The AFP in its submission to: THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE INQUIRY INTO AUSTRALIA'S INVOLVEMENT IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, March 2007 made the following statement: The…
They say that Christmas comes but once a year, but we all know that isn’t true. If you’re a public servant or an Australian Federal Police Officer it seemingly comes every day.…
I was recently discussing the genteel art of bullying with a former associate, Paulo Flores, who is a psychologist and mediator and Watershedd, a recent contributor to Blak and Black.…
Some observations on the realities of being and Aborigine in 21stcentury Australia by an observer who isn’t. One of my piano teachers was the sole child of Polish Holocaust survivors.…
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by…
The following article written by Ednal Palmer appeared in the Solomon Star on Saturday 15th January, 2011. While the article is ostensibly about the tenure of the outgoing Taiwanese (ROC)…
While strolling along the foreshore of Botany Bay today I spotted a Kingfisher. In Classical Greek mythology "Halcyon" is associated with the Kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the…
The Commonwealth and each of the States and Territories of Australia have an obligation to act as a model litigant in claims and litigation. This obligation is enshrined in legislation…
On 5th January in an article titled: Closer checks urged after bridge collapse the Canberra Times ACT Assembly reporter Noel Towell reported that: The ACT Government has been told to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…