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WGAR News: Maori Party issues scathing letter to Tony Abbott regarding treatment of Aboriginal people: Claire Trevett, New Zealand Herald

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 21/04/2015 - 5:53pm

Newsletter date: 22 April 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Belinda Grant Geary, Daily Mail Australia: 'The first thing that strikes me about Australia is how racist this place is': Writer claims our treatment of Aborigines is WORSE than apartheid South Africa
* Analysis / Opinion: Sisonke Msimang, Africa is a Country: Is There a Place Where White People Are More Committed to Faux Race Blindness than South Africa?

Geography:

Global/International

Northern Territory

Western Australia

Keywords:

Belinda Grant Geary

Daily Mail Australia

Writer claims our treatment of Aborigines is WORSE than apartheid South Africa

Sisonke Msimang

Africa is a Country

Maori Party letter to the Australian Prime Minister

Hon Te Ururoa Flavell

Aboriginal people

Maori Leader Brands Tony Abbott A 'Racist B*stard' Over Remote Closure Plans

New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Maori Party

New Zealand Maori Party condemns potential closure of Aboriginal communities in open letter to Tony Abbott

Radio New Zealand News

Harawira has message for Australian PM

Mana Movement leader Hone Harawira

Numia Ponika-Rangi

Opposition groups enraged ahead of Abbotts arrival to NZ

End Of The Dreamtime

Australia - Maori Television

Maori Television

New NT group says fund and support self-determination for Aboriginal communities

Community Solidarity Action

WGAR News: Interview with Haydyn Bromley on funding for the 60 SA Aboriginal Communities: Uncle Stephen Goldsmith, Nunga Wangga - Radio Adelaide

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 14/04/2015 - 4:44pm

Newsletter date: 15 April 2015

Contents:

* Audio Interview: Uncle Stephen Goldsmith, Nunga Wangga - Radio Adelaide: Haydyn Bromley on funding for the 60 SA Aboriginal Communities
[Featuring Haydyn Bromley, Stephen Goldsmith, Minungka McInerney]

* Audio Interview: CAAMA Radio's Strong Voices: South Australia's Remote Communities Safe for Now!
[Featuring Haydyn Bromley, Aboriginal Lands Trust South Australia]

Geography:

South Australia

Keywords:

SA Australian Aboriginal communities

Aboriginal Lands Trust

SA Aboriginal Lands Trust

Aboriginal Lands Trust South Australia

Uncle Stephen Goldsmith

Stephen Goldsmith

Minungka McInerney

Michael Collard

Nunga Wangga - Radio Adelaide

Haydyn Bromley on funding for the 60 SA Aboriginal Communities

CAAMA - Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

CAAMA Radio's Strong Voices

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert

Federal funding for SA remote aboriginal communities secured - WA must receive funding rethink

Michele Madigan - a Sister of St Joseph

Michele Madigan

Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia

Natalie Whiting

The World Today

Stephanie Anderson

WGAR News: Kimberley Land Council to ask UN forum to condemn Indigenous community closures: Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 10/04/2015 - 5:28pm

Newsletter date: 12 April 2015

Geography:

Global/International

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Australian Aboriginal communities

Rachael Thornton

Indigenous communities facing closure

Aboriginal people from WA homelands

Samantha Martin

It’s more than just a 'lifestyle choice' - it’s my home

Calla Wahlquist

Kimberley Land Council to ask UN forum to condemn Indigenous community closures

Kimberley Land Council

Michelle Lovegrove

Indigenous MP Linda Burney condems WA remote community closures

SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'

cultural genocide

Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney

Funding Cuts to Remote WA and SA Communities Will Destroy Aboriginal Life

Natalie Whiting

The World Today

SA Aboriginal groups assured communities won't close

Breaking News - 10 April 2015 - Over Thirteen Thousand People Shut down Melbourne - CAAMA

WGAR News: Urgent Action: Stop WA's Bill for the mandatory sentencing of children: Amnesty International Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/04/2015 - 6:22pm

Newsletter date: 5 April 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Jack Callil, VICE United States: Why Are Indigenous Australian Kids Doing Time in Adult Prisons?
* Audio: Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC News: Children speak about being held in police lock-ups
* Analysis / Opinion: Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC News: Nearly 200 children locked in WA police station cells awaiting transfer to Perth after sentencing

Geography:

