The many shades of racism
As promised, I’m handing over the commentary on blakandblack.com to some people who have helped me collect statements for my proposed application to the United Nations. Mick 'volunteered' to be…
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January 7, 2011
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government
Racism and Corporate Australia
Over the next few weeks I will be putting up posts written by those who have assisted me in collecting statements or who have introduced me to the victims of…
January 5, 2011
Three months for a dollar
On New Year’s Eve I received a phone call from a representative of the Greens advising me that I would need to provide more evidence if I wanted an enquiry…
January 1, 2011
Is the Deputy Sheriff totin’ a gun too big for his britches?
The following statement was issued by Julian Moti QC in New Delhi, India in August 2006 in response to a media inquiry from Chris Merritt (Legal Affairs Editor of The Australian). At the…
December 31, 2010
Some support from the inside
Following are two comments I received today in reference to my most recent article The ALP and AFP corruption. I have included them as a separate article, because they support the…
December 31, 2010
The ALP and AFP corruption
In a modern democracy the state controls the apparatus of power for the benefit of the people, or so the theory goes. The apparatus of power includes the police, the…
December 28, 2010
The Moti affair: The ‘rule of law’ sinks under the weight of AFP mendaciousness
After having mentioned the Moti affair in my posts a number of times, it has been brought to my attention that a number of my readers may be unaware of…
December 27, 2010
When will enough be enough?
Class action on police ‘torture’ screams the headline from The Canberra Times on Christmas Eve. The newspaper reports that Mark Barrow, Solicitor from Ken Cush & Associates, a Canberra based…
December 27, 2010
Public service and moral responsibility
In my previous post I spoke about to the Théâtre de l'Absurde which is a term coined by Martin Esslin for the work of a number of playwrights, working in…
December 22, 2010
Another tragedy another lie!
The Australian Government must now be facing a huge moral dilemma following the tragedy still unfolding on Christmas Island. The dilemma is a simple one: is the Gillard Government going to…
December 17, 2010
‘The Aboriginal Mother’ a poem by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop was a European migrant of Irish extraction who tried to give Indigenous Australians a ‘voice’ during a time when we were all but silenced. ‘The Aboriginal Mother’…
December 16, 2010
Death and Complicity in the Collective Age
We live in a morally flawed world, one full of regrets and reapproaches. Some of the things we regret, or for which we are reapproached, we bring about intentionally and…
December 15, 2010
The Rule of Law
The Rule of Law, in its most basic form, is the principle that no one is above the law. The rule follows logically from the idea that truth, and therefore…
December 12, 2010
Accountability / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Respect / WA Police
Racism takes many forms
Kevin Spratt, an Aboriginal man from Western Australia, was tasered up to 41 times in a week and went to hospital with fractures, a collapsed lung and a dislocated shoulder…
December 11, 2010
Wilcannia Central School & ICAC
Today’s on-line edition of the Sydney Morning Herald includes an article titled No fish too small, says Greiner in defence of ICAC, in which the former Premier of NSW Mr. Nick…
December 9, 2010
Justice Alabama Queensland style
Anna Bligh you’re a disgrace, a racist and potentially a war criminal! Yes, you the Premier of the rotten state. You know when I worked in PNG in the 90s…
December 8, 2010
The educational haves vs. Wilcannia Central School.
Desmond Webster, an Aboriginal student from Wilcannia Central School in NSW's far west, was suspended in July for leaving school at lunch-time to buy food for younger children who had…
December 8, 2010
The AFP doesn’t know what corruption is!
THE Australian Federal Police don't quite know what corruption is and want a better definition included in relevant laws. "I don't think there is any universally declared understanding of corruption,"…
December 6, 2010
Siev – X and AFP Corruption
Human rights are said to be an attribute of any human being as humans are born free and equal. However, as legal norms they do not designate what is, but…
December 1, 2010
The Liars Privilege – A Folly
Lord, how this world is given to lying. Quite so, Falstaff, but there is lying and lying. No, not another diatribe on police mendaciousness or theft or even racism, but…
November 30, 2010