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WGAR News: Commission of Audit: Aboriginal health would suffer: NACCHO political alert

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 03/05/2014 - 6:53pm

Newsletter date: 4 May 2014

Contents:

* NACCHO political alert: Commission of Audit: Aboriginal health would suffer
* NACCHO breaking news: Federal government Commission of Audit Indigenous programmes

* Tim Soutphommasane, Australian Human Rights Commission: No case for changing race laws, says Race Discrimination Commissioner
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Racial Discrimination: Commission responds to Exposure Draft
* Chris Slee, Green Left: Meeting discusses Racial Discrimination Act changes
* Delia Lawrie, Territory Labor: Territory Law Plan to Tackle Racism

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WGAR News: Gallipoli not the only war to define Australian warfare: Gary Foley, Canberra Times

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 28/04/2014 - 4:51pm

Newsletter date: 29 April 2014

Contents:

* Gary Foley, Canberra Times: Gallipoli not the only war to define Australian warfare
* Nicholas Clements, The Conversation: Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember?
* Peter Stanley, The Conversation: On Anzac Day, we remember the Great War but forget our first war

* Geoff Bagnall, National Indigenous Times: Euahlayi People take their fight for their lands to Supreme Court
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

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WGAR News: 'Close the Gap' - failed: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 22/11/2013 - 12:57pm

Newsletter date: 23 November 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 'Close the Gap' - failed
* The Wire: Slowly, closing the gap [Featuring Jack Bulman and Associate Professor Gracelyn Smallwood]
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Policy change needed to close the gap
* SNAICC News: COAG report - Lessons for federal reform
* NACCHO AGM Perth 2013 health news: Aboriginal life expectancy increases to Close the Gap
* ABC The World Today: Positive news from efforts to 'close the gap'

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Australia

WGAR News: 996 Aboriginal deaths by suicide - another shameful Australian record: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 16/10/2013 - 2:22pm

Newsletter date: 17 October 2013

Contents:

* SNAICC News: Culture is Life campaign update
* Culture Is Life campaign: The Elders Report
* Culture Is Life campaign: Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide
* The Wire: New mental health app for indigenous communities [Suicide prevention; featuring Professor Helen Christensen and Joe Tighe]
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 996 Aboriginal deaths by suicide - another shameful Australian record
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 996 deaths by suicide - one in 24 die by suicide

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Darwin

Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: CAAMA interviews Marianne Mackay about Aboriginal children in care of the state in WA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/10/2013 - 4:06pm

Newsletter date: 9 October 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia's Aboriginal suicide epidemic - Whose child will be the next to die?
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* CAAMA's Lorena Walker interviews Marianne Mackay about Aboriginal children who are in care of the state in WA
* Background to 'Keeping Them Home': Campaign against Forced Aboriginal Adoption in the NT

* The Wire: A culturally safe health system for everyone [Featuring Dr Tammy Kimpton, President of AIDA]

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New South Wales

Australia

Western Australia

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

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Australia

Northern Territory

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]

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WGAR News: Ten great reasons why you should not miss the NACCHO Aboriginal health summit in Adelaide

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 14/08/2013 - 3:32pm

Newsletter date: 15 August 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO: Ten great reasons why you should not miss the NACCHO Aboriginal health summit In Adelaide - 20th-22nd August 2013
* NACCHO: Ochre Day launch: New blueprint to focus on Aboriginal male health
* NACCHO male health news alert - NACCHO calls for male-only Aboriginal health clinics
* NACCHO Blueprint 2013- 2030 news - AMA supports important initiatives to Improve the health of Aboriginal Males
* Other NACCHO Health News [National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation]

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National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

AMA

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing

Inaugural Aboriginal health summit

NACCHO Primary Health Care Summit

National Aboriginal Primary Health Care Summit

Aboriginal male health

NACCHO calls for male-only Aboriginal health clinics

health of Aboriginal Males

Bruce - Sovereign Union website volunteer

10-year policy for Indigenous health - 10 more years of despair

WGAR News: UN Human Rights High Commissioner hears from NT Aboriginal leaders

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 21/05/2011 - 3:13pm

Newsletter date: 21 May 2011

Contents:
* UN Human Rights High Commissioner hears from Northern Territory Aboriginal leaders
* UN Human Rights High Commissioner receives letter signed by thousands of Australians
* UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay visits Australia from 20 May 2011
* UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, 16 to 27 May 2011
* Aboriginal Health
* Interview with Chris Graham, Editor of Tracker Magazine
* Video: No to a dump in the NT - Darwin rally 11 May 2011
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump

UN Human Rights High Commissioner receives letter signed by thousands of Australians