Aboriginal Suicide

WGAR News: Sharing Culture - Empowering Aboriginal people to heal and develop resilience to historical trauma

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 22/03/2014 - 12:49pm

Newsletter date: 23 March 2014

Contents:

* SNAICC News: Sharing Culture initiative online

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Hundreds more will suicide if we wait for 2015
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* SNAICC News: SNAICC congratulates Dala Yooro Children and Family Centre
* SNAICC News: The Training Team recently delivered 10 of these 2-day workshops across New South Wales
* SNAICC News: The children of Burringurrah Remote Aboriginal Community - The Boss of My Body!

Geography: 
Perth
New South Wales
Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
John Pilger
Stolen Generations
Gerry Georgatos
child protection
Lowitja Institute
NACCHO
another Stolen Generation
The Stringer
SNAICC News
The Guardian
The Wire
Ian Lloyd Neubauer
TIME
Aboriginal Suicide
Living Black Radio
Tom Calma
Aboriginal community controlled health
Sharing Culture
Sharing Culture initiative online
Hundreds more will suicide if we wait for 2015
The Boss of My Body
SNAICC congratulates Dala Yooro Children and Family Centre
Dala Yooro Children and Family Centre
Burringurrah Remote Aboriginal Community
SoundCloud
Barbara Moore
Vanessa Culbong
Lowitja
Lyn Brodie
Investing in Aboriginal community controlled health makes economic $ense
Selwyn Button
Emma Rennie
Michelle Aleksandrovics Lovegrove
Aboriginal Health Services
Indre McGlinn
Scott Wilson

WGAR News: Treaty Now: An agreement between two equals: Callum Clayton-Dixon, Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 09/03/2014 - 1:21pm

Newsletter date: 10 March 2014

Contents:

* Callum Clayton-Dixon, Tracker: Treaty Now: An agreement between two equals
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia

* Callum Clayton-Dixon, Tracker: Sovereignty: not a radical concept
* Jeff McMullen, Tracker: The Way Ahead: Sovereign rights in the 21st century
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Nothing will be done about suicides crisis
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
treaty
Gerry Georgatos
sovereignty
Aboriginal sovereignty movement
Jeff McMullen
Callum Clayton-Dixon
The Stringer
sovereign rights
Tracker
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Sovereignty - not a radical concept
Treaties
Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
Aboriginal Sovereign Nations
Sovereign rights in the 21st century
Nothing will be done about suicides crisis
Aboriginal suicides crisis
First Nations people
First Nations Suicide

WGAR News: Tiga Bayles interviews Robert & Selina Eggington about youth suicide & incarceration rates

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 26/02/2014 - 12:37pm

Newsletter date: 27 February 2014

Contents:

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Robert & Selina Eggington about First Nations youth suicide and incarceration rates
* Perth Indymedia Radio Show: Robert Eggington of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation reading a piece that was to be published in 'The West Australian'
* Perth Indymedia Radio Show: Gerry Georgatos on the Aboriginal suicide crisis - from tragic to catastrophic
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Senator Ludlam speaks up on the suicides crisis and for Dumbartung

Geography: 
Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
Dumbartung
Tiga Bayles
Let's Talk
The Stringer
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Robert Eggington
Aboriginal suicide crisis
Selina Eggington
Perth Indymedia Radio Show
First Nations youth suicide
First Nations incarceration rates
Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation
Senator Ludlam
Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Robert and Selina Eggington about First Nations youth suicide and incarceration rates

WGAR News: Q&A with Robert Eggington: on tackling Indigenous suicide rates: The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 14/02/2014 - 9:51am

Newsletter date: 14 February 2014

Contents:

* The Guardian: Q&A with Robert Eggington: on tackling Indigenous suicide rates
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Olga Havnen about education, housing, employment and the rising rates of youth suicide
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Suicide crisis - from tragic to catastrophic
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Suicide crisis - genocidal numbers
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* Malarndirri McCarthy, NITV: Gunnedah grandmothers rally against removal of Indigenous kids

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
child protection
NITV
Indigenous suicide
Tiga Bayles
Let's Talk
youth suicide
The Stringer
The Guardian
Forced Aboriginal Adoption
Larissa Nicholson
The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Robert Eggington
Anna Patty
Malarndirri McCarthy
Olga Havnen
Suicide crisis - from tragic to catastrophic
Suicide crisis - genocidal numbers
Suicide crisis
Gunnedah grandmothers rally against removal of Indigenous kids
Gunnedah grandmothers
removal of Indigenous kids
indigenous children in care

WGAR News: Memorial for Freedom Fighters: Dylan Clarke, Living Black Radio; featuring Aunty Carolyn Briggs

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 03/02/2014 - 2:16pm

Newsletter date: 4 February 2014

Contents:

