The spates of Aboriginal youth suicides have reached horrific levels of prevalence, the world’s highest when compared racially. Aboriginal youth is suiciding at the world’s highest rates but the spike in suicides has not been matched by Government funding and responses in order to reduce it or prevent these spates recurring. Since my investigations into […]
September 2013
In 2004 I was significantly involved with Premier Geoff Gallop in attempting to get changes to the racial vilification provisions of the WA Criminal Code through Parliament. I spent a fair degree of my time in Parliament through the debates and gained bi-partisan support for the legislation. The then Shadow Attorney General Sue Walker and […]
Maise Pat was 14 years old, Glen Pat was just 8 years old when the phone rang and for them to learn that their older brother, 16 year old John Pat had died in the police cells in Roebourne. Maise had been out of town, and was flown home the next morning to find her […]
Try and explain this to a human rights advocate. We have a doctor, of Indian origin, who is accused of sexual assault of a patient whilst he and she are in the Emergency ward of Royal Perth Hospital. The matter goes to trial and the doctor is convicted of this crime. He appeals the decision […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due to release its Fifth Assessment Report. It is expected to reinforce predictions of rising sea levels and of the increasing likelihood of heat waves and other extreme weather, but Australia should be paying particular attention to the estimated trajectory of likely warming and its impact on our […]
Recently Paul Murray of Radio Station 6PR and The West Australian newspaper wrote a column regarding the Ministerial responsibilities of the Tony Abbott led coalition. His examined the response of the government in respect of a number of issues. The overriding issue that Mr Murray looked at was that of the gender balance in the […]
Abstract Hypothetically there is a correlation between the failure of Indigenous politics to achieve its goals and the sway of what Thomas Paine refers to as the false doctrine of Christian dogma. Unremitting evangelism and Christian hegemony has led to silencing or compromising authentic grassroots voices of too many Indigenous people. High conversion rates have […]
Two years ago, as part of my academic research into the prevalence of suicides in Australia, particularly among Aboriginal youth, to my horror I discovered that Aboriginal youth suicides are tragically at record high levels – that spates of Aboriginal youth suicides are proportionately the world’s highest rates. Aboriginal youth is suiciding at the world’s […]
Goolarabooloo Elders and community leaders fought all the way to save the pristine Country they call home but on which the Western Australian Government wanted to develop a $40 billion gas precinct – the largest in the world. The Woodside-led joint venture, ferociously supported by the State Government, was dumped in May by Woodside Petroleum […]
An Aboriginal lady was detained at a Perth lock-up and strip-searched by five officers, allegedly one of them was a male officer, a breach of policy. She allegedly finished up with serious bruising. An Aboriginal male detainee was injured in a Broome police lock-up and it was caught on CCTV footage. Instead of expeditious transparent […]
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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