Greens Rachel Siewert - Human rights examination of parenting and intervention laws is an important step

WGAR News: avaaz.org community petitions: Putting Australia to the human rights test

Newsletter date: 29 June 2012

Contents:
* avaaz.org community petitions: Putting Australia to the human rights test
* Congress letter to Parliamentary Human Rights Committee
* Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights: Chair's Statement to the House of Representatives
* Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service calls for human rights scrutiny on income management national rollout
* 'concerned Australians': Stronger Futures or human rights: will FAHCSIA remain closed?
* ACM Sydney: The ACM endorses requests to send Stronger Futures for scrutiny by Parliamentary Human Rights Committee

WGAR News: "Aboriginal and church leaders oppose the NT intervention extension legislation" Greens

Newsletter date: 21 June 2012

Contents:
* Richard Downs, a leader of the Alyawarra nation: The true path to stronger Indigenous futures
* Background to the Ampilatwatja Anti-Intervention Walk-off
* Greens MPs Audio: Aboriginal and church leaders oppose the NT intervention extension legislation
* IRAG: Central Australian Human Rights Defender and campaigner Barbara Shaw has been in Canberra this week
* Dr John Falzon: Statement to Stronger Futures press conference
* ACM Sydney: Public Outcry Mounts against Stronger Futures
* 'concerned Australians': 'Stronger Futures' Bills opposed