Since 2007 the Scanlon Foundation in Melbourne has surveyed more than 24,000 people. The survey is undertaken in partnership with Monash University and the Australian Multicultural Foundation. It is the largest study of its kind. Importantly it monitors public attitudes on issues including Immigration, discrimination and belonging. Last week they released their latest findings. Some […]
October 2014
Keep your head raised, look straight ahead. No awkward shuffling, walk with Pride. You belong YOU are US the First Nations Peoples of this country now called australia. Do not listen to the lying politician as he gives false hope spoken from a false tongue. They want you to believe they care. THEY DON’T. It […]
Australia’s backwater, Western Australia continues to incarcerate First People at not only the nation’s highest rate but also among the world’s highest jailing rates. Too few in our parliaments have stood up to say that they will do something about it. I have heard far too many of those born into privilege, who wield excessive […]
CEO of Sisters Inside, Debbie Kilroy works with women inmates, pre-release and post-release. Ms Kilroy states that the fastest growing prison demographic is that of women and in particular of Aboriginal women. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women now account for 33 per cent of the national female prison population. “Indigenous women are now currently […]
White Australia still grips tightly its control over the nation’s agendas and cultural content despite a multicultural population that it continues to deride and where possible shun. The demography of this nation is not reflected in the parliaments and institutions of the nation. First People are under-represented, multicultural Australia is under-represented. White Australia – Anglo-Celtic-Saxon […]
The full text of that verse is as follows: “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbour as yourself”. This is generally seen as one of the most important teachings from the Bible as it goes to the heart of humanity and the need for people […]
By Sarka Hill. From the late 1800’s to the 1970’s, Australia’s Federal and State and Territory Governments, together with church missionaries entered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Australia, and began removing their children. They had no idea the damage and disastrous repercussions their actions would have on Australia’s First People, who not only […]
Last Thursday evening, a 31-year-old Noongar man suicided in Perth’s Casuarina Prison – while only three months out from parole. The 31-year-old man was serving a sentence for burglary. Questions are being raised as to how he managed to suicide when jails are meant to have removed all hanging points from their prison cells. The […]
Ten rallies across the nation drew hundreds of protesters to call for excruciatingly long overdue changes in the name of the 22-year-old Yamatji woman who died needlessly in a Pilbara police watch-house lockup on August 4. Politicians from all sides joined the rallies – but will they ensure they bring on the changes? In the […]
Thirteen years have passed since the sinking of the asylum seeker vessel designated Siev X, in which three hundred and fifty-three people, including 146 children, 142 women and 65 men drowned when the boat sank en route to Christmas Island on October 19, 2001. The disaster has never been officially investigated and serious questions remain about Australia’s role […]
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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