Multi-Award Winning Investigative Journalism. Tuesday 11th of February 2025 (UTC)

This quote that forms the title of this article is from Adam Smith, the Philosopher and Economist who is considered to be the Father of Modern Economics. He is best known for two classic works: “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” and “The Wealth of Nations”. Importantly he is also regarded as the creator of the […]

Gerry Georgatos – A Robodebt contributed to the death by suicide of a 19 year-old-mother. Stressors and suicide are always the story. Society is defined by the sum of its relationships, and many relationships are that classist, racist, sexist, ableist, ageist that we devastate people.

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 neglect. For the most part, she has not wanted to be seen but sadly because […]

Multi-Award Winning Investigative Journalism. Sunday 16th of February 2025 (UTC)

Australian South Sea Islanders, the majority who are descendants of Kanaka slaves who were shanghaied and indentured into forced labour for the half century-old colonialists particularly on what is now the Queensland coastline, are calling for full recognition as an ethnic group. Federal parliamentarians tabled a motion in the House of Representatives calling for their […]

Multi-Award Winning Investigative Journalism. Monday 10th of February 2025 (UTC)

Gerry Georgatos – Careless assumptions, predicated by unconscious and conscious biases and prejudices, when dished prematurely into public domains, particularly through the media, can lead to vilification of the vulnerable. Classism as an -ism may seemingly endure into the ages, long after the rest of the -isms are done, dusted. But classism can be viciously […]

The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has issued an open letter to the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Tony Abbott seeking commitment to 10 key actions and principles that would deliver meaningful change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to possibly deliver a worthy legacy. Congress has set out key steps for the […]

Housing in the remote and regions for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples is a national disgrace. The majority of it is an act of racism. It’s horrific shanty living in both the remote and regions of Western Australia and an even worse abomination throughout the majority of the Northern Territory. A Northern Territory housing […]