Gerry Georgatos

Gerry Georgatos (Γεράσιμος Γεωργάτος), born in 1962, is a university researcher and academic and an Australian human rights campaigner, who has campaigned for prison reform, as well as championing the rights of Indigenous Australians and the homeless. He has worked as an investigative journalist for a number of publications, and co-edits the online news publication The Stringer.

Georgatos has won awards for his investigative journalism. He has published investigative reports with several publications, including the National Indigenous Times, the National Indigenous Radio Service and The Stringer. In 2013, the Government of New South Wales named Georgatos the Journalist of the Year at its annual Multicultural Media Awards. He attracted attention for advocating the innocence of Schapelle Corby, who was convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia.

In 2014, he was presented with an award for Courage and Commitment to Social Justice and Human Rights at the National Indigenous Human Rights Awards.

He founded Students Without Borders at Monash University. Georgatos also launched Students Without Borders at Murdoch University and developed the statewide 8Ball recycling program which students and volunteers refurbished computers and Georgatos donated the computers right throughout Western Australia and to developing nations while he was the Murdoch Student Guild General Manager. Students Without Borders and Georgatos won awards in the 2008 Western Australian Community Service Awards, with Georgatos winning the individual category, WA Community Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution. He was a former Murdoch University Guild President and also sat on the University's peak academic planning body and for four years on its Board of Directors (The Senate).

He has done extensive research into Aboriginal incarceration, suicide and deaths in custody, and worked on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project. He sits on the federal government board, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Group.

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