Gerry Georgatos
The Western Australian remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong is renewing calls for non-sniffable fuel to combat substance abuse and anti-social behaviour, however some ask is this really the answer. Jigalong is near the heart of the mining boom and yet the majority of its Aboriginal peoples languish - they say 'what mining boom?'
Newsletter date: 21 December 2012
Contents:
* HRLC: UN Human Rights Committee asks Australia to explain human rights record
* Background: Calls for 'Stronger Futures' laws to be subject to Human Rights scrutiny
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody
* 3CR Community Radio interviews with activists Robbie Thorpe and Gary Foley
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Phillip Adams, Late Night Live, interviews Prof's. Marcia Langton and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh on Native Title 20 years on
* Background to Mabo and Native Title
Newsletter date: 19 December 2012
Contents:
* SNAICC News: Government cuts a major blow to the territory’s vulnerable children and families
* Jon Altman and Susie Russell, Evidence Base Journal:
Too much 'Dreaming': Evaluations of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Intervention 2007-2012
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* 2012 National Congress meeting in Alice Springs: Speeches, Videos and Photos
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
Newsletter date: 18 December 2012
Contents:
* Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy to charge Graham Quirk: Media Release
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* APO NT: Mini-budget cuts to Aboriginal services will increase harm and cost more -especially in the Bush
* Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition has condemned the CLP’s mini-budget cuts to vital Aboriginal services: Media Release
* Respect and Listen Video: Adelaide's book launch of 'A Decision to Discriminate'
[Speeches by Djiniyini Gondarra, Amelia Pangarte Kunoth-Monks and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks.]
Last updated: 14 May 2014
Contents:
* National day of action for Rex Bellotti Jr (Thu 18 September 2014)
* About Justice Reinvestment
* WGAR Compilations (Last updated: 14 May 2014)
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (25-29 September 2013)
* NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR REX BELLOTTI JR (THU 18 SEPTEMBER 2014)
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: National day of action for Rex Bellotti Jr
http://thestringer.com.au/national-day-of-action-for-rex-bellotti-jr/
Last updated: 10 November 2013
Petition: Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe - Call for police to answer for their role
http://rollbacktheintervention.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/justice_for_b...
Sign-on statement: Call for police to answer for their roles in Deaths in Custody
http://rollbacktheintervention.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/briscoe-lette...
Petition closed: Petitioned Chief Minister of the Northern Territory:
Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe - lay charges against police
Petition by Trisha Morton Thomas, Alice Springs, Australia
Newsletter date: 15 December 2012
Contents:
* National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples: High Court Statement
* Human Rights Law Centre: High Court to hear landmark case on race discrimination and "special measures"
* The Wire Audio Interviews: Amelia Kunoth-Monks following in her grandmother's footsteps
* ABC Alice Springs Audio Interview: Guestroom - Olga Havnen
* 19th Maurice Blackburn Oration: Professor Clare Martin
* VEOHRC: Human Rights Oration 2012: Ron Merkel, QC
* STICS Forum Videos: After the NT election... The Struggle Against the NT Intervention:
SBS Living Black Michelle Lovegrove interviews Gerry Georgatos on stark contrasts between Yindjibarndi poverty and the wealth nearby, and then Michelle continues on with an interview with Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation CEO Michael Woodley.
https://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJhYnV5Tk1VVG5MYnNUQw
This interviews says quite a lot about it everything wrong in the Pilbara and for Indigenous people all over Australia.
Newsletter date: 13 December 2012
Contents:
* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Government remains deaf to the data on income management
* Paddy Gibson, Overland literary journal: Income management in the Northern Territory: racism is still the issue
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Allyson Horn, ABC: NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
Published at Indymedia courtesy of the National Indigenous Times (12.12.2012) - Photo courtesy of the National Indigenous Times, by Geoff Bagnall; January 26, Lobby Restaurant
