Any State government that wants to broaden the GST should first consider whether the drafting of the GST legislation breaches s.55 of the Constitution, and whether the GST collection mechanism breaches s.82.
Newsletter date: 26 December 2012
Contents:
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: WA govt’s "mean-spirited" refusal to extend Stolen Wages deadline
* Stolen Wages: Many will miss out says ALSWA [Aboriginal Legal Service of WA]
* Robin Chapple MLC: Hundreds will miss out as Government refuses to extend Stolen Wages Scheme
* ABC Indigenous: Payments flow to stolen wage victims
* Stolen Wages offer a 'slap in the face' says ALSWA [Aboriginal Legal Service of WA]
* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: Stolen wages remain stolen with $2,000 offer
* Creative Spirits: Stolen Wages
Gerry Georgatos
The Western Australian remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong is renewing calls for non-sniffable fuel to combat substance abuse and anti-social behaviour, however some ask is this really the answer. Jigalong is near the heart of the mining boom and yet the majority of its Aboriginal peoples languish - they say 'what mining boom?'
Gerry Georgatos
Lily O'Neill is a PhD student with the Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project, an Australian Research project at the University of Melbourne and she argues the case that agreements such as the Kimberley LNG deal are the way forward for Aboriginal communities otherwise languishing in poverty.
Newsletter date: 22 December 2012
Contents:
* The Wilderness Society: Wilderness Society takes WA EPA to Court
* ABC AM: Wilderness Society launches legal action against JPP gas hub environmental approval
* SBS World News Video: WA government taken to court over gas hub approval
* Greens MP Chapple calls on EPA Chief to resign
* Hands Off Country: EPA's Deception of Community
* Law Below the Top Soil, by Dr. Peter Botsman - a concise history of the flawed proposal to develop Browse Gas at James Price Point
* News re legal action against environmental approval of JPP gas hub
Last updated: 14 May 2014
Contents:
* National day of action for Rex Bellotti Jr (Thu 18 September 2014)
* About Justice Reinvestment
* WGAR Compilations (Last updated: 14 May 2014)
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (25-29 September 2013)
* NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR REX BELLOTTI JR (THU 18 SEPTEMBER 2014)
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: National day of action for Rex Bellotti Jr
http://thestringer.com.au/national-day-of-action-for-rex-bellotti-jr/
By National Indigenous Times reporter Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of the National Indigenous Times - http://www.nit.com.au/news/2299-hit-the-road-twiggy.html - Wednesday 28, November 2012
Newsletter date: 16 December 2012
Contents:
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Premier’s approach ostracising all in the push to develop James Price Point
* The West: Wide-ranging rally [in opposition to the gas hub at James Price Point]
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA
* SBS World News: [National Indigenous Television] NITV goes free to air
* SBS World News Video: National strategy launched to reduce Indigenous suicide rates
* SBS World News Video: Indigenous Aussies 'should vote for their own senators'
SBS Living Black Michelle Lovegrove interviews Gerry Georgatos on stark contrasts between Yindjibarndi poverty and the wealth nearby, and then Michelle continues on with an interview with Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation CEO Michael Woodley.
https://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJhYnV5Tk1VVG5MYnNUQw
This interviews says quite a lot about it everything wrong in the Pilbara and for Indigenous people all over Australia.
Newsletter date: 13 December 2012
Contents:
* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Government remains deaf to the data on income management
* Paddy Gibson, Overland literary journal: Income management in the Northern Territory: racism is still the issue
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Allyson Horn, ABC: NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
