The suicide prevention space is immature and inauthentic
The suicide prevention space is still raw and immature. There is a lot of work to be achieved in understanding the extensiveness of the space and its multifactorial issues. There is quite a bit of ground to travel in order to unveil the various ways forward. It’s a space vulnerable to exploiters, carpetbaggers and snakeRead More →
Three youth suicides, buried next to each other – we were not put on this earth to bury our children
Three young people took their lives within a fortnight. They knew each other. There are no words for their loss, no words that can calm the grief of their families. Their community despairs. Three funerals in five days, days shy of Christmas. A fifteen year old girl, a seventeen year old youth, a 25 yearRead More →
“It is not like me to cry…” – no more lies, our children should not see suicide as the solution
18 years young, Phillinka died on October 18 last year. At the time, at her anguished mother’s request I wrote of the loss of Phillinka and of so many others in the Kimberley. I am once again in the Kimberley – surrounded by the most pristine nature and by the loss of so many youngRead More →
It’s ‘Homelessness Week’ but who will house our toddlers, the babies?
The calendar event, Homeless Week, is upon us this week and quite a few parliamentarians and mayoral types will mix it with the big end of town and the homelessness sector at various red ribbon events. But nowhere in sight will there be the homeless. We will not hear from the homeless. These politicalRead More →
The issue of our time – 1 in 3 deaths by suicide
Suicide rates in the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander age group of 15 to 35 years are at horrific rates. Suicide is the leading cause of death in this age group. Thirty per cent of deaths in this vast age group over the five year period 2008 to 2012 have been by suicide. This isRead More →
Australian made racism
When my father left his mortal coil Good Friday last year, my head lay on his chest, I was bereft. I had been by his side 21 days in vigil. My mind raced with memories, many of them were of my childhood, with some of these memories of the racism we had felt from farRead More →
24 year old Saeed’s hunger strike should have stirred the nation, but barely a whisper
Barely a whisper about 24 year old Saeed Hassanloo’s 40 days of hunger striking – willing death rather than spending more time in Australia’s dirty detention system. Mr Hassanloo has been held in detention since he was 19 years old – the bloom of his young adult life bled in Australia’s catastrophic human rights abuseRead More →
Ruthless City of Sydney Council, who do you think you are stealing the tents of the homeless?
The inhumane mercilessness of the City of Sydney Council was on show in February when they had the police muscle up in escorting council workers to remove the tents of the homeless from inner city Wentworth Park. Sydney’s homelessness is extensive and on the increase. Governments – local, State, Federal – are doing next toRead More →
Understanding Australia’s suicide crises
Each day, a suicide is brought to my attention. I have written widely on the suicide crises. I have written about the disproportionate rate of death by suicide for the descendants of the First Peoples and for first and second generation Australians and for LGBQTI Australians. Recently I wrote about the tragic suicide of 18Read More →
8 little children on the streets; youngest less than 30 days old
On New Year’s Day a little girl was born, opening her eyes to the world, but to what kind of a world? Compassionate or merciless? By this Thursday, only 28 days old this little baby will be homeless. It is bullshit a 28 day old baby should be homeless. Not just this little baby but also herRead More →
Shame job Australia – “They came through the gate with my boy’s body more than six hours later”
“They took my boy’s body away. I wanted to go with my son. They left us behind. They didn’t care to listen.” “They just looked at us. They flew off, right in our faces.” “They left us behind.” “They just left us,” said mother, Gwen Sturt. Through the night, with torrid rains pelting the roofRead More →
A nation shamed when the solution for its children is homelessness
It is not often I am brought to tears but this morning I was bereft as I left behind a beautiful family of five who have been homeless for 9 months. They have been living in a single tent in bush on the northern outskirts of Perth. Four beautiful girls are homeless but in theirRead More →
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Breaking News
- MISS DHU – we must be relentless in demanding change
10 Jan 2017
On August 4, 2014 I was phoned by family members of Ms Dhu. Only hours before the phone call, Ms Dhu had passed away at the unnatural hand of racism. Some will argue racism did not kill Ms Dhu but
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- Ground breaking project achieves 100 per cent record in the prevention of child removals
28 Oct 2016
One in 9 of Perth’s Aboriginal children are in the care of the state, removed by child protection authorities but an unfunded advocacy service is leading the way with a thus far 100 per cent track record of keeping children
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- Italy’s highest court rules that stealing food is not a crime
9 May 2016
“There’s something fundamentally threatening to the capitalist economic order in a ruling like this- the idea that a person is not personally responsible for any action they take out of economic necessity- because capitalism is based on creating that necessity
