Australian Human Rights Commission

WGAR News: Indigenous Affairs Environment Remains a Trauma Zone: Post-2015 Budget Media Release: Congress

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 13 May 2015 13:41:16 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 May 2015

WGAR News: Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget 2015-16

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 12 May 2015 10:43:05 +0000

Newsletter date: 12 May 2015; 8:45pm

WGAR News: Commission of Audit: Aboriginal health would suffer: NACCHO political alert

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 03 May 2014 08:53:08 +0000

Newsletter date: 4 May 2014

Contents:

* NACCHO political alert: Commission of Audit: Aboriginal health would suffer
* NACCHO breaking news: Federal government Commission of Audit Indigenous programmes

* Tim Soutphommasane, Australian Human Rights Commission: No case for changing race laws, says Race Discrimination Commissioner
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Racial Discrimination: Commission responds to Exposure Draft
* Chris Slee, Green Left: Meeting discusses Racial Discrimination Act changes
* Delia Lawrie, Territory Labor: Territory Law Plan to Tackle Racism

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WGAR News: Congress Calls for Conscience Vote on Racism: National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:54:11 +0000

Newsletter date: 19 April 2014

Contents:

* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: Congress Calls for Conscience Vote on Racism
* The Australian: Indigenous call for racism conscience vote
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: Close the Gap warns of impact of RDA changes
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: Proposed changes to the RDA threaten racial cohesion
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: Joint Statement: Leaders reject proposed RDA changes

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Australia

WGAR News: Repealing the race hate laws isn't 'freedom' to Indigenous people: Siv Parker, The Guardian

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:14:18 +0000

Newsletter date: 31 March 2014

Contents:

* Siv Parker, The Guardian: Repealing the race hate laws isn't 'freedom' to Indigenous people
* ABC News: Warren Mundine maintains criticism of Coalition's proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act
* Professor Gillian Triggs, President, Australian Human Rights Commission: Proposed changes to the Race Discrimination Act: Bad cases make bad law
* Tim Soutphommasane, Canberra Times: Are we to favour bigotry over the right to live unaffected by it?

Geography:

Australia

WGAR News: Living Black Radio's Marc Tong interviews Kirstie Parker: Congress Opposes RDA Amendments

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:50:37 +0000

Newsletter date: 2 December 2013

Contents:

* SBS Living Black Radio's Marc Tong interviews Co-Chair of Congress Kirstie Parker: Congress Opposes RDA Amendments
* Geoffrey Brahm Levey & Helen Pringle, ABC The Drum: Why the 'Bolt laws' should stay
* ABC Lateline: "Professor Gillian Triggs, the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission discusses freedom of speech."
* Marina Freri, SBS Radionews: Groups combine to oppose Racial Discrimination Act change
* Brooke Boney, NITV News: Attorney-General under fire over Racial Discrimination Act

Geography:

Australia

WGAR News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:07:27 +0000

Newsletter date: 24 July 2013

Contents:

* SNAICC News: SNAICC welcomes appointment of Mr Andrew Jackomos [as first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth]
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Victorian appointment for Aboriginal children and young people
* Tracker: Vic gets commissioner for Koori youth
* SNAICC News: National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day - 4 August 2013

* Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) Submission - Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill 2013 (NT)
* Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

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Keywords:

Australian Human Rights Commission

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

CROAKEY

NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

Human Rights Law Centre - HRLC

ANTaR Health Campaign - Take Action

first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth

Aboriginal children and young people

commissioner for Koori youth

National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day - 4 August 2013

Bill Ivinson

Lyla Dreise

Aboriginal Type 2 Diabetes

Michelle True

CEO of Diabetes Qld

Aboriginal type-2 diabetics

Indigenous men gather for health summit

A Step Forward For Indigenous Disability

ABC Indigenous - DisabilityCare

National Aboriginal heath plan

Grattan Institute

Aboriginal health gap

AMA

WGAR News: How Are The Children In Hakea Being Treated?: Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Living Black

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:35:49 +0000

Newsletter date: 16 April 2013

Contents:

* Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Living Black Audio: How Are The Children In Hakea Being Treated?
* The Stringer: Egg on face for State Government over children in adult jail
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Commission seeks to intervene in juvenile detention case
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Human Rights Commission to intervene in Hakea children court case
* Tracker: WA judge orders juvenile jail evidence
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australian Bureau of Statistics on prison rates

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Keywords:

Australian Human Rights Commission

Aboriginal imprisonment

HAKEA

National Indigenous Times

Indigenous mental health

Michelle Lovegrove

The Stringer

children in adult jail

juvenile detention

juvenile jail

Australian Bureau of Statistics

independent police inspectorate

Indigenous rehab services

Indigenous Australia and the media

prison rates

AHRC

The Stringer - Egg on face for State Government over children in adult jail

Australian Human Rights Commission - Commission seeks to intervene in juvenile detention case

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Human Rights Commission to intervene in Hakea children court case

Tracker - WA judge orders juvenile jail evidence

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Australian Bureau of Statistics on prison rates

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Time for independent police inspectorate

SBS Radionews Audio - SA Indigenous rehab services in doubt

Australian deaths in custody - Twenty years later - Nothing has changed - The answers do exist

Gerry Georgatos — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:15:58 +0000

Australia has one of the world’s worst deaths in custody records. As a researcher I have compared Australia 's deaths in custody record in terms of proportion to populations with other countries. Deaths in custody includes prison and police custody. We compare badly with even Apartheid South Africa .

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Global/International