* Dylan Clarke, Living Black Radio: Memorial for Freedom Fighters
[Featuring Boonwurrung Elder and Patron of the Commemoration Committee, Aunty Carolyn Briggs]
* Jonathan Green, ABC RN Sunday Extra: Henry Reynolds, Historian and author of 'Forgotten War'
* Phillip Adams & Ann Arnold, ABC RN Late Night Live: Australia's forgotten war [Featuring Henry Reynolds]
* Paul Newbury, On Line Opinion: It’s time to commemorate the Frontier Wars
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
Frontier Wars
Henry Reynolds
Australia's forgotten war
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Forgotten War
Living Black Radio
Paul Newbury
Dylan Clarke
Memorial for Freedom Fighters
Aunty Carolyn Briggs
Jonathan Green
ABC RN Sunday Extra
Phillip Adams
Ann Arnold
ABC RN Late Night Live
On Line Opinion
400 suicides of ATSI peoples in last three years
Suicide crisis needs real funding and actions

WGAR News: In identity lay the answers - ATSI suicides: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/11/2013 - 11:56am

Newsletter date: 11 November 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: In identity lay the answers - ATSI suicides
* Hannah Hollis, NITV News: Aboriginal suicide rates are no laughing matter [Featuring Kevin Kropinyeri]
* The Wire: Getting the mental health message out to Indigenous communities [Featuring Sarah Shiell and Tauto Sansbury]
* World News Australia Radio: Reaching Indigenous youth about mental health
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Land and Culture worker says repatriate what belongs to us

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
indigenous youth
The Stringer
NITV News
indigenous communities
Aboriginal Suicide
Suicide and Self-harm
Tauto Sansbury
ATSI suicides
Indigenous homelessness
Aboriginal identity
Hannah Hollis
Aboriginal suicide rates
Kevin Kropinyeri
The Wire - Getting the mental health message out to Indigenous communities
Sarah Shiell
Aboriginal suicide rates are no laughing matter
World News Australia Radio
Land and Culture worker says repatriate what belongs to us

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

Geography: 
Darwin
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
indigenous
aboriginal
cancer
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal Health
Aboriginal peoples
Amy McQuire
The Stringer
NACCHO health news
Culture Is Life campaign
Culture Is Life campaign - Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide
Culture Is Life
Belinda Mason
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Culture is Life campaign update
Culture Is Life campaign - The Elders Report
life expectancy
Indigenous youth suicide
Indigenous suicide prevention
Professor Helen Christensen
Joe Tighe
Aboriginal deaths by suicide
one in 24 die by suicide
child suicides
Aboriginal disabilities
photojournalist Belinda Mason
Unfinished Business
health and wellbeing of Aboriginal youth
Indigenous Aussies
Kelly Briggs
Daniel Featherstone
Angela Bates
G-Man
Bernard Namok

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]

Geography: 
New South Wales
Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal imprisonment
Aboriginal Health
Aboriginal children
NACCHO
The Stringer
Indigenous Australians
Marianne Mackay
Aboriginal Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Felicity Graham
Lorena Walker
care of the state
Cancer risk
AIHW report
A culturally safe health system for everyone
Dr Tammy Kimpton
Dr Tammy Kimpton - President of AIDA
Trust integrity and respect
Indigenous engagement
Diabetes
Aboriginal health workforce
NSW Aboriginal Legal Service
High Court decision
Natasha Boddy
mentally ill held in jails
Banksia Hill

WGAR News: Wes Morris slams government suicide prevention programs: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 04/10/2013 - 1:19pm

Newsletter date: 5 October 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Wes Morris slams government suicide prevention programs
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 77 Aboriginal suicides in South Australia alone
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Kimberley's Aboriginal peoples old at 45 years
* Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory - APO NT: Youth Suicide

* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: WES MORRIS SLAMS GOVERNMENT SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAMS

- Analysis / Opinion

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal peoples
suicide
The Stringer
Suicide prevention
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Suicide and Self-harm
Wes Morris
77 Aboriginal suicides in South Australia alone
Wes Morris slams government suicide prevention programs
Kimberley's Aboriginal peoples old at 45 years
Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - 77 Aboriginal suicides in South Australia alone
Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Kimberley's Aboriginal peoples old at 45 years

WGAR News: Paddy Gibson speaks about the NT Emergency Response and the successor "Stronger Futures"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 03/10/2013 - 7:41pm

Newsletter date: 4 October 2013

Contents:

* Paddy Gibson speaks at Building Bridges on the NT Emergency Response and the successor "Stronger Futures"
* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Income management: more evidence-free policymaking?
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Coalition to punish vulnerable people through income management expansion
* Nick Evershed, The Guardian: Welfare quarantining: does it work?
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

Geography: 
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
protest
NT intervention
indigenous
human rights
solidarity
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
welfare quarantining
Coalition
income management
Aboriginal imprisonment
domestic violence
Stronger Futures
The Conversation
NT chief minister
CAAMA
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert
CLC
Paddy Gibson
The Guardian
Aboriginal youth suicide
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
Aboriginal Suicide
Eva Cox
Building Bridges
NT Emergency Response
evidence-free policymaking
the Territory
income management expansion
Nick Evershed
SBS Aboriginal
Aboriginal men
Aboriginal men in the NT
Clare Rawlinson
Mandatory sentencing laws in the NT
Aboriginal culture
remote Aboriginal communities in the NT
Aboriginal languages in NT schools
Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory - APO NT
APO NT - Youth Suicide