WA

WGAR News: "Kimberley Aboriginal communities condemn Colin Barnett's plan to close small communities"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 02:49:02 +0000

Newsletter date: 24 November 2014

Last updated: 26 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

Geography:

Australia

South Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: Aboriginal suicide rates: A compilation by Jens Korff of Creative Spirits

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:29:20 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

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Keywords:

Aboriginal suicide rates

Depression and suicide prevention

Kimberley suicide rate

Professor Pat Dudgeon

AProfessor Roz Walker

Suicide trends in WA - an urgent call to action

Redneck agenda to close down communities

suicide takes more lives than war

WGAR News: Government Buck-Passing Could Force Aboriginal People Off WA Homelands: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 01:45:09 +0000

Newsletter date: 16 November 2014

WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

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Keywords:

Fears over WA Aboriginal community closures

closing remote WA communities

apartheid

Alex Bainbridge

Gerry Georgatos

Aboriginal communities resist government attacks

Jigalong

Alice Springs

WGAR News: "What about our sacred sites?": Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 28 May 2014 07:12:49 +0000

Newsletter date: 29 May 2014

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: "What about our sacred sites?"
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Dissenting voices rise against single largest native title offer
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Toogarr Morrison says it's Bibbullmun and not Noongar
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Marianne Mackay backs Toogarr Morrison - "we're Bibbullmun, not Noongar"
* Background to the Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Heirisson Island (Matagarup), Perth, WA
* Background to Mabo and Native Title

* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: "WHAT ABOUT OUR SACRED SITES?"

Geography:

Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: SBS TV: Watch John Pilger's 'Utopia', on Saturday 31st May 2014, 8:35pm SBSONE

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 27 May 2014 04:44:26 +0000

Newsletter date: 27 May 2014

Contents:

* johnpilger.com : Utopia, John Pilger's latest film, to be broadcast on SBS Australia on 31 May
* Chris Graham, New Matilda: Utopia: The Inside Story
* The Stringer: A long way to go for 'Utopia'
* Background to 'Utopia', John Pilger's documentary film about Aboriginal people in Australia
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* johnpilger.com : UTOPIA, JOHN PILGER'S LATEST FILM, TO BE BROADCAST ON SBS AUSTRALIA ON 31 MAY

- News

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: The must-do need to listen and trust if suicides crisis is to end: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 14 May 2014 03:40:17 +0000

Newsletter date: 15 May 2014

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The must-do need to listen and trust if suicides crisis is to end
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: More confirmation of what everyone knows - WA's suicide prevention inadequate
* NIRS: WA Government slammed for 'failing' anti-suicide measures [Featuring Premature deaths and suicides researcher, Gerry Georgatos]
* ABC News: WA's suicide prevention strategy inadequate and poorly implemented, report finds
* ABC News: WA suicide rate higher than national average

Geography:

Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: Muckaty legislation hits two year mark: renewed call for nuclear dump plan to be scrapped: BNI

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:22:52 +0000

Newsletter date: 21 March 2014

Contents:

* 3CR Community Radio: Radioactive Show: "Mitch, Aranda/Luritija women sharing her memories hearing about the nuclear waste dump in the NT for the first time"
* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: March 13 - Muckaty legislation hits two year mark: renewed call for nuclear dump plan to be scrapped
* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: NT no place for Sydney’s radioactive waste: time for evidence, not expedience
* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: BNI Support Appeal - Contribute to help stop the Muckaty dump

Geography:

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Muckaty no Solution for Sydney's Radioactive Waste: Australian Greens

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 02:07:42 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 March 2014

Contents:

* Jon Altman, Tracker: Evidently: Mining is not forever

* Australian Greens: Muckaty no Solution for Sydney's Radioactive Waste
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory

* Emma Lancaster, The Wire: Gomeroi people call on Environment Minister to stop destruction of sacred sites [Featuring Dolly Talbott - Gomeroi elder and spokesperson]

* The Wilderness Society: Farmers and community stand strong to protect the Pilliga from coal seam gas

