National Congress

WGAR News: Gutting the Racial Discrimination Act: Ray Jackson, President, ISJA: Sovereign Union

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:43:36 +0000

Newsletter date: 28 March 2014

Contents:

* Ray Jackson, President of the Indigenous Social Justice Association: Sovereign Union: Gutting the Racial Discrimination Act
* Dr Chelsea Bond, ABC Indigenous: Andrew Bolt isn't a racist, but ...
* Congress: Proposed changes to the RDA threaten racial cohesion
* National Congress (congress mob) on Twitter: Submissions on changes to #RDA can be sent to s18cconsultation@ag.gov.au
* Tara Callinan, NITV News: Data shows Aussies believe it should be unlawful to make racial insults: Researcher

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Australia

WGAR News: Good intentions aren't enough to close the gap: NATSILS

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 03:16:40 +0000

Newsletter date: 6 March 2014

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, Tracker: The Lost Generations

* NATSILS: Good intentions aren't enough to close the gap
* National Congress: Justice Targets: Crucial drivers of change
* ANTaR: Justice Targets are needed for action on Aboriginal Jobs and Education

* NAAJA: Australia’s prison spend is a cost we cannot sustain

* The Stringer: Gerry Georgatos speaks outside Redfern Police Station - T.J. Hickey rally 2014
* Peter Boyle, Green Left: Photos: Justice for T J Hickey 10th anniversary protest

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WGAR News: Urgent Congress meetings to be held over next few days in major Australian cities

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:16:48 +0000

Newsletter date: 27 January 2014

Contents:

* Anthony Stewart, ABC Indigenous: Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts
* SNAICC News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

* ANTHONY STEWART, ABC INDIGENOUS: INDIGENOUS CONGRESS VOWS TO GO ON DESPITE FUNDING CUTS

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ABC Indigenous: Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-16/indigenous-congress-vows-to-go-on-...

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SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

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SNAICC News

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

Anthony Stewart

ABC Indigenous

Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters

Indigenous congress

Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts

WGAR News: Should Australia have quotas for Indigenous MPs?: Michael Kenny, SBS Radio News

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:58:19 +0000

Newsletter date: 10 October 2013

Contents:

* Michael Kenny, SBS Radio News: Should Australia have quotas for Indigenous MPs?

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: SWALSC & Noongar Tent Embassy face-off on land deal - October 15
* Background to the Nyoongar Tent Embassy, Heirisson Island (Matagarup), Perth, WA
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* Ian McPhedran, The Courier-Mail: Historians say the Australian War Memorial should recognise frontier conflicts

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WGAR News: 'Gallipoli, Inc' helps the denial of genocide: David T. Rowlands, Green Left

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:55:50 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 April 2013

Contents:

* David T. Rowlands, Green Left: 'Gallipoli, Inc' helps the denial of genocide
* Dean Ashenden, Canberra Times: Best we forget?
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Killing Times
* Noah Riseman, WA Today: Our black history: lest we forget Aboriginal veterans
* Keeli Cambourne, Illawarra Mercury: Aboriginal Diggers 'couldn't even get a beer in a pub'
* The Stringer: Roger Cook gets it right, Governor wrong
* Richard Fotheringham, Australian: Inside the killing fields of Queensland
* NIRS: Australians urged to remember Indigenous diggers

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WGAR News: Justice Reinvestment push by the National Congress: The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:43:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 23 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Justice Reinvestment push by the National Congress
* NIRS: Congress submits to justice reinvestment inquiry

* Amnesty Action: Get kids out of Hakea adult prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Amnesty alarmed over boys in adult Perth prison
* ABC 7.30 Video: Teens suffer in men’s prison

* SBS Radionews Audio: Prison 'not a deterrent' for NT offenders

* CAAMA Radio: NAAJA shares concerns about the new Mandatory Rehabilitation Program
* SBS Radionews Audio: NT mandatory rehab plan slammed

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Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: "Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:36:03 +0000

Newsletter date: 4 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Legal action launched today to quash decision to imprison children in adult prison
* Tracker: Legal bid to get WA kids out of adult jail
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley
* NITV: Northern NSW clans create 'Murrawarri Republic'
* Sovereign Union: A fight against paying rates on ancient homelands
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* 3CR Community Radio: Earth Matters

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Aboriginal imprisonment

Gary Foley

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Indigenous health

National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Housing consultations

Tracker - Legal bid to get WA kids out of adult jail

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gary Foley

NITV - Northern NSW clans create Murrawarri Republic

Sovereign Union - A fight against paying rates on ancient homelands

3CR Community Radio - Earth Matters

3CR Community Radio - Radioactive Show

NITV News - Re-direct Indigenous health funding to community services

SBS Radionews Audio - Indigenous carers better for Indigenous children

SNAICC News - New resource on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Promising Practice Profiles

