Sednaya Prison – Legacy of the Despot Bashar al-Asaad
The horrors being uncovered within the walls of Syria's Sednaya Prison are reminiscent of the concentration camps. The world must not look away.
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December 13, 2024
Adass Israel Synagogue: Consequences and Reactions rippling from Ripponlea
Are our politicians genuinely interested in fostering unity?
December 11, 2024
Assimilation / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Hypocrisy / Uncategorized
The Fable of Wazza and Numpty
Pride and culture cannot be bartered for mere tokens of approval.
October 23, 2024
The Veil of Justice
For justice, though it wears a shroud ... It is the hope of every crowd.
September 17, 2024
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
Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Religion / Respect / Shared humanity / Xenophobia
Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes
Whatever you say, don’t say it tice If you find your ideas in anyone else, disown them The man who hasn’t signed anything, who has left no picture Who was…
May 25, 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 / 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…
November 13, 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…
September 27, 2012
Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Propaganda / Refugees / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
Anna Elisabeth Schmieg and the narrative structures of society
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and…
September 20, 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…
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…
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.…
August 28, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Fred Martens / Government / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / Rule of Law
A lie by any other name does not make a truth, unless you’re the AFP
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its adversaries but rather by the fact that these adversaries finally die, and a new generation grows up familiar with the…
August 22, 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
Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene I hardly paid any attention. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting…
August 3, 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
Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Respect / Rule of Law
Dr Janice Harper: Just Us Justice
Dr. Janice Harper has graciously agreed to her paper being republished on Blak and Black, for which we are most grateful. This is the paper referred to in the post…
July 12, 2012
Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law / Propaganda / Refugees / Rule of Law
Eat shit: millions of flies can’t be wrong
The absence of good and evil characterizes the mind itself (hsin-t i) The presence of good and evil characterizes the movement of intention. The knowledge of good and evil is…
July 6, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Indonesia / International Law / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / United Nations
West Papua the Guernica of the 21st Century sans outrage
We were about eighteen miles east of Guernica when Anton pulled to the side of the road jammed on the brakes and started shouting. He pointed wildly ahead, and my…
June 17, 2012
Accountability / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism
National Sorry Day: Meaningless in the face of racism and sexism
Last week’s discussion of the Jinn combined with this week’s reading about Heraclitus to reinforce my opinion that the treatment of Ms. King and Lucinda McMillan at the hands of the…
May 26, 2012