In the public domain, developments within the spectrum of human cloning will be argued as happening for the first time, but in the recesses of monolithic research divisions, government-borne, military industrial complex borne and of private entities, humanity as we know is being tampered with – human cloning – in breach of the presumption of […]
April 2014
– Ancient Vietnamese saying meaning that Vietnam will never be annihilated. “small Bamboo” – Tracy Vo – Publishers: Allen and Unwin RRP: $29.99 Tracy Vo is a journalist at Channel Nine in Perth. The first time I spoke to Tracy was when she covered the funeral of Kuldeep Singh, an Indian born taxi driver killed […]
Proportionate to both prison population and to total national population, Australia has one of the world’s highest ongoing records of deaths in prison custody. From a racialised perspective, the rates of custodial deaths of First Peoples launched the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Prison reform advocates are speaking up about the rising rates […]
This year, one of the custodial deaths which launched the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, will be remembered, 33 years later, with a national day of action, rallies and marches and a three-decade-old-call for justice. Eddie Murray died while in police custody in 1981 and his family and supporters are demanding a new […]
Australian society is failing its youth and setting itself up for economic disaster. The persistent rise in youth unemployment will reverberate across the economy for decades to come, potentially reducing productivity and limiting creativity and innovation. Callum Pickering “It’s a disaster for our young people who want to work but are getting locked out of […]
“The Power of Bones” – Keelen Mailman – Publishers: Allen and Unwin RRP: $29.99 Keelen Mailman is a remarkable lady. According to the publicity material from Allen and Unwin, Keelen came from a “troubled childhood of poverty, abuse and racism to becoming the first Indigenous woman to run a commercial cattle station, this is one […]
A few weeks ago, a taxi driver pleaded guilty to raping and sexually assaulting five female wheelchair users in his taxi. He pleaded guilty to 33 charges, but they only included the assaults that appeared on the taxi security cameras – four of the victims, who could not communicate his crimes, had to be tracked […]
“After decades of discourse about how nonprofits need to be more businesslike, I am driven to discuss the differences structurally and in more detail. The admonition to be more like a business is a preposterous proposition—ill informed and exhibiting a sloppy state of mind that tries to draw us all off track to a space […]
Vale Rubin Hurricane Carter – May 6th 1937 to 20th April 2014. The title of this article are the words of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. A number of us who have worked in the area of racism and equality know the name and have followed some of his journey over a period of time. However, there […]
I have a friend who I hardly ever see – we correspond mostly by email. She doesn’t have a good command of written English, and sometimes we communicate only with pictures. Pictures from our holidays, or sometimes just a picture of a dog or a kitten or something we have both found amusing or cute […]
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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