Darwin

WGAR News: Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture 2015. "You can keep your gold. We just want our land back.": The Northern Myth; speech by Jeff McMullen

Newsletter date: 11 August 2015; last updated 11 August 2015 8:30pm AEST

Contents:

* Speech: The Northern Myth: Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture 2015. "You can keep your gold. We just want our land back." [featuring speech by Jeff McMullen]

* Radio Interview: Mornings with Rebecca McLaren, ABC Darwin: Lingiari lecture 2015: Jeff McMullen

WGAR News: Upcoming Events: The Intervention an Anthology book launches + Building Bridges 2015

Newsletter date: 2 August 2015; last updated 10:45am AEST to include Intervention anthology launch on 2 September 2015 Sydney

Contents:

Respect and Listen Compilation: The Intervention: an Anthology:

http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/intervention-anthology.html

WGAR News: Local communities beating back suicide: Neda Vanovac, Yahoo7 News [featuring Youth worker Noeletta McKenzie of Maningrida]

Newsletter date: 17 July 2015; last updated 11:55 am AEST 17 July 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Neda Vanovac, Yahoo7 News: Local communities beating back suicide [featuring Youth worker Noeletta McKenzie of Maningrida, Gerry Georgatos, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks & Tanja Hirvonen]

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: All lives matter - suicides the leading cause of violent deaths

WGAR News: Indigenous suicide a 'humanitarian crisis': Rosalie Kunoth-Monks: SBS News

Newsletter date: 15 July 2015, 9:25am AEST; last updated 10:00am AEST

Contents:

* News: SBS News: Indigenous suicide a 'humanitarian crisis': Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: AMSANT calls on Government to increase mental health funding [featuring Bunaba woman Tanja Hirvonen]

* WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities

New issue of FTP zine out now

Download zine: https://ftpzine.wordpress.com/

“This is the fifth issue of FTP zine, our biannual report on anti-colonial, anti-state resistance, compiled within occupied Cadigal territory.

Like previous issues we have chosen to highlight acts of resistance to the Australian state and its control of this territory, such as attacks on its police, its prisons, its monuments and its schools.

WGAR News: Stories from the long grass: The daily struggle to survive for Darwin's growing number of homeless Indigenous people: Ruby Jones, ABC News

Newsletter date: 1 July 2015

Contents:

* Stories & Photos: Ruby Jones, ABC News: Stories from the long grass: The daily struggle to survive for Darwin's growing number of homeless Indigenous people

* Video: Odyssey Visuals, YouTube: Homeless friendly precincts campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7seoNzttneY

WGAR News: Protests in Adelaide, Darwin & Melbourne against cuts to Aboriginal services & closure of Aboriginal communities

Newsletter date: 27 June 2015

Contents:

Adelaide Protest:

* News Analysis: The Murray Valley Standard: Adelaide rally staged to save aboriginal services

Darwin Protest:

* News Analysis: Nadia Daly, ABC News: Unions protest in Darwin against closure of Aboriginal communities
* News: 9 News: NT parliament march for indigenous rights

WGAR News: Australia's NT Intervention introduced measures that are overtly discriminatory against Aboriginal people: Paddy Gibson of Jumbunna

Newsletter date: 25 June 2015

Contents:

* Audio Interview: CAAMA: Australia's second class citizens legislation written in stone...

[Featuring Paddy Gibson, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS]

* About CAAMA: Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association: http://caama.com.au/
* Overview: UTS Jumbunna - Research Strength