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Author: Bakchos

This author has written 831 articles
The Last Light and the First: A Poem for Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday
Discrimination/Racism / Religion

The Last Light and the First: A Poem for Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday

I. The Upper RoomThey gathered where the lamplight held the night at bay,and bread was broken gently into willing hands.A teacher poured out wine as dark as fading day,and love…

3 Comments
April 3, 2026
Political Quandary: One Nation’s Surge in Labor’s Leadership Vacuum
Commonwealth Government / Government

Political Quandary: One Nation’s Surge in Labor’s Leadership Vacuum

With the liberal party in tatters and Labor floundering under Albanese's spineless leadership, One Nation fills a dangerous void.

8 Comments
April 2, 2026
Are You Sleeping?
Art / Environment / Modern art

Are You Sleeping?

A Round on the Ownership of the World(after Frère Jacques)"How can a god give what a god does not have?– and what has god ever possessed, that was not first…

30 Comments
April 1, 2026
IHRA, the Australian Public Service and Silencing Political Dissent
Commonwealth Government / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Religion / Rule of Law

IHRA, the Australian Public Service and Silencing Political Dissent

Enforcing a disputed political definition in the public service sets an implicit bias that will affect public policy and relations both local and international.

15 Comments
March 31, 2026
The Long Unravelling: Alternative Facts, a Democratic Emergency
Democracy / Propaganda / Rule of Law

The Long Unravelling: Alternative Facts, a Democratic Emergency

Democracy must grow beyond the blight of the performative and blind tribal loyalty through genuine accountability to rebuild voter trust.

14 Comments
March 29, 2026
Manufactured Hatred: Hate Speech, Islamophobia and the Fracturing Australian Society
Discrimination/Racism / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism

Manufactured Hatred: Hate Speech, Islamophobia and the Fracturing Australian Society

The persistent lack of accountability for the vilification of Muslims threatens to undermine the foundations of equality that form the fabric of our society.

6 Comments
March 28, 2026
Spirit of the Age: Australia, Islam, and Honest Reckoning
Culture / Government / Racism

Spirit of the Age: Australia, Islam, and Honest Reckoning

Australia's future lies with those who are working constructively to build a more mature multicultural society.

13 Comments
March 27, 2026
The Machine That Never Stops: War, Capital and the Unending Carnage of Modern Conflict
Corporate profit / Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Machine That Never Stops: War, Capital and the Unending Carnage of Modern Conflict

Rather than an ideological difference of opinion, war is machine, an indictment of man's lack of insight and humanity.

6 Comments
March 26, 2026
Witness: Alice Seeley Harris and the Camera as Conscience
Human Rights

Witness: Alice Seeley Harris and the Camera as Conscience

A post on photography, empire, and moral Witness

10 Comments
March 25, 2026
The Unravelling Sky: War, Power, and the Expendable Millions
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Unravelling Sky: War, Power, and the Expendable Millions

Old men at the end of their lives send young people at the beginning of theirs to fight and die for something they have no say in .

8 Comments
March 24, 2026
My Pipe Dream for Humanity
Human Rights / Shared humanity

My Pipe Dream for Humanity

Before the first word was spoken, before the first hand pressed ochre into stone, we were iron and carbon ...

9 Comments
March 23, 2026
Sparks in the Abyss – Humanity, Honour, and Hope in the Great War
Human Rights / Shared humanity

Sparks in the Abyss – Humanity, Honour, and Hope in the Great War

Accounts from the First World War demonstrate that even in the hells of the trenches humanity was not completely lost.

7 Comments
March 23, 2026
Valedictory: Rhoda Ann Roberts AO Returns to the Dreaming
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous

Valedictory: Rhoda Ann Roberts AO Returns to the Dreaming

An Indigenous woman, a luminary, a creator. We are the lesser for her loss.

9 Comments
March 22, 2026
From Arnhem Land’s River to the Sea
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous

From Arnhem Land’s River to the Sea

Between the Glyde’s brown pull and the Arafura’s breath,where saltpan cracks like sentences half-said,I walk the country that was old before our clocks,and learn to read a language without thread.The…

10 Comments
March 21, 2026
Iran’s Enduring Splendour: Refuting the Myth of Persian Barbarism
Culture / Human Rights / Uncategorized

Iran’s Enduring Splendour: Refuting the Myth of Persian Barbarism

Iranian culture across the arts transcends the myth of Persien barbarism.

