John White
John White was raised in Mount Barker, Western Australia, in a traditional working family, and attended the local state school. He worked as a farmer, singer and radio broadcaster before training and working as a secondary school teacher. Later John retrained, and has worked and taught for the past forty years in psychotherapy, counselling, group dynamics, restorative justice, spiritual direction and clinical supervision. John is the author of three books No Bars Hold (Xlibris, 2010), Uncommon Sense: Reclaiming Humanity (Coventry Press, Melbourne (2019) and Making Australia Fair: Challenging Privilege, Wealth and power (Coventry Press, 2021).
John is married to Jennifer. They have two adult children and four grandsons. John and Jennifer live in Toodyay, WA, and are active advocates for truth and justice.
Recent articles by John White
22 March 2025
The limits of diplomacy
We live in a global community, and many of us enjoy the benefits. A far greater number have no such enjoyment, existing in disadvantage; in poverty, hunger, homelessness, oppression, violence of one kind or another- preventable travesties.
21 March 2025
Democracy and our avoidable crises: Politicians disingenuous or undeterrably self-interested
Home ownership has almost become an impossible dream in Australia and other Western capitalist countries. Governing authorities struggle in vain to stem the unrelenting increase in prices of land for domestic dwellings. It is probable that the struggle is unable to succeed as long as capitalism is uncontained; as long as the rules of the so-called free market system are accepted as inviolable.
20 March 2025
Deeper causes of the present genocide
Czeslaw Milosz, lawyer, poet, acclaimed author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature 1980, and central figure in the Polish resistance during the Nazi occupation 1940-45, wrote this: ‘This book was written in 1951/2 in Paris when the majority of French intellectuals resented their country’s dependence on American help…Its subject is the vulnerability of the twentieth century mind to seduction by socio-political doctrines and its readiness to accept totalitarian terror for the sake of a hypothetical future. As such the book transcends limitations of place and of moment as it explores the deeper causes of today’s longing for any, even the most...
23 February 2025
Servile or just vile: Australia's pandering to US, Israel
I’m waiting to hear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese acknowledge the sovereignty of Palestine as a nation of equal standing with Israel, and the second nation referred to in the two-state solution to which Albanese and Labor only pay lip-service. The words fall easily from the lips, but the absence of action empties them of any substance.
3 February 2025
Coalition mindlessness and the colonising of Australia
It seems that with every utterance from certain members of the political landscape, the humanity bar is lowered. The latest from ABC News to catch the attention of anyone with a modicum of common sense is a speech at a Church by the Deputy Leader of a would-be Australian government, Sussan Ley.
26 January 2025
Dualism? Or unequivocal condemnation of evil?
Wars, like that being waged currently by the Zionist terrorist government of Netanyahu are the destructive and mindless outworking of dualism; about winners and losers.
20 January 2025
Dark aspect: The dangers of partisanship and unwise alliances
We are in deep trouble, Australia. We are guilty under international law of crimes against humanity for our colonial past, our enduring racism, our mistreatment of asylum seekers and now, colluding with Israel, the United States and other nations in the ongoing travesty that is the genocide of Palestine.