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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.
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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
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).
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.
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Rising Renters Stress – 2/3rds of Australian live in rent
March 23, 2013
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ‘rental stress’ is a term often used to describe households at risk of experiencing difficulty meeting their rental costs. High levels of rental stress mean that affordability may be low and, as a result, those households experiencing rental stress may be less able to rent housing that meets their basic needs.
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Quality of life for Australians 2nd only to Norway, but for Aboriginal peoples 122nd
March 16th, 2013
Once again the United Nations has ranked Australia second behind Norway in its annual Human Development Index – for public health, social wealth, education, even happiness. But if Aboriginal peoples go stand-alone they would not be part of that 2nd rating – they would be 122nd.
Click on the links for details of the events ...
Event: Thu 21 or Fri 22 March 2013: Tasmania
National Close the Gap Day
"A day for Australians to join together and remind
political leaders to close the life expectancy gap
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
within a generation." ATSI Support
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
still die 10-17 years younger than other Australians.
Closing this health gap cannot be done overnight.
We need a long-term commitment with adequate
funding, and investment in real partnerships." Oxfam
Activists from environmental direct action group Groundswell have today taken peaceful action to highlight the detrimental impacts that mining in the Tarkine will have on healthy devil populations living in the region.
At 10am this morning, Groundswell activists deployed a banner reading “FOR
DEVILS SAKE, DON’T MINE THE TARKINE” from the Alexander suspension bridge, in Launceston’s Cataract Gorge. Two climbers suspended themselves alongside the banner.
