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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pm

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 Stringer weekly newsletter - April 27

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 27/04/2013 - 10:16am

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

The killing times

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 22/04/2013 - 11:29am

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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 20/04/2013 - 10:50pm

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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 14/04/2013 - 11:08am

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

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 10/04/2013 - 2:03pm

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.

The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 7

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20

Thought provoking clips on journalism and deaths in custody

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Thought provoking clips on journalism, on deaths in custody, Mr Ward and Mulrunji

A journalist with a difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzigzfSNx9Y

The REAL FACTS on DEATHS in CUSTODY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVof4bQg1X8

The BETRAYAL of MR WARD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TM5KqgQNAI&playnext=1&list=PLF0B0129D1B...

ALEC DOOMADGEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH8lT437h6I

MULRUNJI - Palm Island

Cuts to single parent payments lead to hardship

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 02/04/2013 - 11:59pm

Courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/cuts-to-single-parent-payments-lead-to-hardshi...
Gerry Georgatos - There are 630,000 Australian lone parent families with dependents – 84 per cent are single mothers and 16 per cent are single fathers. 54 per cent of these single parents have a youngest child less than nine years of age. Of the parents with a child less than 9 years of age 59 per cent were in some form of employment end of June 2011 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011).

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - March 30

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 30/03/2013 - 7:37pm

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter

The Stringer went live February 20 - http://thestringer.com.au/
Some of our stories from the last week include:

Australia’s pathway to poverty – bridging visas

March 30, 2013
The Australian Government’s hard on refugees policy is creating an underclass of people – many condemned to an itinerant lifestyle and many condemned to living on the streets.

According to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship since November 25, 2011, 12,765 people have been released from the detention centres and into community on bridging visas.