The Yindjibarndi lose a guiding light
Blak and Black is saddened to hear of the passing of Yindjibarndi Elder Mr Ned Mayaringbungu Cheedy at the age of 105. Mr Cheedy was custodian of the Yindjibarndi stories…
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April 16, 2012
Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Fred Martens / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Respect / Rule of Law
Fred Martens a political pawn on the checked board of fate and corruption
"Upon my feeble knee, I beg this boon, with tears, not lightly shed" of my regular readers for my tardiness in posting over the last few weeks. I have been…
April 13, 2012
Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Propaganda / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity
Media, racism and manipulation
Media have divided the working class and stereotyped young African-American males as gangsters or drug dealers. As a result of such treatment, the media have crushed youths' prospects for future…
April 7, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
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
Asia-Pacific / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Neo-Colonialism / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua
West Papua and the United Nations
July of 1969 was a big month. Whilst the ‘civilized’ world was focused on the deployment of three men to the moon, Indonesia was finalizing steps to wrest control of…
March 20, 2012
Aboriginal and White Australia: How The Cultures Clashed
This post has been proferred by Imogen, a reader of Blak and Black. When the members of the First Fleet stepped off their cruise ships and on to Australian soil back in…
March 19, 2012
Human dignity and the idea of justice, part 1
The idea of human dignity consists in recognizing that man is a being that has ends proper to himself, his own ends, to be freely complied with by himself. Or…
February 28, 2012
ACT Government / Australian Labor Party / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Globalisation / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / WA Police
Racism in Australia’s criminal justice system
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who…
February 16, 2012
Accountability / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Genocide / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Respect / Rule of Law
Am I not a man and a brother: A campaign for someone else’s rights
In the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, a group of a dozen men officially assembled at James Phillips' bookstore and printing shop located at 2 George Yard, London. While…
February 9, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / International Law / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua
West Papua and the vote of no choice!
These feelings which we Cubans have already acquired will have to be shared by someday. Today it hurts us if a Cuban is hungry, if a Cuban has no doctor,…
February 3, 2012
Assimilation / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / Stolen Generation / White Australia
The symbol of belonging
On the request of a friend, this post offers some insights as to why someone would wish to burn the Australian flag as an act of protest. The events in…
January 28, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
Ernst & Young, the silence is deafening!
Following is a response to the statement published by Ernst & Young. People with things to hide generally sneak around, aiming to placate those who can advance their situation. They…
January 5, 2012
Marx as a catalyst for change in a world centered on self
Oedipus Tyrannus is perhaps the most famous of all Greek tragedies, primarily because in the fourth century BCE it was held by Aristotle in his Poetics to be a paragon…
January 3, 2012
This ephemeral thing we call democracy
"The essence of the demand for freedom is the need of conditions which will enable an individual to make his own special contribution to a group interest, and to partake…
December 29, 2011
Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity
Good Christian Souls
Best of the Season. This post is a little delayed, but hey, it is the Yuletide! “Does this discrepancy between reality and altruistic morality yield the positive effects which are…
December 27, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Respect / Rule of Law
Ernst & Young, bastions of corporate responsibility
There’s been significant debate in the past year about the introduction of ethics classes in public schools in New South Wales. The St James Ethics Centre was tasked with developing…
December 6, 2011
Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Education / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Police / Respect / Tertiary
Anti-Aboriginal racism rife in the Australian Community
The National Tertiary Education Union ("NTEU") has released the findings from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander member survey ‘I’m Not Racist But … Report on Cultural Respect, Racial Discrimination,…
November 30, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
Canberra Corrupt: Aboriginal Australians Not Welcome
The ACT Government isn’t so much corrupt as it is immoral – Senior ACT Public Servant I had lunch in Canberra yesterday with Paul, a former colleague from my public…
November 10, 2011
ACT Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Police / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
Aborigines and the Australian Justice System
For very many Aboriginal Australians the phrase 'Australian justice system' is an oxymoron. There are any number of reasons, many of which are justified, why we as Aboriginal Australians think…
November 1, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Human Rights / International Law / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
Why Australia should not be rewarded with a seat on the UN Security Council
My apologies for my tardiness in updating Blak and Black over the last week or so, I’ve been reviewing evidence with a former colleague and equally concerned citizen relating to…
October 27, 2011