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Author: Watershedd

This author has written 102 articles
Flags and Fury – When Ideals Fail to Align
Government / Shared humanity

Flags and Fury – When Ideals Fail to Align

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks on the United States of America, recalled most vividly by the destruction of the Twin Towers, has stoked a wave of patriotism and reflection…

5 Comments
September 13, 2026
Australian Values: Politics, Immigrants and Pauline Hanson
Discrimination/Racism / Government / Refugees

Australian Values: Politics, Immigrants and Pauline Hanson

In the matter of the nation, there are immigrants who embody our values and there is Hanson who divides.

5 Comments
August 24, 2026
Be Alert, Be Alarmed: How Justice Fails in the Australian Capital Territory
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Racism

Be Alert, Be Alarmed: How Justice Fails in the Australian Capital Territory

It took multiple people and agencies to ruin the lives of the former Commissioner for Revenue and his family and it can happen to you as well.

15 Comments
August 7, 2026
Gillham v MSO: A Precedent To Follow
Art / Equality of opportunity / Justice / Law / Rule of Law

Gillham v MSO: A Precedent To Follow

Jayson Gillham's unsuccessful litigation against the MSO raises a number of concerns about the consequences for subsequent claims, in particular for contractors.

4 Comments
July 13, 2026
Conscience
Genocide / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Conscience

Truth misunderstood, dangerous in its honour, stares back at us disappointed and betrayed ...

7 Comments
July 4, 2026
The Rule Of Law On Trial: Fuller’s Eight Principles and the Australian State
Law / Rule of Law

The Rule Of Law On Trial: Fuller’s Eight Principles and the Australian State

Examining the principles that undermine the rule of law highlights the failures of Australia's legal system.

6 Comments
July 1, 2026
The Mirror We Refuse To Hold: Australian Culture and Male Violence
Culture / International Law / Law / Rule of Law

The Mirror We Refuse To Hold: Australian Culture and Male Violence

What will it take for Australia's leaders to address the never-ending spate of abuses perpetuated against women?

8 Comments
June 30, 2026
Fear: Aetiology, Pathogenesis and Therapy
Discrimination / Government

Fear: Aetiology, Pathogenesis and Therapy

Fear is a disease, one that can cause profound societal division, but which is treatable with honesty and a willingness to face the uncertainties in unity.

7 Comments
June 22, 2026
The Impact and the Distance: Friendship Across Two Decades
Human Rights / Respect / Shared humanity

The Impact and the Distance: Friendship Across Two Decades

Sometimes, the profoundness of a friendship is not fully realised until that friend is lost. We all know this. Today for Blak and Blak, for me personally, it is the…

13 Comments
June 9, 2026
Exercising Justice: A Review of the Transgressions of Notable Legal Practitioners
ACT Government / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Rule of Law

Exercising Justice: A Review of the Transgressions of Notable Legal Practitioners

Justice requires that legal practitioners be held to the same standards as the rest of the community, but not all jurisdictions accept that fact.

12 Comments
May 10, 2026
The Weakest Link: Forged in the same furnace as the strong
Accountability / Corruption / Government

The Weakest Link: Forged in the same furnace as the strong

The outcome of the Hungarian election demonstrates a curious test of character and the strength of the Hungarian political system.

6 Comments
April 14, 2026
Early Drug Diversion, Privilege and Racism in NSW Police
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Law Enforcement / NSW Police / Racism

Early Drug Diversion, Privilege and Racism in NSW Police

Inequities in the management of first-time drug offences by NSW Police highlight the ongoing problems in Closing the Gap.

10 Comments
April 6, 2026
Medical misogyny, bullying and professionalism: When regulation fails
Human Rights / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

Medical misogyny, bullying and professionalism: When regulation fails

Protectionism in health care is the blight that lends credence to medical conspiracy theorists.

7 Comments
March 30, 2026
Bush Telegraph
Culture / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Bush Telegraph

Once a Jolly Swagman, wandering tracks ‘tween treesHitching rides by saddle-side or riding in a drayShared his stories, brought his tales and perhaps his billy tooBut most import was given…

16 Comments
March 5, 2026
Terrorism in Australia: The Racial and Cultural Limits of Response
Bulla, Queensland, 1861 by William Oswald Hodgkinson
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Terrorism

Terrorism in Australia: The Racial and Cultural Limits of Response

Responses to suspected and actual terrorist acts vary widely in Australia, demonstrating the ongoing structural racism within our society.

0 Comments
February 11, 2026
The Politicisation of the Adelaide Writers Festival
Accountability / Discrimination/Racism / Racism / Xenophobia

The Politicisation of the Adelaide Writers Festival

Exclusion of Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fatah by the Board of the Australian Writer's Festival is a shameful reflection of political interference.

0 Comments
January 10, 2026
The Multilayered Foundations of Western Civilisation – Beyond Christian Exclusivity
Culture / Government

The Multilayered Foundations of Western Civilisation – Beyond Christian Exclusivity

The origins of Western culture are not purely Christian, but drawn from a broad array of civilisiations across both east and west.

0 Comments
December 26, 2025
Honouring the Dead: Reflections on the Place of Politics After Bondi
Runners passing by abandoned shoes after the Bondi terrorist incident. Photographer Kate Geraghty. Image courtesy The Age.
Human Rights / Respect / Shared humanity

Honouring the Dead: Reflections on the Place of Politics After Bondi

Australia needs unity, not division in the wake of the Bondi terrorist incident, but first we need to grieve.

0 Comments
December 18, 2025
The Presumption of Innocence: Origins of the Most Central of Legal Maxims
Uncategorized

The Presumption of Innocence: Origins of the Most Central of Legal Maxims

Imposing punishment on a.defendant before the accusation has been proved, such as proposed in current legislative review, fails to preserve this crucial legal tenet.

0 Comments
November 12, 2025
The Secret Spells of the Old
Shared humanity

The Secret Spells of the Old

In slanted sun, the elders sit, Their hands a map of years and wit – Wrinkled skin, a thousand lines Tracing constellations time defines. Within their eyes, moonlight rests, A…

0 Comments
October 12, 2025
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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 Comments

  1. Ramses on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution

    It’s clear as day to me. This matter is about a group of white people who wanted to rid themselves…

  2. Ramses on Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters

    Those letters from Miss Angel Marina are very disturbing. The intolerance of white people to black people hasn’t changed in…

  3. Kofi on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution

    Polina white people have been doing that to black people for centuries.

  4. Kofi on Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters

    I’m watching how this matter progresses, the more I read about what it’s gone on here the more disgusted I…

  5. Jen on Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters

    I don’t understand how the ACT government could not have disciplined, and in my experience, terminated the employment of Angel…

  6. Bill Wheatley on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution

    Watershedd on the evidence that’s available to us, and there might be other evidence that we simply don’t have, because…

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