It was a sunny morning on 12th January, 2015 when school reopened and the children who lost the majority of their class fellows entered the school looking at the gates, walls, rooms, rooftops, galleries and the play ground. Memories of the day just stormed and eyes turned into oceans of tears. It was not that […]
Breaking News – Page 3
Right now the world focus is on ISIS, killing, beheading and recently bombardment over the alleged Khorasaan camps in Syria. The world has almost forgetten about the Af-Pak bordering region still at war with missile laden drones in the skies. Pakistan military is at war with AlQaeda, receiving hundreds of causalities with displacement of about […]
Kennedy Hill was what all some of the Kimberley’s chronically homeless have known. They have been shuffled around and moved on in the last few months. Kennedy Hill is bare, still quiet, all of a sudden a stranger to the itinerants and homeless it has known. Kennedy Hill’s shanty town will soon be out of […]
Today, The Stringer published its 1000th story. The Stringer went live on February 20, 2013 – 18 months ago. Independent news media contributes to the unfolding landscape of human rights and social justice. It is The Stringer’s aim to provide every opportunity to the rise of voices that far too often are denied. If The […]
Warning – in viewing the footage below you may be disturbed by the gruesome inhumanity of mass executions. We were forwarded this YouTube footage by an Iraqi national I have worked closely with over the years in transporting children’s wheelchairs – more than 2,000 wheelchairs – following the sweeping devastation laden by the “Coalition of the […]
Warning – in viewing the footage you may be disturbed by the gruesome killings. We were forwarded YouTube footage of barbarous murders on the high seas that have been posted on the internet. New Zealand Television yesterday followed through in investigating the footage. We forwarded the footage to the relevant authorities. We have learned that […]
“It is a sacred duty for me as a (Holocaust) survivor, to protest against the persecution, the oppression and the imprisonment of so many people in Gaza, including more than 800,000 children,” said Dr Reuvin Moskovitz. “I, as a Holocaust survivor, cannot live with the fact that the State of Israel is imprisoning an entire […]
Nairobi – Kenyan police raided a nightclub, arresting 60 people on “suspicion of homosexuality.” However they have been charged with being “intoxicated and disorderly. The Kenyan police deny that they arrested such a large number of people for homosexuality. But the nightclub considers the raid on its premise as a discriminatory attack. Same sex sexual […]
A 15-month-old toddler, in nappies, was put into the back of a police paddy wagon. Unbelievable, this by Northern Territorian police – Alice Springs. Where will it end? Police arrived at an Alice Springs apartment after allegations that the mother was hitting the child to quieten it down. Whether this is true or not, you […]
Liberal parliamentarians and apparatchiks are coalescing behind a plot to unseat the Prime Minister, despite the Liberal Party’s mantras following the unseating of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – that it was “an act of treachery” and that the Liberal Party “would never unseat a first-term Prime Minister”. But such is the despair among certain Liberal […]
General News
- The death of a child by suicide
18 Jan 2018
The death of a child is always heartbreaking but when it is by suicide it is as devastating as it gets, with long term psychosocial effects. There is a whole different level of anguish and grief. However the majority of […]
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- How I’d end absolute poverty and reduce relative poverty if I were Prime Minister
10 Jan 2018
Australia is masking its true unemployment levels, hiding the real number of its jobless, fiddling with the numbers of homeless, cheating Australians on the extent and depth of poverty. Poverty, acute and relative, is extensive, but we are sold that […]
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- Poverty, Sexual Abuse, Suicide – silence is not an option
3 Jan 2018
Internalising grief is toxic, it is a silence that maims and kills. The silences around sexual abuse, violence, emotional and psychological abuse, the –isms – sexism, racism, classism, ageism, ableism, the silences aggressively slow down and can shut down trauma […]
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- The horrendous lie of our generation is the one that poverty is being reduced
2 Jan 2018
There is more poverty on this earth today than ever before, with both absolute and relative poverty guaranteed to accelerate their increasing trend. The horrendous lie of our generation is the one that poverty is being reduced right around the […]
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- It is now time for a royal commission into Australia’s world record high rate of child removals
17 Dec 2017
Last week I reunited a 14 year old girl with her biological mother. She had been removed from her mother at 12 months of age. Children removed from their biological parents are among the most elevated risk groups to serious […]
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- Whatever Christmas is about, it should be about much more – leave no-one behind
17 Dec 2017
November has seen more people lost to suicide than in any other month this year. More than a quarter of the suicides are of persons born overseas, with a significant proportion relatively newly arrived. The grim reality is that the […]
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- Slavery in the 21st century
6 Dec 2017
Slavery remains a tragedy with the United Nations and the Global Slavery Index arguing that at least 40 million people around the world are in some form of slavery. The Global Slavery Index reports that at least 4,000 people in […]
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- Trauma must not become your injurious oppressor
17 Nov 2017
Our days on this earth are not many and what we do with our days matters, not only for us but for those around us and for those whom we leave behind. Trauma is a part of life, few are […]
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- We are being lied to about poverty — it’s grim
26 Oct 2017
A TRAGIC INDICATOR of increasing poverty and unemployment is the suicide toll. Another indicator is an increasing prison population. Another indicator is the widening gap between the average worker and the top one per cent of earners. Another indicator is […]
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- When are we Australians? – Xenophon, Australian born and bred
23 Aug 2017
Racism is a beast that threatens those whom it stares down and it regularly mauls its prey. This beast remains at all times as a firmament in the institutions of this Australian nation. Racism has many veils and layers – […]
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