treaty

Newsletter date: 21 July 2013

Contents:

* NIT: Your Say: Treaty, sovereignty, empowerment the key factors for meaningful Recognition
* Let's Talk - NAIDOC Day Constitutional Symposium featuring Panel Members Prof. Megan Davis, Dr Robert Anderson OAM and Aunty Mary Graham
* Jim McIlroy, Green Left: Forum debates Aboriginal rights constitution change [Journalist Jeff McMullen chaired the event.]
* NIRS: NLC Chair suggests Land Rights Act be protected in the Consitution
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Newsletter date: 15 April 2013

Contents:

* Nicole Watson, Tracker: We must continue calls for Treaty
* Greg Dyett and Jeremy Geia, SBS Radionews Audio: Claim renews sovereignty campaign
* NIRS: Call to charge up sovereignty campaign
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* The Stringer: Department changes from Indigenous to Aboriginal

* Croakey: We must do far more as a country to acknowledge the First Australians: Prof Lesley Barclay

* Jeremy Geia, NITV News: Row over Canberra's traditional owners

* Other articles

Newsletter date: 28 February 2013

Contents:

* The Wire: Aboriginal youth could be silent victims in mandatory sentencing
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Legal service slams WA govt’s "despicable" plans for mandatory sentencing
* The Stringer: Feed the little children
* The Stringer: Sansbury and Franks say "enough" and time for the SA Government to act
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* The Stringer: Aboriginal peoples finally to be included in SA Constitution - but 'no' to Treaty

MEDIA STATEMENT 1 June 2012

WGAR supports the Yolngu statement opposing the Stronger Futures laws

The Working Group for Aboriginal Rights stands in solidarity with the Yolngu Nations Assembly and strongly supports the Yolngu’s right to be independent and free nations living under their own Law.