Welfare agency Anglicare has hit home with another survey saying that the housing and rental crises are at their worst yet. Doing something about housing affordability has been neglected by every Government jurisdiction in this country. Proportion to population, less Australians than ever before own a home – Where nearly 70 per cent of Australians […]
April 2013
How often have we heard that expression? Probably more so if we are the parents of children born in the Internet or Cyberspace age! But what does this have to do with racism and vilification? Quite a lot, it would seem. In recent years I have been involved with a number of cases of what […]
John Pilger is one of the world’s most prominent journalists, an author, a filmmaker with a litany of documentaries and someone whose fortitude has made a difference to the public record and the public interest. “It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message […]
The Governor of Western Australia, Malcolm McCusker said he was disappointed by a misinterpretation of various statements within his recent speech to the opening of State Parliament following the March 9 election. He was upset because he felt his long association with Aboriginal Australia was being diminished when in fact he has been an ardent […]
Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation is leading the way in trying to have something done at long last about reducing the high rates of Aboriginal youth suicide. Governments have effectively neglected the crisis while the youth suicide rates climb. Dumbartung will convene a Suicide Crisis Summit on May 21. Robert and Selina Eggington are the directors of […]
Woodside Petroleum stated the obvious in that it will not be making any payments, ex-gratia or otherwise to Jabirr Jabirr and Goolarabooloo Traditional Owners and to their communities for signing up to the $1.5 billion benefits package. As far as they are concerned the deal has fallen through and the land use agreement had been […]
Indigenous women are currently the most over-represented population in both Queensland and Australian prisons. In 2010 approximately 30% of all incarcerated women in Australia were Indigenous, while 24% of all incarcerated men were Indigenous (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010a). Based on this data, a conservative estimate indicates that Indigenous women are 16 times more likely […]
Realtors have been reported widely as tipping a property price rise in the South West where they reckon affordable prices have leveraged a buying frenzy. Perth property prices continue sky-high and median rents have passed $520 per week and this has sent many more prospective first home owners and investors South West bound. Every so […]
Perth’s historical Clontarf has just been put into exclusive Aboriginal ownership following a $26 million gift from the Christian Brothers. For the deal to go through the Vatican’s Papacy had to seal it all with their approval, which they gave. Clontarf Aboriginal College stands on land that was owned by the Christian Brothers, but for […]
A recent article published by The Australian regarding the misappropriation of substantial government funding on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands is only the tip of the iceberg in regards to the demoralising, destructive conditions being experienced by the traditional owners, the Anangu. The APY Lands cover more than 10% of the South Australian land […]
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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