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WGAR News: Unions Slam Closure Of Remote Aboriginal Communities In WA: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 18/04/2015 - 6:56am

Newsletter date: 19 April 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Mia Pepper, Eco-Shout: Radioactive racism in the Wild West - WA takes aim at remote communities

* Analysis / Opinion: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Unions Slam Closure Of Remote Aboriginal Communities In WA

* News Analysis: Shar Adams, Epoch Times: Australia: Indigenous Affairs Take Backward Step [Featuring Jon Altman]

Geography:

Global/International

New South Wales

Northern Territory

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

ACTU - Australian Council of Trade Unions

Australian Council of Trade Unions

Unions Slam Closure Of Remote Aboriginal Communities In WA

Radioactive racism in the Wild West - WA takes aim at remote communities

Australia - Indigenous Affairs Take Backward Step

Professor Jon Altman

Indigenous affairs in this country at the moment are in chaos

Warren Barnsley

NIRS Weekly News-in-Review

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance

WAR - Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance

South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust

SA Aboriginal Lands Trust

Solidarity Online

Aboriginal community closures - 'This is an attempt to destroy our culture'

Michele Jedlicka

The Inverell Times

NT Minister expects migration if WA communities close

WGAR News: Interview with Haydyn Bromley on funding for the 60 SA Aboriginal Communities: Uncle Stephen Goldsmith, Nunga Wangga - Radio Adelaide

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 14/04/2015 - 4:44pm

Newsletter date: 15 April 2015

Contents:

* Audio Interview: Uncle Stephen Goldsmith, Nunga Wangga - Radio Adelaide: Haydyn Bromley on funding for the 60 SA Aboriginal Communities
[Featuring Haydyn Bromley, Stephen Goldsmith, Minungka McInerney]

* Audio Interview: CAAMA Radio's Strong Voices: South Australia's Remote Communities Safe for Now!
[Featuring Haydyn Bromley, Aboriginal Lands Trust South Australia]

Geography:

South Australia

Keywords:

SA Australian Aboriginal communities

Aboriginal Lands Trust

SA Aboriginal Lands Trust

Aboriginal Lands Trust South Australia

Uncle Stephen Goldsmith

Stephen Goldsmith

Minungka McInerney

Michael Collard

Nunga Wangga - Radio Adelaide

Haydyn Bromley on funding for the 60 SA Aboriginal Communities

CAAMA - Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

CAAMA Radio's Strong Voices

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert

Federal funding for SA remote aboriginal communities secured - WA must receive funding rethink

Michele Madigan - a Sister of St Joseph

Michele Madigan

Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia

Natalie Whiting

The World Today

Stephanie Anderson

WGAR News: SA Indigenous leaders seek urgent meeting over community closure concerns: Natalie Whiting, ABC PM [Featuring Haydyn Bromley & Tammy Franks]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 31/03/2015 - 4:19pm

Newsletter date: 1 April 2015

Geography:

South Australia

Keywords:

SA Indigenous leaders seek urgent meeting over community closure concerns

Natalie Whiting

SA Aboriginal Lands Trust

Tammy Franks - SA Greens MLC

Emergency summit held over SA Aboriginal community closures

Indigenous elders meet at Port Augusta as federal funding cuts threaten to close remote communities

protesting closure of Aboriginal communities

Forcibly removing our Peoples from their lands unacceptable

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia

SOSBlakAustralia

2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015

NITV News - 27 March 2015

NITV News - 30 March 2015

Remote Closures - SA Communities Call Emergency Summit to Fight 'Cultural Genocide'

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in SA

protesting closure of Aboriginal communities in SA

WGAR News: Aboriginal Australian Communities Send a Powerful Message to Government: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 24/03/2015 - 9:22am

Newsletter date: 24 March 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Here is part of the list of threatened Homelands - "remote communities"

Geography:

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal Australian Communities

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia

Thousands join nationwide rallies against community closures

Alex Bainbridge

Resistance builds against plan to close Aboriginal communities

Calla Wahlquist

Close the Gap day

Warren Barnsley

National Indigenous Radio's 'Weekly News-in-Review'

Proposed community closures in Western Australia

Thousands rally in protest of remote community closures

Barnett shouted down at Indigenous rally

SA crowd protests remote closures

Aboriginal community closure

Aboriginal community closure - intense rally at Parliament House

Nicolas Perpitch

Bonnie Christian

Andrew O'Connor

Protests over Plans to close Aboriginal homelands

WGAR News: Urgent Action - Remote Homelands and Outstations in WA - Will You Help to Prevent a Crisis?

