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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4

The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Prime Minister believes she will win September 14

Every poll nationwide portrays either a decisive or catastrophic defeat for the Australian Labor Party come September. But the Office of the Prime Minister has gone heavy into campaign strategies since late last year according to our source. These include not just make overs for the Prime Minister but the commissioning of their own polls and surveys.

Read the whole story here: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYR3A7W...

Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

In the United States, the Annie Casey Foundation’s report ‘No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration,’ has an assembly of juvenile crime statistics that evidence why locking up children does not work. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rates of adults and children than any other nation.

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The killing times

by Gerry Georgatos
April 20th, 2013

Courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/the-killing-times/
- The map is from the book ‘Where is thy brother? : inter-racial massacres since invasion’. Originally published in Judith Monticone’s Healing the land : a closer look at needs of the Australian (re)conciliation movement, by Healing the Land 1999. – courtesy of treatyrepublic.org

The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 20

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20

NEWS update: There will be future interviews with our nation’s leaders on the myriad issues affecting Australians – including on our Asylum Seekers, homelessness, the economy and so on.
We are also keen to share with you that in the 55 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations for where we are at now. We are establishing both a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 14

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - April 14 - http://thestringer.com.au/

The Stringer went live February 20 - If you would like to subscribe to The Stringer's newsletter and updates please email contact@thestringer.com.au or go to the subscribe tab on the home page.

The Stringer's interview with Tony Abbott

The Stringer’s interview with Tony Abbott – his “must-do” list for Aboriginal Australia
by Gerry Georgatos - thestringer.com.au
April 10th, 2013

The Leader of the Coalition, Tony Abbott has drawn up a “must do list” he said he would implement from the first day he became Prime Minister to deliver Aboriginal peoples from abject poverty.