Modern Racism by Paulo Flores
Bakchos has asked me to write a post for Blak and Black about what has come to be known in the United States as Modern Racism a concept which I…
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June 1, 2011
Reconciliation week: a joke played by ‘white’ Australians on Indigenous Australians and the international community!
Racial discrimination against Indigenous Australians is as alive and well in Australia today as it ever was. In fact, under the lost years of opportunity known to history as the…
May 29, 2011
Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Refugees / Rule of Law / United Nations
Racism, a matter of political expediency in Australia!
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today rebuked Australia for its political, rather than human rights based approach to indigenous people and asylum-seekers. Although criticizing some of Australia's…
May 26, 2011
So who has been a naughty boy, then?
Well, it would appear that Australian lawyer and senior Australian Litigation Advisor to the Attorney-General of Vanuatu Ari Jenshel has been a very naughty boy! So naughty indeed, that he…
May 25, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Democracy / Rule of Law
Corruption and Racism in the Australian Federal Police and the death of Australia’s democracy
21) After coffee was served Mr and Mrs King [i] and I were discussing Mrs (name removed on legal advice) dog Sooty and all of his aliments when a dark…
May 24, 2011
ASIO’s new power grab: be alert and alarmed!
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell. Why have there been no terrorist…
May 22, 2011
How about some honesty and transparency, please!
Chinese mafia groups have infiltrated and corrupted the highest levels of Papua New Guinea’s police force, crippling the struggling nation’s attempts to tackle its law-and-order crisis and posing a potential…
May 19, 2011
Who owns Australia? Who owns the Pacific?
While the Australian Labor Party squanders billions of dollars chasing a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council to appease the ghost of its former leader, sacrificed before completing even…
May 17, 2011
Derision, lies and the death of OUR DEMOCRACY
I lived in Australia for a year and was astounded at the level of casual racism in all walks of Australian life. The term 'wog' is used by many people…
May 15, 2011
Kevin Rudd the folly of follies
TONY JONES: Now Labor has been talking for a long time about staying focused on our own region. What's new about the new direction? KEVIN RUDD: Well, around Australia we…
May 13, 2011
The Swansong Budget: Screw the workers to feed the obese (miners that is!)
The resource sector is expected to spend an historic $76 billion on mining projects next financial year, with mining investment accounting for six per cent of Australia’s gross domestic product…
May 11, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Hypocrisy / Stanhope Government
Stanhope-less is gone, now it’s time for accountability and transparency
Well thank god for that! Like all good rats, the king of spin is the first to abandon the sinking ship of state the Australian Capital Territory. Yes, strictly speaking…
May 10, 2011
The beginnings of our abuse as a people in the name of white fella’s ‘justice’
Background information and things to think about as you read the 'transcript' Mow-watty was the first Indigenous person to be sentenced to death by a Superior Court in Australia, this…
May 9, 2011
Australia the land of the fair go – now that’s bullshit unless you happen to be fair!
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment (ATSI) rates have soared by a whopping 52 per cent over the past decade. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s now account for a quarter…
May 5, 2011
Who are you to judge who I am?
The following quote comes from Gary Johns's November 11 article in The Australian. Johns is a former Keating Labor government minister, but after leaving politics has headed right, working for…
May 4, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law
Ya reckon ya live in a democracy, do ya?
In 1991-1992 the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU conducted a national survey of 1522 Australians and asked them about their attitude to rights. The report Rights in Australia…
May 3, 2011
Accountability / Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Indonesia / PNG / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
Sex, guns, drugs and terrorism
What a combination, but what do they have to do with Blak and Black? To steal a line from Gore Vidal’s Caligula, “everything and nothing”. Nothing, because Blak and Black…
April 30, 2011
The annual yam festival and sex tourism
The Australian Federal Police demonstrate a selective approach to addressing child sex tourism.
April 28, 2011
Who owns history, who owns the truth?
In an opinion piece published in the Age newspaper, Yorta Yorta man Paul Briggs (2006) angrily rejected a proposal by Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough that Aboriginal culture be…
April 27, 2011
Australian Defence Force / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Respect / Shared humanity
Lest we forget … or ignore
Lest we forget. It’s three words every Australian comes to know early in life, recited at Anzac and Remembrance Days, or funerals for the most recently deceased soldier. I honour…
April 25, 2011