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How many more suicides will it take?

Fri 20 Sep 2013
By Gerry Georgatos

by Gerry Georgatos of The Stringer, The National Indigenous Times, the National Indigenous Radio Service - September 20th, 2013 - Two years ago, as part of my academic research into the prevalence of suicides in Australia, particularly among Aboriginal youth, to my horror I discovered that Aboriginal youth suicides are tragically at record high levels – that spates of Aboriginal youth suicides are proportionately the world’s highest rates. Aboriginal youth is suiciding at the world’s highest rates.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 42 events from 20 September 2013

Thu 19 Sep 2013
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Newsletter date: 20 September 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Fri 20 September, 2013: Sydney, NSW
ISJA Rally DPP
"we will be rallying to strongly urge mr. babb and
his legal team of officers to fully charge those
errant police officers that have been recommended
by the police integrity commission, among other
legal entities, to answer charges for the killings of
adam salter and roberto laudisio curti and the

Canberra events: CAEPR Seminars: Insights from behavioural sciences + Real economy & Hybrid economy

Thu 19 Sep 2013
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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 25 September 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Insights for Indigenous policy from the applied behavioural sciences
Presented by: Nick Biddle
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"Policy related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous)
Australians is one example in Australia of an area where insights
from the applied behavioural sciences has the potential to
improve the quality of policy decisions. ... "

WGAR News: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and TSI Health Workers: Croakey

Thu 12 Sep 2013
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Newsletter date: 14 September 2013

Contents:

* Larissa Nicholson, The Canberra Times: Canberra health service leaves scarcely room to protest

* Belinda Mason, The Guardian: Unfinished Business: portraying disability in Indigenous Australia [Photographic Essay]

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers [Closing the Gap]
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Indigenous health: "We can’t stop now" [Closing the Gap]

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 6 September 2013

Thu 05 Sep 2013
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Newsletter date: 5 September 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Fri 6 September 2013: Adelaide, SA
152nd Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk
around Government House
Gather at dusk on the first Friday of the month
(except January and February)
"Join us on the Candle Light Walk to
call for a Treaty and Bill of Rights, and
to support the Ngarrindjeri and all other
Aboriginal people and the Stolen Generations,

Spread the word – vote WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks became the media, now we can become the government

Sun 01 Sep 2013
By Gerry Georgatos

Gerry Georgatos - September 1st, 2013 - We can change the political discourse in this country, we can change the political landscape. Next week, and despite it being unimaginable now, we can have a brave new Australia, a never-before-seen landscape, our national consciousness enriched. With less than a week to the federal election we have the opportunity before us to make this happen. The Senate-only party, The WikiLeaks Party, has three candidates in three States who are all close to being elected. We need your primary vote.

Canberra events: Education is the key, but what door does it open? + Stories from the Torres Strait

Thu 29 Aug 2013
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Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 4 September 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Education is the key, but what door does it open?
The values of education for very remote NT young people
Presented by: John Gunter
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"This paper examines the nature of educational and employment
outcomes for Aboriginal people in very remote Northern Territory.
In particular, the differences between those who speak a local

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 51 events from 29 August 2013

Thu 29 Aug 2013
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Newsletter date: 29 August 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Wed 28 & Thu 29 August 2013: Melbourne, Vic
Puliima National Indigenous - Language & Technology Forum 2013
'Language is culture, culture creates values, values are the future'
"Puliima National Indigenous Language Forum is a biennial
event aimed at bringing people together from all over Australia
to explore pioneering project ideas, exciting products and

Everyone in the Territory doing well except for Aboriginal peoples

Mon 26 Aug 2013
By Gerry Georgatos

By Gerry Georgatos - August 24th, 2013 - During Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s recent whirlwind election stop in the Top End he highlighted the average age of death of the Northern Territory’s Aboriginal peoples – 52 years. This is the nation’s worst.

No truly free press with our inadequate shield laws, whistleblower protections

Mon 26 Aug 2013
By Gerry Georgatos

PHOTO Geoff Bagnall, National Indigenous Times: Journalist Gerry Georgatos at the January 26, 2012 Lobby Restaurant incident - days later he broke the story that the Prime Minister's Office was extensively involved in generating the incident despite their claims that it is was the work of a rogue parliamentary staffer.

By Gerry Georgatos, investigative journalist, WikiLeaks Party Senate Candidate, Western Australia

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