginal Affairs

* Background: Thor Kerr & Shaphan Cox, The Conversation: Frustration rises over changes to the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act

WGAR News: For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/17/wgar-news-for-the-record-sovereignty...

Contents:

* Historical Analysis: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded
* Analysis: Aboriginal Genocide: 2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide
* Audio/Video Interview: Aimee Devlin & Brendan D. Murphy, Global Freedom Movement Media:
Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders [Featuring Bella & Herbert Bropho]

* Background: CPA - Campaigns: 13 Points on Land Rights for Aboriginal People
* Background Letter: Michael Anderson 2011, Sovereign Union: Ethnocide: A crime equal to genocide - Letter to UN Comminssioner for Human Rights
* Background Historical Analysis: Michael Anderson 2009, Sovereign Union: 'That Word' Treaty - The Value of Historical Insights
* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement

WGAR News: White cops, Black victims - Perth is to Western Australia, what Birmingham was to Alabama: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/25/wgar-news-white-cops-black-victims-p...

Contents:

* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: White cops, Black victims - Perth is to Western Australia, what Birmingham was to Alabama

* Facebook: The Stringer: "Official statement from Elder Bella Bropho, of the Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp (Heirisson Island, Perth ... )"

* Video: Network Ten: Forced closure rally
* News & Video: Sky News: Protesters clash with police at WA rally
* News & Video: Phil Hickey, Perth Now: Heirisson Island camp Indigenous leaders protest at State Parliament
* News: Brendan Foster, WA Today: Parliament House protest: ugly scenes as police make arrests

* Event Poster: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, facebook: "We would like to confirm that that 2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015."
* Facebook: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia: https://www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia

* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

WGAR News: Radioactive racism in the Wild West - WA takes aim at remote communities: Mia Pepper, Eco-Shout

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/26/wgar-news-radioactive-racism-in-the-...

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Mia Pepper, Eco-Shout: Radioactive racism in the Wild West - WA takes aim at remote communities

* Video Special report back: Paddy Gibson, Stop the Intervention: First Nations Peoples and Australian Government Policy - What happened to the Intervention?
[Paddy also discussed of how the policy architecture of the Intervention is expanding across the country to include the threat of closure of WA homelands]

* Photo Essay: Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: Perth rally resists closure of Aboriginal communities, police harassment

* Audio Interview: CAAMA Radio: Maori leader shows his support for Aboriginal people [Featuring Hone Harawira, the leader of New Zealand's Mana Party]

* Analysis / Opinion: Jack Wilkie-Jans, The Age: Learn from history, forced closure of remote communities not the solution
* Analysis / Opinion: Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: Stand up against community closures
* Analysis / Opinion: Scott Mitchell, VICE News: Australian Aboriginal Communities Under Threat of Closure Take Their Case to the UN
* Analysis / Opinion: Tyson Baird, Green Left: Why health care in remote communities is not a 'lifestyle choice'

* Upcoming Event - 26 May 2015, Perth: Jemma Nott, Green Left: Convergence to help Aboriginal communities fight against communities' closure [Featuring Grandmothers Against Removals]

* Upcoming Event Info: Locations of 1 May 2015 Protests, around Australia and Internationally, against forced closure of Aboriginal communities, as of 23 Apr 15: #SOSblakaustralia: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58824
* Upcoming Event Poster: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, facebook: "We would like to confirm that that 2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015."
* Facebook: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia: https://www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia

* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

* WGAR Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* WGAR Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

WGAR News: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra: Indymedia Australia

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/20/wgar-news-anzac-day-2015-undeclared-...

Newsletter date: 20 April 2015

Contents:

* Frontier Wars Homepage: Sovereign Union: The Undeclared Frontier Wars: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/frontier-wars

* Upcoming Event: Indymedia Australia: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra - ACT
* Upcoming Event Flyer: Sovereign Union - Gatherings / Events: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/gatherings-events
* Current Event: Peacebus: Frontier War Storytelling Camp 2015 at Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra

* Media Release: Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: ANZAC Day - for those who served in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations

* Videos: Sovereign Union: Undeclared Frontier Wars Anzac Day Commemoration Videos [Anzac Day Marches 2011, 2012 & 2013]
* Video: akaWACA, YouTube: Frontier Wars Remembrance, Aboriginal ANZAC day, Canberra 2014
* Event Analysis: Ray Jackson, Sovereign Union: ANZAC day: Black Diggers buck the given history of "white men's business"

* Analysis / Opinion: Padraic Gibson, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, UTS: Imperialism, ANZAC nationalism and the Aboriginal experience of warfare
* Audio & Video: Sovereign Union: 50 Aboriginal trackers left behind after the Boer War

* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement

WGAR News: Aboriginal Group To Shadow ANZAC Day March And Highlight Frontier Wars: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/24/wgar-news-aboriginal-group-to-shadow...