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WGAR News: Vote on Noongar Native Title deal must be all Noongars & in accordance with lore: The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:40:37 +0000

Newsletter date: 8 March 2014

Contents:

* Karen Ashford, SBS World News Radio: APY elders share sacred songline with the world

* Darren Mara, SBS World News Radio: The Native Title Act, 20 years on
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Vote on Noongar Native Title deal must be all Noongars & in accordance with lore
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: [Noongar Elder] John Pell slams SWALSC [South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council]

Geography:

WGAR News: James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away: ABC Kimberley

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 06:07:48 +0000

Newsletter date: 1 March 2014

Contents:

* ABC Kimberley: James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens express 'deep sadness' over loss of Goolarabooloo law man
* ABC Indigenous: Greens pay tribute to Broome Indigenous leader
* Andrew Burrell, The Australian: James Price Point campaigner Mr Roe dies
* Background to the Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

Geography:

Canberra

Australia

Western Australia

Perth and WA Events: John Pilger's 'Utopia' screening in Kalgoorlie and Perth + SNAICC Training

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:05:09 +0000

Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

Click on the links for details of the events ...

New Events: 20-25, 27-28 February 2014; 2, 6-7, 10-11, 13-14, 16-18, 20, 26, 28 March 2014; 28 June 2014:
Various locations around Australia including:
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Bendigo, Geelong, Newcastle, Canberra,
Redfern, Kalgoorlie, Moree, Adelaide, Rozelle, UNSW, Cairns,
Waurn Ponds, Mona Vale, Uni of Western Sydney, Perth,

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Keywords:

Northern Territory Intervention

International news and opinion

Kalgoorlie

Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Robert and Selina Eggington, Rosalie Kunoth Monks and John Pilger speak about 'Utopia'

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:47:26 +0000

Newsletter date: 2 February 2014

Contents:

* Upcoming screenings of John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'

* Perth Indymedia Radio Show: Utopia: a new documentary from John Pilger we speak with Robert Eggington about it
[Featuring Robert and Selina Eggington speaking about their involvement in Utopia]

* Joanna Lester, Living Black Radio: Remembering Communities Under The Intervention This Survival Day
[Featuring Elder Rosalie Kunoth Monks explaining her role in Utopia]

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WGAR News: Fight for land rights and justice for Aboriginal people: The Socialist Alliance

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:44:24 +0000

Newsletter date: 26 January 2014

Contents:

* The Petition Site: Halt Rocla Sand Mine's Proposed Destruction of Aboriginal Women's Fertility Site & Cultural History
* Marc Tong, SBS Living Black Radio: Secrets of the Dendroglyph
* Tracker: Protesters fight Maules Creek mine
* NIRS: 'Marginalised and disrespected': Gomeroi slam Whitehaven Coal

* Prof Jon Altman, Tracker: Evidently: Scullion peddles pipe dream reforms [Land tenure reforms in the Northern Territory]
* The Socialist Alliance: Fight for land rights and justice for Aboriginal people

Geography:

New South Wales

Western Australia

WGAR News: 'Protecting Manuwangku' [Muckaty] film launch - Tennant Creek & Darwin: BNI Audio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 01:19:10 +0000

Newsletter date: 8 December 2013

Contents:

* Beyond Nuclear Initiative Audio: 'Protecting Manuwangku' film launch - Tennant Creek & Darwin
* Sally Whyte, Crikey Clarifier: should nuclear waste be stored at Muckaty Station?
* Tennant & District Times: Nuke dump highlighted in Peris’ maiden speech
* Tennant & District Times: Muckaty traditional owners hold Macfarlane to promise
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump in NT

* Melissa Fyfe, SMH: Kimberley Aborigines' fight for James Price point is now against WA's Premier

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WGAR News: WA Government supports end to suicide crisis but ironically cuts funding!: The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 04:06:28 +0000

Newsletter date: 3 December 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: WA Government supports end to suicide crisis but ironically cuts funding!
* NACCHO Aboriginal suicide prevention: Black Dog Institute launches app to try to save lives
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Family of 15 are being evicted from their home by Department of Housing

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia