– Paddy Gibson looks at the renewed push to close remote Aboriginal communities and how it began with the NT Intervention from 2007. On 12 May, Four Corners aired a disgraceful hatchet job on remote Aboriginal communities in WA. It was a very useful piece of propaganda for the Western Australian government, which is currently […]
June 2015 – Page 2
The ability to discover the truth is outstripped by the capacity to manifest deceit. Will there ever come the day that corruption does not rule, that corruption’s most powerful tool – propaganda – does not ruin humanity? We cannot trust anything or anyone for in every decision there is influence peddling. Every document, every piece […]
– “Do not despair friend. You are a friend to many. You may not know it but your articles are widely read. You have saved many lives including my own. Thank you.” Suicide prevention should be one of the most urgent priorities of our times – globally and nationally. The rates of suicide should be […]
In recent years we have had a variety of well publicised incidents occurring on our public transport systems and other public amenities that have involved cases of racism and vilification here in Australia: Some of these are listed hereunder. This is directly from the blog of The Koori Woman here: The words are hers. If […]
Aboriginal and/or Torres youth are 26 times more likely to be in detention than non-Aboriginal youth. By 2025 they will be 40 times more likely to be in detention. From a racialised lens they are already being jailed in juvenile detention at the world’s highest rate. The statistics would higher but in Queensland, if you […]
Once again, do we have to wait for a United Nations Commissioner to shine the light on inequalities so as to bring Australia’s media, institutions and the majority of Australians up to speed on the horrific high rates of child removals, jailing and suicide rates? How long does the narrative of human misery and suffering have […]
A few years ago Australian Corrective Services were claiming that the national prison population had finally begun to decrease. I disputed this. A few years later the prison population has increased by nearly 15 per cent. In the next ten years Australia will near double its prison population whereas it took twenty years from 1992 […]
I was one of the very fortunate few to attend the event “An evening with Cornel West” in Perth recently. The event was billed as follows: “Dr Cornel West has been recognised, rightly, as one of the most dynamic public intellectuals in America and he is a titan of social justice, globally. He is renowned […]
“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world… Shall we say the odds are too great? … the struggle is too hard? … and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message — of longing, of hope, of solidarity… […]
Eddie David walked into Centrelink for financial assistance to undertake tuition but when his details were typed into the database an alert was flagged. The Department of Immigration were contacted. Mr David was hit with the allegation of being in breach of a visa – overstaying. However Mr David insisted they were mistaken and that […]
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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