The Coalition’s planned cuts to indigenous legal services will lead to increased prison costs and a shift in demand to already stretched legal aid bodies, critics have argued.
The Coalition plans to cut $42 million from the Indigenous Policy Reform Program, which funds legal services for indigenous people across Australia, over the next four years.
Welcome back to the Fall 2013 season of Radio Ecoshock, broadcast on more than 70 college and community stations around the world.
This is Alex Smith. Big news continues to pour in from around the world. We've got a lineup of guests, experts and activists, waiting to make sense of it all.
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Why Detroit Is Bankrupt ?
Detroit was producing poor quality vehicles & agricultural machinery & so the global market for machinery from Detroit was effected
Whichever way you look at it, that was quite the election.
For the GetUp community, this was our biggest effort ever. Here's just some of what you achieved:
Newsletter date: 13 September 2013
Contents:
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Ray Jackson from the Indigenous Social Justice Association about Aboriginal imprisonment
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Monica Morgan, Manager of the Indigenous Rights Program at Amnesty International, about Aboriginal imprisonment
* Amanda Banks, The West Australian: Juveniles return to Banksia Hill
* SBS Radio News: WA promises youth justice system overhaul
* MJA: Prevalence and perceptions of overweight and obesity in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young people in custody
By David Protess, President, Chicago Innocence Project
in the Huffington Post
Hank Skinner is in the final round of a fight against two heavyweights. One is the Texas lawmen who want him executed. The other is an often-fatal ailment that saps his strength and leaves him in constant pain. The odds makers give him little chance. Death, after all, is undefeated.
Newsletter date: 12 September 2013
Contents:
* Jenita Enevoldsen, The Wilderness Society: The Lurujarri Heritage Trail
* Goolarabooloo: Looking after Country!
* Glen Klatosvky, Reconciliation For Western Sydney: Building Bridges 2013: Kimberley Gas Hub - For and Against
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens announce a doubling of Indigenous Rangers and new vision for the Kimberley
* Greens WA MLC Robin Chapple: Kimberley vision launch
* Tony Eastley, ABC News: Broome residents say tourism ignored in election campaign
By Gary Foley, September 9, 2013
Prime Minister elect Tony Abbott and Warren Mundine
It would seem at the present time that the former National President of the ALP, Mr Warren Mundine, has momentarily eclipsed the Cape York Crusader Noel Pearson as the Aboriginal Man of the Moment.
Whilst Mr Mundine may lack the intellectual firepower of Noel Pearson, he has nevertheless elbowed his way to the front of the pack with his dazzling late-life conversion to the cause of all things Tony Abbott.
I just signed the petition "Tony Abbott: Liberal Party: Remove Tony Abbott from Prime Minister" on Change.org.
Here are just 4 of the many reasons to sign and show your rejection of Tony Abbott and his policies:
Tony Abbott's cuts of $4.5 billion in foreign aid will result in the deaths of more than 440,000 people in this electoral term:
http://budgetsmuggler.com
Newsletter date: 11 September 2013
Contents:
* ABC News: Date set for court fight over Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Tennant & District Times: Muckaty trial date set
* Lawyers Weekly: QC to fight nuclear dump plan
* Oliver Milman, The Guardian: Northern Territory nuclear waste dump 'contravenes UN declaration'
* Greens Senator Scott Ludlam: Greens condemn plan to turn Australia into the world’s nuclear waste dump
* Antinuclear: Dump under the pump: Pressure grows against Muckaty radioactive waste plan
* Dave Sweeney, New Matilda: Nuclear Waste Lasts Longer Than Politicians
dollars intended for free and fair elections, but censures Malagasy political leaders for being incapable.
According to Prime Minister’s Office officials , PM Ramgoolam wants a solid statement to be made to Madagascar that a concise roadmap to the upcoming Malagasy elections are crucial to ensuring democracy and the reputation of Africa
In a press statement to journalists, Mauritius’s Prime Minister Ramgoolam while addressing the Southern African Development Community summit (SADC) in Lilongwe Malawi made a robust warning directed at Malagasy politicians.
Newsletter date: 10 September 2013
Contents:
* Sovereign Union: Sovereign Union is a movement for freedom, rejecting Pearson's pro-assimilation
* Sharnie Kim, ABC News: Cape York mayors snub Indigenous leader Noel Pearson initiatives
* Laurie Lawira, SBS Radio News: Bipartisan support for Indigenous leadership group
* Sovereign Union: Aboriginal Rates Case back on track [Featuring the Euahlayi Nation]
* Greg Ansley, New Zealand Herald: Indigenous backlash could cost Labor seat [Featuring the Murrawarri Republic]
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
Newsletter date: 9 September 2013
Editorial Note:
'WGAR News' monitors the media, including alternative media.
'WGAR News' gives priority to grassroots Aboriginal voices and grassroots voices in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples' rights.
'WGAR News' publishes information and opinions from a wide range of sources.
These opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of WGAR.
As such, 'WGAR News' does not endorse any particular political party, but simply includes information on political parties for the interest of readers.
Contents:
Press Release by the Aboriginal Provisional Government
Aborigines will seek an early meeting with Prime Minister elect Tony Abbott to discuss a better way to return parcels of land to traditional owners, Secretary Michael Mansell said today.
Pictured is Mary, a 91 year-old GetUp member, who teamed up with Melissa, an 18 year-old first-time voter to cover a polling booth yesterday. Phots like these came in all day, and they're truly, truly beautiful.
The current border policies of the ruling elite are cruel, oppressive, revanchist. Over the course of the elction campaign we have vandalised the electorate offices of Kelvin Thomson, Martin Ferguson, Josh Frydenberg, Anna Bourke, Brendan O'Connor, Simon Crean, Mark Dreyfus, Kelly O'Dwyer, Mike Symon and Andrew Robb; they are complicit.
Hydroponic farming is rapidly emerging as a reliable commercial market in Mauritius agricultural authorities believe, with more and more growers going to greenhouse farming, ensuring sustainable development agricultural practices
The island which is often touted as a paradise getaway destination in the south west Indian Oceans , has over the last 10 years or so developed its hydroponic farming industry.
Growing tomatoes , garlic and onions have been its principal crops, while being near enough to self-sufficiency in tomato production overall this year thus far.
Newsletter date: 6 September 2013
Editorial Note:
'WGAR News' monitors the media, including alternative media.
'WGAR News' gives priority to grassroots Aboriginal voices and grassroots voices in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples' rights.
'WGAR News' publishes information and opinions from a wide range of sources.
These opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of WGAR.
As such, 'WGAR News' does not endorse any particular political party, but simply includes information on political parties for the interest of readers.
Contents:
Just twenty-‐four hours before polls open, thousands of young voters have met the Coalition’s broken promise on foreign aid with outcry.
The Coalition announced yesterday that $4.5 billion in foreign aid increases would be cut should they form government.
Viv Benjamin, CEO of the Oaktree Foundation, stated the slashed funds could have saved the lives of 450,000 people living in extreme poverty around the world. [1]
‘The impact of Abbott’s aid cuts, revealed at the eleventh hour, must be made known so voters can make an informed vote on Saturday’ Ms Benjamin said.
