The art of Arnhem Land
Arnhem Land … a place of legend, of beauty and wildlife, some of the world’s most priceless and vivid natural assets. A place of Dreamtime and an ancient way of…
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October 25, 2010
Equality and human dignity
While sitting in my office this morning I received a phone call from a distraught friend, advising me that a mutual friend, an Indigenous Australian Artist, had become the latest…
October 21, 2010
The Cold Joke
The Cold Joke has subtle application for the Way Australia's Indigenous peoples are treated by our own Government. White the torture we are subjected to on a daily basis is…
October 20, 2010
“Men are respectable only as they respect”
So says Ralph Waldo Emerson, but what do the police and bureaucracy say in Australia? Well it’s something like: “If you don’t give us the respect we believe you owe…
October 18, 2010
Music gives a soul to the Universe
After plumbing the depths of human depravity in my last few posts, I thought it’s time for a little soul food, or at least soul hors d'oeuvres. Ah that’s the…
October 16, 2010
Domestic violence
The abuse of human rights comes in many forms and places. It wears the face of the average neighbour just as easily as it does that of authority or a…
October 16, 2010
Art the soul of life!
My approach to life owes much to Lao Tzu’s maximum: “Live life in all possible ways; don't choose one thing against the other, and don't try to be in the…
October 16, 2010
Tasers and the marganilised
Mr. Anand Grover, UN Special Raporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health findings on Australia’s treatment of its…
October 15, 2010
To Taser or not to Taser … is it even a question?
All those who have been following the Australian news in the last few weeks will no doubt be aware that there has been an absolute spate of police taserings right…
October 15, 2010
Courage Western Australian style
Police using Tasers for wrong reasons (thewest.com.au 4 October, 2010); the headline screams out from the screen as I stumble onto yet another instance of police brutality against Aboriginal Australians…
October 4, 2010
The times they are a-changin’ … or are they?
I’m going to start this post by quoting from an inspiring speech delivered by an Aboriginal woman, Christine Fejo-King, at the launch of the book “This is What We said”…
October 4, 2010
Pots, kettles and Australian hypocrisy!
Link to Media Watch story. Mike Duffy: This is New Delhi's main Commonwealth Games Stadium. And this is the police security gate. While they're distracted by their own cars, I…
September 28, 2010
The subtleties of genocide
Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin were at best clumsy amateurs when it came to genocide. If a political group wants to rid itself of a troublesome ethnic minority,…
September 26, 2010
Art and the sacred in Aboriginal Society
While traditional and authentic Aboriginal culture in South-Eastern Australia went into terminal decline with the arrival of European settlers in 1788, the Aboriginal tribes of Arnhem Land in the north-eastern…
September 20, 2010
The here and now of racism in Australia
A recurrent theme in Australia’s history has been how to deal with the perennial ‘problem’ of the Aboriginal population. Assimilation, as policy for much of the twentieth century and continuing…
September 12, 2010
Negated rights
This post by Kim at Frog Ponds Rock demonstrates how the almighty dollar is being over-ridden by the West Australian Government. It's not long. Go read, click on the link…
September 11, 2010
A Day In The Life Of An Aborigine
PROLOGUE Before we can truly understand another person, we must walk a mile in their moccasins. Before we can walk in another person’s moccasins, we must first take off our…
September 10, 2010