Some call for police to stop investigating police, others call for just common decency, when will police be brought into line with the rest of us, and for their sakes too, in being held accountable for behaviour that just makes it too difficult for us to trust in each other?
Newsletter date: 13 March 2012
Contents:
* "Hear the Voice of the People!": Video of Senate Hearing at Maningrida 22 February 2012
* Sisters of St Joseph question 'Stronger Futures Legislation'
* Bishop Saunders calls NT Intervention Policy a "travesty"
* Amnesty: Policies of exclusion continue in NT remote Indigenous housing programs
* Book Review: 'NT Consultation Report 2011 - By Quotations'
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Petition to Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
To all Media networks
There will be a large gathering of Aboriginal People on
28 MARCH, 2012
COMMENCING 11:00 AM
at the corner of Riverside Drive and Victoria Avenue
for a march to Parliament House .
The march route will be up St Georges Terrace,
stopping momentarily at the Office of Premier and Cabinet.
At Parliament House the speakers will address issues such as
STOLEN WAGES - RECENT EX GRATIA ANNOUNCEMENT
Gerry Georgatos
The compassionate left wing screams for social justice and argues for our governments and society's institutions to have a heart and help people from the bottom end up, and to desist with the proposition that they can achieve for the downtrodden by working from the top end of town and down.
The bona fide left wing is fractious and forever splintering and yet it calls out for groundswells of people power to coalesce in mass social movements which will give rise to cultural waves.
Newsletter date: 9 March 2012
Contents:
* New report into 'Stronger Futures' consultations by Jumbunna
* Former PM Malcolm Fraser launches new report into consultations
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 9 March 2012
* NEW REPORT INTO 'STRONGER FUTURES' CONSULTATIONS BY JUMBUNNA:
- The Report
Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney:
Gerry Georgatos
A Western Australian primary school principal has taken the state back forty years with a race row after he targeted all the Aboriginal students in trying to address misbehaviour.
The northern Perth primary school of Neerabup was the talk of its local communities when on Friday, March 1, its principal Brett Lewis tried to address alleged discipline problems by ordering to a special meeting all Aboriginal children from Years 3 to 7 - all of them together.
Newsletter date: 8 March 2012
Contents:
* Our Generation and ANTaR have launched a new video and campaign
* Proposed Stronger Futures laws "will kill Aboriginal people"
* Write to Senators re Stronger Futures laws
* NT Intervention panel discussion by Dr John Falzon, Lynette De Santis and Adam Giles
* More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention legislation
* "WA stolen wages offer 'cruel and heartless', says legal service" GLW
* "We are lucky Bob Carr was not appointed Indigenous Affairs Minister!" Gerry Georgatos
WA Police said they helped 437 at-risk youths in three months
Gerry Georgatos
The Office of the Police Commissioner of Western Australia said that its focus on vulnerable youth has been working, and that more than 400 at-risk youths have been taken off the streets after dark.
A police spokesman said they had implemented the operation to protect the best interests of vulnerable youth and the community, with Operation Safe Place.
Fortescue fuming at Wayne Swan's attack
Gerry Georgatos
Mining giant Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) has come out swinging at Federal Treasurer's Wayne Swan's attack on the rich mining giants, who he described as the 0.1% and who deny the middle classes various equity.
In an essay by Mr Swan published in The Monthly magazine, he accused 'an elite' of entrepreneurs, including Australian mining magnates Gina Rinehart, Clive Palmer and Andrew Forrest, of using their incredible wealth to pursue vested interests.
Newsletter date: 3 March 2012
Contents:
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention legislation
* NITV Current Affairs present the Stronger Futures Forum
* Amnesty International Australia: Lobby your MP for homelands
* Speeches from Parliament House Canberra protest against new NT Intervention legislation
* National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples: Aboriginal Communities now subject to 15 Years of Intervention
* New website: "Sovereign Union - National Unity Government"
* The Wire: Indigenous call for help reaches the community
