I’m just getting my things together to fly out of Australia. Those of you who have read my articles from the very beginning will remember this same time last year I was in the Caribbean speaking at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference. I gave a paper on “Black Consciousness’. I remember it like it was […]
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Courtesy of The National Indigenous Times – 300 gathered in the rain and cold to declare their support for The Block and the Redfern Tent Embassy. The until recently vacant lot at The Block in Redfern that was once the focal point of Aboriginal life in Sydney is once again a vibrant black community and it […]
NSW Legislative Council parliamentarian, Shaoquett Moselmane believes that there should be a parliamentary inquiry into the death of Eddie Murray. Last night, Mr Moselmane raised the death of Mr Murray to his fellow parliamentarians in the Legislative Council. He became the first Labor parliamentarian to push the need for an inquiry and will work with […]
“Please take our story out to the world, please,” Beagle Bay community, Kimberley, Western Australia. “We have to speak up about suicides because they will just keep on happening. Too many of our people are with heads bowed down, silent, doing shame when we need to break taboos and save lives,” said Chair of South […]
“I’ve been called a queer, a little girl, an old woman, a freak, and a fag. As a singer, I’ve been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don’t belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.” Jimmy Scott from his biography “Faith […]
Arthur and Leila Murray went to their graves having the justice they chased down for their son denied to them. Eddie Murray, 21 years of age, was killed in a police cell in the northern NSW town of Wee Waa, 33 years ago. Yesterday, 33 years to the day, five of Eddie’s sisters – Anna, […]
The Western Australian Minister for Housing, Bill Marmion is reading the same chapter on public spin that former Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin so dearly prized. Ms Macklin’s six year long stretch in the ministry claimed much but delivered little. Ms Macklin said she delivered near 3,000 dwellings – second and third rate […]
Quandamooka sand may be here today, gone tomorrow. Sand is the world’s most in demand resource, and before long the world will be without sand for urbanisation’s insatiable urges, and for technology’s production lines. The Queensland Government and the multinational robber barons know this. That Trojan Horse, the Native Title Act should have protected the […]
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is someone I have deep admiration for – her lifelong struggles, her dignity in keeping up the rights struggle, her never-say-die attitude in inspiring pursuit of what is morally right, her insightful thinking into the ways forward for her people and for all people in general. I have long gelled with Rosalie’s views […]
In my view, it is indisputable that Wee Waa police killed 21 year old Eddie Murray on June 12, 1981. In 1986, James Muirhead QC left the Federal Court as one of its Judges to assume a role as the Commissioner into the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody the next year. On October […]
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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