The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have 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.
On a regular basis we are reaching an audience in excess of 100,000, and we will continue to do our best to reach many more people. Please share this newsletter and spread the word about The Stringer.
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Some of our stories from the last week include:
Prime Minister believes she will win
May 4, 2013
“The message will be she’s been in the trenches, one battle after another and this is who we need on the world stage.”
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYSK5bW...
He looked Indian!
May 4, 2013
“How do you know he’s Indian? The answer was, “He looked Indian.”
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/he-looked-indian/#.UYSKRbWnCaV
John Pilger on racism in Australia
May 4, 2013
The story of the first Australians is still poverty and humiliation, while their land yields the world’s biggest resources boom.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/john-pilger-on-racism-in-australia/#.UYSJzbWnCaV
Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
May 3, 2013
Or when they are strong enough to say to their abuser, “No more”.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/royal-commission-into-institutional-responses-...
Supreme Court decision floors parents of jailed children
May 3, 2013
One said that he was surprised by the decision.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/supreme-court-decision-floors-parents-of-jaile...
KALACC lends it weight to Justice Reinvestment
April 22, 2013
More than one hundred submissions have come from across the country to the Senate Inquiry into Justice Reinvestment.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/kalacc-lends-its-weight-to-justice-reinvestmen...
Ceding sovereignty for a few crumbs
May 2, 2013
The former lawyer said the ILUA is poor compensation for sovereign rights.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/ceding-sovereignty-for-a-few-crumbs/#.UYR__LWnCaV
Butler calls for national action on Lateral Love
May 2, 2013
Without Lateral Love there will be nothing but hate and violence, greed and domination within and towards our people.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/butler-calls-for-national-action-on-lateral-lo...
I agree with Campbell Newman
May 2, 2013
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman demanded that Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott put federal and state relations on the September election agenda
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/i-agree-with-campbell-newman/#.UYSBLrWnCaV
Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates
May 1, 2013
No place for kids, the case for reducing juvenile detention.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/australias-aboriginal-children-detained-at-the...
The Gas Wars
May 1, 2013
He is not only bent on extracting every cubic foot of the 13 trillion cubic feet of natural gas estimated in the Browse Basin but also hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of gas from the wider Canning Basin.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/the-gas-wars-2/#.UYSCHLWnCaV
Rental crisis deepens says Anglicare
April 29, 2013
Less Australians than ever before own a home.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/rental-crisis-deepens-says-anglicare/#.UYSCpLW...
It must be true, I read it on the Net
April 28, 2013
How often have we heard that expression?
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/it-must-be-true-i-read-it-on-the-net/#.UYBlyMo...
John Pilger on Margaret Thatcher
April 28, 2013
Cambodia’s suffering was wilful revenge. Britain and the US even backed Pol Pot’s demand that his man continue to occupy Cambodia’s seat at the UN, while Margaret Thatcher stopped children’s milk going to the survivors of his nightmare regime.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/john-pilger-on-margaret-thatcher-he-reminds-us...
Some of The Stringer’s most widely read stories include:
Cuts to single parent payments lead to hardship
April 2, 2013
“With one in six children living in poverty in Australia, it is unfathomable that, in the face of such a letter of concern from the UN Special Rapporteur, the Federal Government still went ahead with these cuts.”
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/cuts-to-single-parent-payments-lead-to-hardshi...
Australia’s pathway to poverty – bridging visas
March 30, 2013
The Australian Government’s hard on refugees policy is creating an underclass of people – many condemned to an itinerant lifestyle and many condemned to living on the streets.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/australias-pathway-to-poverty-bridging-visas/#...
Australia’s Aboriginal children, the world's highest suicide rate
February 27, 2013
In 2011 the United Nations State of Indigenous Peoples report found that the World’s Indigenous peoples made up one-third of the world’s poorest peoples.
Read more: http://thestringer.com.au/australias-aboriginal-children-the-worlds-high...
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 – in the near future we will bringing interviews from our nation’s political figures, from the rising voices of various cultural waves and from voices who deserve to have more voice.
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. Millions more 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.
Your feedback, news tips, ideas for stories and your own submissions are welcome – you can send any of these into us via the various links on the news site.
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