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 11/03/2015 - 2:35pm

Newsletter date: 12 March 2015

Geography:

Global/International

Western Australia

Keywords:

Remote Community Closures

WA Government's planned closure of up to 150 Aboriginal communities

'concerned Australians'

Respect and Listen

Urgent Action - Remote homelands and Outstations in WA - Will You Help to Prevent a Crisis

Tony Abbott's Australia

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert

Remote indigenous communities are not a 'lifestyle choice' and should not be treated as such

Labor slams PM over 'highly offensive' remote communities comments

Sovereign Union

Djurin Nyoongar Swan River Treaty

closing Aboriginal homelands in WA

closing Aboriginal remote communities in WA

Amnesty International's Indigenous rights campaigner Tammy Solenec

Noongar activist Marianne McKay

Calla Wahlquist in the Kimberley

Jennifer Kaeshagen

Michael Anderson

WGAR News: Communique from Grandmothers Against Removals National Committee and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy rally - 13 February 2015

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 13/02/2015 - 1:08pm

Newsletter date: 14 February 2015

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Keywords:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

13 Feb 2015 - National Statement marking the Anniversary of the National Apology

Communique from Grandmothers Against Removals National Committee and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy rally

Aunty Hazel Collins

Priscilla Whiteman

SNAICC CEO Frank Hytten

Aunty Veronica Saunders

Shalailah Medhora

ABC Radio National

Natasha Mitchell

The increase in Indigenous child removals

NITV News - 12 February 2015

Fighting for their kids; The Grandmothers Against Removals tell their story in the nation's capital

Stolen Generations forum marks Apology anniversary

GMAR - Grandmothers Against Removals

Grandmothers Against Removals

National Sovereign Grannies Group

Stolen Generations

Stop Stolen Generations

13 February 2015 - Grandmothers Against Removals march to Parliament House

Gerry Georgatos

WGAR News: Invasion Day / Survival Day Rallies and Marches Across Australia: NITV News; SBS News; Occupy Sydney

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 27/01/2015 - 11:57am

Newsletter date: 28 January 2015

Contents:

* Video: NITV News - 26 January 2015: Invasion Day Marches and Rallies in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
* Video: SBS News: 'Survival Day' marked across Australia
* News: Occupy Sydney: Invasion/Survival Day Rallies Across Australia

* Hobart
-- News: Daniel McCulloch, The Examiner: Change the date campaign ramps up

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Keywords:

Aboriginal Sovereignty Day

Day of Mourning

Rallies and Marches Across Australia

Daniel McCulloch

Change the date campaign ramps up

The Canberra Times

Day of mourning and hope at Canberra's Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Aboriginal people and supporters gather in Alice Springs on Australia Day

Hundreds gather for Tent Embassy Invasion Day protest

Marianne Mackay

WA Nyoongah campaigner

Sovereign Union

Freedom Summit Side Events - Canberra 2015

Melbourne - Australia Day protest disrupts parade

Allison Worrall

Aboriginal rights protest disrupts Australia Day Parade in Melbourne

Invasion Day protest wins the day in Melbourne

Melbourne Invasion Day protest

no pride in genocide

Living Black Radio

2015 VIC Invasion Day Rally

WGAR News: Groups call for Government to reject Forrest Review Healthy Welfare Card; pursue decent welfare reform

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 17/12/2014 - 9:06am

Newsletter date: 21 December 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography:

Northern Territory

Keywords:

Joint NGO Statement

Groups call for rejection of Healthy Welfare Card

SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Strong opposition to proposed Healthy Welfare Card

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

CAAMA - Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

Tangentyere Council Research Hub

Matthew Campbell

The Conversation

Work with us not for us to end the Indigenous policy chaos

Christian Today

Gerry Georgatos

$30 million spent on Indigenous disadvantage is a lie

NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Invest more in Aboriginal health programs that work

Revised GP co-payment policy remains a hit to Aboriginal health

New co-payment model will jeopardise Indigenous health

Redfern Tent Embassy

WGAR News: Aboriginal Law must sit on top of whiteman's law, because 'our Law is the Law of this land': SU

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/12/2013 - 2:29pm

Newsletter date: 15 December 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Aboriginal Law must sit on top of whiteman's law, because 'our Law is the Law of this land'
* Ron Sutton, SBS News: Indigenous Australians remember Mandela
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lila Watson & Mary Graham
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Upcoming Event 17 December 2013: Public monument proposal - 'The Freedom Fighters' Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner
* Community Radio 3CR Anarchist World's Joseph Toscano on the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheener campaign

Geography:

WGAR News: 2013 Gathering of Nations in Canberra - Agenda: Sovereign Union [23-24 November 2013]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 02/11/2013 - 5:56pm

Newsletter date: 3 November 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: 2013 Gathering of Nations in Canberra - Agenda [23-24 November 2013]
* Sovereign Union Flyer: Calling all Aboriginal Nations to Canberra 23-24 November 2013: Gathering of Nations

* Natalie Ahmat, NITV News: Mansell rejects Australia Day Award nomination on moral grounds

* SBS News: 150 years on, South Sea Islanders seek apology for Blackbirding

* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

Geography: