20 Years of Unbroken One-Party Rule in the ACT: A Dismal Reality Check
It is time for the ACT to a return to a more balanced and representative governance model.
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September 21, 2024
The ACT Greens in Coalition with Labor
The Greens have won a greater proportion of the seat in the ACT than any other state or territory but do they lack the spine to hold ACT Labor to account?
September 19, 2024
Mirage, by Salvador Dali
Corruption
Politicians Are Cheaper By The Dozen
In Australia’s sunburnt land, they stand, Politicians with a price tag in hand, Promises flutter like leaves in the breeze, Words like soft whispers, yet nothing to seize. Chasing votes like a dog…
September 18, 2024
Inattention and distraction
ACT Labor: Asleep at the wheel for twenty years
Has ACT Labor been proactive as the Territory's leaders for the past twenty years?
September 18, 2024
Corruption
Corruption in the ACT Government
ACT Labor has held government since 2001, with concerns increasing that the lack of integrity and accountability in the ACT Public Service has been fostered by political leaders.
September 16, 2024
Mammon, By George Frederick Watts,1885 (oil on canvas). Held in the Tate Gallery.
Watts, George Frederick (1817-1904)
WATTS GALLERY, ,
To be or not to be corrupt
Where have all the jobs gone? Don’t bother us with reality, ideology is all that matters!
July 17, 2024
Peter Garrison, ACT Solicitor-General
Accountability / ACT Government / Discrimination / Former Commissioner / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law
Just-us in the ACT: Undermining the rule of law from the top
"The rule of law ... is wielded - not arbitrarily, but with accountability and predictability." Mark Dreyfuss, Attorney-General, Australia
July 12, 2024
Australian Captial Territory Sovereign
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Justice / Racism / Rule of Law
Peter Garrison, Angel Marina and sovereignty in the ACT
The actions of Peter Garrison, the ACT’s Clayton’s Solicitor-General, has created in Angel Marina a kind of king not answerable to the law for his actions.
July 3, 2024
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Uncategorized
20 Years of friends in the Australian Federal Police
Some days demand that we pause to reflect on an event on the same date in the past. For Blak and Black that day is 9 May and this year marks 20 years since Angel Marina wrote his now widely recognised letter of racism against the ACT Government’s then most senior Indigenous employee.
May 9, 2022
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Labor Party / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Human Rights / Justice / Racism / Stanhope Government
The Legacy of ACT Labor, 20 years of lazy government
Suppression of two public interest disclosures pointing money siphoned out of government coffers hallows corruption to go on unchecked in the Australian Capital Territory.
September 26, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Labor Party / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Human Rights / Justice / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Stanhope Government / Uncategorized
The ACT Barr Government, ducking the hard calls for another term
Why was Mullins fitted-up for seeking a missing public interest disclosure and why does the Barr Government not ensure transparency?
September 19, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Respect / Stanhope Government / Uncategorized / White Australia
Jon Stanhope, the man who washed his hands of Mullins
“Jon Stanhope appeared to see the world as both binary and polar. All that is good in the world was embodied by the Labor party, and all that is bad…
August 8, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Uncategorized
#Justice4Mullins , a black life that matters
The following is an unfinished saga of racism & corruption; about how far one jurisdiction will go to cover up their misdeeds, the people who are complicit & the Australian…
July 31, 2020
#BLM Protest Melbourne 6 June, 2020 - Black Power
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Justice / Police / Racism / Shared humanity / Uncategorized
Australia, waking to #BlackLivesMatter
We have questions to answer, Australia. Questions about who we are as a people, what behaviour we expect and accept from our leaders and how we address the abuse of…
June 7, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Stolen Generation
Is Integrity Dead in the ACT?
“You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.” Violet Miller, Suffragette, 2015. Over the past two years Mr Mullins has walked his long dark night of…
July 12, 2017
Accountability / Assimilation / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Racism / Religion / Respect / Shared humanity
There is a dream dreaming us
Actually, the natural man in Africa is a truly spiritual man. He has so much of the spiritual that he is overflowing with it. He has so much of it…
May 31, 2013
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / NSW Police / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity
The Bugmy family, Dada and a Quiche in the face
“Dada is a virgin microbe / Dada is against life so dear / Dada / Corporation exploiting ideas / Dada has 391 different attitudes and colours, depending on the President’s…
May 21, 2013
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / NSW Government / NSW Police / Police / Racism / Rule of Law
Magistrate Clisdell v Reality
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way,…
January 24, 2013
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide by stealth / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / NSW Government / Police / Racism / Rule of Law / White Australia
Magistrate Clisdell and the NSW ‘just-us’ system
It is sillier than the vain futile cawing of a senseless crow to try to talk to others about one’s own deep sorrow! (Wakayama Bakusai (1885-1928) trans. Robert Wood Clack)…
January 23, 2013