Gerry Georgatos
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Blood on our hands: Banksia Hill is failing our children
Suicide and incarceration statistics from Banksia Hill prison highlight a lack of proper rehabilitation for our troubled youth. → Read More
Medicare must be accessible for prisoners
I see prisons where hearts are broken; life’s brief light extinguished. → Read More
Poverty is a persistent crisis
With the cost of living growing, governments need to pull Australia out of its downward spiral of poverty. → Read More
Mark McGowan must stand tall on future promise to protect forests
After half a century of continuous efforts by the community to protect forests in WA, an end-of-logging announcement from the State Government has left environmental activists hopeful but wary. → Read More
Despite resistance, WikiLeaks continues its fight for the truth
WikiLeaks continues as one of the world’s most remarkable organisations, despite numerous attempts to shut it down. → Read More
Australia is betraying its incarcerated children
Urgent reform is overdue to help Australia's children in need of guidance instead of incarceration. → Read More
Child sexual abuse: One man's story of trauma and transformation
When a trusted adult abuses a child, the cumulative trauma of decades of silence that often follow such injury is distinctly damaging. → Read More
Banksia Hill nightmare highlights urgent need for prison reform
Western Australia's Banksia Hill children's prison is an example of a failed rehabilitation system for incarcerated youth. → Read More
Locking people up in prisons is not the answer
Imprisonment and punishment do not lead to more harmonious and prosperous societies, writes Gerry Georgatos. → Read More
Australia is a leader on suicide awareness, laggard on prevention
Australia must do more for victims to ensure that they can heal, writes Gerry Georgatos. → Read More
Too often, stigma-based bullying ends in suicide
The national conversation we need to have is of the grimmest reality — suicide is the leading cause of death in Australia’s teenagers and bullying plays a large part. → Read More
Sacrifices by the working class will worsen our homeless crisis
A strategy by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on fixing our budget situation could worsen Australia's poverty, suicide and homeless statistics. → Read More
The poor are filling our prisons because we leave them behind
There is a tsunami of poverty-related issues and draconian laws swamping offenders and filling prisons, yet we continue with the punitive penal estate despite its failure. → Read More
Independent candidates may be our only shot at helping the environment
Our governments should be ashamed of decades of neglect in scaling back carbon and methane emissions. In the upcoming Federal Election, we must vote to erode monopoly politics. → Read More
Rising child suicides should alarm all of us
I remember a father who found his son hours after his suicide. The father lay his son down and cradled his body through the night until responders arrived in the morning. → Read More
Morrison's Migration Act is cruel and compassionless
The Migration Act has become a fest of discrimination, deteriorating rapidly under the Abbott and Morrison Governments. → Read More
Don't punish the poor: Fines must be based on income
There is a discriminatory, classist struggle in this nation, in which the unemployed, the underemployed and the homeless can be decimated because they are too poor to pay fines. → Read More
Indigenous incarceration: How Australia fails the vulnerable
Political will is needed to end the abomination that is Australia's punitive carceral estate — a dumping ground for those we leave behind. → Read More
Australia needs a federal human rights act
A human rights act would repair much of the damage caused by the Government's lack of compassion to disadvantaged citizens. → Read More
Class action may reform laws for the 'forgotten children'
Former inmates of the Banksia Hill Detention Centre are planning a class action lawsuit over inhumane treatment and conditions. → Read More