Epic Convergence
Gather, oh gentlemen, in this bloodied hall.
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November 11, 2024
Standing Firm Against Corruption: A Personal Journey of Advocacy and Accountability
The ACT Solicitor General attempted to suppress these documents and potential fraud by prosecuting Mr Mullins. He failed.
October 30, 2024
Accountability / ACT Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Ernst & Young
The Masquerade of Ernst & Young: Revealing Corporate Illusions
The masks worn by Ernst & Young hide the unpalatable reality of corporate deceit and complicity in with the ACT Government in denying human rights.
October 17, 2024
I’m Not Going to Die for a Rich Man’s War
In the smoke-filled air, where the cannons roar, I hear the rich man’s laughter, like thunder on the shore. With his pockets lined with gold, he sits up high, While…
September 26, 2024
Assimilation / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Racism / Reconciliation / Rule of Law
#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity
#IdleNoMore is a growing movement of indigenous activism that started with Canada's First Nations taking a stand against a long history of systematic, institutionalized abuse from the Canadian authorities.
January 22, 2013
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity / West Papua
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…
December 6, 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
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN http://yindjibarndi.org.au/ Wednesday 31 October 2012 No amount of corporate spin, bulldust or threats can save Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) from the continuing revelations of whistleblowers and freedom…
November 1, 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…
July 19, 2012
Art / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Genocide / Human Rights / International Law / Mining / Rule of Law
“Freeport is a symbol of everything that is wrong with Papua”
PT Freeport Indonesia's newly appointed president director, Rozik B. Soetjipto, announced this week that the company is willing to renegotiate its contract with the Indonesian government for the continuation of…
July 14, 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…
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…
July 8, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua
The limits of Shiva’s dance: West Papua, Australia’s role in genocide
Nataraja dances, his right foot supported by a crouching figure, his left foot elegantly raised. Of his four arms, one swings downwards, pointing to the raised foot; another with palm…
July 5, 2012
Assimilation / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
Law is The Law, but not if you’re an Aborigine
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which they have imbibed, they cannot trace how, rather than to root them out. The mind must be strong…
June 22, 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…
May 31, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Environment / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / Mining / Pacific Neighbours / Shared humanity / West Papua
Portia’s Lament: Western greed and the death of the indigenous cultures of West Papua
Fragments from the Alfoxden Notebook There he would stand In the still covert of some [lonesome?] rock, Or gaze upon the moon until its light Fell like a strain of…
May 9, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West
You can talk a mob into anything; its feelings may be – usually are – on the whole generous and right; but it has no foundation for them; you may…
March 28, 2012
Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Equality / Globalisation / Human Rights / International Law / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, the concept of corporate accountability
This case arises from the petitioners’ claim that Azzam Rahim was detained, tortured, and killed by “the security forces of the Palestinian Authority” in late 1995, around the time the…
March 7, 2012
Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Environment / Genocide / Human Rights / International Law / Law / Law Enforcement / Mining / Rule of Law
Corporate crimes against humanity a product of our global economy
Crimes against humanity, torture, prolonged arbitrary detention, extrajudicial executions -- all of those human rights norms are defined by actions. They're not defined by whether the perpetrator is a human…
March 1, 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
Invaded by Indonesia in 1961, West Papua is the crisis on Australia’s doorstep. The conflict generated by the usurpation of the former Dutch protectorate is not recognized as anything other…
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