20 Years of friends in the Australian Federal Police
Some days demand that we pause to reflect on an event on the same date in the past. For Blak and Black that day is 9 May and this year marks 20 years since Angel Marina wrote his now widely recognised letter of racism against the ACT Government’s then most senior Indigenous employee.
Feminist disparity, Blak white and Swedish
Sixteen years ago a First Nations woman, Ms King, was sharing lunch at Canberra’s Waldorf Café, not far from the ACT Government’s Treasury offices. At the table was the former Commissioner for ACT Revenue (aka Pat),…
The truth about First Nations employment in the ACT
In 2013 the ACT Government conducted an inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment. The inquiry's terms of reference announced on 16 March 2013 stated that the intention was to review the ACT Public Service…
The Legacy of ACT Labor, 20 years of lazy government
Labor has led government for two decades in the Australian Capital Territory. With the impending election on October 17 many Canberrans should be considering what substantive benefits their leaders have delivered to advance the lives of…
The ACT Barr Government, ducking the hard calls for another term
On October 17, voters in the Australian Capital Territory will finalize their decisions regarding who should govern them for the next four years. In that decision, they will no doubt remember the push for same-sex marriage,…
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