SYDNEY, Aug. 15 – After Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, rejected a proposal to consult the Aboriginal People before recognizing them in the nation's constitution, spiritual leader Maitreya Rael commented that Abbott was exhibiting “very colonialist behavior".
Newsletter date: 16 June 2015
* Survey Results: IndigenousX: Constitutional Recognition Survey [Data Analysis by Celeste Liddle and Survey Conducted by IndigenousX] http://indigenousx.com.au/constitutional-recognition-survey/
* Media Release & Discussion Paper: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: Decolonisation: to be or not to be included in the Constitution?
Newsletter date: 28 February 2013
Contents:
* The Wire: Aboriginal youth could be silent victims in mandatory sentencing
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Legal service slams WA govt’s "despicable" plans for mandatory sentencing
* The Stringer: Feed the little children
* The Stringer: Sansbury and Franks say "enough" and time for the SA Government to act
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody
* The Stringer: Aboriginal peoples finally to be included in SA Constitution - but 'no' to Treaty
A fine is a weapon of class warfare. For a rich person, a fine may represent minutes of earnings or savings. For a poor person, it represents days of earnings and weeks or months of savings. Thus the poor are punished more harshly for the same alleged offence. That's the idea.
WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/
16 NOV 2010:
Contents:
* Racism and the Media: The lie that built the NT Intervention
* Proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the Constitution; Jenny Macklin has ruled out a treaty
* Canada signs on to UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Jobs with Justice
* Other Aboriginal Articles
RACISM AND THE MEDIA: THE LIE THAT BUILT THE NT INTERVENTION:
WGAR: Racism and the Media
