An international scientific study linking firearms ownership by white Americans with racism and resistance to gun control has raised eyebrows and ire in the United States. Researchers from the University of Manchester in Britain, Monash University in Australia and other universities published the findings of their study, “Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in […]
November 2013 – Page 2
And unfortunately with the arrival of the “Festive” season and that of “goodwill” to all, comes a season that is characterised by the proliferation of stories aimed largely at generating hatred towards our Islamic brethren. Every year without fail this will be the period characterised by calls to talk back radio stations, letters to the […]
Five minutes off the plane at Alice Springs last month and an Aboriginal woman puts her daughter into my arms. At two years old, Thelma has gunk in her ears and oozing from her nose. Flies crawl on her face. In her eyes is a look a fear and anger that I have never seen […]
by Paddy Gibson The recently elected Tory Australian government will only tighten the oppression of Aboriginal people Utopia, John Pilger’s new film set for release (in the United Kingdom) in November, examines the worsening oppression of Aboriginal people in Australia. Anti-Aboriginal racism is a cornerstone of the Australian political system. It was created to justify […]
I’ve been a guest in Colorado Springs, Colorado, following a weeklong retreat with Colorado College students who are part of a course focused on nonviolence. In last weekend’s Colorado Springs Gazette, there was an article in the Military Life section about an international skype phone call between U.S. soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan and sixth grade […]
The amendments sought to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 by the Australian Government will give rise to the advent of public race hate, foment racial tensions and solidify rampant racism according to the majority of non-Anglocentric cultures in Australia. Prime Minister Abbott’s Government is facing the likelihood of a standoff with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait […]
Lo and behold, Australian prison numbers are on the increase, record high – and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples now comprise nearly one in three of all prisoners. 30 per cent of the Australian prison population is made up of Aboriginal peoples, up from the much touted 26 per cent, the more than one […]
The think-tank, Economic Policy Institute reported that in 2011 America’s 350 biggest companies were paid 231 times as much as the private sector. In the meantime, the average worker’s wage has remained stagnant and in real value terms is diminishing with the rising cost of living pressures. Wages in America have not been rising for […]
Western Desert Martu filmmaker Curtis Taylor is developing a digital archive for language groups of Western Australia for all people to access and learn about their own history and for others to learn of the history of the First Peoples of Western Australia. Mr Taylor, who came to prominence with the Canning Stock Route project, […]
By Christian Fuchs, John Goetz, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer and Tanjev Schultz Frankfurt: An American Military-Intel Metropolis Espionage, Logistics, Attacks Orchestrated from the U.S. Consulate. It’s understandable that the guards standing outside the U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt are a little nervous. The building used to house the U.S.’s largest military hospital. Now it looks […]
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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