In a surprising turn of events three of The Stringer‘s writers are running in the coming Federal Election as Senate Candidates for The WikiLeaks Party. This article is a declaration of impartiality conflicts of interests on behalf of the three, and therefore they will not contribute articles to The Stringer in covering the Federal Election. […]
July 2013 – Page 2
At present, both major political parties favour the use of punitive measures that theoretically stem the arrival of boat people. This theory supposedly creates the facade that if Australia purports a harsh enough regime, hypothetical arrivals will cease, seeking instead their chances with the Taliban. In any case, it’s not the Australia we should strive […]
During each year of the last several years of the 1970s and of the early years of the 1980s up to 30,000 refugees arrived by boat to Australia. There was relatively little public fuss about this as at the time there was bipartisan political support between Fraser and Whitlam. However three decades later hysteria has […]
Half a dozen years ago I made several startling findings from comparative data research during Masters research into underlying issues that give rise to the shockingly high imprisonment rates of Aboriginal peoples – and to the disproportionate statistics evidencing the extensiveness of Aboriginal homelessness and acute impoverishment. I compared imprisonment rates of Aboriginal peoples with […]
Despite a worldwide campaign to save tens of thousands of years old Aboriginal rock art along the Western Australian Pilbara coastline of the Dampier, miners and local Elders continue at odds with each other. The rock art is believed to be older than other locations in the world where human images are contained and local […]
The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has elected Kirstie Parker and Les Malezer as co-chairs of the Congress. Ms Parker is the long-time editor of the Koori Mail and Mr Malezer has been returned for a second term. The Congress has a female co-chair and a male co-chair. Ms Parker is a Yawullarai woman […]
“We have to get rid of racist cops. I don’t want to dwell on the past but I have grown up bitter,” said Whadjuk Noongar Elder Ben Taylor. Mr Taylor said of colonial and post-colonial Australia, “They have been killing our people for two hundred years.” John Pat is dead. Cameron Mulrunji Doomadgee is dead. […]
The American Diabetes Association at its annual conference highlighted dramatic increases of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal patients with end stage renal disease are up to 30 times more likely to have finished up as such than non-Aboriginal diabetic patients. Health journalist Jill Stein reports in The International Renal and Ural News […]
Earlier this week I wrote a piece for The Stringer about the desecration of a Muslim section of a cemetery in Baldivis. Details of that piece are contained here. There certainly appeared to be considerable agreement amongst readers of that article that the act that was perpetrated was vile, unacceptable and one that was not […]
Brazil’s military has moved in to stop illegal logging around the land of Earth’s most threatened tribe. © Exército Brasileiro Survival International has received reports that Brazil’s military has launched a major ground operation against illegal logging around the land of the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe. Hundreds of soldiers, police officers and Environment Ministry special […]
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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