Sydney

Media release 23 June 2011 For immediate release

Fight for alternative to NT Intervention comes to Sydney

On Saturday June 25, the Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) will hold a demonstration demanding an end to the NT Intervention and support for a new alternative program 'Rebuilding from the Ground Up'.

The program was launched at a strong demonstration in Darwin on Tuesday by Aboriginal leaders from across the Northern Territory.

Newsletter date: 22 June 2011

Contents:
* A 'national crisis': Aboriginal youth imprisonment
* Background to Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and incarceration rates
* Ngarla Kunoth-Monks, Barbara Shaw & Richard Downs speak about UN trip
* Fourth anniversary of the NT Intervention
* Website exploring 'An Alternative to the NT Intervention' program
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles

A 'NATIONAL CRISIS': ABORIGINAL YOUTH IMPRISONMENT:

- Media Release

Media release 20/6/11 for immediate release.

Income Management under spotlight in Bankstown

The national expansion of the controversial Income Management system will be the subject of a public forum today in Bankstown in South-West Sydney.

Bankstown is one of five new trial sites where Income Management is scheduled for introduction in 2012.

On June 17th, refugee and asylum seeker advocates stormed a speech by Federal ALP Minister for Immigration Chris Bowen at the University of NSW. About 30 protestors forced their way past security and were able to heckle and interupt Chris Bowen's speech for over 10 minutes before police back up came to eject them. The protestors labelled PM Gillard and the Malaysian solution as racist. My favourite was the protestor dressed as a cow carrying the placard "End human live exports to Malaysia!!