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WGAR News: Culture Is Life campaign - Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 13/08/2013 - 6:13pm

Newsletter date: 14 August 2013

Contents:

* Culture Is Life: Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide [Launch of new campaign]
* YouTube: Culture Is Life Campaign video
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia's Aboriginal children - The world's highest suicide rate
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* The Wire: Indigenous children dominate out-of-home care [Featuring Frank Hytten, CEO of SNAICC and Rachel Siewert, Greens Senator]

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criminal justice system

Aboriginal youth suicide

Culture Is Life

Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide

Launch of new campaign - Culture Is Life

YouTube - Culture Is Life Campaign video

Shane Green

Australia's Aboriginal children - The world's highest suicide rate

Frank Hytten - CEO of SNAICC

Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

Indigenous children dominate out of home care

Rachel Siewert - Greens Senator

Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People

Closing the Gap Clearing House - AIHW

Indigenous Australian children

Aboriginal Self-harm

Trauma-informed services and trauma-specific care for Indigenous Australian children

mental health disorders

cognitive impairment

child suicide

War on drugs breaches separation of powers

Submitted by grputland on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 9:11pm

If you are on the jury in a drug trial, and if you are told that the defendant must prove that he/she knew nothing about the drugs, it is your civic duty to put the onus of proof back where it belongs (on the prosecution), raise it to the proper standard (beyond reasonable doubt), and reach a verdict accordingly.

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Australian deaths in custody - Twenty years later - Nothing has changed - The answers do exist

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 09/04/2011 - 11:15am

Australia has one of the world’s worst deaths in custody records. As a researcher I have compared Australia 's deaths in custody record in terms of proportion to populations with other countries. Deaths in custody includes prison and police custody. We compare badly with even Apartheid South Africa .

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