By Josephine Cashman Showcasing Koori culture and history to the world… I am pleased to announce the launch of the Bungaree Keeping Place at Middle Head, Mosman yesterday. Softly, we launched the Bungaree Keeping Place campaign and website on Australia Day 2014. Eighteen hours later it is already attracting a huge amount of support from […]
January 2014 – Page 2
Days after Kevin Spratt was vindicated with the convictions of two of the police officers who indiscriminately tasered him at the Perth Watchhouse – August 31, 2008 – he has been arrested and charged with assaulting a public officer. His arrest so soon after a landmark prosecution and conviction of police officers has set tongues […]
Achieving true reconciliation is confronting, Nyunggai Warren Mundine is the Executive Chairman of the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Indigenous Advisory Council said. It requires both sides to a conflict to take steps towards each other and that we acknowledge the past but also leave it there. Recognising […]
I went to my regular fast food junk outlet this morning. I could have gone to an upmarket restaurant – but fast food junk is cheap, convenient, and I really like their breakfast menu. So I went to the door and there was a prominent sign on it – ‘Sorry. If you use a wheelchair, […]
In the case of Papua the State of Indonesia allows all means to be used – with nothing too extreme – to ensure their continued hold on Papua within the Republic. The ‘deceptive approach’ together with military might are Indonesia’s two preferred methods, but there’s no end to the list of other means also systematically […]
Last year, I aggregated Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) hospital collated data on reported suicides of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples – 996 suicides from 2001 to 2010. That is 1 in 24 of all deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – by suicide. There is no ABS data available at time […]
Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine has criticised aspects of the John Pilger documentary, Utopia. Mr Mundine said that Australia “is no more racist than anywhere else” and suggested that some of the film’s themes are no more than baseless conspiracy theories. Mr Mundine’s comments outraged high profile Aboriginal leaders who work at […]
Schapelle Corby is innocent and the Australian Government has always known this to be the case. I know this not only from the overwhelming evidence compiled by The Expendable Project researchers who have put the verdict beyond reasonable doubt, I know it not only from the fact that no-one smuggles cannabis to Indonesia from Australia, […]
On Thursday 23rd January I was a guest of Robert and Selina Eggington of the Dumbartung Corporation at a preview screening of the film “Utopia” by John Pilger. My thanks go to them and others at the screening for an evening of great understanding and learning. Utopia is defined as a “community or society possessing […]
Australia wide, there is a rise in calls for Treaty. Two surveys by The National Indigenous Times and The Stringer on whether Treaty is the preferred way forward for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples overwhelmingly cried out for Treaty. One survey asked 120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the nation if Treaty is the way forward, […]
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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