Monkey see, monkey do
“Behead all those who insult the prophet!” So read the banner in Sydney on Saturday, in a protest ignited by a film released in the United States. Really, the lack…
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September 17, 2012
ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Refugee Policy / Refugees / Respect / Shared humanity / Solomon Islands / Stolen Generation
Charity begins at home
Charity begins at home. Some agree, some do not. But the simple fact is that our treatment of those close to us sets the foundations for our behaviours toward others.…
August 12, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law
The finger puppet of fickle fate
Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene I hardly paid any attention. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting…
August 3, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Corruption / Government / Human Rights / Respect / Shared humanity
Peer Gynt, a lesson in humanity
Lies, I know, can be so furbished And disguised in gorgeous wrappings That their skinny carcasses Not a soul would recognize. That's what you've been doing now, With your wonderful…
July 20, 2012
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The real problem with hypocrisy – it knows no honour
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera One of the first Communist texts I read, following the French edition of Quotations from…
July 19, 2012
ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Assimilation / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Government welfare / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Rule of Law / Sexism
Forty years on, Indigenous women still without rights
It was freezing last night where I slept in my travels, below freezing in fact. In Bangerang country, home of the Yorta Yorta people, Mother Nature may have frozen the…
July 7, 2012
ACT Government / Australian Labor Party / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Law / Rule of Law
You’re not an Aboriginal Organisation: the ACT Government’s take on NAIDOC week
Canberra's Billabong Aboriginal Development Corporation is the ACT's finalist for the National Landcare awards, Indigenous section. Responding to a question from the ABC’s Rural programme, Billabong’s founder and chairman Jim…
July 4, 2012
ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law
Red the colour of our blood, black the colour of our skin
Jimmy Governor after his arrest – source Singleton Library I killed the school-teacher and Mrs Mawbey. … My missis was always telling me that Mrs Mawbey was always getting on…
June 21, 2012
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Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’
Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’ … first, I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life;…
May 14, 2012
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Do as I say, don’t do as I do
I’ve debated about the title of this post, torn with an alternative following on from the statement in one's Aboriginal heritage with a title that would allude to John Howard…
May 12, 2012
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Call me black: Proud to be an Aborigine!
The following verse is to Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting Jack Johnson, 1982 acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas. Jean-Michel Basquiat died at 27 years old from an overdose. He was the…
May 5, 2012
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A prayer to the Gods
Watershedd is usually the more moderate of the contributors to Blak and Black. On this occasion Watershedd has shed the veil of temperance and speaks with the raw emotion of…
May 2, 2012
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Die Sünde ist ein Versinken in das Nichts
Du bist der Arme, du der Mittellose Du bist der Arme, du der Mittellose, du bist der Stein, der keine Stätte hat, du bist der fortgeworfene Leprose, der mit der…
April 19, 2012
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Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought of golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would…
April 14, 2012
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Aux objets répugnants nous trouvons des appas
While travelling the highways and byways of Queensland taking statements in support of my application to the United Nations alleging ongoing and systematic human rights violations against Australia’s Aboriginal and…
April 5, 2012
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Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West
You can talk a mob into anything; its feelings may be – usually are – on the whole generous and right; but it has no foundation for them; you may…
March 28, 2012
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Why Australia needs a Royal Commission into the AFP
On August 30 last year Blak and Black lodged a petition on the GoPetition website calling for a Royal Commission into the Australian Federal Police (“AFP”). Blak and Black has…
March 24, 2012
The great Aussie sporting culture’s hidden racist agenda
This post was penned in an outburst of indignation this morning after reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled AFL clubs' unwritten rule on Aborigines which discusses the AFL’s…
March 16, 2012
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Theft and racism, the festering sores in Canberra
For some years now I have been considering the concept of complicity. What constitutes complicity, how far does it extend, where does responsibility for wrongdoing cease? You can all blame…
March 7, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Fred Martens / Government / Julian Moti / Justice / Law Enforcement / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law
Martens, Moti and the ‘rule of law’ in Australia
Captain Fred Martens, whom I have written extensively about on Blak and Black in the past, was employed as a commercial pilot flying light aircraft within PNG and between PNG…
March 6, 2012