Premier Barnett has launched a draft Bill to recognise Noongar People as the Traditional Owners of the Country that is southwest Western Australia and includes Perth. The Bill has the support of the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council but it has been slammed by Noongar Tent Embassy and other dissenters. Tears streamed among […]
February 2014
It’s not uncommon for people to ask me what term I prefer to use when describing my background from my father’s side of the family. In most instances, my answer is plainly and simply “Black”. In the past when I have stated this to non-Indigenous people, some have shifted uncomfortably. This is because they make […]
Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion has responded to criticism of a funding cut to the Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD) Foundation by pledging to find alternative sources of funding for the aggressive neurodegenerative condition. Recent evidence has supported claims that the disease is much more widespread among Aboriginal communities than first thought. “MJD is a terrible […]
Western Australia has the highest eviction rate of First Nation families in the nation. In recent months, The Stringer has reported the sad plight of several families who have been evicted – one family with 13 children, another with 11, another with 9 children. In the last week, The Stringer has met with seven more […]
The formidable Walmadany (James Price Point) campaigner, Senior Law Boss, Mr Roe has died. Mr Roe leaves behind his partner, his two children, his mother, a matriarch of her people, Teresa Roe and his brother and fellow Walmadany campaigner Senior Law Boss Phillip Roe. The 47-year-old Goolaroobooloo legend died in Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital […]
In recent times the hard line approach of housing evictions, three-strikes rules, mandatory sentencing, propositions that welfare payments be banned to school ‘dropouts’ have been heavily criticised by rights advocates and community members. Advocates such as Marianne Mackay, Professor Len Collard, Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation’s Robert and Selena Eggington, Chair of the Narrunga Nation, Tauto Sansbury, […]
I have received numerous correspondence from people suffering in their plight and ordeals as Asylum Seekers on our shores and elsewhere we have cast them to. Horrific descriptions of various inhumanity and unwarranted hardships are described. From within the tumult of congested hardships and the scurry of hopelessness there are the spiral into situational trauma, […]
Noongar Elder John Pell, a working party representative for the Busselton to Margaret River Noongar people to the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC) in their deliberations over the State’s $1.3 billion Native Title proposal said he believes most Noongars have lost faith in the negotiation process and that the SWALSC had failed […]
The current NAIDOC Person of the Year, Darryl Kickett is calling on the Indigenous Advisory Council and the Prime Minister to support Treaties underwritten by healing. Mr Kickett is calling on the Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine and Prime Minister Tony Abbott to meet with a delegation of Nyungars who are ready […]
Questions beg – why did the Australian Federal Police raid the Seven West Media’s head office? What led the AFP to prematurely determine whether there had been any payment made to Schapelle Corby or her family? But more importantly, why did the AFP consider that such a transaction would constitute a criminal matter? The AFP […]
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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