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Aboriginal Group To Shadow ANZAC Day March And Highlight Frontier Wars
* Analysis / Opinion: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Gallipoli Could Never Define Australia Like This War Did

* Upcoming Event: Indymedia Australia: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra - ACT
* Upcoming Event Flyer: Sovereign Union - Gatherings / Events: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/gatherings-events
* Frontier Wars Homepage: Sovereign Union: The Undeclared Frontier Wars: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/frontier-wars
* Audio: Melissa Lahoud, The Wire: Lest we Forget: Aboriginal people want their battles acknowledged [Featuring Graeme Dunstan & Dr Timothy Bottoms]

* Analysis / Opinion: Nicholas Clements, NITV News: Comment: Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember?
* Audio Interviews: Cassandra Tim & Warren Barnsley, NIRS Weekly News-in-Review: ANZAC centenary special: Honouring Indigenous service men and women
* Analysis / Opinion: Timothy Bottoms, The Canberra Times: Why we ought to be remembering the frontier wars on Anzac Day

* Background: WGAR News: Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of war: John Pilger, The Guardian
* Background: WGAR News: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra: Indymedia Australia
* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

WGAR News: Maori Party issues scathing letter to Tony Abbott regarding treatment of Aboriginal people: Claire Trevett, New Zealand Herald

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/21/wgar-news-maori-party-issues-scathin...

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Belinda Grant Geary, Daily Mail Australia: 'The first thing that strikes me about Australia is how racist this place is': Writer claims our treatment of Aborigines is WORSE than apartheid South Africa
* Analysis / Opinion: Sisonke Msimang, Africa is a Country: Is There a Place Where White People Are More Committed to Faux Race Blindness than South Africa?

* News Analysis: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Maori Leader Brands Tony Abbott A 'Racist B*stard' Over Remote Closure Plans
* News Analysis: Eru Rerekura, Radio New Zealand News: Harawira has message for Australian PM

* Media Release: Maori Party letter to the Australian Prime Minister
* Video: Te Karere TVNZ, YouTube: Maori Party calls out Australian PM on treatment of Aboriginal people
* News Analysis: Claire Trevett, New Zealand Herald: Maori Party issues scathing letter to Tony Abbott regarding treatment of Aboriginal people
* News: Dan Conifer, ABC News: New Zealand Maori Party condemns potential closure of Aboriginal communities in open letter to Tony Abbott

* News Analysis & Video: Numia Ponika-Rangi, Maori Television: Opposition groups enraged ahead of Abbotts arrival to NZ
* News Analysis & Video: Rewa Harriman, Maori Television: Native Affairs - End Of The Dreamtime
* Latest News & Videos: Top topic: Australia - Maori Television

* Statement: Green Left: New NT group says fund and support self-determination for Aboriginal communities
* Audio: Warren Barnsley, NIRS: Community closures threaten spiritual identity: KALACC

* Upcoming Event: 1 May 2015, Rally at Belmore Park, Sydney - National Day of Action: Speakers: Aunty Jenny Munro, John Pilger, Gwenda Stanley & reps from WA communities
* Event Poster: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, facebook: "We would like to confirm that that 2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015."
* Facebook: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia: https://www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia

* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
* WGAR Background: Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

WGAR News: Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of war: John Pilger, The Guardian

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/23/wgar-news-evicting-indigenous-austra...

