Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

WGAR News: Congress Urges Caution on Commission of Audit: National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 07/05/2014 - 5:43pm

Newsletter date: 8 May 2014

Contents:

* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: Congress Urges Caution on Commission of Audit
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

* SNAICC News: Government must reject push towards mainstreaming in Indigenous Affairs
* SNAICC News: Health co-payment would be a setback for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: NAACHO

* NACCHO 2014 budget funding news: Aboriginal controlled health services get 12 month funding lifeline

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
Congress
SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
New Matilda
SNAICC
NACCHO
SNAICC News
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Commission of Audit
mainstreaming in Indigenous Affairs
Government must reject push towards mainstreaming in Indigenous Affairs
Health co-payment
NACCHO 2014 budget funding news
Health co-payment would be a setback for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - NACCHO
Lisa Thorpe
Aboriginal controlled health services get 12 month funding lifeline
Aboriginal Learning Centres Are Working
NACCHO welcomes 12-month funding commitment to Aboriginal services

WGAR News: Barriers to justice system faced by Indigenous Aussies revealed in report: SBS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 09/04/2014 - 6:10pm

Newsletter date: 10 April 2014

Contents:

* Joline Samawi, The Wire: Report reveals barries of access to law for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people [Featuring Dr. Warren Mundy]
* SBS: Barriers to justice system faced by Indigenous Aussies revealed in report

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Rosie Anne Fulton still languishing in prison - Government without moral compass

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Youth Justice Board will not succeed

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Mandatory Sentencing

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal imprisonment
justice system
ALSWA
Justice Reinvestment
mandatory sentencing
The Stringer
Indigenous Australians
The Wire
Canberra Times
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Indigenous Aussies
Rosie Anne Fulton
Joline Samawi
Dr Warren Mundy
SBS
Rosie Anne Fulton still languishing in prison - Government without moral compass
Youth Justice Board will not succeed
Mondaq
Mandatory sentencing and indigenous Australians
Ross Gittins
Indigenous imprisonment rates
Law Matters Programs
New ways needed to arrest indigenous imprisonment rates
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia - ALSWA
Professor Ted Wilkes
Professor Fiona Stanley
Dennis Eggington
Peter Collins
Patricia Monemvasitis

WGAR News: World Suicide Prevention Day and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 12/09/2013 - 2:26pm

Newsletter date: 15 September 2013

Contents:

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: How can Croakey readers contribute to efforts to prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides?
* NACCHO Aboriginal Health news: Today is World Suicide Prevention Day
* CAAMA Radio: World Suicide Prevention Day...
* NACCHO RU OK News: Indigenous youth leading the way in suicide prevention
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Hopelessness in suicide riddled communities
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
indigenous
human rights
solidarity
aboriginal
trauma
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal Health
child protection
SNAICC
Aboriginal children
NACCHO
CAAMA
The Stringer
SNAICC News
CAAMA Radio
Melissa Sweet
Aboriginal Self-harm
Melissa Sweet - Croakey - the Crikey health blog
Croakey - the Crikey health blog
World Suicide Prevention Day
preventing Aboriginal suicides
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides
Aboriginal Suicide
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
children subjected to trauma
More government neglect of Aboriginal children