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Australia’s First Nations Political Party (AFNPP)
NT Senate candidate Rosalie Kunoth Monks

Rosalie Kunoth Monks was 16 (pictured) when she was selected to play the starring role of Jedda. She is by any definition, an extraordinary woman. Now she says she has had enough, which is why she is making this bid for the NT Senate on a platform of Treaties and the rolling back of the Intervention. These issues are relevant to all Australians.

Newsletter date: 14 August 2013

Contents:

* Culture Is Life: Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide [Launch of new campaign]
* YouTube: Culture Is Life Campaign video
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia's Aboriginal children - The world's highest suicide rate
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* The Wire: Indigenous children dominate out-of-home care [Featuring Frank Hytten, CEO of SNAICC and Rachel Siewert, Greens Senator]

Free magazine charting two years of global resistance to politicians and their political process

Download zine at: https://againstelections.wordpress.com/

This zine has been compiled by some anarchists from the colonised region known as Australia. This small project was initiated to contribute to a discussion on how anti-authoritarians should intervene in or disrupt the 2013 Federal Election.

We have included statements and communiques from a range of anti-authoritarian positions taken from counter information sites, from the insurrectionary to the platformist.

Without GetUp members, 235,744 Australians could have missed their chance to vote.

Tomorrow night at 8pm, the electoral roll closes for this election -- but without GetUp members, it would have closed a week ago. It's support and donations that allow GetUp to take big risks, like going to the High Court to change the enrolment deadline in 2010.

Newsletter date: 12 August 2013

Editorial Note:

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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:

Tomorrow night is the first of the federal election campaign debates.

Election debates are supposed to be a contest of ideas and leadership.

We won’t see much of that on television tomorrow night.

With the Greens shut out of the first election debate between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott, there will be no voice for strong action on global warming, no voice for a caring approach for refugees, no voice you can trust on the environment.

I know you agree – Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne should be part of the debate.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

By Alex Bainbridge

GetUp members have really stepped up for the first hectic week of election campaigning. Well done on:

• dozens of media hits, and more than 2 millionAustralians hearing about our enrolment campaign in the papers and on radio,
• a winon anti-discrimination laws,
• more time to save the Reeffrom dredging, and
• great news on education reform - just weeks after GetUp members crowd-funded targeted radio ads.

The two year Super Trawler ban could be lifted by a new Federal Government just 32 days from now, and we need your help to ensure that doesn’t happen!