Today, Yothu Yindi’s great songwriter, musician, educator and social justice campaigner is at rest. Mr Yunupingu rocked the boat on racist stereotypes as he called for equality, and through Treaty. Treaty is still denied. Why? The reasons are disappointing but in time the striving for equality may bring it on. On this day, as Mr […]
June 2013
Climate change has never been questioned but human generated climate change has been questioned. It is being less questioned with the passing of time, but time is of the essence if some of the human activity generated climate change trends are to be either halted or in part reversed. Australia has recorded its hottest summer […]
The downfall of Prime Minister Julia Gillard did not begin with her own toppling of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, instead it began with last year’s January 26 Lobby restaurant incident. Her credibility among Aboriginal peoples took a severe hit when the Office of the Prime Minister would not apologise for their obvious role in creating […]
Western Australia’s Kimberley Elders fought off the Woodside joint venture partners from building a liquefied natural gas hub precinct on the Traditional lands of the Goolarabooloo and Jabirr Jabirr. But the Kimberley is being targeted for potential industrialisation by the State Government and by the oil and gas companies it seeks to draw royalties from. […]
Western Australia’s Government has been embarrassed by Kimberley MLA Kija woman Josie Farrer who pulled up a Government cultural diversity report which neglected to mention Aboriginal peoples, their languages and belief systems. “I was stunned when I read the report and there was no mention of Western Australia’s Aboriginal peoples. I asked around why this […]
Indigenous Health Minister Warren Snowdon has not been able to commit all the States and Territories to the Closing the Gap initiatives. It was important for the Commonwealth to do so because with the prospect of the Federal Government’s demise electorally the Coalition is crafting new initiatives to manage Aboriginal Australia. The Coalition is bent […]
Earlier today The Stringer predicted a 56-46 win in the leadership spill between the former close colleagues and confidantes who led the Australian Labor Party to a historic win in 2007 – Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd defeated Prime Minister Julia Gillard 57-45. Prime Minister-elect Rudd has spent the last three years wearing his heart […]
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will reclaim the Office of the Prime Minister from Prime Minister Julia Gillard within several hours. Bill Shorten will commit his support to Kevin Rudd arguably in the best interests of the Australian Labor Party. The Deputy Leadership will be fought out between Anthony Albanese and Simon Crean. A successful […]
The Australian Red Cross on Tuesday launched its inaugural Vulnerability Report: Inside the process of seeking Asylum. The report provides insights into the day-to-day realities of one of the most vulnerable groups in Australia. The report is substantive having included interviews with 33 Asylum Seekers the Red Cross had supported in Victoria, WA and SA, […]
South Africa’s lack of justice protocols are tragically typified by a horrific deaths in custody rate unparalleled in the rest of the world. In 1997, only several years after the end of Apartheid South Africa, there were a tragic couple of hundred deaths in police custody. In 1994, there had been 74 deaths in custody. […]
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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