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No truly free press with our inadequate shield laws, whistleblower protections

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 26/08/2013 - 8:56am

PHOTO Geoff Bagnall, National Indigenous Times: Journalist Gerry Georgatos at the January 26, 2012 Lobby Restaurant incident - days later he broke the story that the Prime Minister's Office was extensively involved in generating the incident despite their claims that it is was the work of a rogue parliamentary staffer.

By Gerry Georgatos, investigative journalist, WikiLeaks Party Senate Candidate, Western Australia

WikiLeaks Party statement on intervention in Syria

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 26/08/2013 - 8:46am

August 25, 2013 As the US prepares for military action in Syria, the reactions of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott are entirely in keeping with previous ALP and Coalition failures to put Australian military forces before their own party alliances with Washington.

Australia needs to send emergency medical aid to Syria immediately and assist an independent assessment of the situation. It must not rush towards sacrificing its young soldiers on behalf of an ambitious foreign power before the jury is in.

Whistleblowers needed when cultures of wrong-doing rule

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 26/08/2013 - 8:32am

Gerry Georgatos - I stand alongside those who let nothing get in the way of what is right, what is in the common good. I stand alongside those who will let no injustice go unheard, untold. I stand alongside Private Chelsea Manning who has been sentenced up to 35 years in prison for serving humanity's interests. Manning's decision to report to humanity was out of concern for humanity.

Manning should be relieved of the cruel and unfair burden of her prison sentence with a presidential pardon, and she should be acknowledged as both a patriot and as a true citizen of the world.

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WGAR News: WA Supreme Court rules James Price Point approval 'illegal': The Wilderness Society

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 22/08/2013 - 2:02pm

Newsletter date: 23 August 2013

Contents:

* The Wilderness Society: James Price Point gas plant dead and buried
* The Wilderness Society: Victory for Australia's nature: WA Supreme Court rules James Price Point approval 'illegal'
* hi spirits: from The Wilderness Society: Court rules James Price Point approval unlawful.
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Goolarabooloo victory protects future generations
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: WA Government trash environmental protections in search of industrialisation

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Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 62 events from 17 August 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 15/08/2013 - 5:47pm

Newsletter date: 16 August 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 17-25 August 2013:
North of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, WA
The Lurujarri Dreaming Trail
Walk the Trail with us in 2013
As of 14 August 13:
"17-25 August: fully booked"
"Feel free to contact us if you would like to
get some more information or if you would like
to register your interest for the Lurujarri
Heritage Trail 2014."

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WGAR News: Culture Is Life campaign - Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 13/08/2013 - 6:13pm

Newsletter date: 14 August 2013

Contents:

* Culture Is Life: Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide [Launch of new campaign]
* YouTube: Culture Is Life Campaign video
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia's Aboriginal children - The world's highest suicide rate
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* The Wire: Indigenous children dominate out-of-home care [Featuring Frank Hytten, CEO of SNAICC and Rachel Siewert, Greens Senator]

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criminal justice system

Aboriginal youth suicide

Culture Is Life

Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide

Launch of new campaign - Culture Is Life

YouTube - Culture Is Life Campaign video

Shane Green

Australia's Aboriginal children - The world's highest suicide rate

Frank Hytten - CEO of SNAICC

Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

Indigenous children dominate out of home care

Rachel Siewert - Greens Senator

Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People

Closing the Gap Clearing House - AIHW

Indigenous Australian children

Aboriginal Self-harm

Trauma-informed services and trauma-specific care for Indigenous Australian children

mental health disorders

cognitive impairment

child suicide

Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 13/08/2013 - 4:40pm

Last updated: 31 May 2014

Contents:
* The Elders' Report into Preventing Indigenous Self-harm & Youth Suicide
* Culture Is Life campaign - Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide
* Dumbartung convenes Aboriginal Suicide Crisis Summit
* World Suicide Prevention Day and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
* Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm and the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* National strategy to reduce Indigenous suicide
* Other Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm articles

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Northern Territory NT Intervention

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander

Suicide Crisis Summit

Culture Is Life campaign

Culture Is Life campaign - Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide

Aboriginal youth suicide

Dumbartung convenes Suicide Crisis Summit

Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm and the Northern Territory NT Intervention

National strategy to reduce Indigenous suicide

Against the Election Spectacle

Submitted by autonomousactions on Tue, 13/08/2013 - 3:24pm

Free magazine charting two years of global resistance to politicians and their political process

Download zine at: https://againstelections.wordpress.com/

This zine has been compiled by some anarchists from the colonised region known as Australia. This small project was initiated to contribute to a discussion on how anti-authoritarians should intervene in or disrupt the 2013 Federal Election.

We have included statements and communiques from a range of anti-authoritarian positions taken from counter information sites, from the insurrectionary to the platformist.

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anarchists

WGAR News: Australia's First Nations Political Party proudly announces pre-selection of candidates

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/08/2013 - 1:06pm

Newsletter date: 12 August 2013

Editorial Note:

'WGAR News' monitors the media, including alternative media.
'WGAR News' gives priority to grassroots Aboriginal voices and grassroots voices in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples' rights.
'WGAR News' publishes information and opinions from a wide range of sources.
These opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of WGAR.
As such, 'WGAR News' does not endorse any particular political party, but simply includes information on political parties for the interest of readers.

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Australia's First Nations Political Party

Paul Wiles

Ken Lechleitner

Election material related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Aunty Rosalie Kunoth Monks

Arrende-Alyawarra Elder speaks out against intervention

Rosalie Kunoth Monks from Australia's First Nations Political Party runs for a seat in the Senate

The Return of Jedda

Australia's First Nations candidate Ken Lechleitner is running for the Seat of Lingiari

what the WikiLeaks Party will mean to Aboriginal peoples

Make your vote count

Central Desert Arrernte man Warren H. Williams is standing for the Australian Greens for a Senate spot from the Northern Territory in the federal election

Australian Greens Policy - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

WGAR News: ALSWA supports Greens stance on Justice Reinvestment: Aboriginal Legal Service of WA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 10/08/2013 - 1:53pm

Newsletter date: 11 August 2013

Contents:

* Aboriginal Legal Service of WA: ALSWA supports Greens stance on Justice Reinvestment
* Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens initiative to make WA communities safer and get smart on crime
* Senator Penny Wright: Smarter, safer, stronger - Greens launch criminal justice policy [Featuring Warren H. Williams]
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Lock'em up culture has to end [Featuring Warren H. Williams]
* Christine Heard, SBS Radio News: Justice reinvestment: an ounce of prevention?

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Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia