Arma virumque cano
The more classically minded among Blak and Black’s readers will recognise the title of this post as being the opening words of Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid, “… sing of arms and…
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March 17, 2012
The Asia-Pacific region.
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Democracy / Ernst & Young / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / Mining / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua
Silence no longer so golden
Complicity takes many forms, as discussed in posts by both Bakchos and me. Many believe that silent complicity is the least culpable, but to my mind if the silence enables…
March 14, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Equality / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / Rule of Law
Corruption and accountability: the AFP in the Asia/Pacific region
The criminal justice system consists of three main parts: (1) Legislative (create laws); (2) adjudication (courts); and (3) corrections (prisons, probation, parole, fines, community service). In a criminal justice system,…
March 12, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Fred Martens / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / PNG / Racism / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
An ‘Ethics Commissioner’ without ethics: welcome to Australia
Yesterday, Thursday I received a phone call from Captain Fred Martens, the man who spent a 1,000 days in jail, having been wrongly convicted of an offence under Australia’s Child…
March 9, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Fred Martens / Government / Julian Moti / Justice / Law Enforcement / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law
Martens, Moti and the ‘rule of law’ in Australia
Australia's lack of respect for indigenous rights and the rule of law should negate its participation in any international peace keeping operations.
March 6, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Government / Human Rights / Indonesia / Mining / Racism / West Papua
Copper and gold: the blood diamonds of West Papua
Ernst & Young has its fingers in projects that disadvantage Indigenous people across the world, including in West Papua.
February 22, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law / West Papua
The Jayapura Five: Our choices and actions do affect the lives of others
Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And…
February 21, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Justice / Law / Mining / Political theory / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua
Genocide in West Papua, collective responsibility and the role of Ernst & Young
The TNI under Suharto was seen as different from other armies because: Indonesian army sees itself as quite different from other armies in the world, because it was never created…
February 4, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / International Law / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua
West Papua and the vote of no choice!
These feelings which we Cubans have already acquired will have to be shared by someday. Today it hurts us if a Cuban is hungry, if a Cuban has no doctor,…
February 3, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / International Law / Julian Moti / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
Lost Sovereignty; a disgraced judge and a kidnapped Attorney-General
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty is both famous and obscure. A twentieth-century political theory, containing two canonical sentences: "Sovereign is he who decides on…
January 31, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Globalisation / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Solomon Islands / Terrorism
The masks we wear: Ernst & Young and global terrorism
…the threats we face are no longer from known enemies, nations that have fleets or missiles or bombers that we can see come to the United States, nations that can…
January 24, 2012
ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Commonwealth Government / Culture / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / RAMSI / Solomon Islands / United Nations
Operation Helpem Fren
Australia's assistance to the Solomon Islands via RAMSI is tainted by the neo-colonial ambitions of European civilization.
January 22, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / International Law / Propaganda / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua
What is actually the root of the problem in Papua?
The following is an extract of an interview between Bambang Dharmono, former Aceh military commander and negotiator representing Indonesia for the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM), to lead the Presidential Unit…
January 10, 2012
Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua
Indonesia and Australia the illegitimate states of the Asia Pacific Region
What is self-determination? The notion of self-determination as a universal principle, whether viewed through a political, moral, or legal lens, has been and continues to be imprecise and in dire…
January 2, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / India / Julian Moti / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / PNG / Racism / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
Moti one of the many victims of white Australia’s black and white concept of justice
The following is an extract from a news article titled Keelty's rage at Moti manoeuvres which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on October12, 2006. Mr Keelty said yesterday he…
December 30, 2011
Accountability / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Justice / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua
The Lombok Treaty: a win for self interest over justice
Australia placed its own interests before those of West Papuans, favouring its relationship with Indonesia over those of an occupied people.
December 19, 2011
Asia-Pacific / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Propaganda / Racism / Shared humanity
Bintang Kejora: a struggle for a new dawn
The colonist Javanese attacks on West Papuans mimics the same abuses of British and Dutch colonists of the past.
December 17, 2011
Accountability / Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
Moti a champion of indigenous human rights
Julian Moti QC has defeated the charges brought against him by the Australian Government.
December 8, 2011
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
AFP implicated in West Papuan genocide
The following is a media release from Westpapuamedia.info According to credible local sources in Puncak Jaya, Indonesian troops razed a civilian village while conducting a massive offensive against National Liberation…
December 5, 2011
Asia-Pacific / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Mining / Racism / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua
Rio Tinto: juggernaut of cultural fascism and participant in slow-motion genocide
A rough translation of Rio Tinto from Spanish into English is Red River. Spain's Rio Tinto is characterized by deep red water that is highly acidic (pH 1.7—2.5) and rich…
November 23, 2011