Gerry Georgatos (Greek: Γεράσιμος Γεωργάτος; born 1962) is a university researcher and social justice and human rights campaigner based in Western Australia.
[1][2] Georgatos has been a researcher with the University of Western Australia, with his work focusing especially on social justice issues among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
[6] In November 2013, he reported in The Australian that Australia's Aboriginal people are dying of suicide at among the highest rates in the world.
[7][8] Georgatos at government levels and through the national media has campaigned for a response to what he describes of the high rates of suicides as "a humanitarian crisis" and as "racialised" and "racism".
In October 2014 he stated on a national television program that one in 13 of Western Australia's Aboriginal adult males are in prison.
[13][14][15] He presently leads the suicide prevention focused National Critical Response Trauma Recovery Project.
[20] Georgatos has also advocated for human rights in several areas,[21] including prison reform,[22][23] the impoverished,[24] homeless,[25] and other marginalised people.
[34] Georgatos said that if Hassanloo died he would be Australia's first hunger strike death and called on the prime minister to intervene.
[35][36] He was instrumental in advocating for and brokering the rollout of the "life-saving" Custody Notification Service in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
[49] He was described as a "conspiracy theorist" for advocating the innocence of Schapelle Corby, who was convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia.