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• Australia’s discrimination of no Medicare to its incarcerated is obscene
  March 9, 2021
  

  Australia’s governments must end health discrimination in its prisons. An incarcerated child must not be a second-class citizen. Nor any adult. We must ask, why are our governments dishing the vulnerable jailed, second-class healthcare? When evaluating the nation’s carceral system, we are […]

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• Western Australia lepers the homeless
  February 2, 2021
  

  When will the cries of the homeless be heard? Is there some sort of grotesque caste system in Western Australia? The anti-humanism is a brutal public spectacle. On the last day of January, the Western Australian Government actuated five days […]

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• West Australia is to Australia what once Alabama was to the United States – a mother of injustices
  December 3, 2020
  

  West Australia is the nation’s backwater. It is the mother of injustices, inequalities and the draconian. West Australia and the Northern Territory leave the have-nots that far behind, for many their lot appears irreparable. If there is a Mason-Dixon line […]

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• Australia’s homeless – 3rd highest rate OECD and street homeless deaths increasing
  September 22, 2020
  

  There are many faces to homelessness. A 51-year-old woman walked into my Perth office. She has lived thirteen consecutive years street-homeless. Not long ago, she spent eighteen months sleeping her nights in the same park. She is weary, harrowed by […]

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• Malawi – international aid, more spent on the helping hand than the help
  September 3, 2020
  

  Often beleaguered by international aid work I have lifelong been involved in; the increasing unmet needs, the mongrel injustices, I have argued the horrendous lie of our generation is that poverty is being reduced around the world. There are countries […]

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• Highest suicide rate – health inequality is discrimination
  March 10, 2020
  

  Gerry Georgatos – In 2014, I disaggregated to the Kimberley’s First Nations peoples, the nation’s highest suicide rate, one of the world’s highest, at over 70 suicides per 100,000 population (First Nations), thereabouts seven times the national rate. Fortunately, although […]

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• Forgiveness, redemption, ways forward to transforming lives & prisons abolition
  February 18, 2020
  

  Gerry Georgatos – More than 51 months ago I wrote an article on the imperatives of forgiveness and redemption. This remains true. We journey together in one form or another, we can either salt the earth or jag the road, […]

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• Listen to Trae – who lost his 11-year-old brother and his mum to suicide
  January 29, 2020
  

  By Gerry Georgatos – Trae lost his eleven-year-old brother to suicide. Nine months later he lost his mother to suicide. Trae was the last to see his brother. Half an hour later he went looking for his little brother. In the […]

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• One in 4 child deaths, a suicide – we can change this but…
  January 21, 2020
  

  Gerry Georgatos – Children as young as 9 years have been lost to suicide, three in fact in recent years. Australians should ask, why? Proportionally, more children aged 14 years and less have been lost so far this century compared […]

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• Mother suicides, father suicides, child suicides – suicide prevention, a lie
  December 10, 2019
  

  Gerry Georgatos – A mother suicides, a father suicides, their child was a suicide. Not once has this occurred but untold times. Over the years I have warned of mothers and fathers that would be near certain lost to suicide […]

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