The Stringer weekly newsletter - June 1
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 01/06/2013 - 2:38pmWelcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20
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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 26
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 26/05/2013 - 6:58pm Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20
NEWS update: More contributors and writers continue to join The Stringer. Three months young The Stringer has 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.
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A fair media - let no threat get in the way
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 26/05/2013 - 6:27pm“It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it,” said John Pilger.
Article courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/
Seasoned journalist Kate McClymont delivered a speech, now widely referred to as the ‘Where angels fear to tread’ speech, at the Australian Press Freedom Dinner in early May. The event was hosted by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and the Walkley Foundation for Journalism.
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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 20
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 20/05/2013 - 8:51pm Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20 - http://thestringer.com.au/
NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. Less than three months young The Stringer has 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.
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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 12
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 12/05/2013 - 10:42am Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - 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 80 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.
South Africa, 20 years after Apartheid, doing better than Australia
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 11/05/2013 - 6:31pm by Gerry Georgatos - May 11th, 2013
Australia incarcerates its Aboriginal youth at the world’s highest rates, it imprisons one in 14 Western Australian Aboriginal adult males and it removes one in 14 children from Western Australian Aboriginal families into the care of the State, and for Aboriginal peoples the whole of the Northern Territory is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth, and this prison is loosely known as the ‘Intervention’.
Since 1992, the rate of Aboriginal incarceration in Australia has grown 14 times faster than that of non-Aboriginal incarceration.
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Fracking the Canning Basin
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 09/05/2013 - 7:35pmGerry Georgatos - Western Australia’s Canning Basin (photo abc.net.au) will soon be talked about as the next resources mining frontier. The James Price Point $40 billion gas hub proposal for all intents and purposes has been dumped but the State’s Premier, Colin Barnett, will pitch the extraction of natural gas from the Canning Basin as the way to go in the pursuit of State revenue. Most of the gas will be exported.
The shale gas deposits of the Canning Basin are among the richest in the world.
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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 2:29pmThe 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
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 1:00pmEvery 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
Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pmBy 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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