I disagree with just about everything that Mark Latham opines and in how he chooses to opine however it serves no grand purpose to galvanise malice and hate towards him; no purposeful meaning to hypocritically ‘lampoon’ Mr Latham as in silly fashion he did to others. He is of my generation, a year older than […]
March 2017
Eighty thousand Aboriginal people make up Western Australia but half will soon be without any native title rights. The Australian Labor Party has got in the way of a rare opportunity to repair and improve native title rights and bargaining powers. The federal Labor mob will support the Coalition government’s move to amend the […]
For the majority of refugees there have never been more difficult times. Indeed diabolically dire times. Refugee camps with huddles of hundreds of thousands. Detention facilities with thousands trapped. Crowded shanty-camps in city outskirts of countries refugees have fled to. Many of these nations have slated into their histories the taking in of refugees, […]
The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation. The descendants of the First Peoples of this continent number a little over 700,000 but at least 80,000 have been to prison and more than likely more than 100,000. Nationally, one in […]
All of a sudden, much is being written on the ‘pursuit of happiness’, of 6 hour working days, of three and four days of work each week instead of the constancy of indenture and the trauma of wage slavery. Years ago, when I was the general manager of the Murdoch University Student Guild I went […]
Labor is now the government in Western Australia after an excruciating 8 years under one of the state’s most backwater governments at least in terms of impacts on the marginalised and most vulnerable. The poorest of the poor were neglected, stigmatised and many jailed. Labor is now government in five of Australia’s seven states and […]
Does human life matter? To what degree should we help to prevent a suicide? How much effort should we put in to improve the lot of someone else? The Queensland Labor Government has rejected the establishing of the Custody Notification Service. This service has saved Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives in NSW, for 17 […]
Greece did not make the crises it finds itself within; the crises were borne of paradigms outside Greece’s mythical sovereign borders. That the crises, the widespread impoverishment and its pernicious impacts could be forecast long before the crises hit is another story, but one that political forces could not stop. The power imbalances are structural […]
I have been asked to visit Brazil and journey to the corrals of human misery where peoples such as the Guarani languish. They are suiciding at among the world’s highest rates. During the last few years I have published hundreds of articles on the suicide crises and on the ways forward. It was more important […]
The more west we journey across the nation the higher the arrest rates, the higher the jailing rates. In the last two decades Australia’s prison population has doubled. The national prison population is nearly 40,000. More than 85 per cent of inmates have not completed a Year 12 education, more than 60 per cent have […]
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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