Global/International

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

VICE United States

Why Are Indigenous Australian Kids Doing Time in Adult Prisons

Caitlyn Gribbin

Children speak about being held in police lock-ups

Nearly 200 children locked in WA police station cells awaiting transfer to Perth after sentencing

Justice Reinvestment

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Amnesty International Australia

Stop WA's Bill for the mandatory sentencing of children

Stop WA's mandatory sentencing of young people

12 organisations unite against harsh WA Bill

Three strikes bill will result in more young people in detention

Gerry Georgatos

Amelia Theodorakis

YourLifeChoices

Calla Wahlquist

Law Society of Western Australia

Unfair mandatory sentencing laws

WA Bill will lock up hundreds of people - but won't reduce home burglary

Three strikes and you're out - mandatory sentencing in WA

WGAR News: SA Indigenous leaders seek urgent meeting over community closure concerns: Natalie Whiting, ABC PM [Featuring Haydyn Bromley & Tammy Franks]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 31/03/2015 - 4:19pm

Newsletter date: 1 April 2015

Geography:

South Australia

Keywords:

SA Indigenous leaders seek urgent meeting over community closure concerns

Natalie Whiting

SA Aboriginal Lands Trust

Tammy Franks - SA Greens MLC

Emergency summit held over SA Aboriginal community closures

Indigenous elders meet at Port Augusta as federal funding cuts threaten to close remote communities

protesting closure of Aboriginal communities

Forcibly removing our Peoples from their lands unacceptable

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia

SOSBlakAustralia

2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015

NITV News - 27 March 2015

NITV News - 30 March 2015

Remote Closures - SA Communities Call Emergency Summit to Fight 'Cultural Genocide'

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in SA

protesting closure of Aboriginal communities in SA

WGAR News: Aboriginal Australian Communities Send a Powerful Message to Government: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 24/03/2015 - 9:22am

Newsletter date: 24 March 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Here is part of the list of threatened Homelands - "remote communities"

Geography:

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal Australian Communities

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia

Thousands join nationwide rallies against community closures

Alex Bainbridge

Resistance builds against plan to close Aboriginal communities

Calla Wahlquist

Close the Gap day

Warren Barnsley

National Indigenous Radio's 'Weekly News-in-Review'

Proposed community closures in Western Australia

Thousands rally in protest of remote community closures

Barnett shouted down at Indigenous rally

SA crowd protests remote closures

Aboriginal community closure

Aboriginal community closure - intense rally at Parliament House

Nicolas Perpitch

Bonnie Christian

Andrew O'Connor

Protests over Plans to close Aboriginal homelands

WGAR News: The extensiveness of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander suicides - 1 in 20: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 27/02/2015 - 9:06am

Newsletter date: 1 March 2015

Last updated: 3 March 2015

Geography:

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Gerry Georgatos

The extensiveness of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander suicides - 1 in 20

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides

Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities

Suicides are preventable

Preventing suicide

Lifeline Australia 13 11 14

Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467

Understanding Australia's suicide crises

Aboriginal suicides rise amid worsening conditions

WSWS - World Socialist Web Site

World Socialist Web Site

Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide

It is racism killing our people - suicides born of racism

Government Indigenous suicide prevention programs are a failure - NT elder David Cole says

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about the continuing increasing rate of suicides

Graham Backhaus

WGAR News: Justice for Julieka Campaign: Deaths In Custody Watch Committee WA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 06/02/2015 - 4:12pm

Newsletter date: 16 February 2015

Contents:

* Upcoming Event: Wed 25 February 2015; 12 noon: Rally against all deaths in custody: Parliament House, West Perth

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Western Australia

Keywords:

WGAR News: Gerry Georgatos on the future of the National Indigenous Times: NITV News

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 24/01/2015 - 2:26pm

Newsletter date: 25 January 2015

Geography:

WGAR News: Yidindji man murrumu walubara speaks about his arrest in the ACT: National Indigenous Radio's 'Weekly News-in-Review'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 17/01/2015 - 6:43pm

Newsletter date: 19 January 2015

Geography:

Keywords:

Aboriginal sovereignty

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Yidindji man murrumu walubara

murrumu walubara

murrumu walubara yidindji

Yidinji Sovereignty leader murrumu

Christopher Knaus

The Canberra Times

Warren Barnsley