Over the many years (38 of them), that I have made Australia my home, I have been accused of many things! In recent years the most common accusation has been one of stifling the larrikin in Australians by impeding their natural sense of humour. The most recent occurrence of this was when I publicly criticised […]
March 2013
Earth’s most threatened tribe has sent an urgent appeal to Brazil’s government to evict invaders from their forest, as Brazil soccer fans lend their support for the tribe. Despite a federal judge’s ruling ordering Brazil’s authorities to remove all invaders on Awá land by the end of March, not a single person has yet been evicted. […]
By Survival International The Tanzanian government this week announced a new ‘conservation’ area on Maasai lands, which community leader Samwel Nangiria says will spell ‘the end of the Maasai and the Serengeti ecosystem’. The Maasai have been bitterly opposed to the grabbing of their village lands in Loliondo division by the government and have sworn […]
The Australian Government’s hard on refugees policy is creating an underclass of people – many condemned to an itinerant lifestyle and many condemned to living on the streets. According to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship since November 25, 2011, 12,765 people have been released from the detention centres and into community on bridging visas. […]
Mission Australia’s CEO Toby Hall has welcomed today’s $320m announcement by Federal and State and Territory governments for a one-year extension of the current National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH). “This is positive news for homeless individuals and families – and those at risk of homelessness – the nation over,” said Mr Hall. “But let’s […]
Professor Richard Harding was the WA Inspector of Custodial Services in Western Australia from 2000 to 2008 and today he has come out criticising incarceration rates. This week the Western Australian prison population reached 5,000. “This is the highest in the State’s history,” said Professor Harding. This is a 27 per cent increase in four […]
In the evening of March 26 students began to occupy the History Faculty of Bucharest University as well as an amphitheatre at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca – Romania. It is intended as indefinite occupation. One student, Razvan Dragoi has contacted The Stringer. He said with this action the students aim to create an open space […]
The Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) Perth is coordinating a national convergence of the refugee rights movement to the Yongah Hill Detention Centre, Northam (one hour northeast of Perth), April 26 to 28. Hundreds of rights advocates will gather and camp nearby the Detention facility. On the Prime Ministerial website Prime Minister Julia Gillard stated […]
A week of black armband protests at public and private universities and colleges across the Philippines took place between March 18 to 22. The death of Kristel Tejada on March 15 has touched many throughout the nation. University fees had risen. Another hike is expected. Ms Tejada could not pay her university tuition fees in […]
Five people were arrested yesterday during a protest at the University of Sydney during a 48 hour strike by staff over wages and conditions. Scores of staff and students together had been picketing the university’s entrances. Protestors entered a Chemistry building lecture theatre to distribute information about the staff’s call for improved pay and working […]
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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