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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

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Queensland

WGAR News: World Suicide Prevention Day and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 12/09/2013 - 2:26pm

Newsletter date: 15 September 2013

Contents:

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: How can Croakey readers contribute to efforts to prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides?
* NACCHO Aboriginal Health news: Today is World Suicide Prevention Day
* CAAMA Radio: World Suicide Prevention Day...
* NACCHO RU OK News: Indigenous youth leading the way in suicide prevention
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Hopelessness in suicide riddled communities
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and TSI Health Workers: Croakey

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 12/09/2013 - 12:32pm

Newsletter date: 14 September 2013

Contents:

* Larissa Nicholson, The Canberra Times: Canberra health service leaves scarcely room to protest

* Belinda Mason, The Guardian: Unfinished Business: portraying disability in Indigenous Australia [Photographic Essay]

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers [Closing the Gap]
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Indigenous health: "We can’t stop now" [Closing the Gap]

Geography:

WGAR News: Central Australian Grog Summit 2013: APO NT (Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the NT)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 23/08/2013 - 2:53pm

Newsletter date: 24 August 2013

Contents:

* Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory (APO NT): Central Australian Grog Summit 2013
* CAAMA Video: Central Australian Grog Summit
* Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory (APO NT) Communiqué: Alice Springs Grog Summit: Outcomes
* NACCHO NT grog summit news: Four major outcomes on alcohol policy and its impact on Aboriginal people and communities
* "On 31 July 2013 at the Alice Springs Grog Summit representatives from Aboriginal organisations and communities endorse the call for a Board of Inquiry ... "

Geography:

Northern Territory

WGAR News: Ten great reasons why you should not miss the NACCHO Aboriginal health summit in Adelaide

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 14/08/2013 - 3:32pm

Newsletter date: 15 August 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO: Ten great reasons why you should not miss the NACCHO Aboriginal health summit In Adelaide - 20th-22nd August 2013
* NACCHO: Ochre Day launch: New blueprint to focus on Aboriginal male health
* NACCHO male health news alert - NACCHO calls for male-only Aboriginal health clinics
* NACCHO Blueprint 2013- 2030 news - AMA supports important initiatives to Improve the health of Aboriginal Males
* Other NACCHO Health News [National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation]

Geography:

Keywords:

National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

AMA

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing

Inaugural Aboriginal health summit

NACCHO Primary Health Care Summit

National Aboriginal Primary Health Care Summit

Aboriginal male health

NACCHO calls for male-only Aboriginal health clinics

health of Aboriginal Males

Bruce - Sovereign Union website volunteer

10-year policy for Indigenous health - 10 more years of despair

WGAR News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 23/07/2013 - 7:07pm

Newsletter date: 24 July 2013

Contents:

* SNAICC News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of Mr Andrew Jackomos [as first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth]
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Victorian appointment for Aboriginal children and young people
* Tracker: Vic gets commissioner for Koori youth
* SNAICC News: National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day - 4 August 2013

* Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) Submission - Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill 2013 (NT)
* Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

Geography:

Keywords:

Australian Human Rights Commission

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

CROAKEY

NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

Human Rights Law Centre - HRLC

ANTaR Health Campaign - Take Action

first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth

Aboriginal children and young people

commissioner for Koori youth

National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day - 4 August 2013

Bill Ivinson

Lyla Dreise

Aboriginal Type 2 Diabetes

Michelle True

CEO of Diabetes Qld

Aboriginal type-2 diabetics

Indigenous men gather for health summit

A Step Forward For Indigenous Disability

ABC Indigenous - DisabilityCare

National Aboriginal heath plan

Grattan Institute

Aboriginal health gap

AMA

WGAR News: Maintain Court's discretion - Therapy not "throw away the key": APO NT [Alcohol & Drugs]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 18/07/2013 - 7:49pm

Newsletter date: 18 July 2013

Contents:

* APO NT: Maintain Court's discretion - Therapy not "throw away the key" [Alcohol & Drugs]
* NIRS: Six month review for NT [Alcohol] treatment policy
* Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

* NACCHO alert NIDAC: The report on the consultations of the National Aboriginal Peoples' Drug Strategy

* Catherine Liddle, NITV News: Campaign launched to reduce diabetes among Indigenous Aussies

* NIRS: WA Gov't flags community collaboration on suicide

Geography:

Keywords:

NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

APO NT - Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory - An alliance of CLC NLC CAALAS NAAJA and AMSANT

Alcohol & Drugs

NIRS- Six month review for NT treatment policy

NIDAC

NACCHO alert NIDAC

report on the consultations of the National Aboriginal Peoples' Drug Strategy

Catherine Liddle

diabetes among Indigenous Aussies

WA community collaboration on suicide

Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory

Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill, Northern Territory Government, Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 03/07/2013 - 12:06pm

Last updated: 14 May 2014

Contents:

* Submissions
* WGAR Compilations
* Other NT Government Alcohol-related articles

* SUBMISSIONS

WGAR News: NT legal services express concern about operation of Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Scheme (5 Mar 14)
http://indymedia.org.au/2014/03/04/wgar-news-nt-legal-services-express-c...
"Contents:
* NT legal services express their serious concern about the operation of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Scheme

Geography:

Northern Territory

WGAR News: NT move to mandatory alcohol rehabilitation sparks controversy: The Guardian UK

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 02/07/2013 - 6:55pm

Newsletter date: 3 July 2013

Contents:

* Northern Territory Government: Robyn Lambley - Minister of Health: Day One of Alcohol Mandatory Treatment
* NIRS: NT compulsory treatment policy gets through Parliament
* Malcolm Sutton, The Guardian UK: NT move to mandatory alcohol rehabilitation sparks controversy
* Julie Edwards, The Guardian UK: Northern Territory alcohol mandatory treatment is an affront to liberty
* Concerned Territorians: Time to Stop and Re-think our Approach to Alcohol Policy in the Territory
* Current Campaigns: NAAJA opposes the Mandatory Alcohol Treatment Bill

Geography:

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: APO NT calls for joint Territory/ Commonwealth Board of Inquiry into Alcohol: APO NT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 29/06/2013 - 5:39pm

Newsletter date: 30 June 2013

UPDATE: WGAR News: NT move to mandatory alcohol rehabilitation sparks controversy: Malcolm Sutton, The Guardian UK (3 Jul 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/07/02/wgar-news-nt-move-to-mandatory-alcoho...

Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill, Northern Territory Government, Australia
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/07/03/background-to-the-nt-alcohol-mandator...
(Last updated: 3 July 2013)

Contents:

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory