Newsletter date: 11 July 2015; last updated 13 July 2015 at 9:30pm AEST
Contents:
* Video & Story: NITV: Meet the NAIDOC Person of the Year - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
* Video: NITV: Stirring acceptance speech from NAIDOC Person of the Year - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
* Video & Story: NITV: Tauto Sansbury - Lifetime Achievement Award
* Audio Interview: Ninah Kopel & Francine Crimmins, The Wire: Tauto Sansbury wins the NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award [Featuring Tauto Sansbury, Aboriginal Advocate]
* Audio Interview: CAAMA Radio: 2015 NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award: Tauto Sansbury
* Story: ABC News: SA Aboriginal campaigner Tauto Sansbury honoured with national NAIDOC award
* Videos, Photos & Stories: NITV: NAIDOC 2015: the Awards and stories behind them
* Background Compilation: Respect and Listen: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, OAM: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/rosalie-kunoth-monks.html
* WGAR Background Info Web-Pages: https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/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)
- Video & Story
NITV: Meet the NAIDOC Person of the Year - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2015/07/08/meet-naidoc-person-year-ro...
11 Jul 15: "Rosalie Kunoth Monks has had a major impact on the nation’s cultural, political and social life for more than half a century. ... [Rosalie] ... continued to advocate for sovereignty and people having access to their land, language and culture. She travels around the country and the world raising awareness of these issues. Rosalie has protested the Northern Territory Intervention for many years. In 2010, at the age of 73, Rosalie travelled with Reverend Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM to Geneva to attend the UN meeting of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, where her concerns about the Northern Territory Intervention were acknowledged internationally. ... "
- Video
NITV: Stirring acceptance speech from NAIDOC Person of the Year - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/video/481857603574/Stirring-acceptance-speech...
9 Jul 15
- Video & Story
NITV: Tauto Sansbury - Lifetime Achievement Award
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2015/07/10/tauto-sansbury-lifetime-ac...
11 Jul 15: "Tauto Sansbury, a Narungga elder, has worked to close the gap in inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for more than 30 years. ... He was recognised in 2003 when he was awarded an Australian Centenary medal "In recognition of work as director of the Aboriginal Justice Advocacy Committee and the National Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee". Tauto’s AJAC role saw him attend 18 deaths in custody with compassion and ensure that he represented the best interests of the families and the deceased. ... Tauto is particularly concerned about the unacceptable levels and impact that suicide is having on Aboriginal communities. ... "
- Audio Interview
The Wire: Tauto Sansbury wins the NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award
Produced by Ninah Kopel and Francine Crimmins
http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=12931
http://www.thewire.org.au/audio/Naidoc%20Tauto%20Sansbury%20online%2013%...
13 Jul 15: "Lifelong Indigenous campaigner Tauto Sansbury has been awarded the NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award to close the gap in Australia. He’s been a vocal force against high indigenous incarceration rates and worked as the chair of the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee for over ten years, during which he attended to 18 deaths in custody. Tauto Sansbury describes his life of advocacy as a battle and we talked to him about the ups and downs."
"Featured in story: Tauto Sansbury, Aboriginal Advocate"
- Audio Interview
CAAMA Radio: 2015 NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award: Tauto Sansbury
http://caama.com.au/2015-naidoc-lifetime-achievement-award-tauto-sansbury
13 Jul 15: "Tauto Sansbury has been recognised and awarded the 2015 NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement for his endless commitment in campaigning to get social justice for Aboriginal people across the country. Mr Sansbury has been campaigning for well over 30 years, Mr Sansbury has also chaired the national Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee."
- Story
ABC News: SA Aboriginal campaigner Tauto Sansbury honoured with national NAIDOC award
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-11/naidoc-gong-for-aboriginal-social-...
11 Jul 15: "Tauto Sansbury has been campaigning for social justice for Aboriginal people for nearly 40 years. Born and raised on an Aboriginal reserve on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, he was presented with the national NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award in Adelaide on Friday night for his commitment to Indigenous advocacy. "It's a passion for me. It doesn't pay much and sometimes it doesn't pay anything, but I continue to do it because I want to achieve something," he says. Mr Sansbury's work has included chairing the national Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee, and monitoring the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. ... "
- Videos, Photos & Stories
NITV: NAIDOC 2015: the Awards and stories behind them
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/storystream/naidoc-2015-awards-and-stories-be...
11 Jul 15: "Videos, photos and stories of all the recipients of 2015 NAIDOC Awards, including mini-documentaries about their life, work and achievements. Plus straight from Adelaide, photos of the NAIDOC gala and acceptances speeches. ... "
- Background Compilation
Respect and Listen: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, OAM:
http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/rosalie-kunoth-monks.html
- Background
WGAR Background Info Web-Pages: https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-info-web-pages
Last updated: 10 July 2015
Archive - Prior to 1 June 2014: WGAR background info web-pages: https://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-background-info...
WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-the-aboriginal-so...
(last updated: 10 July 2015)
WGAR Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/03/26/wgar-background-to-treaties-with-abo...
(last updated: 10 July 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: 4 July 2015)
WGAR Background: Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-aboriginal-peoples-a...
(last updated: 4 July 2015)
WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA (and NT?)
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/08/background-plans-to-close-aboriginal...
(last updated: 4 July 2015)
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: 2 July 2015)
WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/06/08/wgar-background-intervention-into-no...
(last updated 26 June 2015)
Rosalie and Tauto are elected delegates from the Freedom Summit, and Tauto was a convenor of the Freedom Summit:
WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/26/wgar-background-to-the-national-free...
(last updated: 19 February 2015)
WGAR Background to 'The Freedom Summit': Alice Springs 27-28 November 2014
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/11/29/background-to-the-freedom-summit-ali...
(last updated: 26 December 2014)
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