Abu Ghraib prison was a front for making public orchestrated American anger – it was a front to justify the so-called war on terror, an alias for securing a stronger middle Asia foothold in the bloody war for oil and gas – the energy wars have long begun. There will come the day when the […]
February 2014 – Page 2
In June and August of 2013 we wrote in The Stringer here and here foreshadowing that our State Attorney General Michael Mischin was going to institute a review of the Equal Opportunity Commission and that the budget had already implemented the closure of the Substantive Equality Unit of the Commission. The review has now been […]
The sister of Eddie Murray who died while in police custody in 1981 has demanded a new inquiry into her brother’s death claiming missing clothes and a Coroner’s report which proved he suffered a broken sternum while in custody were proof that her brother was murdered. It is 33 years since the police custodial death […]
Much has been said and will continue to be said about the suicide death of Charlotte Dawson. Likewise too much will be written about the suicide deaths of young Aboriginal children. This is quite correctly the case because these are serious issues that need to be talked about openly and plainly. The fact that some […]
A Kimberley mother, who has corresponded with The Stringer for nearly a year, has lodged complaints that her son, who is in prison is on a near daily basis sexually abused and that prison staff “turn a blind eye.” The Aboriginal Legal Services will visit the young man next Tuesday at Geraldton’s Greenough Prison. We […]
by David Vine David Vine, a Tom Dispatch regular, is assistant professor of anthropology at American University, in Washington, DC. He is the author of ‘Island of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia’ (Princeton University Press, 2009). “Are you monitoring the construction?” asked the middle-aged man on a bike […]
Australia has a long institutional history of the use of internment camps and detention centres. And these systems of internment have always been arbitrary and subject to the vagaries of Governments and local authorities. The stigmatization and detainment of people has always been a denial of their civil and legal rights.From our origins as a convict […]
Nellie Wong is a Chinese American poet whose parents were Chinese immigrants. Wong is also a political activist for feminist and socialist causes. During World War II the Wong family worked in a Berkeley grocery store. The internment of their Japanese American neighbors had a profound impact on Nellie and her understanding of racism against Asian Americans. Wong’s poems […]
By Mukanisi in Bade, Mappi Regency in West Papua It seems the bitterly cruel treatment of the Papuan indigenous community by the Indonesian armed forces will never come to an end. This time their cruelty has been unleashed on a young 23 year old man by the name of Blasius Sumaghai from Bade in the […]
The Noongar people number more than 40,000 but with less than 250 fluent speakers of Noongar the language is considered endangered. But an online project to record the language in its entirety may well save the language. University of Western Australia School of Indigenous Studies stalwart, Professor Len Collard is heading a project to record […]
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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