14 Comments
March 21, 2026
Populist Politics: Australia’s One Nation and the American Warning
Commonwealth Government / Democracy / Discrimination / Government / Racism / White Australia

Populist Politics: Australia’s One Nation and the American Warning

Australia must learn from the deterioration of democratic freedoms of the United States and defend the freedoms of individuals and independence of the courts.

11 Comments
March 20, 2026
The Collapse of American Liberal Democracy
Democracy / Government / Rule of Law

The Collapse of American Liberal Democracy

The slide of the United States to an autocratic state reflects a broader trend across the world.

6 Comments
March 19, 2026
“Taking Cuba”: US-Cuba Relations under the Trump Presidency in 2026
Government

“Taking Cuba”: US-Cuba Relations under the Trump Presidency in 2026

Trump's comments signal a coercive policy intended to force Cuban leaders to open to U.S investment by sacrificing the security of the Cuban people.

7 Comments
March 18, 2026
The Christchurch Mosque Attacks
Human Rights / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

The Christchurch Mosque Attacks

Having faced on the worst terrorist events in recent times, Aotearoa has become an example for the world of inclusion after horror.

14 Comments
March 17, 2026
Wasted Youth: Remarque, Heroism and the Enduring Folly of War
Human Rights / Shared humanity

Wasted Youth: Remarque, Heroism and the Enduring Folly of War

Erich Maria Remarque's seminal novel All Quiet on the Western Front is an indictment of the heroism expounded by old men who never see the field of battle.

11 Comments
March 16, 2026
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Publications

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  • RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

    Solomon Star 13 October 2011
  • AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again!

    Solomon Star (Print only) 4 October 2011
  • Moti affair

    Solomon Star 14 September 2011
  • Moti affair

    Fiji Sun 12 September 2011
  • Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

    Solomon Star 22 July 2011
  • Moti end game

    FijiSun 22 July 2011
  • Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

    Solomon Star 20 July 2011
  • Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

    Solomon Star 24 June 2011
  • The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

    Solomon Star 17 June 2011
  • Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

    Solomon Star 14 June 2011
  • Moti and other affairs

    Solomon Star 9 June 2011
  • Comment: Excellent Read

    Fiji Sun 7 June 2011

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Notable Quotes

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  • "You'll burn you coon cunt"
    Pingback left on the post The 'Stolen Generations' and Cultural Genocide on May 8, 2012, after Bakchos was racially assaulted by having a pillowcase placed over his head, a noose around his neck and petrol poured over him by four masked individuals.

    (You'll burn you coon cunt, second response beneath post, appearing to link back to ACT Policing when clicked.)

  • "... I used to work for the AFP and some guys I worked with told me to make a false statement and make false entries in my diary and day book. And lie in court!"

    (Mike Barclay, former Australian Federal Police Officer)

  • "Specifically you are reminded that you cannot use any information you gained in the course of your employment regarding the possible illegal transfer of ACT Government assets to the Marrickville Branch of the Australian Labor Party, [a named Sydney brothel] or the New South Wales [named NSW Minister of the Crown]."

    (Cathy Kosmidis, Personnel Section, Urban Services)

  • "I’ll let you into a secret, everyone at Ernst & Young … want to see you dead.

    … who really cares, no one cares about you black cunts. Well some nigger in the New York office might, but they are only there because of positive discrimination, really they cant write, read, count or spell so what use are they in an accounting firm?"

    (An Ernst & Young Australia employee)

  • "You can't preach a high road and walk in the gutter."

    (Watershedd)

  • "You don’t have to worry about your little boong mate Marky suing you for fitting him up. When I’m finished with him he’ll be in the gutter where he belongs with all his other boong mates."

    (ACT DPP Prosecutor)

  • "Clearly, with the expansion of the AFP under Mick Keelty ... the AFP has morphed into something unrecognisable. It’s forgotten its core business and turned into a rogue arm of government at the government’s disposal to help effect political goals."

    (Susan Merrell, Journalist)

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