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* Tracker: Canadian PM to talk with Aboriginal leaders following hunger strike
* CBC News Canada: 9 questions about Idle No More
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Tracker: Concern at high Indigenous youth jail rate
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Tracker: Doubts over income quarantine in APY Lands
* Background to Income Management for APY Lands in South Australia

* Kathy Marks, The National: Billionaire mining magnate accused of dividing indigenous communities

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Aboriginal sovereignty

Aboriginal imprisonment

Stronger Futures

Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

Yindjibarndi

APY Lands

CBC News Canada - 9 questions about Idle No More

Tracker - Concern at high Indigenous youth jail rate

Tracker - Doubts over income quarantine in APY Lands

Kathy Marks - The National - Billionaire mining magnate accused of dividing indigenous communities

NIRS - Sam Watson says Mabo Day a better day for national celebration

ABC Video - Calls to pardon hanged Aboriginal man

WGAR News: Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy to charge Graham Quirk: Media Release

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 18/12/2012 - 7:51am

Newsletter date: 18 December 2012

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* Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy to charge Graham Quirk: Media Release
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies

* APO NT: Mini-budget cuts to Aboriginal services will increase harm and cost more -especially in the Bush
* Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition has condemned the CLP’s mini-budget cuts to vital Aboriginal services: Media Release
* Respect and Listen Video: Adelaide's book launch of 'A Decision to Discriminate'
[Speeches by Djiniyini Gondarra, Amelia Pangarte Kunoth-Monks and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks.]

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Northern Territory Intervention

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Aboriginal incarceration

Aboriginal imprisonment

A Decision to Discriminate

APO NT - Mini-budget cuts to Aboriginal services will increase harm and cost more - especially in the Bush

Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition has condemned the CLP’s mini-budget cuts to vital Aboriginal services - Media Release

Respect and Listen Video - Adelaide's book launch of A Decision to Discriminate

Speeches by Djiniyini Gondarra - Amelia Pangarte Kunoth-Monks and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

Amnesty - 2012 a permanent stain on Australia’s human rights record

Amnesty - Indigenous lives lost as Government inaction continues

Diane Fieldes - Socialist Alternative - Aboriginal incarceration rates soar

WGAR News: "Government remains deaf to the data on income management"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 13/12/2012 - 9:58am

Newsletter date: 13 December 2012

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* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Government remains deaf to the data on income management
* Paddy Gibson, Overland literary journal: Income management in the Northern Territory: racism is still the issue
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Allyson Horn, ABC: NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

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Northern Territory Intervention

Income Management - IM

Eva Cox - The Conversation - Government remains deaf to the data on income management

Paddy Gibson - Overland literary journal - Income management in the Northern Territory - racism is still the issue

Allyson Horn - ABC - NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump

Robin Chapple MLC - WA government bungles Browse land seizure again - Grylls' incompetence reaches new heights

Senator Rachel Siewert - Greens say Barnett should abandon compulsory acquisition

Working Group for Aboriginal Rights Human Rights Day open letter to PM Julia Gillard

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 10/12/2012 - 6:15pm

Media Release - 10 December 2012

Working Group for Aboriginal Rights Human Rights Day open letter to PM Julia Gillard:

Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Parliament House
Parkes ACT 2600

Prime Minister,

The Working Group for Aboriginal Rights is calling on you and your government to change direction in your policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs.

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Northern Territory Intervention

sovereignty

Stronger Futures

compensation

Theo van Boven principles of Reparation for Peoples

gross violations of Human Rights

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

WGAR News: Alice Springs Human Rights Day Rally demands justice for Kumentjaye Briscoe: MR

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 09/12/2012 - 9:37am

Newsletter date: 9 December 2012

Contents:

* Media Release: Alice Springs Human Rights Day Rally demands justice for Kumentjaye Briscoe
* Patricia Morton-Thomas: 'My Family Is Calling For Justice'
* Petition: Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe - lay charges against police

* STICS: NT Aboriginal Elder calls for repeal of 'Stronger Futures' at Sydney Human Rights Day forum
* PressTV Video: Australia Rights Forum centers on indigenous people
* Tracker: Lessons of Redfern speech lost: Elder
* Media Release: Union leaders join Bankstown Coalition to ramp up income management campaign

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Northern Territory Intervention

SIHIP

Aboriginal deaths

Stronger Futures

Petition - Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe - lay charges against police

Indigenous mental health

Indigenous women prisoners

Patricia Morton-Thomas - My Family Is Calling For Justice

STICS - NT Aboriginal Elder calls for repeal of Stronger Futures at Sydney Human Rights Day forum

PressTV Video - Australia Rights Forum centers on indigenous people

Tracker - Lessons of Redfern speech lost - Elder

Redfern speech

Media Release - Union leaders join Bankstown Coalition to ramp up income management campaign

CAAMA - Call for compulsory Income management to be dropped

Eva Cox - Macklin Ignores Intervention Evaluation

Tennant & District Times - SIHIP bungles leave homes in shambles

CAAMA - Leading human rights advocate says disenfranchisement of Australia’s First Nations Peoples continues

"Pay the Rent" - say Nyoongars - "Stronger Futures can go straight to hell"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 15/03/2012 - 5:19pm

Gerry Georgatos
With the Stronger Futures debacle in the Australian Senate the following could not be more timely. Nyoongar rights advocate and CEO of Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, Robert Eggington has gathered together with several prominent Nyoongars, and a large number of the Nyoongar community, to announce their own Native Title proposals for the state government to consider.

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