Aboriginal people

WGAR News: Maori Party issues scathing letter to Tony Abbott regarding treatment of Aboriginal people: Claire Trevett, New Zealand Herald

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 07:53:47 +0000

Newsletter date: 22 April 2015

* Analysis / Opinion: Belinda Grant Geary, Daily Mail Australia: 'The first thing that strikes me about Australia is how racist this place is': Writer claims our treatment of Aborigines is WORSE than apartheid South Africa
* Analysis / Opinion: Sisonke Msimang, Africa is a Country: Is There a Place Where White People Are More Committed to Faux Race Blindness than South Africa?

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Writer claims our treatment of Aborigines is WORSE than apartheid South Africa

Sisonke Msimang

Africa is a Country

Maori Party letter to the Australian Prime Minister

Hon Te Ururoa Flavell

Maori Leader Brands Tony Abbott A 'Racist B*stard' Over Remote Closure Plans

New Zealand Maori Party

New Zealand Maori Party condemns potential closure of Aboriginal communities in open letter to Tony Abbott

Eru Rerekura

Radio New Zealand News

Harawira has message for Australian PM

Mana Movement leader Hone Harawira

Numia Ponika-Rangi

Opposition groups enraged ahead of Abbotts arrival to NZ

Rewa Harriman

End Of The Dreamtime

Australia - Maori Television

New Zealand

Maori Television

Green Left

New NT group says fund and support self-determination for Aboriginal communities

Community Solidarity Action

WGAR News: For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:55:31 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 April 2015

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2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide

Global Freedom Movement Media

Land Grab In The Outback

CPA - Communist Party of Australia

Indigenous Land Rights

13 Points on Land Rights for Aboriginal People

Ghillar Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson - Convenor of the Sovereign Union

Sovereign Union

Michael Anderson - Head of State of the Euahlayi Republic

Euahlayi Republic

Michael Anderson - co-founder of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy

For the record - Sovereignty Never Ceded

Sovereignty Never Ceded

how the issue of sovereignty has evolved to this day

sovereign Peoples in defense of their lands

Ethnocide - A crime equal to genocide

'That Word' Treaty - The Value of Historical Insights

'That Word' Treaty

WGAR News: Anderson: You cannot benefit from murder ... Time does not erase murder: Sovereign Union

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 25 May 2014 02:43:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 25 May 2014

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* Sovereign Union: Anderson: You cannot benefit from murder ... Time does not erase murder
* Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy: Mega-charities killing Aboriginal people
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Loner - Black protest music to bring on the hope

* Nadine Schoen, The Stringer: Aboriginal issues, in the context of a capitalist system
* Nadine Schoen, Green Left: Way forward for Aboriginal struggle

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The Suffering of a Public Housing Tenant

United Front — Sun, 04 May 2014 17:03:15 +0000

Fight for Proper Maintenance of Public Housing! Stop the Neglect, Stop the Sell-Offs!

The Suffering of a Public Housing Tenant

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WGAR News: Police Checks Targeting Aboriginal People In The NT: Max Chalmers & Frances Mao, New Matilda

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:49:14 +0000

Newsletter date: 30 April 2014

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians': Survey of Aboriginal Adults residing outside the Northern Territory on The Intervention and Stronger Futures Legislation, Constitutional Change and Treaties
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia

* Australian Government: Department of the Senate: Notification of disallowance

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Northern Territory

WGAR News: Health Impacts of Racism: Jenne Perlstein, ANTaR Victoria

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:36:47 +0000

Newsletter date: 18 March 2014

Contents:

* Michele Harris, 'concerned Australians': Justice (Without Justice there can be no Reconciliation)

* Ron Sutton, SBS World News Radio: PM advised against Race Discrimination Act changes

* Jenne Perlstein, ANTaR Victoria: Health Impacts of Racism

* Rollback the Intervention: 27 March 2014, Alice Springs: there will be a march against racist policing and racist laws

* The Wheeler Centre: Black and Proud: Racism in Sport [Panel including Gilbert McAdam, Dr Sean Gorman and host Angela Pippos]

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Background to 'Utopia', John Pilger's documentary film about Aboriginal people in Australia

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:37:28 +0000

Last updated: 27 May 2014

"The Premiere of Utopia was held at the London National Film Theatre (BFI South Bank) on Thursday 3 October 2013. A large crowd attended the screening and many signed a message calling for Treaties to be negotiated between Aboriginal Nations and the Australian Government."

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Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: How to support the Aboriginal people in their struggle for justice: JohnPilger.com

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 04:11:50 +0000

Newsletter date: 26 December 2013

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* John Pilger, The Stringer: John Pilger goes back to his homeland to investigate Australia's dirtiest secret
* JohnPilger.com : How to support the Aboriginal people in their struggle for justice
* Upcoming Australian screenings of John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
* WGAR News: Interview - John Pilger exposes Australia's shocking secret in Utopia: Australian Times (24 Nov 13)
* Respect and Listen: Utopia
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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Australia

Northern Territory

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'

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Australia

WGAR News: Let's Talk interviews Gerry Georgatos on Justice Reinvestment & Aboriginal imprisonment

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:23:43 +0000

Newsletter date: 31 August 2013

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* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about Justice Reinvestment and Aboriginal imprisonment
* Greens WA spokesperson on Aboriginal issues, Robin Chapple MLC: Justice reinvestment or more prisons
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Prisoners Justice Day, not enough being done
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Magistrate laments mandatory sentencing laws

* ABC The World Today: Indigenous women the fastest-growing demographic among prisoners: report

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New South Wales

Victoria

Western Australia

WGAR News: What does a change of PM mean for Aboriginal people?: CAAMA interviews Michael Mansell

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 07:42:37 +0000

Newsletter date: 1 July 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA: What does a change of PM mean for Aboriginal people? [Featuring Michael Mansell]
* NITV News: Warren Mundine welcomes Rudd's return
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The downfall of Prime Minister Gillard began with broken promises about the Intervention

* Living Black's Marc Tong interviews Sylvie Ellsmore: Local Council Says No to Income Management

* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

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Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: The NT Intervention - Six Years On: Barbara Shaw, New Matilda

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:52:00 +0000

Newsletter date: 23 June 2013

Contents:

* Barbara Shaw, New Matilda: The NT Intervention - Six Years On
* Paul Bleakley, Australian Times UK: Intervention marks 6 years, as community questions impact
* ACOSS, NWRN & St Vincent de Paul Society: Joint Statement: Six years of the NT Intervention is six years too long
* The Wire: Stronger Futures? [Featuring Paddy Gibson and Kylie Sambo]
* The Wire: Major parties agree on what one expert calls a piece of 'apartheid' in Oz [Featuring Dr Ruth Phillips]

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Northern Territory

Sydney

South Australia

WGAR News: Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people: John Pilger, The Guardian

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:51:51 +0000

Newsletter date: 1 May 2013

Contents:

* John Pilger, The Guardian: Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people

* Daniel Emerson, The West Australian: Nation's political bloodshed 'ignored'
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Killing Times
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: WA Governor states that he was misinterpreted

* The Wire: Coalition says remote communities should fund own water, sewerage [interview with Paddy Gibson]

* Rachel Siewert, New Matilda: When Did Labor Stop Caring?

* Other articles

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Australia

Western Australia