Accountability

The Medusa – the price we all pay for political corruption

Let us venture to advance another truth, a truth useful to the Minister himself. There exists among the officers of the Marine, an intractable esprit de corps, a pretended point…

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December 6, 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 / ACT Government / Assimilation / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism / United Nations

A hypocrite for a Prime Minister, a hypocrite for a Chief Minister

Each man reaches perfection by doing his own duty; he worships god – from whom all beings come, by whom this universe was stretched forth – by doing his appointed…

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November 13, 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

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

Accountability / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / United Nations

Sir Gawain, moral accountability and the UN Security Council

Make we mery quyl we may, and mynne upon joye, For the lur may mon lach when-so mon lykes Make we merry while we may, and think about joy, For…

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September 27, 2012

Accountability / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / ASIO / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Democracy / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / Solomon Islands / Terrorism / West Papua

The War on Terror and democracy’s Faustian bargain

Since the events of 9/11 the Australian Government, has passed 54 pieces of ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation.

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September 18, 2012

Accountability / Corruption / Education / Equality / Hypocrisy / Propaganda / Rule of Law / Tertiary

OUA and Australia’s culture of corruption

Before I launch into today’s topic I’d like to offer an apology for my long absence from Blak and Black. I have been helping a friend restore a 19th Century…

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September 15, 2012

Accountability / Archaeology / Art / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law / Mining / Rule of Law

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA RELEASE

FMG ‘DECLASSIFIED’ THEN DESTROYED YINDJIBARNDI HERITAGE SITES Recent reports that, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is pushing ahead with the “low-cost Firetail deposit” at its Solomon Project, while scaling back…

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September 13, 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

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Democracy / Fred Martens / Human Rights / International Law / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / Rule of Law

Fred Martens and the AFP – the limits of the rule of law

…that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to…

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August 26, 2012

Accountability / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / International Law / Law / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands

The good intent of RAMSI is built on the corrupt sub-soil of the AFP

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon like the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, as distinct too,…

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August 20, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law

The finger puppet of fickle fate

Forgiveness does not erase the need for accountability, for without it an oppressor will go on to repeat the harm, leaving the victim a puppet.

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August 3, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Corruption / Government / Human Rights / Respect / Shared humanity

Peer Gynt, a lesson in humanity

Lies, I know, can be so furbished And disguised in gorgeous wrappings That their skinny carcasses Not a soul would recognize. That's what you've been doing now, With your wonderful…

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July 20, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Democracy / Equality / Ernst & Young / Government / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law

The real problem with hypocrisy – it knows no honour

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera One of the first Communist texts I read, following the French edition of Quotations from…

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July 19, 2012

Accountability / Cathal Lyons / Corporate profit / Corruption / Democracy / Ernst & Young / Human Rights / Law / Rule of Law

Cathal Lyons –V– the Hyenas of Capitalism

To penetrate the basic human predicament is more important than to fly to the moon Friedrich Durrenmatt Swiss-German playwright and novelist I’ve spent the last few days reading through the…

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July 11, 2012

Accountability / Cathal Lyons / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Disability / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Law / Rule of Law

Ernst & Young, the slippery eel in the hands of the law

Business is no place for friends and it doesn’t matter if you’re in Canberra, London, New York or Moscow. Whilst Cathal Lyons as the Managing Partner of Operations and Chief…

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July 8, 2012

Accountability / AHRC/HREOC / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism

Respect: more than just a word

Last week, I came across this post by Cate via a mutual friend. I asked if Blak and Black could republish it, to share it with a more diverse audience…

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June 9, 2012

Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Equality / Globalisation / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Mining / Respect / Rule of Law

70 butchered Congolese: a small price to pay for our blood copper and silver!

It will be a marvellous thing – the true personality of man – when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It…

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May 31, 2012

Accountability / AHRC/HREOC / ASIO / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Counter-terrorism laws / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / International Law / Law Enforcement / Mining / Rule of Law / Terrorism

Australia: a parable on authoritative oppression and the nature of conformity

Jan Nemec's film acts as a warning about the dangers of authoritarianism, restricted freedomand the human response to stress.

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May 30, 2012

Ramses on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
Thank you Watershedd, I’m currently making my through this blog. I wish I could say I’m surprised about the treatment…
Watershedd on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
Ramses, if you are interested, there's a more detailed chronology in this post https://blakandblack.com/2020/07/31/justice4mullins-a-black-life-that-matters/ . In addition, there are a…
Kelly Conrad on Autopsy of the Major Oak: How Care Becomes Harm at Scale
Cicero says the gods did not steal Crassus’s life but gave him death as a gift. Crassus died just before…
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…

Accountability

The Medusa – the price we all pay for political corruption

Destroy the Joint, schmoozing and the hypocrites

A hypocrite for a Prime Minister, a hypocrite for a Chief Minister

Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell

Sisters, will the real misogynist please stand up?

Sir Gawain, moral accountability and the UN Security Council

The War on Terror and democracy’s Faustian bargain

OUA and Australia’s culture of corruption

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA RELEASE

Too little, too late

Fred Martens and the AFP – the limits of the rule of law

The good intent of RAMSI is built on the corrupt sub-soil of the AFP

The finger puppet of fickle fate

Peer Gynt, a lesson in humanity

The real problem with hypocrisy – it knows no honour

Cathal Lyons –V– the Hyenas of Capitalism

Ernst & Young, the slippery eel in the hands of the law

Respect: more than just a word

70 butchered Congolese: a small price to pay for our blood copper and silver!

Australia: a parable on authoritative oppression and the nature of conformity

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

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