Plans to close Aboriginal homelands/remote communities in WA and SA

WGAR News: A nation shamed when the solution for its children is homelessness: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 29/12/2014 - 2:04pm

Newsletter date: 30 December 2014

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
Perth
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal homelessness
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
Shalailah Medhora
The Guardian
Homelessness advocacy groups lose federal government funding
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert
funding cuts
Melissa Parke
Aboriginal people are entitled to be treated as human beings
Amnesty International Australia
After the eviction many community members were left homeless
A message from Rosalie - Alyawarr Anmatyerr elder
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Jens Korff
Creative Spirits
Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget
Plans to close Aboriginal homelands/remote communities in WA and SA

WGAR Background Info Web-Pages

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 24/12/2014 - 2:30pm

Last updated: 5 October 2015

Archive - Prior to 1 June 2014: WGAR background info web-pages: https://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-background-info...

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
ACT
Canberra
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
Brisbane
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government
Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners reject Adani's coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin
Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
National Freedom Movement
Freedom Summit
Protect Arnhem Land (PAL)
Plans to close Aboriginal homelands/remote communities in WA and SA
Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities
Aboriginal suicide rates
Aboriginal Suicide
Suicide prevention
Undermining the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT) through 99 year leases and privatisation
Federal Budget
Budget
Federal Budget 2014-2015
Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget
Removal of Aboriginal children and the continuing Stolen Generation
Proposals to dump nuclear waste on Aboriginal lands
Justice Reinvestment
Aboriginal imprisonment
Aboriginal deaths in custody

WGAR News: "It is racism killing our people - suicides born of racism": Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 21/12/2014 - 4:57pm

Newsletter date: 26 December 2014

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
aboriginal
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
racism
suicides
trauma
Dr Woolombi Waters
The Stringer
To end our trauma government must stop the assault on our People and our Culture
Culture Is Life - The Elders Report
The Elders Report
The Elders Speak
Gerry Georgatos
the smaller a community - the less likely suicide
NIRS - Suicide - crime rates to increase if homelands close - Eggington
Dennis Eggington
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Warren Barnsley with Koori Radio
Plans to close Aboriginal homelands/remote communities in WA and SA
Erin Parke
ABC News
Kimberley region records seven suicides in seven weeks
Rachelle Irving
Crikey
Trauma in the Kimberley
Angharad Owens-Strauss
SMH
Sydney Morning Herald
Children with suicidal behaviour using lethal methods