WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/
- Background
Reconciliation Australia:
Five Fast Facts - Indigenous Candidates in the Federal Election (19 August 2010)
http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home/reconciliation-resources/facts---f...
ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation:
Election 2010: Towards justice, rights and reconciliation?
An analysis of the major parties’ Indigenous affairs election platforms
http://www.antar.org.au/sites/default/files/ANTaR%20election%20analysis%...
- Media Release
Workers Bush Telegraph: Greens beat Labor in remote Central Australia
http://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2010/08/24/greens-beat-labor-in-remot...
24 Aug 10: "Greens candidates for both Lingiari and the Senate have clearly outpolled Labor in remote Central Australian communities this election, in a shock swing that condemns the NT Intervention. A tally of all remote teams south of Tennant Creek shows that for the seat of Lingiari, Greens candidate Barbara Shaw received 905 votes to Warren Snowdon’s 840. In the Senate Warren H Williams received 998 votes to Labor’s 941. ... “These results show a deep hostility to the NT Intervention, the Shire takeover and nuclear projects planned for Aboriginal land. They reflect support for the campaigns demanding an end to the Intervention and investment in jobs, services and community development which the Greens have vocally supported”, said Barbara Shaw, Greens candidate for Lingiari. ... "
See also: Australian Greens: Barbara Shaw - Candidate for Lingiari: http://greens.org.au/lingiari
- News
Koori Mail: Greens: Remote voters rejected Snowdon
[scroll down page] http://www.koorimail.com/index.php
24 Aug 10: "THE Australian Greens’ say hostility towards the NT Intervention and planned nuclear projects helps to account for the party’s strong showing at several key polling booths. Labor incumbent Warren Snowdon was returned in the seat of Lingiari but with a much reduced margin. At last count, Greens candidate and vocal NT Intervention critic Barb Shaw had outpolled both Mr Snowdon and Country Liberal Party candidate Leo Abbott in several booths south of Tennant Creek."
ABC: Intervention cost Labor votes: NT minister
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/24/2991557.htm
24 Aug 10: "The Minister for Central Australia, Karl Hampton, says the federal intervention contributed to a swing against Labor in the Northern Territory. The Labor Member for Lingiari, Warren Snowdon, retained the seat, which covers almost all of the Territory, but his vote in remote areas dropped by a third."
Green Left: Anti-intervention vote high in NT communities
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45184
24 Aug 10: "Barb Shaw, a well-known Aboriginal activist from Alice Springs’ town camps who has campaigned tirelessly against the Northern Territory intervention, doubled the Greens’ vote in the huge NT seat of Lingiari, poking holes in the government’s claims that Aboriginal people support the intervention. ... Shaw scored 12.56% but, the Greens said, in all remote Aboriginal communities south of Tennant Creek, Shaw beat ALP incumbent Warren Snowdon." Peter Robson
Koori Mail: Greens: Hasluck still undecided
[scroll down page] http://www.koorimail.com/index.php
24 Aug 10: "COUNTING is still underway in the electorate of Australia's would-be first Indigenous member of the House of Representatives. At about six o’clock tonight, Liberal candidate for the Perth metropolitan seat of Hasluck Ken Wyatt was ahead of Labor incumbent Sharryn Jackson by less than 600 votes, on a two-party preferred basis. The seat is considered crucial in determining the balance of power in the Lower House."
ABC: Major parties 'underestimated' Indigenous voters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/23/2991045.htm
23 Aug 10: "Indigenous leaders say Aboriginal people abandoned the major parties on Saturday because neither was offering them anything of substance. Larrakia woman Donna Jackson, who was at today's opening of the World Indigenous Women and Wellness Conference in Darwin, says the major parties failed to offer anything to Aboriginal people and are paying for it. "The swing towards the Greens is because they are actually speaking it when they stand up, they are not giving us rhetoric," she said."
news.com.au: Federal election vote makes history
http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/federal-election-vote-m...
22 Aug 10: "The Liberals look on track to deliver the first Aboriginal MP to the House of Representatives, with Ken Wyatt ahead of his rival in the Western Australian seat of Hasluck. Fewer than 400 votes separated him from sitting Labor MP Sharryn Jackson on Sunday, but Mr Wyatt, who is of Noongar, Yamatji and Wongi heritage, said he was confident "we will fall over the line"."
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WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)