Aboriginal imprisonment

WGAR News: "Stop Aboriginal deaths in police custody by saving the Custody Notification Service"

Newsletter date: 15 May 2013

Contents:

* Change.org Petition: Stop Aboriginal deaths in police custody by saving the Custody Notification Service (CNS)
* Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT: ALS News: Save the CNS
* The Wire Audio: Argument between governments puts lives at risk
* The Stringer: Funding cuts means more Aboriginal peoples incarcerated
* NIRS: Urgent funding call for anti-deaths in custody measure
* NIRS: ALS warns lives could be at risk unless phone line is funded

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos on Aboriginal imprisonment

WGAR News: Stop deaths in custody groups form coalition: Ray Jackson, Green Left

Newsletter date: 9 May 2013

Contents:

* Indymedia Australia: Historic national stop deaths in custody coalition formed
* Ray Jackson, Green Left: Stop deaths in custody groups form coalition
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody!

* The Wire Audio: Justice reinvestment 'key to tackling Indigenous incarceration'
* WA Greens MLC Robin Chapple: Justice reinvestment comeback
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Justice Reinvestment or by any other name
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

WGAR News: Sisters Inside - Debbie Kilroy on [Aboriginal] women in prison: The Stringer

Newsletter date: 30 April 2013

Contents:

* Debbie Kilroy, The Stringer: Sisters Inside - Debbie Kilroy on the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Call for crime prevention focus to cut Indigenous jail rates
* The Stringer: KALACC lends its weight to Justice Reinvestment
* Priscilla Collins, Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT: Mandatory rehabilitation bill must be released for public consultation
* Ray Jackson, Green Left: Stop police self investigation
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

WGAR News: Justice Reinvestment push by the National Congress: The Stringer

Newsletter date: 23 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Justice Reinvestment push by the National Congress
* NIRS: Congress submits to justice reinvestment inquiry

* Amnesty Action: Get kids out of Hakea adult prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Amnesty alarmed over boys in adult Perth prison
* ABC 7.30 Video: Teens suffer in men’s prison

* SBS Radionews Audio: Prison 'not a deterrent' for NT offenders

* CAAMA Radio: NAAJA shares concerns about the new Mandatory Rehabilitation Program
* SBS Radionews Audio: NT mandatory rehab plan slammed

WGAR News: How Are The Children In Hakea Being Treated?: Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Living Black

Newsletter date: 16 April 2013

Contents:

* Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Living Black Audio: How Are The Children In Hakea Being Treated?
* The Stringer: Egg on face for State Government over children in adult jail
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Commission seeks to intervene in juvenile detention case
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Human Rights Commission to intervene in Hakea children court case
* Tracker: WA judge orders juvenile jail evidence
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australian Bureau of Statistics on prison rates

WGAR News: National inquiry into Justice Reinvestment: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Newsletter date: 10 April 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: National inquiry into Justice Reinvestment
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about The Australian Prison system
* CAAMA Radio: Priscilla Collins, NAAJA CEO on funding for NT youth
* SBS Living Black Audio: WA's Courts Raise Concerns Over Children In Hakea Prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Indigenous detention centres 'at crisis point'
* The Stringer: "Paraded like zoo animals"
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

WGAR News: Federal Government green light uranium mining for WA: The Stringer

Newsletter date: 5 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Federal Government green light uranium mining for WA
* The Wire Audio: Safety concerns over uranium mine
* Background to the Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA)

* Deborah Ruiz Wall, New Matilda: Welfare Or Gas Money In The Kimberley?
* The Stringer: Legal action commences on EPA's approval for James Price Point Gas hub
* Hands off Country: Shake Your Head in Disbelief
* Ingetje Tadros: Pelican corroboree - welcome to Seashepherd in Walmadan
* News re Floating offshore gas processing

WGAR News: "Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison"

Newsletter date: 4 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison
* Tracker: Legal bid to get WA kids out of adult jail
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley
* NITV: Northern NSW clans create 'Murrawarri Republic'
* Sovereign Union: A fight against paying rates on ancient homelands
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* 3CR Community Radio: Earth Matters

WGAR News: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud: burn magazine

Newsletter date: 31 March 2013

Contents:

* burn magazine: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
* Canberra opening of 'Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud': Sun 7 April 2013
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* Helen Musa, Canberra CityNews: Exhibition honours true believer
* Canberra opening of 'I Do Have a Belief' - Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) Art Retrospective: Sat 6 April 2013
* Sovereign Union: The Murrawarri Republic declaration
* NITV News: Aboriginal activists meet Black Power founders

WGAR News: Aboriginal Community Controlled Health vital to closing the gap: NACCHO

Newsletter date: 25 March 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO: Aboriginal Community Controlled Health vital to closing the gap

* Mary Micallef, For the ISJA Melbourne Team: What’s the cost of imprisonment?
* Alison Thorne, ISJA Melbourne: Launch of John Pat 30
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody! Remember John Pat
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* CAAMA: Walpiri lawman talks about saving his culture!

* NITV News: Indigenous women gather at UN to stop domestic violence