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WGAR News: $1.3 billion Native Title deal divides Noongar peoples: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 09/07/2013 - 2:05pm

Newsletter date: 10 July 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: $1.3 billion Native Title deal divides Noongar peoples
* ABC News: Tent embassy group rejects native title offer
* Tracker: Native title deal angers WA Tent Embassy
* SBS World News Video: WA govt offers native title deal to Noongar group
* Tim Bray, CCI: State Government Native Title offer to provide positive benefits
* University of Otago, NZ: Setting up the Tent Embassy [Nyoongar Tent Embassy]
* Background to the Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Heirisson Island (sacred site of Matagarup), Perth, WA

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Nyoongar Tent Embassy

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

The Stringer

Vicky Validakis - Australian Mining

Vicky Validakis - Australian Mining - Protestors line up to stop Whitehaven's Maules Creek mine

WA Tent Embassy

sacred site of Matagarup - Heirisson Island

WA Native Title offer

ABC News - Tent embassy group rejects native title offer

Tracker - Native title deal angers WA Tent Embassy

$1.3 billion Native Title deal

SBS World News Video - WA govt offers native title deal to Noongar group

WGAR News: What does a change of PM mean for Aboriginal people?: CAAMA interviews Michael Mansell

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 30/06/2013 - 5:42pm

Newsletter date: 1 July 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA: What does a change of PM mean for Aboriginal people? [Featuring Michael Mansell]
* NITV News: Warren Mundine welcomes Rudd's return
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The downfall of Prime Minister Gillard began with broken promises about the Intervention

* Living Black's Marc Tong interviews Sylvie Ellsmore: Local Council Says No to Income Management

* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

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Australia

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)

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Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: Minister, Protect the Burrup with World Heritage Listing: Greens Senator Scott Ludlam

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 26/06/2013 - 1:54pm

Newsletter date: 27 June 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: World Heritage push for world’s oldest rock art
* Greens Senator Scott Ludlam: Minister, Protect the Burrup with World Heritage Listing
* Saffron Howden, SMH: Population weighs heavily on ancient Aboriginal rock art

* Greens MLC Robin Chapple: Local Aboriginal Jobs Sacrificed in Shoddy Government Contract Deal

* Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation: New hope for the Yindjibarndi people
* Ben Leahy, Pilbara Echo: Yindjibarndi sign land access with Rio Tinto

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Western Australia

WGAR News: "Progress report on Closing the Gap proves best results are through community groups"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 18/06/2013 - 11:27am

Newsletter date: 19 June 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO chair: Progress report on Closing the Gap proves best results are through community groups
* The Stringer: Austerity cuts hit Closing the Gap

* NACCHO News: NACCHO CEO appointed to new Aboriginal Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Group
* The Stringer: Suicide prevention phone app designed for Aboriginal people in the remote

* NACCHO health education news: NACCHO signs Landmark Aboriginal medical education agreement
* NACCHO media news: NACCHO CEO Lisa Briggs to host IndigenousX Excellence this week

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National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Aboriginal Mental Health

Aboriginal Suicide Prevention

Aboriginal medical education

CROAKEY

sex education

sexual health education

Michelle O'Rielly

Aboriginal dental health

Aboriginal health and wellbeing

Dialysis funding

WGAR News: Funding found for Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) police custody crisis phone line

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 17/06/2013 - 6:33pm

Newsletter date: 18 June 2013

Contents:

* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): At the 11th hour, the CNS is funded
* The Stringer: Federal Government finally fronts up with funding for Custodial Notification Service
* Tracker: Essential lifeline secures funding for next two years
* NIRS: Funding finally found for legal advice phone line
* Background to Funding of the Custody Notification Service operated by the Aboriginal Legal Service

* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): Legal fraternity to meet Aboriginal elders [New Canberra office]

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Aboriginal deaths in custody

Aboriginal imprisonment

Custody Notification Service

CNS

Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT

CAAMA Video

Custodial Notification Service

Essential lifeline

NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment legislation

Corruption Commission

bashing of prisoners

Jan Mayman

Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT - At the 11th hour - the CNS is funded

The Stringer - Federal Government finally fronts up with funding for Custodial Notification Service

Tracker - Essential lifeline secures funding for next two years

Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT - Legal fraternity to meet Aboriginal elders - New Canberra office

CAAMA Video - Amendments to Territory's Alcohol Mandatory Treatment legislation

NITV News - NT vows to amend Mandatory Alcohol Treatment Bill

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Corruption Commission hears of bashing of prisoners

WGAR News: Kado Muir, Aboriginal leader and activist, interviewed by Community Radio 3CR

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 14/06/2013 - 2:26pm

Newsletter date: 15 June 2013

Contents:

* Community Radio 3CR interview with Kado Muir, Aboriginal leader and activist from the goldfields region of inland WA
* Background to the Walkatjurra Walkabout: Stepping out against uranium mining

* Nicole Watson, Tracker: Standing on the shoulders of giants [The Land Rights movement]
* Chris Munro, Tracker: Aboriginal Ink: A spoonful of land rights
* Roy Ah See, Tracker: Lest we forget who paved the way

* CAAMA Video: Native Title Conference
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Native Title reforms to make it easier for developers

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WGAR News: Pioneering myth of early white settlers branded a lie by historian Dr Timothy Bottoms

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 13/06/2013 - 3:05pm

Newsletter date: 14 June 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA: Frontier history revisited "A Queensland based historian has branded the pioneering myth of the early white settlers as a lie."
* Eleanor Gilbert, YouTube: Remembering the Frontier Wars - Anzac Day 2013, Canberra - Sovereign Embassy
* Brooke Boney, NITV News: Myall Creek massacre remembered
* Ron Sutton, SBS Radionews: Myall Creek: A massacre and a reconciliation
* The Inverell Times: Myall Creek remembered
* Sovereign Union: The Rufus River Massacre - Lake Victoria South West NSW

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WGAR News: We have to stop the creation of another Stolen Generation: Paddy Gibson, The Guardian UK

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 12/06/2013 - 5:17pm

Newsletter date: 13 June 2013

Contents:

* Nicola Butler, The Stringer: National call to reduce high number of Aboriginal children removed
* Paddy Gibson, The Guardian UK: We have to stop the creation of another Stolen Generation
* The Wire: Are we on the brink of another Stolen Generation? [Interviews with Frank Hytten and Paddy Gibson]
* Melbourne event hosted by SNAICC: Stop the Creation of Another Stolen Generation! (14 June 13)
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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WGAR News: The Federal Government is not listening while people die: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 09/06/2013 - 5:18pm

Newsletter date: 10 June 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Suicide attempts among women on the rise
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Federal Government is not listening while people die

* SNAICC News: Governments must commit to survival of Aboriginal children and family centres

* CAAMA: Big Bro's Shed... [health and well-being]

* Jeremy Geia, NITV News: Calls to scrap cigarette 'skins' displaying Indigenous flag

* Pro Bono News: Film Recognises Depression in Urban Indigenous Communities

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