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: John Pilger, The Guardian: Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of war

* Video Special report back: Paddy Gibson, Stop the Intervention: First Nations Peoples and Australian Government Policy - What happened to the Intervention? 20 April 2015

* News Analysis & Video: Maiki Sherman, Maori Television: Protest against closure of Aboriginal communities continues to gain momentum
* News: Maiki Sherman, Maori Television: Marama Fox to attend protest against closure of Aboriginal communities in Australia
* Latest News & Videos: Indigenous - Maori Television: http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/latest-news/indigenous
* News Analysis: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Maori Leader Brands Tony Abbott A 'Racist B*stard' Over Remote Closure Plans

* Community Solidarity Action Sign-on Statement: Green Left: New NT group says fund and support self-determination for Aboriginal communities

* Upcoming Event: 1 May 2015, Melbourne - rally and march against the forced closures of Aboriginal communities, facebook
* Upcoming Event: 1 May 2015, Sydney Rally May 1: National Day of Action: Stop the forced closure of Aboriginal communities, Stoptheintervention_announce
* Event Call: Mudgin-Gal calls for organisations to close early May 1 in solidarity with NDA, Stoptheintervention_announce
* Event Poster: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, facebook: "We would like to confirm that that 2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015."
* Facebook: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia: https://www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia

* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
* WGAR Background: Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

WGAR News: 'Systemic Racism' Of WA Remote Community Closures Savaged At United Nations: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/23/wgar-news-systemic-racism-of-wa-remo...

Contents:

* News Analysis: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: 'Systemic Racism' Of WA Remote Community Closures Savaged At United Nations
* News Analysis: Kimberley Land Council: KLC condemns community closures at United Nations
* News Analysis: Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian: UN forum backs fight against closure of remote Aboriginal communities in WA

* Audio Interview: RN Drive, ABC: Australian lawyer to chair top UN indigenous body [Featuring Megan Davis]
* Background: UN News Centre: As Forum opens, deputy UN chief says 2015 a 'critical year' for world's indigenous peoples
* Background: United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Fourteenth Session of the Permanent Forum

* Analysis / Opinion: John Pilger.com, The secret country again wages war on its own people

* News: Online News Team, Maori Television: Events planned worldwide to support Aboriginal communities on May 1st
* News: Maiki Sherman, Maori Television: Labour outlines concerns on Aborigine communities in letter to Australian Labor Party
* Latest News & Videos: Indigenous - Maori Television: http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/latest-news/indigenous

* News & Video: Phil Hickey, Perth Now: Heirisson Island camp Indigenous leaders protest at State Parliament
* News: Brendan Foster, WA Today: Parliament House protest: ugly scenes as police make arrests
* Facebook: The Stringer: "Official statement from Elder Bella Bropho, of the Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp"

* Event Poster: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, facebook: "We would like to confirm that that 2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015."
* Facebook: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia: https://www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia

* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

WGAR News: White cops, Black victims - Perth is to Western Australia, what Birmingham was to Alabama: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/25/wgar-news-white-cops-black-victims-p...

Contents:

* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: White cops, Black victims - Perth is to Western Australia, what Birmingham was to Alabama

* Facebook: The Stringer: "Official statement from Elder Bella Bropho, of the Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp (Heirisson Island, Perth ... )"

* Video: Network Ten: Forced closure rally
* News & Video: Sky News: Protesters clash with police at WA rally
* News & Video: Phil Hickey, Perth Now: Heirisson Island camp Indigenous leaders protest at State Parliament
* News: Brendan Foster, WA Today: Parliament House protest: ugly scenes as police make arrests

* Event Poster: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, facebook: "We would like to confirm that that 2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015."
* Facebook: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia: https://www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia

* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

WGAR News: Seven per cent of the Kimberley homeless!: Gerry Georgatos interviewed by CAAMA's Kyle Dowling

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/05/06/wgar-news-seven-per-cent-of-the-kimb...

Contents:

* Audio Interview: Kyle Dowling, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA): Seven per cent of the Kimberley homeless! [Featuring Gerry Georgatos]
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Seven per cent of the Kimberley homeless - but hey, who cares?
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Perth City Council fob off Matargarup homeless & say they cannot help homeless

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 52 times more likely to go to jail - Aboriginal children jailed at the world's highest rate

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: St*ff the reports, research - Sam Cook has shown the way, let's hit the streets to end the racism

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Plato said engage with our politicians or risk being governed by the 'dumb' - "the suicides crises"
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Another misguided reductionist plan to reduce rates of suicide & self-harm

* Crisis Support - Talk to Someone - 24-hour/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 Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody
* WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities
* WGAR Background Info Web-Pages