Gerry Georgatos
As my PhD progresses in researching Australian Deaths in Custody - I have visited Immigration Detention Centres - visited adult prisons - interviewed former detainees of the Immigration detention centres network - interviewed former prisoners of adult custodial jurisdictions.
Gerry Georgatos
Last week the Donnybrook-Bridgetown Mail reported that on Good Friday, Bridgetown was plastered with graffiti alleging one of the town's most prominent citizens is a paedophile.
'Warning to Parents' was painted in large letters and then alleged a noteworthy individual in a position of trust was a paedophile.
The Donnybrook-Bridgetown Mail received calls from three individuals about the graffiti. One photo of the graffiti and the accusations, smack right across Coronation Street, was forwarded by a Bridgetown resident to the Donnybrook-Bridgetown Mail.
Australia’s former Foreign Affairs minister Gareth Evans was shocked and surprised at having his appalling historical record brought back into the light. But what is amazing, is that it is so rarely mentioned.
A couple of weeks ago Evans was accused of “supporting atrocities” in East Timor when he was foreign affairs minister.
The accusation came from Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.
He was visiting Melbourne and called a spade a spade during a public forum with poor Gareth in attendance.
Newsletter date: 6 April 2012
Contents:
* Aboriginal elder challenges expansion of Olympic Dam mine
* Tracker: Fight for Muckaty: TOs vow it’s not over
* Moree Champion: Tent Embassy set up in Moree
* Interview with Damien Curtis of Stand for Freedom
* Jeff McMullen: Aussies should stand strong for freedom
* CRA: Call for consultation not legislation
* UTS: Listening but not hearing
* Amnesty: Ask your local MP to speak up on homelands
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
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Clubs Australia has officially declared victory on the war for pokies reform. The industry thinks it's safe to go back to business as usual; reaping 40% of their pokies revenue from gambling addicts who can least afford it.[1]
- How rumour journalism works?
Chinese police have arrested six people and shut 16 websites after rumours were spread that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing. Without factual verification, such unsubstantiated internet rumour has gone viral internationally as a sign of instability and power struggling in Beijing following the arrest of Bo Xilai last month.
Just before dawn on April 1st a group of anarchists dropped a banner reading “COPS OUT OF REDFERN, OUT OF OUR LIVES” from a construction site at 90 Regent St Redfern. The building now being renovated had been a squatted social centre and a home for more than 10 people throughout November and December of 2010. Within the large city owned building, dubbed ‘The People’s Castle’, solar power, a free shop and free café were established and opened to the public. In mid December 2010 police evicted the building following a failed supreme court challenge to keep the social centre open.
The 6th of August 1945 was a dark day for my country. The United States had just dropped an atomic bomb on my town of Hiroshima. I was just 13 years old. Around 80,000 people died that day. Had I not been sick at home that day, I would have been one of them. My school friends were not so lucky. I would learn later that 360 of them had died in the blast. - Junko Morimoto (Hiroshima Survivor)
This is probably news to most of us - but our tax dollars are actively being invested in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, and the submarines and fighter planes to deploy them.
Newsletter date: 3 April 2012
Contents:
* "Listening But Not Hearing"- Audio recordings from the launch of the report
* Full video recording of Senate Hearing at Maningrida 22 Feb 12
* Transcripts of the Senate Hearings on 'Stronger Futures'
* ANTaR: Long term commitment to NT communities welcomed
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* "LISTENING BUT NOT HEARING" - AUDIO RECORDINGS FROM THE LAUNCH OF THE REPORT:
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Fellow Earthians,
Never before has the Universe unfolded such a flower as our collective human intelligence, so far as we know.
Nor has such a one-and-only brilliance in the Universe stood at the brink of extinction, so far as we know.
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the Universe exploded into being.
So far, it seems like we are the lone thinkers in this vast, expanding Universe.
