SNAICC

Why Are Indigenous Australian Kids Doing Time in Adult Prisons

Jack Callil

VICE United States

Caitlyn Gribbin

ABC News

ABC AM

Children speak about being held in police lock-ups

Nearly 200 children locked in WA police station cells awaiting transfer to Perth after sentencing

Justice Reinvestment

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Amnesty International Australia

Stop WA's Bill for the mandatory sentencing of children

Stop WA's mandatory sentencing of young people

12 organisations unite against harsh WA Bill

Three strikes bill will result in more young people in detention

Law Society of Western Australia

Unfair mandatory sentencing laws

WA Bill will lock up hundreds of people - but won't reduce home burglary

Three strikes and you're out - mandatory sentencing in WA

WGAR News: Justice or an Unjust System? Aboriginal over-representation in South Australia's juvenile justice system: SACOSS youth justice report

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:50:36 +0000

Newsletter date: 4 April 2015

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SACOSS - South Australian Council of Social Service

SACOSS

SACOSS Report

South Australian Council of Social Service

Aboriginal over-representation in SA's juvenile justice system

Marnie Round

Radio Adelaide

SACOSS youth justice report

Dr Catherine Earl

Karen Ashford

SBS World News Radio

Legal mentoring gives Indigenous students inside insight

Lauren Novak

The Advertiser

Amnesty International Australia

12 organisations unite against harsh WA Bill

Three strikes bill will result in more young people in detention

SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Stop WA's mandatory sentencing of young people

Aboriginal Legal Service of WA

ANTaR

Ross Kendall

Deaths in Custody Watch Committee of WA

Mowanjum Aboriginal Corp

NATSILS

WGAR News: NATSILS welcomes the reversal of funding cuts: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 10:32:41 +0000

Newsletter date: 3 April 2015

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aboriginal

First Nations

NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

NATSILS

NATSILS welcomes the reversal of funding cuts

SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Government reverses cuts to Aboriginal legal services

Penny Wright

Greens Senator Penny Wright

Senator Penny Wright

Larissa Waters

Greens Senator Larissa Waters

Senator Larissa Waters

Legal aid reversal welcome - but just the start

Federation of Community Legal Centres

Community Law Blog

future funding boost to legal services needed to fully protect the vulnerable

Reversal of legal service cuts draws broad media coverage

National Association of Community Legal Centres

NACLC - National Association of Community Legal Centres

NACLC

Environmental Defenders Offices

EDO - Environmental Defenders Office

EDO

WGAR News: SNAICC: Community meeting on the crisis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child removals [2pm; 12 Feb]

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:15:33 +0000

Newsletter date: 8 February 2015

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SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

GMAR

GMAR - Grandmothers Against Removals

Grandmothers Against Removals

National Sovereign Grannies Group

12 February 2015 Canberra - SNAICC invites feedback from GMAR and families affected by Stolen Generations

Stolen Generations

Stop Stolen Generations

13 February 2015 - Grandmothers Against Removals march to Parliament House

Cassandra Tim

NIRS

Family rights advocates to head to Canberra for protest

MedicalXpress

Shocking new figures show Indigenous child removal crisis is getting worse

Xavier Smerdon

Pro Bono

Indigenous Children in Care Up 65 Per Cent Since National Apology

national apology

Gerry Georgatos

The Stringer

Royal Commission - public hearings but children removed in record numbers

WGAR News: Grandmothers Against Removals call for support

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:37:12 +0000

Grandmothers Against Removals camp at Aboriginal Tent Embassy ahead of Canberra Protest on February 13 - call for support

https://www.facebook.com/stopstolengenerations/posts/378025745692415

Newsletter date: 2 February 2015

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Grandmothers Against Removals camp at Aboriginal Tent Embassy ahead of Canberra Protest on February 13 - call for support

Grandmothers Against Removals

GMAR

GMAR - Grandmothers Against Removals

Grandmothers Against Removals call for support

SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Child placement principle should be strengthened

