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WGAR News: Michael Mansell talks TREATY - Brisbane Blacks interview: Aboriginal Provisional Government

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 06/03/2014 - 10:45am

Newsletter date: 7 March 2014

Contents:

* Aboriginal Provisional Government: Michael Mansell talks TREATY - Brisbane Blacks interview
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson and Mary Graham about Treaties and Constitutional Recognition
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Chris Graham about Warren Mundine’s Treaty comments, Utopia by John Pilger and Constitutional Recognition
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
* Background to Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples

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Northern Territory Intervention

International news and opinion

treaty

Gerry Georgatos

Workers Bush Telegraph

warren mundine

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples

Tiga Bayles

Let's Talk

constitutional recognition

Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Aboriginal Provisional Government

Brisbane Blacks interview

Warren Mundine’s Treaty comments

Utopia by John Pilger

Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia

Aboriginal Sovereign Nations

NACCHO Aboriginal health

Hostility to Utopia film a denial of nation’s brutal past

Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed

Ian Curr

Hamish Chitts

Pilbara's Yaburara People

WGAR News: Good intentions aren't enough to close the gap: NATSILS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 05/03/2014 - 2:16pm

Newsletter date: 6 March 2014

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: The Lost Generations

* NATSILS: Good intentions aren't enough to close the gap
* National Congress: Justice Targets: Crucial drivers of change
* ANTaR: Justice Targets are needed for action on Aboriginal Jobs and Education

* NAAJA: Australia’s prison spend is a cost we cannot sustain

* The Stringer: Gerry Georgatos speaks outside Redfern Police Station - T.J. Hickey rally 2014
* Peter Boyle, Green Left: Photos: Justice for T J Hickey 10th anniversary protest

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WGAR News: NT legal services express concern about operation of Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Scheme

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 04/03/2014 - 5:14pm

Newsletter date: 5 March 2014

Contents:

* NT legal services express their serious concern about the operation of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Scheme
in a joint submission to the NTG's Six Month Review of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act.
* Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

* NACCHO Congress Alice Springs News: Effective partnerships in Aboriginal community controlled health sector could be copied in housing and employment
* Nicholas Biddle, CAEPR ANU: Residential Segregation: Income and Housing Dimensions

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Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Campaign against $500,000 funding cut to [Aboriginal] education [in NSW]: Myles Morgan, NITV

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 04/03/2014 - 11:22am

Newsletter date: 4 March 2014

Contents:

* Myles Morgan, NITV: Campaign against $500,000 funding cut to education [in NSW]
* AECSL - Aboriginal Early Childhood Support & Learning, YouTube: AECSL Awareness Campaign: www.make.my/aecslcampaign
* CommunityRun Petition: Provide funding for AECSL to continue its support and advocacy work
* Padraic Gibson, The Guardian: Tony Abbott's cuts directly hurt Aboriginal children

* SNAICC News: Aboriginal community-controlled services need funding

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Canberra

New South Wales

Australia

WGAR News: James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away: ABC Kimberley

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 28/02/2014 - 5:07pm

Newsletter date: 1 March 2014

Contents:

* ABC Kimberley: James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens express 'deep sadness' over loss of Goolarabooloo law man
* ABC Indigenous: Greens pay tribute to Broome Indigenous leader
* Andrew Burrell, The Australian: James Price Point campaigner Mr Roe dies
* Background to the Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

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Canberra

Australia

Western Australia

The under-representation of Aboriginal people in the Media

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 27/02/2014 - 1:16pm

The under-representation of Aboriginal people in the Media.

By Paul O'Hanlon

As someone who has taken a keen interest in Australian films and TV series over the years I feel that Aborigines are under-represented in Australian media as they are in so many other aspects of Australian life. One 2006 study found that while no newspaper managers interviewed believed their papers were racist most Aboriginal interviewees believed that mainstream newspapers “failed Aborigines dismally” .

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Northern Territory Intervention

WGAR News: Tiga Bayles interviews Robert & Selina Eggington about youth suicide & incarceration rates

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 26/02/2014 - 12:37pm

Newsletter date: 27 February 2014

Contents:

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Robert & Selina Eggington about First Nations youth suicide and incarceration rates
* Perth Indymedia Radio Show: Robert Eggington of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation reading a piece that was to be published in 'The West Australian'
* Perth Indymedia Radio Show: Gerry Georgatos on the Aboriginal suicide crisis - from tragic to catastrophic
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Senator Ludlam speaks up on the suicides crisis and for Dumbartung

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Australia

Western Australia

From Sydney to Nantes, resistance & sabotage

Submitted by autonomousactions on Tue, 25/02/2014 - 7:01am

On the evening of the 22nd of Feburary we vandalised the local headquarters of VINCI and their subsidiary company 'Advitam' in the Seven Hills industrial zone in western Sydney.
Some windows were cracked, and the slogans: “AGAINST VINCI AND ITS WORLD” &
“THE ZAD IS EVERYWHERE” were painted.

This small act was made in response to a call for actions in solidarity with the monumental struggle in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France, against an airport which Vinci has been contracted to build.

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The Betrayal of Julian Assange

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 24/02/2014 - 11:10pm

By Robyn Irene - February 23rd, 2014 - Truth changes everything. There is a kind of automatic reaction involved when factual information comes into the public sphere — whether that be the life of a country or an individual. Hidden secrets, the exposure of dirty washing, call it what you will, once we know what is concealed, we feel empowered.More so when our understanding of situations and complex scenarios is complete. The full story is the only story. It is only when we know that we can even begin to properly assess a situation, in our own lives, or in our world.

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WGAR News: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?: Eva Cox, The Conversation

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 24/02/2014 - 4:25pm

Newsletter date: 25 February 2014

Contents:

* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?
* SNAICC News: Disappointing sense of deja vu on closing the gap - Article by Angela Webb in The Australian 13 February 2014
* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): ALS calls for Justice Targets to be incorporated into Closing the Gap
* CAAMA Radio: Working together… [Featuring Barbara Shaw discussing the National Apology and Closing the Gap report]

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