Tom Calma

WGAR News: This budget could devastate Indigenous Australians: Mick Gooda, ABC The Drum

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 22/05/2014 - 9:56am

Newsletter date: 22 May 2014

Contents:

* Mick Gooda, ABC The Drum: This budget could devastate Indigenous Australians

* Joint Press Release - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders call for scrapping of co-payments
* Joline Samawi, The Wire: Aboriginal leaders upset over co-payments [Featuring Jill Gallagher and Justin Mohamed]
* NIRS: Call to give Aboriginal Medical Centres a Co-payment break
* NIRS: GP co-payment 'removes safety net to health'

Geography: 
Canberra
Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Budget
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Close the Gap
Aboriginal peoples
Federal Budget
Closing the Gap
SNAICC
NACCHO
CAAMA
SNAICC News
CAAMA Radio
Indigenous Australians
The Wire
ABC The Drum
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Mick Gooda
Kirstie Parker
Tom Calma
Justin Mohamed
Joline Samawi
2014 Federal Budget
2014 Budget
Joint Press Release
GP co-payment
co-payments
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders call for scrapping of co-payments
Jill Gallagher
Aboriginal leaders upset over co-payments
Aboriginal leaders
Aboriginal Medical Centres
Anna Henderson
Indigenous health leaders
Aboriginal Child and Family Centres
Congress Get Cuts
Congress Co-Chair Kirstie Parker

WGAR News: Now is not the time to open the door to bigotry: Tom Calma & Melinda Cilento, Reconciliation Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 28/03/2014 - 2:00pm

Newsletter date: 29 March 2014

Contents:

* Dr Tom Calma AO & Melinda Cilento, Co-Chairs of Reconciliation Australia: Now is not the time to open the door to bigotry
* ABC Lateline: Proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act need to be redrafted [Featuring Gillian Triggs, President of the Human Rights Commission]
* Robert Crawford, South Coast Register: Local leader condemns race hate law change [Featuring Aboriginal leader Gerry Moore]
* Heath Aston, The Wimmera Mail-Times: Adam Goodes speaks out against Racial Discrimination Act changes

Geography: 
New South Wales
Australia
Victoria
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Human Rights Commission
Tony Abbott
warren mundine
Annie Hastwell
ABC News
barry o'farrell
George Brandis
ABC Lateline
Gillian Triggs
Indigenous Advisory Council
Adam Goodes
Tom Calma
Dr Tom Calma AO
Melinda Cilento
Reconciliation Australia
bigotry
Proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act need to be redrafted
Robert Crawford
South Coast Register
Gerry Moore
Local leader condemns race hate law change
Heath Aston
Racial Discrimination Act changes
Dr Andre Oboler
Online Hate Prevention Institute
Racial discrimination - they just don't get it
Victoria to lobby against Discrimination Act changes
Bigotry should never be sanctioned
Maria Galinovic
Have your say on proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act
Lisa Cox
Holocaust denial
Opposition to proposed RDA changes

WGAR News: Sharing Culture - Empowering Aboriginal people to heal and develop resilience to historical trauma

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 22/03/2014 - 12:49pm

Newsletter date: 23 March 2014

Contents:

* SNAICC News: Sharing Culture initiative online

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Hundreds more will suicide if we wait for 2015
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* SNAICC News: SNAICC congratulates Dala Yooro Children and Family Centre
* SNAICC News: The Training Team recently delivered 10 of these 2-day workshops across New South Wales
* SNAICC News: The children of Burringurrah Remote Aboriginal Community - The Boss of My Body!

Geography: 
Perth
New South Wales
Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
John Pilger
Stolen Generations
Gerry Georgatos
child protection
Lowitja Institute
NACCHO
another Stolen Generation
The Stringer
SNAICC News
The Guardian
The Wire
Ian Lloyd Neubauer
TIME
Aboriginal Suicide
Living Black Radio
Tom Calma
Aboriginal community controlled health
Sharing Culture
Sharing Culture initiative online
Hundreds more will suicide if we wait for 2015
The Boss of My Body
SNAICC congratulates Dala Yooro Children and Family Centre
Dala Yooro Children and Family Centre
Burringurrah Remote Aboriginal Community
SoundCloud
Barbara Moore
Vanessa Culbong
Lowitja
Lyn Brodie
Investing in Aboriginal community controlled health makes economic $ense
Selwyn Button
Emma Rennie
Michelle Aleksandrovics Lovegrove
Aboriginal Health Services
Indre McGlinn
Scott Wilson

WGAR News: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?: Eva Cox, The Conversation

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 24/02/2014 - 4:25pm

Newsletter date: 25 February 2014

Contents:

* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?
* SNAICC News: Disappointing sense of deja vu on closing the gap - Article by Angela Webb in The Australian 13 February 2014
* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): ALS calls for Justice Targets to be incorporated into Closing the Gap
* CAAMA Radio: Working together… [Featuring Barbara Shaw discussing the National Apology and Closing the Gap report]

Geography: 
ACT
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Close the Gap
The Conversation
Closing the Gap
Michael Mansell
Barbara Shaw
SNAICC News
CAAMA Radio
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
Paddy Gibson
Dan Harrison
Solidarity Online
The Canberra Times
Eva Cox
national apology
Les Malezer
Tom Calma
Angela Webb
Disappointing sense of deja vu on closing the gap
Aboriginal Legal Service NSW - ACT
ALS calls for Justice Targets to be incorporated into Closing the Gap
Closing the Gap report
institutional racism
Abbott's attitude to Aboriginal people shows a new paternalism
First People's congress

WGAR News: "Background Evidence to Support a Declaration of Aboriginal Sovereignty"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 23/02/2014 - 2:11pm

Newsletter date: 23 February 2014

Contents:

* Michael Anderson, The Carrington Rand Journal of Social Sciences: Background Evidence to Support a Declaration of Aboriginal Sovereignty
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Jarvis Ryan: Bilingual education needs to be extended, not scrapped
* Alice Springs News: Indigenous education review: no more ‘biliteracy’; boarding for secondary students
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools (bilingual education)

* SBS News: Big picture needed on Aboriginal education [Featuring Tom Calma]

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
bilingual education
Aboriginal languages
Michael Anderson
Tony Abbott
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal sovereignty movement
Aboriginal education
The Stringer
The Wire
Aboriginal languages in NT schools
Michael Anderson - The Carrington Rand Journal of Social Sciences - Background Evidence to Support a Declaration of Aboriginal Sovereignty
Jarvis Ryan
Bilingual education needs to be extended - not scrapped
Indigenous education review
The Carrington Rand Journal of Social Sciences
Tom Calma
Andrew Forrest
Miriam Alveberg
Ghil’ad Zuckerman
Claire McClain
Andrew Pople
Terri Janke