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WGAR News: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and TSI Health Workers: Croakey

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 12/09/2013 - 12:32pm

Newsletter date: 14 September 2013

Contents:

* Larissa Nicholson, The Canberra Times: Canberra health service leaves scarcely room to protest

* Belinda Mason, The Guardian: Unfinished Business: portraying disability in Indigenous Australia [Photographic Essay]

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers [Closing the Gap]
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Indigenous health: "We can’t stop now" [Closing the Gap]

Geography:

Northern Territory

South Australia

WGAR News: "ALSWA, Governor McCusker, McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 07/03/2013 - 1:25pm

Newsletter date: 7 March 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: ALSWA, Governor McCusker, McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing
* NIRS: Legal service slams WA mandatory sentencing push
* CAAMA: Calls for release of juvenile prisoners being held in a men's prison
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The Stringer: Taoundai Conference brings on the Aboriginal Liberation Movement

* NIRS: Funding still not reaching communities: Smallwood

Geography:

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

deaths in custody

Aboriginal imprisonment

mandatory sentencing

child sexual abuse

Lowitja Institute

out-of-home care

Aboriginal Liberation Movement

Aboriginal Health Workers

Racist attack via Facebook

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - ALSWA Governor McCusker McGlade and Gooda slam extensions to mandatory sentencing

NIRS - Legal service slams WA mandatory sentencing push

CAAMA - Calls for release of juvenile prisoners being held in a men's prison

The Stringer - Taoundai Conference brings on the Aboriginal Liberation Movement

NIRS - Funding still not reaching communities - Smallwood

NACCHO Support - In a time of need the Lowitja Institute is asking for your support to Close the Gap

The Wire - Indigenous Australian research institute Lowitja faces possible closure

RHEF - A Unique Profession - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Workers

Let's Talk - Clancestry Conversation - Kinship and Identity - Just who is Black enough