Newsletter date: 17 September 2015
Contents:
* Upcoming Event: The Intervention - an Anthology: Booklaunch - Fitzroy, Melbourne - Thursday, 24 September 2015
* Book Review by Shelley Bielefeld: Arena Magazine No. 137, August-September 2015
* Purchase Online: For those unable to attend, the book may be purchased on line
* Background:
Respect and Listen: The Intervention an Anthology
WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government
WGAR News postings on Indymedia Australia: https://indymedia.org.au/newswire
WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
- Upcoming Event
The Intervention - an Anthology
Booklaunch
Fitzroy, Melbourne
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Indymedia Australia: https://indymedia.org.au/events/the-intervention-an-anthology-booklaunch...
Source: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/Intervention_Anthology_launches.h...
"In this historic anthology, award-winning writers Rosie Scott and Dr Anita Heiss have gathered together the work of twenty of Australian’s finest writers both Indigenous and non-Indigenous together with powerful statements from Northern Territory Elders to bring a new dimension and urgency to an issue that has remained largely outside the public radar"
Date and Time:
Thursday, September 24, 2015
11:30am to 1:00pm
Contact Name:
Pia at 'concerned Australians'
Contact Phone:
041 954 1733
Contact Email:
info@concernedaustralians.com.au
Location:
Arena Publications, 2 Kerr St, Fitzroy VIC 3065: For a map please click here http://www.whereis.com/vic/fitzroy-3065/yellowId-13493389
Website:
http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/#INTANT
"Fitzroy (VIC) - Thursday, 24 September 2015 - 11.30am to 1 pm
Speakers:
Hon. Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC, former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
Nicole Watson of the Birri-Gubba People and Yugambeh language group
Arnold Zable, one of Australia's most loved storytellers & committee member PEN
Arena Publications, 2 Kerr St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
For a map please click here http://www.whereis.com/vic/fitzroy-3065/yellowId-13493389
for the flyer please click here http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/media/InterventionAnthology_Launc...
Please RSVP by Tuesday September 22nd to Pia at info@concernedaustralians.com.au or 041 954 1733
Organised by 'concerned Australians' together with Arena Magazine & Journal"
- Review
Book Review by Shelley Bielefeld: Arena Magazine No. 137, August-September 2015:
http://concernedaustralians.com.au/media/Intervention_Anthology_Book_Rev...
- Purchase Online
For those unable to attend, the book may be purchased on line via:
http://www.booktopia.com.au/the-intervention-an-anthology-rosie-scott/pr...
- Background
Respect and Listen: The Intervention an Anthology
http://www.respectandlisten.org/nt-intervention/intervention-anthology.html
WGAR Background: Intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities by the Federal government
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/06/08/wgar-background-intervention-into-no...
(last updated: 5 September 2015)
- - -
WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
About WGAR News:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
Subscription to 'WGAR News' is free.
'WGAR News' monitors the media, including alternative media, focusing on:
* The Freedom Summit's National Freedom Movement;
* the Australian Federal government intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities;
* Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA), [and Northern Territory (NT)?];
* Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia;
* the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies;
* Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;
* Aboriginal land rights and mining;
* Suicide and self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities;
* Removal of Aboriginal children and the continuing Stolen Generation;
* Aboriginal peoples and the impact of the Australian Federal Budget;
* Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing;
* other Aboriginal rights issues; and
* upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia.
'WGAR News' gives priority to grassroots Aboriginal voices and grassroots voices in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples' rights.
The role of 'WGAR News' is to facilitate the voices of others, and as such, 'WGAR News' rarely writes its own articles.
'WGAR News' publishes information and opinions from a wide range of sources.
These opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of WGAR.
The e-newsletters include media releases, opinion pieces, news items, audio, videos and events.
Subscribers can expect to receive about 5-6 e-newsletters each week.
To subscribe, email wgar.news@gmail.com and include the words "subscribe WGAR News" in the message header.
To unsubscribe, email wgar.news@gmail.com and include the words "unsubscribe WGAR News" in the message header.
'WGAR News' postings on Indymedia Australia: https://indymedia.org.au/newswire