Amnesty

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

Contents:

* 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: Pioneering myth of early white settlers branded a lie by historian Dr Timothy Bottoms

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:05:40 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 June 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA: Frontier history revisited "A Queensland based historian has branded the pioneering myth of the early white settlers as a lie."
* Eleanor Gilbert, YouTube: Remembering the Frontier Wars - Anzac Day 2013, Canberra - Sovereign Embassy
* Brooke Boney, NITV News: Myall Creek massacre remembered
* Ron Sutton, SBS Radionews: Myall Creek: A massacre and a reconciliation
* The Inverell Times: Myall Creek remembered
* Sovereign Union: The Rufus River Massacre - Lake Victoria South West NSW

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WGAR News: Report on Deaths in Custody - people dying at high rates: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:04:34 +0000

Newsletter date: 30 May 2013

Contents:

* Australian Institute of Criminology: Deaths in custody in Australia to 30 June 2011
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Report on Deaths in Custody - people dying at high rates
* Inga Ting, SMH: Policy failure as prisons fill with indigenous people
* Paul Simpson and Michael Doyle, ABC The Drum Opinion: Indigenous prison rates are a national shame
* SBS World News: 'No lessons learned' on Aboriginal deaths
* Cairns Post: Concern as Aboriginal deaths in custody rise
* Bundaberg News Mail: Aboriginal incarceration rates hitting crisis levels

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Keywords:

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Australian Institute of Criminology

Aboriginal imprisonment

Paul Simpson and Michael Doyle

ABC The Drum Opinion

Indigenous prison rates

Aboriginal incarceration rates

human rights report

Indigenous detention rates

Australian Institute of Criminology - Deaths in custody in Australia to 30 June 2011

Inga Ting - SMH - Policy failure as prisons fill with indigenous people

Paul Simpson and Michael Doyle - ABC The Drum Opinion - Indigenous prison rates are a national shame

Cairns Post - Concern as Aboriginal deaths in custody rise

Bundaberg News Mail - Aboriginal incarceration rates hitting crisis levels

SBS Radionews - Australia under fire in human rights report

Tracker - Australia failing on human rights - Amnesty

WGAR News: Stop deaths in custody groups form coalition: Ray Jackson, Green Left

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:06:37 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 May 2013

Contents:

* Indymedia Australia: Historic national stop deaths in custody coalition formed
* Ray Jackson, Green Left: Stop deaths in custody groups form coalition
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody!

* The Wire Audio: Justice reinvestment 'key to tackling Indigenous incarceration'
* WA Greens MLC Robin Chapple: Justice reinvestment comeback
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Justice Reinvestment or by any other name
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

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Keywords:

Aboriginal incarceration

Aboriginal imprisonment

Socialist Alternative

children in adult jail

WA Greens

Green Left

national stop deaths in custody coalition

Indymedia Australia - Historic national stop deaths in custody coalition formed

WA Greens MLC Robin Chapple - Justice reinvestment comeback

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Justice Reinvestment or by any other name

Gerry Georgatos - The Stringer - Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

Amnesty - Supreme Court of WA - case dismissed - but concerns remain about children in adult jail

The Stringer - Supreme Court decision floors parents of jailed children

SBS Radionews Audio - WA judge dismisses juvenile offender challenge

WGAR News: Justice Reinvestment push by the National Congress: The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:43:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 23 April 2013

Contents:

* The Stringer: Justice Reinvestment push by the National Congress
* NIRS: Congress submits to justice reinvestment inquiry

* Amnesty Action: Get kids out of Hakea adult prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Amnesty alarmed over boys in adult Perth prison
* ABC 7.30 Video: Teens suffer in men’s prison

* SBS Radionews Audio: Prison 'not a deterrent' for NT offenders

* CAAMA Radio: NAAJA shares concerns about the new Mandatory Rehabilitation Program
* SBS Radionews Audio: NT mandatory rehab plan slammed

Geography:

Northern Territory

Western Australia

WGAR News: 200 Aboriginal Maralinga victims denied compensation: Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:06:31 +0000

Newsletter date: 21 January 2013

Contents:

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: 200 Aboriginal Maralinga victims denied compensation
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: Goolarabooloo Law Bosses lift the ante in battle with Woodside over gas hub
* Background to Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA

* Gerry Georgatos, Indymedia Australia: Lobby restaurant incident - January 26, 2012 - Will Prime Minister Gillard finally admit the truth and apologise?

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Keywords:

Aboriginal sovereignty

Gerry Georgatos

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Walmadan Tent Embassy

Maralinga

Indymedia Australia

Aboriginal victims of Maralinga

Aboriginal victims

Prime Minister Gillard

Lobby restaurant

January 26 2012

Aboriginal Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary

mandatory sentencing

Murujuga National Park

Burrup Peninsula

Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Goolarabooloo Law Bosses lift the ante in battle with Woodside over gas hub

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Lobby restaurant incident - January 26 2012 - Will Prime Minister Gillard finally admit the truth and apologise

Amnesty - Plans to toughen mandatory sentencing in WA a step in the wrong direction

Gerry Georgatos - Indymedia Australia - Murujuga National Park at long last - however the struggle is not over

Amnesty International candle day in Melbourne - 27 May 2011

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:10:09 +0000

The RMIT branch of Amnesty International Australia marked the annual candle day and the 50th anniversary of the movement with an information day outside the State Library, ending in the evening with speakers and the formation of a human candle on the lawns.

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16 year old in Australian Adult Prison! Three charged and committed to trial together BUT from different SIEVs. CDP Prosecutor and Defence teams get facts wrong!!! System falling apart. Circulate widely please.

Gerry Georgatos — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:40:27 +0000

The Human Rights Alliance

URGENT: Media Release:

WE BEG THE MEDIA TO DO THE RESEARCH THAT THE PROSECUTION (CDPP) and DEFENCE TEAMS HAVE NOT DONE. MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE UNDERWAY - and everyone else please CIRCULATE this WIDELY.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/9142753/boy-in-adult-jail-says-h...

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Global/International