Forced Aboriginal Adoption

WGAR News: From my father's death bed to the must-do to end the suicides: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 30 May 2014 01:31:55 +0000

Newsletter date: 31 May 2014

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: From my father’s death bed to the must-do to end the suicides
* Geoff Bagnall, The Stringer: Scullion hits out at Traditional Owners [Courtesy of The National Indigenous Times]
* Dr Woolombi Waters, The Stringer: Woolombi Waters says "let’s listen"
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* NACCHO: Aboriginal controlled health services can close the gap in employment
* NACCHO: Alliance sets sights on final elimination of blinding trachoma in Central Australia

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: Is Australia creating ANOTHER Stolen Generation?: Paddy Gibson chats with Paul Wiles on CAAMA Radio

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:51:44 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 May 2014

Contents:

* Paul Wiles, CAAMA Radio: Is Australia creating ANOTHER Stolen Generation? [Featuring Paddy Gibson, a researcher with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning]
* Background to 'Keeping Them Home': Campaign against Forced Aboriginal Adoption in the NT

* ALSWA: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse - ALSWA assistance available NOW
* Background: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander responses to Royal Commission into child sexual abuse

Geography:

New South Wales

Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: Q&A with Robert Eggington: on tackling Indigenous suicide rates: The Guardian

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:51:14 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 February 2014

Contents:

* The Guardian: Q&A with Robert Eggington: on tackling Indigenous suicide rates
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Olga Havnen about education, housing, employment and the rising rates of youth suicide
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Suicide crisis - from tragic to catastrophic
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Suicide crisis - genocidal numbers
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* Malarndirri McCarthy, NITV: Gunnedah grandmothers rally against removal of Indigenous kids

Geography:

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: Sixth Anniversary of the Intervention - Striking the Wrong Note: 'concerned Australians'

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:01 +0000

Newsletter date: 20 June 2013

Contents:

* Michele Harris, 'concerned Australians': Sixth Anniversary of the Intervention - 21 June 2013 - Striking the Wrong Note
* Paddy Gibson, Solidarity Online: Six years of shame: Aboriginal assimilation and the NT Intervention
* STICS: Young NT leader living on income management to address Bankstown protest
* Bankstown, Sydney protest marking 6 years of the NT Intervention - Sat 22 June 2013
* Fiona Stanley, ABC TV: Q&A: Toxic Politics & Vaccinations
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Geography:

Northern Territory

Sydney

WGAR News: We have to stop the creation of another Stolen Generation: Paddy Gibson, The Guardian UK

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:17:55 +0000

Newsletter date: 13 June 2013

Contents:

* Nicola Butler, The Stringer: National call to reduce high number of Aboriginal children removed
* Paddy Gibson, The Guardian UK: We have to stop the creation of another Stolen Generation
* The Wire: Are we on the brink of another Stolen Generation? [Interviews with Frank Hytten and Paddy Gibson]
* Melbourne event hosted by SNAICC: Stop the Creation of Another Stolen Generation! (14 June 13)
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Geography:

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: Do forced adoptions mean forced assimilation?: Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:38:29 +0000

Newsletter date: 5 June 2013

Contents:

* STICS: Do forced adoptions mean forced assimilation?
* SBS Living Black: Adopting Out Children in the NT [Interview with SNAICC CEO Frank Hytten]
* SBS Living Black: Adopting Children In the NT - Listen to the Elders [Interview with Graham Mundine, ACM]
* NITV: Indigenous kids need Indigenous carers: Expert
* CAAMA: Children's Commissioner calls on Government to commit to future of Territory
* NIRS: NT Government looking at child protection changes
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage

Geography:

Cairns

Northern Territory

Queensland

WGAR News: Keeping Them Home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 26 May 2013 03:32:10 +0000

Special Sorry Day Edition
http://www.nsdc.org.au
"National Sorry Day offers the Community the opportunity to acknowledge the impact of the policies spanning more than 150 years of forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families."

Newsletter date: Sorry Day - 26 May 2013

Contents:

* Petition: Keeping Them Home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews renowned journalist Jeff McMullen about child removals and the importance of families

Geography:

Northern Territory