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Open Letter: WGAR advocates long-term funding for Aboriginal community controlled organisations

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 29/05/2014 - 1:18pm

Dear P.M,

We wish to formally register our opposition to the drastic cuts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs in the 2014 Federal budget.

The Coalition’s Intervention in this country is still traumatising communities. Therefore the budget cuts further compound the oppression and defeat any chance of Self-determination.

If this is the Coalition’s intention we sincerely advise that the Coalition desists and takes a more Humanitarian approach to this country’s First Nations Peoples, consistent with International U.N Human Rights standards.

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First Nations Peoples

Aboriginal children

2014 Federal Budget

drastic cuts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs

Aboriginal community controlled organisations

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia

WGAR

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights

long-term funding

International UN Human Rights standards

Humanitarian approach

Aboriginal Land

oldest cultures and languages in the world

wealth of this country

assimilate

illegally occupied colonial society

Aboriginal children are being removed from their families

genocide policy

2014 budget is another facet of genocide policy

Ffionnan Brooke-Watson

Keri James

WGAR Open Letter of 28th of May 2014

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

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Northern Territory

WGAR News: Warren Mundine: The white sheep of the family?: Gary Foley, Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 18/09/2013 - 5:39pm

Newsletter date: 19 September 2013

Contents:

* Gary Foley, Tracker: Warren Mundine: The white sheep of the family?
* Sovereign Union: Warren Mundine's new military intervention into Aboriginal Australia
* AudioBoo: Audio: Warren Mundine 'Military Intervention' - SBS - The Observer Effect

* AudioBoo: Noel Pearson rejected by Cape York councils - Aurukun Mayor, Dereck Walpo

* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Lack of a Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health a disappointment
* NACCHO political alert: Abbott abolishes Indigenous health ministry

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Australia

Northern Territory

Queensland

WGAR News: Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people: John Pilger, The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 30/04/2013 - 4:51pm

Newsletter date: 1 May 2013

Contents:

* John Pilger, The Guardian: Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people

* Daniel Emerson, The West Australian: Nation's political bloodshed 'ignored'
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Killing Times
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: WA Governor states that he was misinterpreted

* The Wire: Coalition says remote communities should fund own water, sewerage [interview with Paddy Gibson]

* Rachel Siewert, New Matilda: When Did Labor Stop Caring?

* Other articles

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Australia

Western Australia

"Pay the Rent" - say Nyoongars - "Stronger Futures can go straight to hell"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 15/03/2012 - 5:19pm

Gerry Georgatos
With the Stronger Futures debacle in the Australian Senate the following could not be more timely. Nyoongar rights advocate and CEO of Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, Robert Eggington has gathered together with several prominent Nyoongars, and a large number of the Nyoongar community, to announce their own Native Title proposals for the state government to consider.

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Human Rights Alliance Media Release: Crises of our National Identity - Racism on show - Australian Mandatory Detention horrors.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 09/08/2011 - 9:21pm

The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:

Unprecedented crises of the Australian racist identity looming - Christmas Island Detention Centre a war zone.

Even with the transient relief of the High Court legal injunction various reports and a plethora of desperate pleas are rampaging out of Christmas Island Detention Centre, from Asylum Seekers and from some of those who work there.

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Global/International

Choose Nuclear Free

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/08/2010 - 1:05am

CHOOSE NUCLEAR FREE

Choose Nuclear Free is an initiative of the Medical Association for Prevention of War, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and Friends of the Earth, Australia.

The www.choosenuclearfree.net website contains a wide range of resources − details of political parties' nuclear policies and an animated policy graphic; a summary of key nuclear issues; videos, cartoons and music; and election resources to help Australians to 'Choose Nuclear Free'.

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Coalition Climate Policy just "tinkering at the edges" say academics and scientists

Submitted by takver on Thu, 04/02/2010 - 3:15am

While the politicians debate 5% emissions reduction under Kevin Rudd's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme or Tony Abbott's incentive based Emissions Reduction Fund, it may be instructive to go back to what the scientists say we need:
25-40% reduction in emissions by 2020 for a reasonable chance to avoid dangerous climate change and stay under 2 degrees warming.

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