Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

WGAR News: Urgent Action: Stop WA's Bill for the mandatory sentencing of children: Amnesty International Australia

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:22:26 +0000

Newsletter date: 5 April 2015

* Analysis / Opinion: Jack Callil, VICE United States: Why Are Indigenous Australian Kids Doing Time in Adult Prisons?
* Audio: Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC News: Children speak about being held in police lock-ups
* Analysis / Opinion: Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC News: Nearly 200 children locked in WA police station cells awaiting transfer to Perth after sentencing

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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

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

SNAICC

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: Custody Notification Service will continue in NSW - but please hurry it up for WA: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 03:39:02 +0000

Newsletter date: 10 March 2015

WGAR News: We won't overcome Indigenous disadvantage by cutting legal services: Larissa Behrendt, The Guardian

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 03:21:31 +0000

Newsletter date: 9 March 2015

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* Analysis / Opinion: Larissa Behrendt, The Guardian: We won't overcome Indigenous disadvantage by cutting legal services

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cutting Aboriginal legal services

Larissa Behrendt

The Guardian

Indigenous Disadvantage

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services - Natsils

NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

Amy McQuire

New Matilda

Aboriginal Legal Service

Aboriginal Legal Service Faces Uncertain Future Despite Govt Promise Of No Cuts

Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT

Ninah Kopel

The Wire

The Aboriginal Legal Service defending their right to defend

NSW ACT legal service flags reduced operation with funding cuts

Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert

Penny Wright

Senator Penny Wright

Australian Greens

Indigenous legal cuts a national embarrassment

Helen Davidson

Indigenous legal service to shut down

Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

Justice Reinvestment

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

WGAR News: The extensiveness of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander suicides - 1 in 20: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:06:15 +0000

Newsletter date: 1 March 2015

Last updated: 3 March 2015

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The extensiveness of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander suicides - 1 in 20

The Stringer

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides

Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities

Suicides are preventable

Preventing suicide

Lifeline Australia 13 11 14

Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467

Understanding Australia's suicide crises

Green Left

Aboriginal suicides rise amid worsening conditions

Susan Allan

WSWS

WSWS - World Socialist Web Site

World Socialist Web Site

Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide

It is racism killing our people - suicides born of racism

Sue Lannin

ABC News

Government Indigenous suicide prevention programs are a failure - NT elder David Cole says

David Cole

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos about the continuing increasing rate of suicides

WGAR News: Highest child removal rates in the world - worse than Stolen Generations: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 05:48:03 +0000

Newsletter date: 20 February 2015

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GMAR - Grandmothers Against Removals

GMAR

Grandmothers Against Removals

Highest child removal rates in the world - worse than Stolen Generations

The Stringer

4ZZZ Brisbane

Veronica Saunders of Grandmothers Against Removals - the theft of Aboriginal children from their families

Veronica Saunders

Eleanor Gilbert

Eleanor Gilbert Video Doco

Grandmothers present 'end genocide' demand to Senator Rachel Siewert

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Paddy speaking about the high removal rates

Paddy speaking about Grandmother Audrey Martin's grandchildren

Kylie Galbraith

The Northern Daily Leader

Grandmothers' anti-removal campaign reaches Canberra

Diet Simon

Linksunten Indymedia

Grandmothers protest worst ever stealing of Australian Aboriginal children

Workers Bush Telegraph

NITV News - 13 February 2015

Grandmothers Against Removals - Hands off our children

WGAR News: Communique from Grandmothers Against Removals National Committee and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy rally - 13 February 2015

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 02:08:54 +0000

Newsletter date: 14 February 2015

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13 Feb 2015 - National Statement marking the Anniversary of the National Apology

Communique from Grandmothers Against Removals National Committee and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy rally

Aunty Hazel Collins

Priscilla Whiteman

SNAICC CEO Frank Hytten

Olivia Nigro

Aunty Veronica Saunders

The increase in Indigenous child removals

NITV News

NITV News - 12 February 2015

Fighting for their kids; The Grandmothers Against Removals tell their story in the nation's capital

Darren Mara

SBS News

Stolen Generations forum marks Apology anniversary

GMAR

GMAR - Grandmothers Against Removals

Grandmothers Against Removals

National Sovereign Grannies Group

Stolen Generations

Stop Stolen Generations

13 February 2015 - Grandmothers Against Removals march to Parliament House

Tauto Sansbury

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

SNAICC

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

Royal Commission - public hearings but children removed in record numbers

The Stringer

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

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* 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: First Peoples groups criticise the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:03:01 +0000

Newsletter date: 2 December 2013

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* Croakey - the Crikey health blog: Indigenous groups call for specific focus from Royal Commission into child sexual abuse
* The Stringer: First Peoples groups criticise the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse
* Background: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander responses to Royal Commission into child sexual abuse

* SNAICC News: SNAICC Training! Through Young Black Eyes
* SNAICC News: UP Child Rights campaign and Universal Children's Day

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