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WGAR News: NATSILS Factsheet: funding cuts to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 21/12/2013 - 7:40pm

Newsletter date: 22 December 2013

Contents:

* NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services: Government to defund Aboriginal Legal Services Peak Body and all Law Reform and Policy Positions
* NATSILS Factsheet: funding cuts to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
* CAALAS - Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service: Cuts to Aboriginal legal aid will silence Aboriginal communities
* NACCHO political health news: Abbott Government cuts to impact on Aboriginal health

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Statistics speak - as we wander into 2014

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 21/12/2013 - 1:54pm

Twenty years ago models weighed six per cent less than the average woman, today they weigh 27 per cent less.
African-Americans are taught in schools that Jefferson was a great man, ignoring the fact that he owned 330 slaves and raped his female slaves.
The United States sells an average of $68 billion in weapons each year to middle eastern dictators and ‘kings’.
Since September 2001, terrorism has killed 4300 civilians, the war on terror has killed more than 2 million civilians.
Americans and Europeans throw away enough edible food to feed every starving person in Africa.

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WGAR News: Aboriginal languages a source of strength: Shyamla Eswaran, Green Left

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 20/12/2013 - 4:37pm

Newsletter date: 21 December 2013

Contents:

* Shyamla Eswaran, Green Left: Aboriginal languages a source of strength
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Curtis Taylor - world's largest digital storytelling archive for 16 language groups
* Claire Bowern, The Conversation: Language nests: a way to revive Indigenous languages at risk
* Chris Raja, ABC Indigenous: Australia is the place of vanishing languages
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools (bilingual education)

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Northern Territory

Western Australia

The Disgrace that is Manus Island

Submitted by 2060 on Fri, 20/12/2013 - 1:24am

Indefinite punishment for refugees. Thanks Kevin Rudd, Thanks Tony Abbott. What a disgrace.

Please read this message from Amnesty’s Graeme McGregor who has just finished a visit to the Manus Island detention centre:

While many journalists have been denied access, our Amnesty research team was let inside. Now for the first time we're able to reveal what life and conditions are like inside this secretive detention centre.

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WGAR News: Coalition stirs the ghost of Jimmie Blacksmith: Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street [99-year leases]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 18/12/2013 - 12:01pm

Newsletter date: 19 December 2013

Contents:

* SMH: Indigenous burning among ancient practices being studied to save eco-systems

* Anna Salleh, ABC Science: Bead currency used in Australia's first export industry

* Benedict Scambary, CAEPR: My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous People, Mining and Development Contestation in Remote Australia

* Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street: Coalition stirs the ghost of Jimmie Blacksmith [99-year leases]
* WGAR News: "Statement by Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM regarding MOUs on township 99 year leases" (11 Nov 13)

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"I spy with my little eye" [ audio ]

Submitted by huxwell on Wed, 18/12/2013 - 9:36am

The era of Snowdon chronicled with sources from news media, movie excerpts, related songs and parodies

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/73276/81026/93154/?url=h...

credits:
"The Abbotts" from 98.9 FM Indigenous Radio Brisbane -

Most non-news clips can be found uncut on youtube - keywords:
espionage, espionage history, secrecy, NSA songs, NSA parody, I spy with my little eye

Movie excerpts: Cypher, The Company, The spy who came in from the cold, Marvel's SHIELD agents, The spying game, Rise of the machines

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WGAR News: Radioactive Show: Maralinga - Muckaty - Medicine: 3CR Community Radio

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 17/12/2013 - 8:00pm

Newsletter date: 18 December 2013

Contents:

* 3CR Community Radio: Radioactive Show: Maralinga - Muckaty - Medicine
[Featuring Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Barb Shaw, Penny Phillips, Isobel Phillips & Michael Fonda]
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* RTRFM: Understorey: Regulating the Nuclear Village
[Featuring Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Uncle Glen Cooke, Kado Muir & Della Rae Morrison]

* Tracker: Federal govt suspends Ranger operations

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Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 17/12/2013 - 11:42am

NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20, 2013. We are a not-for-profit independent news format. We believe in the importance of independent media with a bent for investigative journalism.

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WGAR News: French Government presents human rights award to Indigenous Social Justice Association

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 16/12/2013 - 3:22pm

Newsletter date: 17 December 2013

Contents:

* Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) open letter: Tenth anniversary of TJ Hickey death
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: French Government presents human rights laureate to the Indigenous Social Justice Association
* YouTube: French government recognises Indigenous human rights - NITV SBS

* Deaths In Custody Watch Commitee WA: Build Communities Not Prisons Campaign

* Aboriginal Legal Service of WA: ALSWA hopes report will lead to Aboriginal people being In Safe Custody

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Woodchip mill shut down as protests continue

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 16/12/2013 - 10:11am

Today two conservationists have attached themselves to machinery inside the woodchip mill at Eden, in New South Wales. This is the second protest at the mill in the past week, calling for an end to Nippon Paper's ongoing role in the destruction of Australia's native forests.

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