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- First Nations social justice warrior passes away – the soul rolls over
17 Apr 2016
Birri Gubba Gungalu and Murri man, Tiga Bayles, 62, has passed away. Only rarely do I write about the passing of anyone – each day millions of us pass from this world, our souls roll over. However Tiga Bayles was
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General News
- Minister Nahan
14 Jan 2017
It has been a very long time since I have accused a Minister of the Western Australian parliament of Institutionalised racism. As many of you would know I have been at various times since 2001, the President, Treasurer and Secretary
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- Hellenes should not aspire to racist White Privilege
8 Jan 2017
As an Australian born and bred Greek, with Jewish, Palestinian, northern African heritage, I grew up in the inner western suburbs of Sydney during the 1960s and 1970s. The colour of my skin galvanised White Privilege in often alienating me,
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- Racial divides are engineered – White privilege birthed White anger
4 Jan 2017
It is mindboggling for the many corralled within the whims of this nation’s miring racism – a knee-deep racism – when the majority of White Australians, and laced with hostility, deny this nation’s vice-like racism. We are living serious-impact national
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Politics
- A Crisis of White Identity…
19 Nov 2016
With the US election now decided and Donald Trump President it’s interesting watching the fallout asking how this could ever have happened. I read an article last week that provided some insight. “Behind 2016’s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity”
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Education
- Home school educators express dissatisfaction with the NSW home education system
10 Dec 2015
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
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Arts & Letters
- Not always and only broken: some responses to Roger Cohen’s New York Times article
26 Dec 2016
– by Janet Galbraith with Behrouz Boochani “I don’t want to be written as a broken man”, says Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish journalist and writer incarcerated in Australia’s immigration prison camp in Papua New Guinea, after reading Roger Cohen’s ‘Broken Men
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Aboriginal News
- Australia’s Mason-Dixie Line – Black peoples should flee Western Australia and the Northern Territory
6 Jan 2017
There may need to be a Great Migration of Black peoples out of Western Australia and the Northern Territory or some sort of revolution. Wherever there are significant Black population masses throughout Australia so too is there pronounced racism –
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- SONYA’S SORROW
16 Dec 2016
On January 3 2017, with New Year hangovers barely abated, bailiffs from the local Sherriff’s office, accompanied by staff from the State Housing Authority, will drive as a funereal convoy to an old house situated on the fringes of a
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- Stolen Generations continue – cut ties with Governments – to sanction them
14 Dec 2016
An Arrernte mother to a newborn recently reflected of her childhood, one where she was removed from her parents, aged 6, and instead raised in foster care and four years later until 19 years of age in the permanent care
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- Yes, there is a second Stolen Generations – and it is worse
13 Dec 2016
Some argue that there is no second Stolen Generation because there is no longer a prescribed policy that children should be removed on eugenic based reasoning. The argument today is that there is no longer an assimilate or perish agenda
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Human Rights
- Humanitarian deeds define Shaoquett Moselmane’s stretch as a parliamentarian
16 Jan 2017
Shaoquett Chaher Moselmane thrives in the common good as an Australian politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2009. His stretch as a politician has been defined by deeds and not words alone. He has intertwined
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- Who killed Faysal Ishak Ahmed?
26 Dec 2016
I have delayed writing this piece because I have been concerned that the story would get swamped in the season of goodwill and not inconsiderable libation that we have been indulging in during the last few days here in Australia.
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- Australia has signed but flaunts the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons
1 Aug 2016
The gloves have to come off at some stage. We need everyone in Australia to make this a priority issue for the new government. I have written about this so many times in the last few months that it is
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Aboriginal – World
- Racial inequality in the Australian criminal system – 1 in 6 Black people go to prison
22 Feb 2016
The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation but our Governments – one after another – continue to fail to translate this pressing issue as
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Features
- “What do these Blacks want?”
6 Nov 2014
The veils and layers of racism are many. The White Australia Policy still thrives, veiled and layered. The racism I was born into manages a hefty say to this very day even if its ugliest forms are supposedly not as
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