Closing the Gap

* NACCHO: Aboriginal controlled health services can close the gap in employment
* Eduardo Jordan, The Wire: Are we really closing the gap? [Featuring Greg Craven and Justin Mohamed]
* NACCHO: Fears Tony Abbott will widen Indigenous health gap
* The Stringer: Who do we believe? Different findings, Reform Council & Close the Gap
* Marie McInerney, Croakey: Latest 'close the gap' update on Indigenous health underlines alarm over #Budget2014 cuts
* Michael McKenna, The Australian: Health overhaul closes the gap

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Queensland

WGAR News: This budget could devastate Indigenous Australians: Mick Gooda, ABC The Drum

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 21 May 2014 23:56:46 +0000

Newsletter date: 22 May 2014

Contents:

* Mick Gooda, ABC The Drum: This budget could devastate Indigenous Australians

* Joint Press Release - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders call for scrapping of co-payments
* Joline Samawi, The Wire: Aboriginal leaders upset over co-payments [Featuring Jill Gallagher and Justin Mohamed]
* NIRS: Call to give Aboriginal Medical Centres a Co-payment break
* NIRS: GP co-payment 'removes safety net to health'

Geography:

Canberra

Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: Good housing keeps people out of gaol: The Wire [Featuring Shane Duffy, CEO, NATSILS]

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:05:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 26 February 2014

Contents:

* Annie Hastwell, The Wire: Good housing keeps people out of gaol [Featuring Shane Duffy, CEO, NATSILS]
* Dylan Clarke, SBS Living Black Radio: Youth Initiatives for Justice Reinvestment [Featuring Kaleesha Morris]

* Deaths in Custody Watch Committee WA: Australian prisoner numbers reach 30,000 for the first time - over 27% of them are Aboriginal
* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): ALS calls for Justice Targets to be incorporated into Closing the Gap

Geography:

WGAR News: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?: Eva Cox, The Conversation

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 05:25:27 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 February 2014

Contents:

* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?
* SNAICC News: Disappointing sense of deja vu on closing the gap - Article by Angela Webb in The Australian 13 February 2014
* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): ALS calls for Justice Targets to be incorporated into Closing the Gap
* CAAMA Radio: Working together… [Featuring Barbara Shaw discussing the National Apology and Closing the Gap report]

Geography:

WGAR News: Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurely: The Guardian

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Newsletter date: 13 February 2014

Contents:

* Mick Gooda and Kirstie Parker, The Guardian: Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurely
* The Wire: Meaningful engagement with Aboriginal communities is key
* The Wire: State cuts to Indigenous Education at odds with Closing the Gap
* NACCHO Press Release CTG report: Investment in Aboriginal community controlled health key to closing the gap
* NACCHO member news: Apunipima Cape York Health Council welcomes the Close the Gap Report and continued investment into Aboriginal health services

Geography:

Australia

WGAR News: 'Close the Gap' - failed: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:57:34 +0000

Newsletter date: 23 November 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 'Close the Gap' - failed
* The Wire: Slowly, closing the gap [Featuring Jack Bulman and Associate Professor Gracelyn Smallwood]
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Policy change needed to close the gap
* SNAICC News: COAG report - Lessons for federal reform
* NACCHO AGM Perth 2013 health news: Aboriginal life expectancy increases to Close the Gap
* ABC The World Today: Positive news from efforts to 'close the gap'

Geography:

Australia

WGAR News: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and TSI Health Workers: Croakey

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:32:46 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 September 2013

Contents:

* Larissa Nicholson, The Canberra Times: Canberra health service leaves scarcely room to protest

* Belinda Mason, The Guardian: Unfinished Business: portraying disability in Indigenous Australia [Photographic Essay]

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers [Closing the Gap]
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Indigenous health: "We can’t stop now" [Closing the Gap]

Geography:

WGAR News: MJA's first issue for July has a focus on Indigenous health: Medical Journal of Australia

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:30:20 +0000

Newsletter date: 17 July 2013

Contents:

* Medical Journal of Australia (MJA): Volume 199, Issue 1 - 8 July, 2013
* Ruth Armstrong, MJA: A time and a place
* Tammy M Kimpton, MJA: Partnership and leadership: key to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
* Sandra J Eades and Fiona J Stanley, MJA: Improving the health of First Nations children in Australia
* Melissa A Sweet, MJA: Social media: new links for Indigenous health
* Sarah L Blunden and Danny Camfferman, MJA: Can sleep contribute to "closing the gap" for Indigenous children?

