Western Australia

WGAR News: "Ethnic cleansing" said Dennis Eggington of forcible removals off Country: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 15/12/2014 - 6:14pm

Newsletter date: 18 December 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography: 
Australia
ACT
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal homelands
Aboriginal remote communities
Aboriginal communities
forcible removals off Country
closure of WA and SA Aboriginal homelands
closure of WA remote communities
WA and SA threats to neglect Aboriginal citizens living at homelands
threat to close homelands/remote communities
removal of people from WA Communities
Petition - Stop the closure of the homelands
Dennis Eggington
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
NIRS
ethnic cleansing
Ghillar Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson
Sovereign Union
History repeats - Ethnic cleansing in ACT 1954 and now in WA removal from homelands
Pope Francis
Bishop Saunders
Australian Catholic Social Justice Council
Bronwyn Herbert
Leigh Sales
Dr Woolombi Waters
To end our trauma government must stop the assault on our People and our Culture

WGAR News: Shutting down Australia's Aboriginal areas: Royce Kurmelovs, Al Jazeera

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/12/2014 - 4:30pm

Newsletter date: 10 December 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography: 
Australia
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal homelands
Aboriginal remote communities
closure of WA and SA Aboriginal homelands
closure of WA remote communities
Royce Kurmelovs
Al Jazeera
Australia's Aboriginal areas
Tiga Bayles
Let's Talk
Professor Jon Altman
Jon Altman
WA and SA threats to neglect Aboriginal citizens living at homelands
threat to close homelands/remote communities
WTV
Gerry Georgatos
NIRS
Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre
Celeste Liddle
removal of people from WA Communities
Congress
Remote Communities
Open Letter to Prime Minister - Remote Communities
National Leadership Needed for Remote Communities
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
Ray Jackson

Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 08/12/2014 - 12:00pm

Last updated: 5 October 2015

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA (and NT?)

Current: WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government: https://indymedia.org.au/2015/06/08/wgar-background-intervention-into-no...

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
ACT
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Adelaide
Western Australia
Perth
Keywords: 
Bella Bropho on the Police Invasion of Matagarup Refugee Camp
SA Aboriginal Communities
Shut Down Australia For Aboriginal Rights
SOSBlakAustralia Third Global Call To Action
Pushing Aboriginal people off their land for mining interests
John Pilger
Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of war
Maori Party letter to PM
ACTU
Haydyn Bromley on funding for South Australia's Aboriginal Communities
KALACC Directors Statement - Kimberley
Reps from KLC will travel to NY for 20 April meeting of UN permanent forum on Indigenous issues
Tammy Solonec
Bella Bropho interview
May Day marches
Ghillar Michael Anderson
Maori Solidarity with the Nyoongar people at Matargarup
Desire Mallet
Jennifer Kaeshagen
Support for WA Remote Communities is Going Global
Matargarup Aboriginal Refugee Camp
Djurin Refugee Camp
Michael Anderson writes Open Letter to UN
closure of WA remote communities
Amy McQuire
New Matilda
Dennis Eggington
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
Jon Altman

Facing Uranium Company Toro at AGM Nov 2014

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 29/11/2014 - 11:45am

Mountain View

After gaining pre approval from the EPA uranium Company Toro Energy is gearing ahead to establish the first uranium mines in Western Australia at Wiluna and for the second year in a row Elder Glen Cooke and Kylie Fitzwater were given the opportunity, by the Conservation Council of WA, to enter the annual shareholders meeting by proxy to express the strong opposition to the project.

Geography: 
Western Australia
Perth
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
CCWA
ANAWA
BUMP

WGAR News: Productivity Commission statistics highlight continuing Stolen Generation: Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 26/11/2014 - 9:38am

Newsletter date: 27 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography: 
Australia
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Western Australia
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal communities
GMAR
Grandmothers Against Removals
productivity commission
new stolen generation
continuing Stolen Generation
Amy McQuire
New Matilda
removal of Aboriginal children
Stolen Generations
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
black deaths in custody
police shot man dead who had no firearm
Mark Colvin
campaign to stop jailing mentally ill without conviction grows
jailing mentally ill
Chris Uhlmann
youth suicide
Indigenous youth suicide
the smaller a community - the less likely suicide
Rachel Siewert
Greens
Indigenous imprisonment and suicide
Aboriginal Suicide
Aboriginal imprisonment

WGAR News: "Kimberley Aboriginal communities condemn Colin Barnett's plan to close small communities"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 23/11/2014 - 1:49pm

Newsletter date: 24 November 2014

Last updated: 26 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography: 
Australia
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal communities
Aboriginal Homelands communities
closing WA remote communities
WA
closing SA remote communities
SA
Fitzroy Crossing
Fitzroy Valley
Kimberley
Marie McInerney
CROAKEY
Larissa Behrendt
Helen Davidson
The Guardian
Verica Jokic
Cameron Wilson
Bush Telegraph
ABC RN
Ardyaloon
One Arm Point
Dean Gooda
Eddie James
Ivan Deer
Iva Hayward-Jackson
Indymedia Australia
Green Left
Michael Anderson
Sovereign Union
su
Amnesty International Australia
AIA
AI
Tammy Solonec
Oombulgurri
Protests against closure of 150 Aboriginal communities
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
CathNews
Bishop of Broome
Christopher Saunders
Ben Wyatt
Josie Farrer
PGA - Pastoralists and Graziers' Association
Tony Seabrook

Open Letter from Nyungah Land and Culture Protector Iva Hayward-Jackson


Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 17/11/2014 - 6:57pm

Recently The Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately one hundred and fifty remote Aboriginal communities in the State of Western Australia.

Geography: 
Australia
Western Australia
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
Colin Barnett
Aboriginal Rights

WGAR News: Aboriginal suicide rates: A compilation by Jens Korff of Creative Spirits

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 17/11/2014 - 9:29am

Newsletter date: 18 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Western Australia
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal Suicide
Aboriginal Self-harm
Aboriginal suicide rates
Dr Paul Brown
Indymedia Australia
The Stringer
Gerry Georgatos
WA
NT
Depression and suicide prevention
Kimberley suicide rate
Professor Pat Dudgeon
AProfessor Roz Walker
Suicide trends in WA - an urgent call to action
Redneck agenda to close down communities
suicide takes more lives than war

WGAR News: Government Buck-Passing Could Force Aboriginal People Off WA Homelands: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 15/11/2014 - 12:45pm

Newsletter date: 16 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
Perth
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Amy McQuire
New Matilda
WA
Fears over WA Aboriginal community closures
closing remote WA communities
apartheid
Alex Bainbridge
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal communities resist government attacks
Jigalong
Alice Springs