Australia

HRA media release: JUSTICE REINVESTMENT misunderstood and misrepresented

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 20/09/2011 - 12:57pm

JUSTICE REINVESTMENT misunderstood and misrepresented.

Justice Reinvestment is an interventionist program working to diminish the levels of mainstream authority from peoples lives and this is positive however it is not the solution to significantly reducing and/or eliminating crime and high incarceration rates.

Justice Reinvestment, like many tried and tested programs seeks to work with the target communities and demographic groups which own high incarceration rates and rates of perceived crime in terms of proportion to total populations.

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Australia

The elephant in the room: Self-determination

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 16/09/2011 - 1:59pm

By Chris Graham
(Reposted with his permission from Tracker magazine, published by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council.)

If the publication of government reports alone were enough to lift Aboriginal people out of disadvantage, then black Australia would be the healthiest and wealthiest people on the planet.

In the past seven months, at least five major reports into the appalling life circumstances of Australia’s First Nations people have been handed down by governments.

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Australia

Aboriginal anti-nuclear film to kick off Berlin festival

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 16/09/2011 - 12:48pm

“Muckaty Voices", a short film capturing Aboriginal resistance to the Australian government plan to dump radioactive waste in the Northern Territory, was due to open the
first exclusively Australian film festival in Berlin today, Friday 16 September.

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Australia

Asylum seekers and our, now, one nation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 15/09/2011 - 3:34am

by ray jackson, president, indigenous social justice association

some years ago, i and many others, fought and demonstrated against the toxic verbal bile that was mouthed then by what was seen to be by most australians, as a fringe party. their disgusting rantings only proved them to be an ultra-racist party. some politicians agreed with them, some used them politically whilst the rest whimpered and whispered in case they lost votes.

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Australia

Urgent push for a media inquiry - 48 hours left!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/09/2011 - 8:51am

By AVAAZ

On Tuesday PM Gillard will decide whether to support a full inquiry to clean up our media -- and an urgent outcry from all of us now could swing the decision.

Last week, The Australian, Murdoch’s flagship newspaper, was caught publishing lies about the Prime Minister -- proving that we need to look deeply into the state of our media. And powerful Labour MPs are supporting the inquiry, but Murdoch’s press is rabidly campaigning against it. We can drown out their lobby and bring an overwhelming call for change.

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Australia

Asylum seeker policy: What will be the result?

Submitted by Kopilalai on Sat, 10/09/2011 - 1:37pm

Let us face it, it is not illegal to seek asylum in another country. On 31st of August, the High Court of Australia ruled the “Malaysia Solution” as simply invalid and unlawful; which demonstrated public expression of relief when this outcome was announced. However, it led to a game by which the government had to find a different direction to run from this issue.

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Australia
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asylum seeker
Malaysia Solution
Pacific solution
Asylum seeker policy