Roderick St George
Roderick St George was an ordained minister for 14 years in the United States, but who also worked in the corrective services and immigration industries in Australia for almost 10 years. He came forward as a whistleblower on conditions for asylum seekers on Manus Island.
Roderick's recent articles
22 July 2023
Australias immoral asylum policies
Whereas once upon a time Australia was regarded as a country of goodwill, tolerance and decency, it is now reputed, worldwide, to be the country with the most inhumane treatment towards refugees.
11 June 2022
Jimmys story
Looking back it is hard to believe, at 36, I could have been so nave. Despite having lived overseas for nearly half my life and having travelled extensively through Europe and both North and South America, I was largely innocent of the dark side of human behaviour. It wasnt until I returned to Australia and started in the Corrective Services Industry that I was baptised into the degrading sub-culture of prison work which is designed to break people, rather than rehabilitate them. Even now, stories surface from time to time telling of the atrocities that prisoners - Aborigines, in particular...
20 January 2022
The torture of asylum seekers has twisted our perceptions of right and wrong
A whistleblower on the horrors of Manus Island laments the passing of an Australia that was welcoming, kind and caring.
8 January 2022
What Scott Morrison's really saying by aligning with Pentecostals
We have every reason to expect that Scott Morrison should exemplify the moral teachings of Jesus, but thats not the way the church game is played.