NACCHO

WGAR News: Aboriginal controlled health services can close the gap in employment: NACCHO

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 29 May 2014 01:53:40 +0000

Newsletter date: 30 May 2014

Contents:

* 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:

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

WGAR News: Peak body questions reasoning behind proposed funding cuts to Aboriginal radio: CAAMA Radio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 11 May 2014 10:12:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 12 May 2014

Contents:

* National Indigenous Radio Service 'Weekly News In Review': Preview of the Federal budget and reaction to the Commission of Audit report
[Featuring Justin Mohamed, Les Malezer, Damian Griffis and Dawn Casey]

* CAAMA Radio: Peak body questions reasoning behind proposed funding cuts to Aboriginal radio [Featuring Dr Donna Oedegaard]
* CAAMA Radio: Veteran RIBS broadcaster Warren H Williams defends community broadcasting
* IRCA - Indigenous Remote Communications Association: Community Broadcasting Program supports essential media services

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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

Contents:

* 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: Commission of Audit: Aboriginal health would suffer: NACCHO political alert

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 03 May 2014 08:53:08 +0000

Newsletter date: 4 May 2014

Contents:

* NACCHO political alert: Commission of Audit: Aboriginal health would suffer
* NACCHO breaking news: Federal government Commission of Audit Indigenous programmes

* Tim Soutphommasane, Australian Human Rights Commission: No case for changing race laws, says Race Discrimination Commissioner
* Australian Human Rights Commission: Racial Discrimination: Commission responds to Exposure Draft
* Chris Slee, Green Left: Meeting discusses Racial Discrimination Act changes
* Delia Lawrie, Territory Labor: Territory Law Plan to Tackle Racism

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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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WGAR News: Economic value of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations: NACCHO Report

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 07:36:36 +0000

Newsletter date: 7 April 2014

Contents:

* NACCHO at the National Press Club [Featuring speech by NACCHO's Chair Justin Mohamed]
* NACCHO Report: Economic value of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations
* Sky News: Indigenous health needs saving from cuts
* Sky News: Calls for indigenous health rethink

* SNAICC News: Aboriginal Children and Family Centres need funding certainty…now!
* SNAICC News: Adoption not an option for Aboriginal children in NSW

* Melissa Stoneham, The Conversation: Bad news: negative Indigenous health coverage reinforces stigma

Geography:

New South Wales

WGAR News: Sharing Culture - Empowering Aboriginal people to heal and develop resilience to historical trauma

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:49:14 +0000

Newsletter date: 23 March 2014

Contents:

* SNAICC News: Sharing Culture initiative online

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Hundreds more will suicide if we wait for 2015
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* SNAICC News: SNAICC congratulates Dala Yooro Children and Family Centre
* SNAICC News: The Training Team recently delivered 10 of these 2-day workshops across New South Wales
* SNAICC News: The children of Burringurrah Remote Aboriginal Community - The Boss of My Body!

Geography:

Perth

New South Wales

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

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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

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WGAR News: 'Wiradjuri Central West Republic' raise flag of Independence: Enlightning Productions

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:52:50 +0000

Newsletter date: 27 January 2014

Contents:

* 98.9FM: Smashing The Myths: "Reconciliation = Justice" [Featuring Dr Gary Foley, Monica Morgan, Wayne Wharton, Michael Mansell and Amy McQuire]

* Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: Latest Declaration of Independence and the web of controls we need to free ourselves from
* Enlightning Productions, YouTube: 'Wiradjuri Central West Republic' raise flag of Independence
* Enlightning Productions, YouTube: Eddie Turpin on Mbarbaram Declaration of Independence
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

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WGAR News: Raising funds for Elders report into Preventing Self-harm & Indigenous suicide: NACCHO

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:30:11 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 January 2014

Contents:

* NACCHO community support: Raising funds for Elders report into Preventing Self-harm & Indigenous suicide
* Culture Is Life campaign - Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide
* Culture Is Life campaign - The Elders Report
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* Nicole Watson, Tracker: Little Black Duck: When reparations is the hardest word
* Kelly Briggs, The Guardian: Aboriginal mothers like me still fear that our children could be taken away

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