WGAR News: NT legal services express concern about operation of Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Scheme

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:14:49 +0000

Newsletter date: 5 March 2014

Contents:

* NT legal services express their serious concern about the operation of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Scheme
in a joint submission to the NTG's Six Month Review of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act.
* Background to the NT Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Bill

* NACCHO Congress Alice Springs News: Effective partnerships in Aboriginal community controlled health sector could be copied in housing and employment
* Nicholas Biddle, CAEPR ANU: Residential Segregation: Income and Housing Dimensions

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

Understanding Brian Butler and Lateral Love

Gerry Georgatos — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:59:13 +0000

William Brian Butler was born 13th September 1938 at the Bagot Detention Centre in Darwin, Northern Territory

My mother Emily Anne was born Annie Lawrie and my grandmother Eliza Gordon was born Lady Wilson and are of the Aranda tribe and my grandfather Toby is of the Luritja tribe from the Uluru and Areyonga areas.

My tribal name is Jangala.

Nana Eliza Gordon and her sister Nana Mabel Smith, my mother Emily Ann Gordon and her sister, my auntie Mavis Webb were taken from their homeland at Altunga east of Alice Springs in central Australia.

Geography: