Last week the South Australian parliament moved one step closer to amending their Constitution to include Aboriginal peoples and recognise them as having occupied Australia prior to colonialism. Decades agao, South Australian Aboriginal peoples were the first in the nation to seek this recognition however the State has languished in getting there while other States, […]
February 2013
Polls have been used and misused to bring about leadership change in the Australian Labor Party and to redevelop and redefine the Government’s Caucus and Kitchen Cabinet. Once again Labor parliamentarians are calling for a change of leader and direction. Prime Minister Gillard appeared safe to some of the political pundits and apparatchiks after committing […]
Uranium mining in Australia became the focus of environmental protests during the 1980s and still attracts opposition today. The anti uranium mining movement was driven into action because of the link between uranium and nuclear weapons, and because of the history of failed mines spreading radiation and acid mine drainage at mines like Rum Jungle, […]
This is a question that is often pondered by advocates in the highly contested area of Multiculturalism as a public policy position. And it is a vexed question. In order to be able to glean some kind of answer to this question it is imperative that we examine the fundamentals of the policy position. For […]
For the first time in 145 years, black and white Australians have jointly organised the first national commemoration day of one of Australia’s largest massacres – the Flying Foam Massacre. The remembrance of the massacre nearly a century and a half later commenced at dawn on Sunday 17 February. It was not only remembered in […]
Reflections: 40 years on from the 1967 Referendum. In recognition of the pain, grief and trauma inflicted on the Aboriginal Nations of Australia by the onset of colonisation by the British and all who followed. The mass destruction of the Aboriginal race by the colonisers who killed our people in order to occupy Aborigine’s country: the […]
By William Brian Butler, as told to Nicola Butler. William Brian Butler was born 13th September 1938 at the Bagot Detention Centre in Darwin, Northern Territory My mother Emily Anne was born Annie Lawrie and my grandmother Eliza Gordon was born Lady Wilson and are of the Aranda tribe and my grandfather Toby is of […]
Rex Bellotti Jr. – 15 years old at the time, was struck by a police vehicle on Lower King Road, Albany – it was shy of midnight as he was walking home from an Aboriginal Wake on March 6, 2009. Four years later his family are still waiting for answers and compensation – for help […]
Housing and homelessness issues for Aboriginal and Islander Peoples[1] living in South Australia Shelter SA is the peak body for housing in South Australia funded through the State Government’s Housing Minister’s Advisory Fund. Shelter SA is a member organisation and members consist of a diverse range of stakeholders including Government and non-government agencies, private industry […]
The bodies of nearly 100 Burmese Asylum Seekers were reportedly thrown off a boat Indonesia-bound and likely headed to Australia. The high risk journey was fraught with tragedy as the boat engine broke down and limited supplies diminished. The starving shipmates threw their dead into the sea. There were only 32 survivors, all male, including one child. The […]
General News
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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, […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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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