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Author: Bakchos

This author has written 999 articles
The Two-Way Street To Taormina: Hanson’s Campaign Against Women
Commonwealth Government / Government / Uncategorized

The Two-Way Street To Taormina: Hanson’s Campaign Against Women

Pauline Hanson's twp-way street comment only exposes her own hypocrisy.

5 Comments
July 30, 2026
The Unfinished Masterpiece: Multicultural Australia as a Work in Progress
Commonwealth Government / Culture / Government

The Unfinished Masterpiece: Multicultural Australia as a Work in Progress

Australia is a ongoing multicultural masterpiece in the making.

3 Comments
July 29, 2026
The White Australia Policy: Origin and Evolution as Present-day Warning
First Nations/Indigenous / Refugee Policy / Refugees / Uncategorized / White Australia

The White Australia Policy: Origin and Evolution as Present-day Warning

The White Australia Policy enabled the usuary maltreatment of South Sea Islanders and Indigenous people, ultimately excluding them from society.

5 Comments
July 27, 2026
Why I’ll Never Vote for the Australian Labor Party – The Lie One Nation Has Never Told
Accountability / ACT Government / Equality / Government / Hypocrisy

Why I’ll Never Vote for the Australian Labor Party – The Lie One Nation Has Never Told

For all the talk over the past three decades in favour of Indigenous rights and Closing the Gap, the actions of the ALP have borne out its true contempt for First Nations People.

9 Comments
July 27, 2026
Unravelling Certainty: Morality and Atrocity in Steven Spielberg’s Munich
Accountability / Corruption / Hypocrisy / Justice / Propaganda

Unravelling Certainty: Morality and Atrocity in Steven Spielberg’s Munich

Justification of state retaliation against an aggressor for harm is a subjective determination that may vary between individuals.

3 Comments
July 26, 2026
Who She Has Always Been: Pauline Hanson and the Politics of Self
Government

Who She Has Always Been: Pauline Hanson and the Politics of Self

Pauline Hanson has not changed. She is the same as she has always been.

7 Comments
July 25, 2026
The Reformed Man: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Modern Hero
Culture / Environment / Modern art

The Reformed Man: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Modern Hero

Nolan's Odysseus is a hero of insight, presented for an audience who would shy away from Homer's original more brutish ruler, heedless of those he harms.

3 Comments
July 24, 2026
Separation Of Powers: 2017 Contempt to the Taylor Intervention
Uncategorized

Separation Of Powers: 2017 Contempt to the Taylor Intervention

Angus Taylor's comments regarding bail granted to a woman repatriated from Syria tests the limits of separation of powers.

3 Comments
July 23, 2026
Integrity Under Scrutiny: Paul Brereton, the NACC and One Nation
Accountability / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Law

Integrity Under Scrutiny: Paul Brereton, the NACC and One Nation

One Nation's rise in the shadow of misconduct by former NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton reflects cynicism toward integrity in government.

5 Comments
July 21, 2026
The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life
Human Rights / Justice / Respect / Shared humanity

The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life

Most of what appears on this site concerns itself with the present tense of injustice – the ACT, the AFP, the slow grinding machinery of institutions that would rather forget…

7 Comments
July 20, 2026
The Architect Who Dismantled: F.W. de Klerk and the Politics of Letting Go
Discrimination / Human Rights / Law / Racism / Shared humanity

The Architect Who Dismantled: F.W. de Klerk and the Politics of Letting Go

Whether genuinely seeking peace or simply a pragmatic politician who saw the inevitable, FW de Klerk was instrumental in dismantling apartheid

4 Comments
July 19, 2026
Nelson Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom and Reconciliation
Discrimination / Human Rights / Racism / Shared humanity

Nelson Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom and Reconciliation

On Nelson Mandela International Day, we reflect on the life and legacy of one of modern history's greatest humanists.

5 Comments
July 18, 2026
The unAustralians
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Racism / Religion

The unAustralians

What they mean is values minus — minus you, minus him.

8 Comments
July 17, 2026
The Mirage In The Distance: The Right’s Invented Golden Age
Culture

The Mirage In The Distance: The Right’s Invented Golden Age

Culture is constantly evolving, each generation inheriting portions and adding to it,, such that no one group can place a claim on it.

6 Comments
July 16, 2026
The Constitution, the Census and the Limits of the Christian Claim
Discrimination/Racism / Religion

The Constitution, the Census and the Limits of the Christian Claim

The Australian Constitution is silent on the matter of religion, and the census shows that it is not the Christian country One Nation purports.

7 Comments
July 15, 2026
The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning
Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Sexism

The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning

Homer's The Odyssey records the earliest instance of verbal abuse of a woman, demonstrating an embedded cultural trope that requires rectifying.

8 Comments
July 14, 2026
The Enduring Legacy Of Murujuga: The International Significance Of The Mardathoonera Rock Art
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Mining / Uncategorized

The Enduring Legacy Of Murujuga: The International Significance Of The Mardathoonera Rock Art

Enforceable protections for the ancient rock art at Murujuga from the North West Shelf gas industry are critical to ensuring that it survives another fifty-thousand years.

5 Comments
July 12, 2026
Context Matters: The Unfinished Struggle Of The West Papuan People
Asia-Pacific / West Papua

Context Matters: The Unfinished Struggle Of The West Papuan People

An honest examination of the conflict in West Papua requires an understanding of the contextual claims asserted by both it and Indonesia.

4 Comments
July 11, 2026
Charles Perkins and the Unfinished Freedom Ride: A NAIDOC Week Reflection
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Charles Perkins and the Unfinished Freedom Ride: A NAIDOC Week Reflection

Perkins broke through racial barriers not to be a first, but to move the dial of disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people so that they are counted as equal.

4 Comments
July 10, 2026
Deterrence versus Economic Exposure in the AUKUS Alliance
Commonwealth Government / Government

Deterrence versus Economic Exposure in the AUKUS Alliance

Australia is carrying the majority of the risks of the AUKUS agreement with few of the benefits guaranteed.

3 Comments
July 9, 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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Recent Posts

  • Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic CeremonyOctober 5, 2026
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  • Tu Pham’s Prestidigitation, Self-Interest and RacismSeptember 30, 2026
  • Police Powers, Procedures and the Case for TransparencySeptember 29, 2026
  • Australian Federal Police: Sixteen Years of the Same QuestionSeptember 28, 2026
  • Alternative Facts: The Fabric and the FictionSeptember 27, 2026
  • One Nation, 1998 And NowSeptember 26, 2026

Recent Comments

  1. Jen on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    Welcome to Country is a ceremony as old as the land itself.

  2. Bob Coe on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    That’s what I understand the history of Welcome To Country to be.

  3. Kelly Conrad on Presumed Guilty at Fourteen: The Case Against 22C

    Indigenous people are always the losers in law and order auctions.

  4. Kelly Conrad on Baiame – The Creator God and Sky Father

    A very informative post, thank you ?

  5. Kelly Conrad on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    Thank you for the post Bakchos, you’ve spelled out the history of Welcome To Country well.

  6. Polina on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    The older foundations are real and recorded across regions: William Thomas’s account of the Kulin tanderrum, Howitt on messengers whose…

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