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WGAR News: Kimberley Land Council to ask UN forum to condemn Indigenous community closures: Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 10/04/2015 - 5:28pm

Newsletter date: 12 April 2015

Geography:

Global/International

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Australian Aboriginal communities

Rachael Thornton

Indigenous communities facing closure

Aboriginal people from WA homelands

Samantha Martin

It’s more than just a 'lifestyle choice' - it’s my home

Calla Wahlquist

Kimberley Land Council to ask UN forum to condemn Indigenous community closures

Kimberley Land Council

Michelle Lovegrove

Indigenous MP Linda Burney condems WA remote community closures

SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'

cultural genocide

Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney

Funding Cuts to Remote WA and SA Communities Will Destroy Aboriginal Life

Natalie Whiting

The World Today

SA Aboriginal groups assured communities won't close

Breaking News - 10 April 2015 - Over Thirteen Thousand People Shut down Melbourne - CAAMA

WGAR News: Urgent Action: Stop WA's Bill for the mandatory sentencing of children: Amnesty International Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/04/2015 - 6:22pm

Newsletter date: 5 April 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Jack Callil, VICE United States: Why Are Indigenous Australian Kids Doing Time in Adult Prisons?
* Audio: Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC News: Children speak about being held in police lock-ups
* Analysis / Opinion: Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC News: Nearly 200 children locked in WA police station cells awaiting transfer to Perth after sentencing

Geography:

Global/International

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

VICE United States

Why Are Indigenous Australian Kids Doing Time in Adult Prisons

Caitlyn Gribbin

Children speak about being held in police lock-ups

Nearly 200 children locked in WA police station cells awaiting transfer to Perth after sentencing

Justice Reinvestment

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Amnesty International Australia

Stop WA's Bill for the mandatory sentencing of children

Stop WA's mandatory sentencing of young people

12 organisations unite against harsh WA Bill

Three strikes bill will result in more young people in detention

Gerry Georgatos

Amelia Theodorakis

YourLifeChoices

Calla Wahlquist

Law Society of Western Australia

Unfair mandatory sentencing laws

WA Bill will lock up hundreds of people - but won't reduce home burglary

Three strikes and you're out - mandatory sentencing in WA

WGAR News: Aboriginal Australian Communities Send a Powerful Message to Government: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 24/03/2015 - 9:22am

Newsletter date: 24 March 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Here is part of the list of threatened Homelands - "remote communities"

Geography:

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal Australian Communities

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia

Thousands join nationwide rallies against community closures

Alex Bainbridge

Resistance builds against plan to close Aboriginal communities

Calla Wahlquist

Close the Gap day

Warren Barnsley

National Indigenous Radio's 'Weekly News-in-Review'

Proposed community closures in Western Australia

Thousands rally in protest of remote community closures

Barnett shouted down at Indigenous rally

SA crowd protests remote closures

Aboriginal community closure

Aboriginal community closure - intense rally at Parliament House

Nicolas Perpitch

Bonnie Christian

Andrew O'Connor

Protests over Plans to close Aboriginal homelands

WGAR News: Matargarup Aboriginal Refugee Camp: About 50 WA police officers have used mounted police and K-9 dogs to seize the tents and valuables

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/03/2015 - 9:34pm

Newsletter date: 16 March 2015

Contents:

* Petition: Change.org Petition: Stop displacing Indigenous Australians by the closure of Indigenous communities.

Geography:

Global/International

Western Australia

Keywords:

Petition - Stop displacing Indigenous Australians by the closure of Indigenous communities

Jennifer Kaeshagen

The Stringer facebook

Urgent Action - If anyone can donate to the Matargarup First Nations refugee camp then that be good - Jennifer Kaeshagen - The Stringer facebook

Police move in but fail to snuff out sacred fire at Matagarup

Matagarup (Heirisson Island)

Heirisson Island - Perth

Heirisson Island

Alex Bainbridge

Marianne Mackay

We have a right to be on Matagarup

Sovereign Union

WA uses mounted police and dogs to seize tents and valuables at Refugee Camp

Calla Wahlquist

Independent Australia

Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad - again

concerned Australians

Homelands under the hammer again from the aspiring PM for indigenous policy

Gerry Georgatos

WGAR News: Closure of remote communities devastates residents: Miranda Wood, Red Flag Newspaper

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 14/02/2015 - 3:26pm

Newsletter date: 18 February 2015

Geography:

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal homelands

Aboriginal remote communities

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

Change org Petition

Saving Aboriginal communities

Stop Colin Barnett premier of Western Australia

Eleanor Gilbert

Eleanor Gilbert Video

Gerry Georgatos

Marianne Mackay

WA Aboriginal activist Marianne Mackay

Jessica Lukjanow

Global Research

Rodney Dillon - an indigenous advisor at Amnesty International Australia

Amnesty International Australia

Indigenous community closures

Indigenous community closures - essential service uncertainty

NITV News - 12 February 2015

Planned Closure of WA Communities Highlights WA's Poor Contribution to Closing the Gap

Closing the Gap

Calla Wahlquist

Spend to save WA Aboriginal communities

WGAR News: Forrest review of Aboriginal welfare: the good, the bad...and the very ugly: Land Rights News - Central Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 03/01/2015 - 7:20am

Newsletter date: 5 January 2015

Geography:

Northern Territory

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal welfare

Aboriginal services

Aboriginal peoples

Living Black Radio

Wayne 'Coco' Wharton

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Community Food Program - Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Brisbane Blacks - Food Program

BASE - Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

APO NT - Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory

Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT

The proposed Government budget cuts to Aboriginal services

proposed Government budget cuts

Central Land Council

CLC - Central Land Council

Land Rights News - Central Australia

Battle rages against budget pain

Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

Australian government's budget cuts

Australian government's budget cuts threaten remote Aboriginal communities

remote Aboriginal communities

Calla Wahlquist

Mining royalties may save WA's remote Indigenous communities from closure