In every religion there is love yet love has no religion – Rumi I have written before about the need for religious vilification legislation in this and other states in Australia. Currently there is only one state that covers this area and that is Victoria. That state has a “Racial and Religious Intolerance Act”. Section […]
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Western Australia jails the poorest at a higher rate than the rest of the nation. Western Australia jails those who cannot afford to pay fines. Western Australia jails Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people at abominable rates, the highest in the nation. From a racialised lens, Western Australia jails Aboriginal adult males at the world’s […]
I do not often write about what individuals say or do, I rarely chase down people for their transgressions, instead I spend my time on issues and focus on systemic changes. I am not interested in low stakes assaults on others, not interested in low stakes journalism bent on tripping up people and their worldviews. I […]
Economic imperatives have taken much of humanity into the haze of despair and into a sense of unconquerable hopelessness. Economic imperatives which are not grounded in the fibre of moral reasoning will be skewed exclusively to the interests of the authors. Valid moral imperatives are categorical principles grounded in reason – pure reason, as opposed to irrational self-interest. From within categorical imperatives […]
A 35 year old Aboriginal male died soon after being detained in custody. There are few details at this time. He was arrested on Wednesday and was found dead in his cell soon after. The Western Australian Government has been urged since the death of a 22-year-old woman in South Hedland police watch house in […]
The Ethnic Communities Council Western Australia (ECCWA) is staggered by the increasing hostilities among peoples, the growing divides borne of racism. It is getting ugly. ECCWA is responding with the launch of a whistleblowing website on racist acts. The Racial Vilification Act, the Racial Discrimination Act overall have been ineffective. The Australian Human Rights Commission […]
The Ethnic Communities Council of WA (ECCWA), and one of its former chiefs, anti-racism campaigner Suresh Rajan, view Bill Leak’s cartoon in The Australian yesterday depicting starving Indians chopping up and eating solar panels sent to the developing nation as coveted in racial slurs. The solar panels to India are in addition to providing power […]
Here in Kabul, over breakfast with Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APVs), we easily recalled key elements of the conflict resolution and peer mediation “train the trainers” workshops that Ellis Brooks, with Voices for Creative Nonviolence-UK, had facilitated a week ago. Peer mediators make promises before beginning a session: We won’t tell you what to do, we […]
There she is, that mouthy girl. Fines owing. And look at her – bashed, not looking good. She’ll probably be better off in lock-up, she’ll get a feed. 5pm, August 2. Click on the handcuffs, cold against her dark skin. She’s another number today. Three grand’s worth of driving fines, and jeez she’s a difficult […]
According to the latest Board of Studies Annual Report, in New South Wales, Australia, there are currently 3,327 students registered for home schooling. But it seems many home educators are dissatisfied with the state’s home education system. By Emily Rorich. A group of mothers meet at the local park, armed with picnic rugs and shareable snacks. Their […]
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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