SNAICC Chairperson responds to Sammut's opinion piece in the Australian

Sharron Williams

Removal of Aboriginal children and the continuing Stolen Generation

removal of Aboriginal children

continuing stolen generations

Jon Altman

New Matilda

Aboriginal Jobs

Aboriginal employment

Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

Aboriginal homelessness

Kirstyn Lindsay

Living Black Radio

Jenny Samms

Housing overcrowding under-reported

Housing overcrowding

housing

WGAR News: Groups call for Government to reject Forrest Review Healthy Welfare Card; pursue decent welfare reform

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:06:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 21 December 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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Groups call for rejection of Healthy Welfare Card

SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Strong opposition to proposed Healthy Welfare Card

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

CAAMA - Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

CAAMA

Basic Cards

Tangentyere

Tangentyere Council Research Hub

Work with us not for us to end the Indigenous policy chaos

$30 million spent on Indigenous disadvantage is a lie

NACCHO

NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Invest more in Aboriginal health programs that work

Revised GP co-payment policy remains a hit to Aboriginal health

GP co-payment

SBS News

New co-payment model will jeopardise Indigenous health

Redfern Tent Embassy

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'

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Canberra

Western Australia

WGAR News: Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the 2014 Federal Budget

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 19 May 2014 07:37:40 +0000

Newsletter date: 20 May 2014

Contents:

* Amy McQuire, The Guardian: Cash for jails: Tony Abbott's budget for Indigenous Australia

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: "Warren Mundine, show your face," Tauto Sansbury [Featuring Tauto Sansbury]

* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Chris Graham speaking about and breaking down the recently announced Australian Budget
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Mary Graham & Monica Morgan about the upcoming Budget announcement

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WGAR News: Congress Urges Caution on Commission of Audit: National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 07 May 2014 07:43:38 +0000

Newsletter date: 8 May 2014

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* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: Congress Urges Caution on Commission of Audit
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

* SNAICC News: Government must reject push towards mainstreaming in Indigenous Affairs
* SNAICC News: Health co-payment would be a setback for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: NAACHO

* NACCHO 2014 budget funding news: Aboriginal controlled health services get 12 month funding lifeline

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WGAR News: CommunityRun Petition: 'Stop the changes to the Racial Discrimination Act: Don't remove Section 18c'.

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 03 May 2014 03:45:09 +0000

Newsletter date: 3 May 2014

Contents:

* Change.org Petition: Racism Ruins Lives - Keep Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
* CommunityRun Petition: 'Stop the changes to the Racial Discrimination Act: Don't remove Section 18c'.
* Michelle Lovegrove, Living Black Radio: Racial Discrimination Is About All Of Us [Featuring Michael Nolan who set up a petition via the community website Community Run]

* Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Inc.: Proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)

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Global/International

Tasmania

WGAR News: New test for depression in older Aboriginal people: CAAMA Radio; featuring Osvaldo Almeida

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:31:23 +0000

Newsletter date: 27 April 2014

Contents:

* CAAMA Radio: New test for depression in older Aboriginal people [Featuring Osvaldo Almeida]
* The Stringer: Depression tool culturally sensitive
* SNAICC News: New edition of book on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing

* Joline Samawi, The Wire: Community led organizations to prevent Aboriginal youth suicide [Featuring Randall Ross, Peter Mckonkey & Scott Herring]
* Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Living Black Radio: The Elders Report [Featuring Lorna Hudson]

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Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: [Michael] Mansell says role of Attorney General is to protect standards for everyone: CAAMA Radio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:51:44 +0000

Newsletter date: 8 April 2014

Contents:

* CAAMA Radio: Mansell says role of Attorney General is to protect standards for everyone [Michael Mansell on changes to Racial vilification]
* CAAMA Radio: Chairman of NACCHO talks on CAAMA Radio [about changing the federal race discrimination laws]
* ABC News: Aboriginal health group warns against changes to Racial Discrimination Act [Featuring NACCHO]
* SNAICC News: Changes to Racial Discrimination Act will harm society, say leading community agencies and figures

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