On April 15, 2014, when the story broke on the world that the Central Intelligence Agency’s covert program of assassination by remotely controlled drones is not distinct from the drone program of the U.S. Air Force as we had been told, I was on the “Sacred Peace Walk,” an event sponsored each spring by the […]
May 2014
“You don’t have to be a big name to make a difference and impact change. Small things can make ripples that make a big difference” Joan Trumpauer Mullholland This week in a Perth court 11 Christian leaders were fined $50 each for trespass after they held a prayer vigil and sit-in at the office of […]
Today, the Western Australian Government launched the inaugural ‘Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day’. In April, WA Parliament unanimously supported the introduction of a specific day to raise awareness of PTSD. If WA Parliament is serious about Post Traumatic Stress awareness then it will recognise and highlight the worst cases of collective PTSD. If the Government […]
By Hakim, ( Dr. Teck Young, Wee ) “Don’t you touch me!” declared Mi Ryang. South Korean police were clamping down on a villager who was resisting the construction of a Korean/U.S. naval base at her village. Mi Ryang managed to turn the police away by taking off her blouse and, clad in her […]
In March of this year I wrote about the fact that the Auxiliary shop at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital was selling golliwogs which would be considered distasteful and racist. All of the details of the arguments that I raised are here: The essence of the issue is that the golliwog is a throwback to an […]
Former Government worker for the NSW Department of Families and Communities, Debra Swan on National Sorry Day joined one of the 15 protests happening across the continent to not only remember the Stolen Generations but to point out that they are continuing. In NSW, one in 9 Aboriginal children is ripped from their families into […]
by Geoff Bagnall, courtesy of The National Indigenous Times “Bob Bellear would be absolutely devastated if he was alive to see what the Aboriginal Housing Company is doing to this land” – Kaye Bellear The Block at Redfern in Sydney, the first piece of land to ‘be owned freehold’ by an Aboriginal community in […]
So now Senator Scullion thinks Traditional Owners and consultation with community is holding us back. Last week in the National Indigenous Times we read in Geoff Bagnall’s interview with the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister, Senator Nigel Scullion how the Federal Government is not only refusing to empower prominent organisations such as Aboriginal Community Controlled Health […]
Twenty-eight years have passed since John Pilger’s insightful documentary, ‘The Secret Country’. Those who have not seen ‘The Secret Country’ please do watch it. It is there to be viewed freely on the internet. And then after watching Pilger’s newest documentary ‘Utopia’, you will find little has changed, and indeed much has gotten worse. John […]
The Stringer is at The Block, as Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established this morning. According to one of the founding members of the Aboriginal Housing Company, Jenny Munro, the Embassy is “reclaiming The Block for our people”. Several of the original founders of the Aboriginal Housing Company and many former residents of The Block […]
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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