Australia

WGAR News: Indigenous suicide a 'humanitarian crisis': Rosalie Kunoth-Monks: SBS News

Newsletter date: 15 July 2015, 9:25am AEST; last updated 10:00am AEST

Contents:

* News: SBS News: Indigenous suicide a 'humanitarian crisis': Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: AMSANT calls on Government to increase mental health funding [featuring Bunaba woman Tanja Hirvonen]

* WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities

WGAR News: Attorney-General alerted as Redfern [Aboriginal] tent embassy feud intensifies: Daisy Dumas, Sydney Morning Herald

Newsletter date: 14 July 2015; 10:10pm AEST

Contents:

* Photos: Daniel Munoz/Fairfax Media, Aboriginal Tent Embassy Redfern

* News Analysis: Daisy Dumas, Sydney Morning Herald: Attorney-General alerted as Redfern tent embassy feud intensifies

New issue of FTP zine out now

Download zine: https://ftpzine.wordpress.com/

“This is the fifth issue of FTP zine, our biannual report on anti-colonial, anti-state resistance, compiled within occupied Cadigal territory.

Like previous issues we have chosen to highlight acts of resistance to the Australian state and its control of this territory, such as attacks on its police, its prisons, its monuments and its schools.

WGAR News: NAIDOC 2015 Awards: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Person of the Year & Tauto Sansbury, Lifetime Achievement Award

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

WGAR News: Do we really need constitutional recognition? CAAMA Radio: featuring Paddy Gibson, an Aboriginal rights campaigner who was among the protesters at Monday's rally

Newsletter date: 10 July 2015

Contents:

* facebook: Vote 'NO' To Constitutional Change: https://www.facebook.com/VotenoToConstitutionalChange

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Sifting through Australian cities council clean ups & tips

People in Australian cities throw out alot of useful goods in their regular council clean ups. People in rural areas or country towns are lucky to find useful goods as their is always a shortage of goods to be had in rural areas or country towns. Whats needed is a army of volounteers that will sort through the council cleanups of Australian cities & these goods should then be transported to the rural areas or country towns.

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WGAR News: United Front for Vote 'NO' Protest: featuring Alice Haines & Ghillar Michael Anderson starting at Circular Quay: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo

Newsletter date: 9 July 2015; last updated 9 July 2015 6:50pm AEST

Contents:

* Videos:

Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: United 'VOTE NO' - Protest begins at Circular Quay - video features Alice Haines and Ghillar Michael Anderson: https://vimeo.com/132983875
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Protest outside Abbott's 'secret meeting' on Constitutional inclusion at Kirribilli

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WGAR News: Protest at Abbott's sham constitutional recognition ‘consultation’: Rachel Evans - Sydney, Green Left Weekly

Newsletter date: 8 July 2015

Contents:

* facebook: Vote 'NO' To Constitutional Change: [includes videos & photos of protest in Sydney on 6 July 2015] https://www.facebook.com/VotenoToConstitutionalChange

* Audio: Ninah Kopel, The Wire: A step closer to Recognition [featuring Alice Haines, an organiser of protest for Sovereignty & Treaty]