Geography:

Australia

WGAR News: UN wants more effort from Australia in Aboriginal child welfare: CAAMA audio interview

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:16:02 +0000

Newsletter date: 24 June 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA: UN wants more effort from Australia in Aboriginal child welfare
* NIRS: National push will aim to improve poor child protection outcomes
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage

* NACCHO political alert: Call for government cooperation as NACCHO outlines ten point plan for enhancing Closing the Gap efforts
* NACCHO launches new 2013-2030 Healthy Futures 10 point and AIHW report card

Geography:

Keywords:

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Aboriginal child protection

Forced Aboriginal Adoption

Aboriginal Alcohol and Drug issues

Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing issues

Aboriginal child welfare

ten point plan

Healthy Futures 10 point

WGAR News: "Progress report on Closing the Gap proves best results are through community groups"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:27:49 +0000

Newsletter date: 19 June 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO chair: Progress report on Closing the Gap proves best results are through community groups
* The Stringer: Austerity cuts hit Closing the Gap

* NACCHO News: NACCHO CEO appointed to new Aboriginal Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Group
* The Stringer: Suicide prevention phone app designed for Aboriginal people in the remote

* NACCHO health education news: NACCHO signs Landmark Aboriginal medical education agreement
* NACCHO media news: NACCHO CEO Lisa Briggs to host IndigenousX Excellence this week

Geography:

Keywords:

National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Aboriginal Mental Health

Aboriginal Suicide Prevention

Aboriginal medical education

CROAKEY

sex education

sexual health education

Michelle O'Rielly

Aboriginal dental health

Aboriginal health and wellbeing

Dialysis funding

WGAR News: "call for action to reduce high number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care"

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:33:17 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 June 2013

Contents:

* SNAICC News: Delegates call for action to reduce high number of Aboriginal Children in out-of-home care
* SBS Radionews: Remove harm, not children: Indigenous advocates
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage
* Vimeo: Adam Giles, Child Protection from CAAMA

* SNAICC News: Our governments have failed Indigenous children Canadian First Nations advocate tells SNAICC
* Pro Bono News: Governments Have Failed Indigenous Children
* SBS Radionews: Australia failing Indigenous child rights obligations

Geography:

WGAR News: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud: burn magazine

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:23:19 +0000

Newsletter date: 31 March 2013

Contents:

* burn magazine: Jagath Dheerasekara: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
* Canberra opening of 'Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud': Sun 7 April 2013
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

* Helen Musa, Canberra CityNews: Exhibition honours true believer
* Canberra opening of 'I Do Have a Belief' - Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) Art Retrospective: Sat 6 April 2013
* Sovereign Union: The Murrawarri Republic declaration
* NITV News: Aboriginal activists meet Black Power founders

Geography:

Keywords:

Aboriginal imprisonment

Muckaty nuclear waste dump

children in adult prisons

Ray Jackson

Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Tiga Bayles

Let's Talk

Closing the Gap

Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud

Indigenous Social Justice Association

Traditional Languages

Canberra opening of Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud - Sun 7 April 2013

Helen Musa - Canberra CityNews - Exhibition honours true believer

Canberra opening of I Do Have a Belief - Kevin Gilbert - 1933-1993 - Art Retrospective - Sat 6 April 2013

Sovereign Union - The Murrawarri Republic declaration

NITV News - Aboriginal activists meet Black Power founders

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Ray Jackson - President - Indigenous Social Justice Association

WGAR News: Aboriginal Community Controlled Health vital to closing the gap: NACCHO

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:55:57 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 March 2013

Contents:

* NACCHO: Aboriginal Community Controlled Health vital to closing the gap

* Mary Micallef, For the ISJA Melbourne Team: What’s the cost of imprisonment?
* Alison Thorne, ISJA Melbourne: Launch of John Pat 30
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody! Remember John Pat
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* CAAMA: Walpiri lawman talks about saving his culture!

* NITV News: Indigenous women gather at UN to stop domestic violence

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