WGAR News: Mary Graham calls for Sovereignty national discussion: The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:53:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 28 March 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Mary Graham calls for Sovereignty national discussion
* NIRS: No consultation on SA recognition: Lawman
* NIRS: Call for restructure of National Congress
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* The Stringer: Mission Australia joins in the call to do something about the Kimberley's homeless
* NIRS: NT Shelter want more money for homeless

* CAAMA: Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari
* NIRS: Cultural involvement to improve mental health

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Aboriginal sovereignty

call for Sovereignty national discussion

Kimberley's homeless

Traditional Healers

Cultural involvement

community-controlled health

social determinants of health

Indigenous independence

Royal Commission into child sexual abuse

Aboriginal childcare agencies

NIRS - No consultation on SA recognition - Lawman

NIRS - Call for restructure of National Congress

The Stringer - Mission Australia joins in the call to do something about the Kimberley's homeless

CAAMA - Traditional Healers of Central Australia - Ngangkari

Theresa Petray - The Conversation - Funding cuts threaten Indigenous independence in Queensland

SNAICC News - Guide now available to help give statements to The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

SBS Radionews Audio - Living Black looks at forced adoptions

WGAR News: Sovereign Union serves the Crown with formal objection to the Act of Recognition

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:29:37 +0000

Newsletter date: 15 February 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union serves the Crown with formal objection to the Act of Recognition
* Sovereign Union: Open Letter to the Governor-General: Sovereign Treaty not the Act of Recognition
* NIRS: Sovereignty campaigner disappointed by Act of Recognition passing
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Congress: Congress calls for hard yards on substantive Constitutional reform
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

* News on Act of Recognition passing Lower House

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Aboriginal sovereignty

Sovereign Union - Open Letter to the Governor-General - Sovereign Treaty not the Act of Recognition

NIRS - Sovereignty campaigner disappointed by Act of Recognition passing

Congress - Congress calls for hard yards on substantive Constitutional reform

News on Act of Recognition passing Lower House

WGAR News: Briscoe family condemns NT prosecutor decision on anniversary of Briscoe death: MR

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:34:20 +0000

Newsletter date: 12 January 2013

Contents:

* Briscoe family condemns NT prosecutor decision on anniversary of Briscoe death: Media Release
* Tracker: Family, lawyers condemn DPP decision over Briscoe death
* Tracker: NT denies closing door on Briscoe talks
* Background to the justice for Kumentjaye Briscoe campaign

* NIRS: Incarceration should be "matter of last resort"
* ABC: Indigenous leader urges action on jail 'time bomb' [call for a national summit]
* ABC The World Today Audio: Jobs not jail for troubled Indigenous youths: Mundine [call for a national summit]

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Northern Territory Intervention

income management

Aboriginal sovereignty

Aboriginal incarceration

Aboriginal imprisonment

call for a national summit

Indigenous youths

Indigenous youth justice

justice summit

Briscoe family condemns NT prosecutor decision on anniversary of Briscoe death: Media Release

Tracker - Family lawyers condemn DPP decision over Briscoe death

Tracker - NT denies closing door on Briscoe talks

NIRS - Incarceration should be matter of last resort

ABC - Indigenous leader urges action on jail time bomb

ABC The World Today Audio - Jobs not jail for troubled Indigenous youths - Mundine

ABC - Indigenous youth justice summit call dismissed

NIRS - Government doesn't want to hear bad news about income management

Sovereign Union - Sovereign Union and Our Political Future

WGAR News: "I could live on $6321 a week" John Passant [Minister Macklin is paid $6321 a week]

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:59:27 +0000

Newsletter date: 4 January 2013

Contents:

Income
* NITV News Video: Living Allowance Row
* Bianca Hall, The Age: ACOSS calls on Macklin to 'please do your job'
* Greens Acting Leader, Adam Bandt: Join me on the dole, Minister
* Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens urge Minister Macklin to live on Newstart
* Greens MPs Petition: Could you really live on $35 a day, Minister?
* John Passant, En Passant: I could live on $6321 a week
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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Background to the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:08:03 +0000

Last updated: 8 May 2014

- Homepage

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
https://nationalcongress.com.au/

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* CAAMA Radio: Arm-twisting the Abbott Government not to be the chief protectors [Featuring Congress co-chair Les Malezer]
* Dan Harrison, The Canberra Times: Lack of funding for First People's congress 'disappointing', says Tom Calma

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