Six Traditional owner groups are tussling over a messy combined Native Title dispute on the far west coast of South Australia. One of the claimant groups, the Mirning peoples, are alleging that they were “railroaded by anthropologists and lawyers” into the combined claim which now “threatens to take our Country from us.” Thirty-five Mirning Elders […]
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Restorative Justice Week is approaching and WA’s highly respected prison reform advocate and academic, Dr Brian Steels is calling for Governments to comprehend restorative justice principles if they want to be serious about reducing the rising prison population. Restorative Justice Week will be commemorated November 17 to 24, with Dr Steels hosting a Restorative Justice […]
Central Queensland University’s Bundaberg campus Indigenous WellBeing Centre’s Kabi Kabi Elder, Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian was awarded by the Worldwide Who’s Who “Professional of the Year in Spiritual & Social Services.” Mrs Yavu-Kama-Harathunian became the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders person to also be awarded life membership to the Worldwide Who’s Who which boasts a membership […]
Recently, the Kimberley’s suicide-riddled Beagle Bay community hosted a ‘March for Life‘ march where a carved baton was handed to the region’s State parliamentarian, Kija woman Josie Farrer. The call for help in saving lives was taken by Ms Farrer to State Parliament. The Kimberley is enduring a prevalence of spates of Aboriginal youth suicides, the […]
Imprisonment rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not just a national shame but an international disgrace for a nation that is the world’s second wealthiest nation per capita. Aboriginal bodies and advocates are arguing that Justice indicators should be included in the Closing the Gap targets in a desperate bid to reduce […]
Human trafficking goes on day in day out throughout much of our world. People are trafficked or indentured for various unseemly financial profit – and some of it unimaginable to many dissociated from the myriad ills and tumults our most impoverished peoples endure. One of the worst inhumanities is the harvesting of organs from human […]
WA’s South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC) faced off with its most ardent critic over its negotiations and support of the State Government’s $1.3 billion Native Title package offer to Noongar Country. It was the first time an independently chaired forum was agreed to, with a panel of six, three from the Noongar […]
The Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council headed by Warren Mundine has committed to including suicide prevention as part of its mandate – after Mr Mundine read our coverage on the extent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides, which many have described as a suicide epidemic; a racialised one. Mr Mundine at first committed to […]
If we want to shift Aboriginal disadvantage, then self-determination is the only way. Recently I wrote a story for The Drum about the Bugmy High Court case. It sparked a flurry of commentary, much of it, unfortunately, quite ignorant. The Bugmy decision reinforced the long standing legal principle that a court must take into account […]
Following WA’s tough cuts on education, it is Aboriginal students and the State’s most vulnerable students who have been hit hardest. Many remote Aboriginal schools already doing it tough will be hit harder than other schools across the State in widespread cuts to the schools resources allocation program. Halls Creek District High School will be […]
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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