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The wisdom of Miles Jordana: Hidden in plain sight

The following is a modified version of an article which first appeared in the Fiji Sun on 12 September, 2011 and which Blak and Black has linked to since publishing…

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September 12, 2011

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Propaganda / RAMSI / Refugees / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands / Stanhope Government

Injustice within Justice

Since 9/11, civil liberties in Australia have been under threat via exclusionary legal instruments and the erosion of accepted rights by the Howard Government.

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August 16, 2011

Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Democracy / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / PNG / RAMSI / Respect / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands / Stanhope Government

AFP corruption and their per diem

In the 1960s Donald Horne observed, "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck." This observation was followed in the 1990s by Paul Keating when…

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August 13, 2011

Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / PNG / Shared humanity

White Australian ‘just-us’ and the indigenous people of the Pacific

“Rio Tinto played an active role in military operations that ultimately led to a civil war in which 15,000 people died. Because of Rio Tinto’s financial influence in Papua New…

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June 30, 2011

Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Globalisation / PNG / Solomon Islands

The curse of mineral wealth

Exploitation of mineral resources on the PNG island of Bougainville has been exposed in the courts.

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June 27, 2011

First Nations/Indigenous / Neo-Colonialism / PNG / Torres Strait

Neo-Colonialism in the Torres Strait

The imposition of discriminatory European laws on indigenous people presages disasted in the longer term.

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June 10, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / PNG / Rule of Law

How about some honesty and transparency, please!

Chinese mafia groups have infiltrated and corrupted the highest levels of Papua New Guinea’s police force, crippling the struggling nation’s attempts to tackle its law-and-order crisis and posing a potential…

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May 19, 2011

Mining / PNG

Who owns Australia? Who owns the Pacific?

While the Australian Labor Party squanders billions of dollars chasing a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council to appease the ghost of its former leader, sacrificed before completing even…

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May 17, 2011

Arc of instability / Pacific Neighbours / PNG

Kevin Rudd the folly of follies

TONY JONES: Now Labor has been talking for a long time about staying focused on our own region. What's new about the new direction? KEVIN RUDD: Well, around Australia we…

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May 13, 2011

Accountability / Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Indonesia / PNG / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands

Sex, guns, drugs and terrorism

What a combination, but what do they have to do with Blak and Black? To steal a line from Gore Vidal’s Caligula, “everything and nothing”. Nothing, because Blak and Black…

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April 30, 2011

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

The wisdom of Miles Jordana: Hidden in plain sight

Injustice within Justice

AFP corruption and their per diem

White Australian ‘just-us’ and the indigenous people of the Pacific

The curse of mineral wealth

Neo-Colonialism in the Torres Strait

How about some honesty and transparency, please!

Who owns Australia? Who owns the Pacific?

Kevin Rudd the folly of follies

Sex, guns, drugs and terrorism

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