Author: <span>Watershedd</span>

A Contributing Life: the reality of Australia’s first people

“… people with mental health problems want the same thing as everyone else. Even the disadvantaged should be able to lead a contributing life. This can mean many things. It…

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December 25, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Australian Aborigines / Disability / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Indonesia / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Queensland / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Religion / Respect / Shared humanity / Solomon Islands / United Nations / Vanuatu / West Papua / Xenophobia

Promises and passages – it’s all an illusion

The racism that permeates Australia has not altered since the days of the blackbirders.

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December 8, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Racism / Shared humanity / West Papua

West Papua: Remembering 51 years of oppression

Dusk is falling across Melbourne and West Papua, but not over the dreams of the Papuan people. Today, remembering 51 years of oppression having been denied the right to self-determination,…

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December 1, 2012

Corruption / Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Fred Martens / Human Rights / Julian Moti / Justice / Racism / Religion / Rule of Law / Sexism / Shared humanity

Right versus religion

Last week one comment on twitter to some of the Blak and Black crew resulted in considerable discussion about the underlying intent of this wee blog. The commenter, apparently thinking…

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November 21, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism / Shared humanity

Destroy the Joint, schmoozing and the hypocrites

The announcement of a Royal Commission into child abuse by clergy is as big an issue as was the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption, if not bigger. This is…

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November 15, 2012

Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Rule of Law / WA government / Yindjibarndi

Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell

Bulletin from the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation regarding FMG.

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November 1, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism

Ain’t I a woman?

If I could share a meal at a table with a small group of people from any time in history, Isabella Baumfree would be one of them. Perhaps, just perhaps,…

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October 26, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Sexism

Sisters, will the real misogynist please stand up?

Misogyny is a nasty word. It implies much more than sexism; it indicates a hatred of women. That’s why, in the overall view of the current political debates I must…

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October 11, 2012

ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Racism

Monkey see, monkey do

“Behead all those who insult the prophet!” So read the banner in Sydney on Saturday, in a protest ignited by a film released in the United States. Really, the lack…

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September 17, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Genocide / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Rule of Law / Sexism / Shared humanity / West Papua

Kristallnacht: Why human rights is everyone’s business

Tell me who you are, what you stand for what you mean Tell me what the lines and whirls upon your hand do mean Show me plain the markings of…

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September 9, 2012

Accountability / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Propaganda / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity / White Australia

Too little, too late

… What folk is this, which seems by pain so vanquished?" And he to me: "This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.…

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August 28, 2012

Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Racism / Reconciliation / Respect / Shared humanity / Stolen Generation / White Australia

Standing Still

This post, originally posted by Cate Bolt on her blog An Ordinary Life, is reposted here with permission. Her open willingness to question the status quo and ask how best…

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June 6, 2012

ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Law Enforcement / Racial Discrimination Act / Rule of Law

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

Hypocrisy in the application of the law enforcement and the commission of crimes by those within their ranks undermines democracy.

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May 12, 2012

Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Education / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law / Tertiary

The Hunger Games, contemporary spin on ancient tale

The first installment of the Hunger Games franchise reflects real world tensions and sets the basis for a range of outcomes in subsequent movies.

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April 22, 2012

Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Propaganda / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity

Media, racism and manipulation

Media have divided the working class and stereotyped young African-American males as gangsters or drug dealers. As a result of such treatment, the media have crushed youths' prospects for future…

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April 7, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Neo-Colonialism / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

West Papua and the United Nations

July of 1969 was a big month. Whilst the ‘civilized’ world was focused on the deployment of three men to the moon, Indonesia was finalizing steps to wrest control of…

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March 20, 2012

ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Government / Racism

The great Aussie sporting culture’s hidden racist agenda

This post was penned in an outburst of indignation this morning after reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled AFL clubs' unwritten rule on Aborigines which discusses the AFL’s…

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March 16, 2012

Commonwealth Government / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Rule of Law / White Australia

Australian Constitutional reform

Following on from the discussion of belonging and what the Australian flag represents to many Indigenous Australians, this post gives consideration to the current debate about acknowledgement of Australia's Aborigines…

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February 12, 2012

Assimilation / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / Stolen Generation / White Australia

The symbol of belonging

On the request of a friend, this post offers some insights as to why someone would wish to burn the Australian flag as an act of protest. The events in…

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January 28, 2012

Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity

Good Christian Souls

Best of the Season. This post is a little delayed, but hey, it is the Yuletide! “Does this discrepancy between reality and altruistic morality yield the positive effects which are…

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December 27, 2011

Watershedd on Autopsy of the Major Oak: How Care Becomes Harm at Scale
Major Oak feels to me a bit like the canary in the mine. If it has died what about the…
Jen on Autopsy of the Major Oak: How Care Becomes Harm at Scale
Well said: mourning an outcome is not the same as understanding the mechanism that produced it.
Ramses on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
Lady Margaret I can assure you that we’re watching this case. It remains unacceptable to us that a posse of…
Lady Margaret on Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters
That letter to the ANZ bank written by Mr Angel Marina is absolutely disgusting. I cannot believe that a government…
Lady Margaret on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
A number of interesting discussions going on under this post. What I would like to ask Mr White, how is…
Kelly Conrad on Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters
How did Angel Marina get away with that level of racism about a colleague, written on government stationery, and sent…

Author: Watershedd

A Contributing Life: the reality of Australia’s first people

Promises and passages – it’s all an illusion

West Papua: Remembering 51 years of oppression

Right versus religion

Destroy the Joint, schmoozing and the hypocrites

Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell

Ain’t I a woman?

Sisters, will the real misogynist please stand up?

Monkey see, monkey do

Kristallnacht: Why human rights is everyone’s business

Too little, too late

Standing Still

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

The Hunger Games, contemporary spin on ancient tale

Media, racism and manipulation

West Papua and the United Nations

The great Aussie sporting culture’s hidden racist agenda

Australian Constitutional reform

The symbol of belonging

Good Christian Souls

RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again

Moti affair

Moti affair

Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

Moti end game

Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

Moti and other affairs

Comment: Excellent Read