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O’Farrell plans to shut prisoner halfway houses

Submitted by 2060 on Sun, 29/09/2013 - 2:06am

The NSW government is planning to close seven prisoner halfway houses in a bid to save money.

The homes are designed to help former prisoners reintegrate into the community.

The planned cuts to the parole scheme with affect more than 100 prisoners and 60 public servants will lose their jobs.

The Public Service Association has slammed the move as short sighted and says the cuts may prompt reoffending.

There are also plans to ask charities and NGO’s to run some of the centres.

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WGAR News: Stolen Futures: Paddy Gibson, Overland Literary Journal

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 28/09/2013 - 5:51pm

Newsletter date: 29 September 2013

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* Paddy Gibson, Overland Literary Journal: Stolen Futures
* Callum Denness, Eureka Street: The ethics of paternalism in Aboriginal policy
* A new John Pilger film, Utopia, to be released in UK cinemas in November
* SNAICC News: Brisbane workshop to support healing for survivors of forcible removal
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to 'Keeping Them Home': Campaign against Forced Aboriginal Adoption in the NT

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Fremantle event: Murru: In Memory of John Pat Album Launch

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 28/09/2013 - 1:54pm

Perth and Western Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 29th September 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Murru: In Memory of John Pat Album Launch
"Big hART and the community of Ieramugadu (Roebourne)
proudly present the Album Launch of Murru
- a music collaboration between John Bennett, Shellie Morris,
Emma Donovan, Archie Roach, Lucky Oceans, Harry Hookey,
Bill Chambers, the Last Kinection, Trevor Jamieson,
David Hyams and the Roebourne community."
"Murru is dedicated to John Pat, a 16-year old young man

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WGAR News: "National Day of Action Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody John Pat Died 30 Years Ago"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 27/09/2013 - 10:10am

Newsletter date: 27 September 2013

Contents:

* Upcoming Events - National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
* Deaths in Custody Watch Committee WA: National Day of Action Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody John Pat Died 30 Years Ago - Still No Justice!
* Deaths in Custody Watch Committee WA: National Day of Action - your support can make a difference
* The Wire: Aboriginal deaths in custody, remembering John Pat [Featuring Marc Newhouse and Rodney Dillon]
* SBS Radio News: Anniversary of deaths in custody Royal Commission

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Refugees: out of sight, out of mind

Submitted by Diet Simon on Wed, 25/09/2013 - 2:26pm

Commentary in the Sunshine Coast Daily, click the attached Pdf.

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Plan 2050: new borders for a new Australia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 24/09/2013 - 10:39pm

MEDIA RELEASE - OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR SAFER MIGRATION

Today the Government launches Plan 2050, positioning our country as a world leader in responsible and resilient migration policy.

Australia has one of the most diverse and thriving communities in the world, and we need to build on it with a migration policy that looks to the future.

The Government will be replacing closed, dangerous borders with a politics of cooperation and support.

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Tony Abbott's plan to silence NGO’s

Submitted by 2060 on Tue, 24/09/2013 - 2:40am

Just a few days in and the Abbott government has announced plans to make green boycotts illegal.

Parliamentary secretary for agriculture Richard Colbeck says he wants to “prevent green groups from holding companies to ransom”

This means environmental groups and community organisations will be gagged if they ask consumers to boycott unethical companies.

Less than a week in Government and Abbott is already showing his true colours – Free speech is under attack.

See the response from The Wilderness Society below.

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letter to dpp/new dic/peter clark fund

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 23/09/2013 - 7:33am

We have written for the second time to the dpp, urging his office to proceed the matters of adam salter, roberto laudisio curti and the latest referral from the police integrity commission dealing with the events involving the ballina police and corey barker. the letter is self-explanatory.

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Rates of abused and neglected children on the rise in Australia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 22/09/2013 - 4:06pm

ABC News
Rates of abused and neglected children on the rise in Australia: report
By Freya Petersen

Reports of chronic shortages of child protection workers in New South Wales have focused
attention on the plight of abused and neglected children across Australia.

According to figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), rates of
substantiated child abuse and neglect have risen across the nation.

An AIHW report released in March, titled Child Protection Australia 2011-12,^A found the number

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Raiders Of The Rock Art

Submitted by Diet Simon on Sun, 22/09/2013 - 4:01pm

Raiders Of The Rock Art

By Debra Jopson September 13, 2013

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has a greenlight to explore a huge swath of Cape York, home to ancient Aboriginal rock art — and minerals. The indigenous custodians are not happy.

“I feel I’ve been kicked in the guts,” says Stephen Doughboy, as he meets with more than 30 fellow Aboriginal clan members in the tiny remote Queensland town of Laura. The group is discussing how it might fend off the interest shown by Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, in mining their land.

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