The annual yam festival and sex tourism
The Australian Federal Police demonstrate a selective approach to addressing child sex tourism.
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April 28, 2011
Welfare reform: rob the poor and fatten the already obese!
Prime Minister Gillard signalled during a speech given to the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night that welfare reform was on her agenda, in a big way. "The social and economic…
April 15, 2011
Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law
A study in racism, hypocrisy and bastardry
Clearly, with the expansion of the AFP under Mick Keelty and with the blessing of the Howard government, the AFP has morphed into something unrecognisable. It's forgotten its core business…
April 11, 2011
Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
Indigeneity: the unifying factor
A cause doesn’t drive itself. It requires dedication, research and interrogation of facts to sift out the fiction, to find buried lies. That’s what I do. I search and question…
April 6, 2011
Superfluous People
For today’s post I’m borrowing a theme from Turgenev, specifically from The Diary of a Superfluous Man. As readers of Turgenev will know, much of his fiction is associated with…
April 1, 2011
‘The Australians are basically English rednecks’ – Robin Williams
Well Robin, ya ain’t wrong, mate! Anglo-Saxon ‘Australians’ whilst superficially decent, hard working Christian folk who, whilst not regular church goers, none-the-less profess to a certain spirituality, are racist! All…
March 26, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Culture / Hypocrisy / NSW Police / Rule of Law / Uncategorized
Mr Commissioner Hypocrisy doesn’t equal integrity
As part of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Additional estimates for 2006–2007, held in February 2007, Senator Evans put the following question on notice to…
March 8, 2011
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government
Equality and the law
“You don’t have to worry about your little boong mate Marky suing you for fitting him up. When I’m finished with him he’ll be in the gutter where he belongs…
March 2, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law
“You can only have as much justice as you can afford”
What do Darren Bloomfield, Isobel Coe, Angelique, the former Commissioner for ACT Revenue, Uncle Billy, Ms King, ‘Spooky eyes’ ‘Bird’ Pat, ‘Lizard’ John Johnson, Albert Mason, Richard Hansen, Trevor Beal…
March 1, 2011
Accountability / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law
Some uncomfortable parallels between Mubarak’s Egypt and contemporary Australia
Mr Paulo Flores is today’s guest poster on Blak and Black. Paulo is a European trained and qualified Psychologist, Lawyer, Mediator and Human Rights Activist. He is currently working in…
February 25, 2011
The AFP and Detachment 88
Detachment 88's major facility at the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Co-operation was established in 2004 with almost $40 million of Australian funding. According to its website, most of the…
February 18, 2011
How complicit is the AFP in the torture of West Papuan’s by Detachment 88?
The attached video shows very clearly what I mean by torture of West Papuan by Detachment 88. What this video shows is a clear violation of international law. Detachment 88…
February 17, 2011
Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law
We’re not racist, we’re Australian!
Australia Day 2011, a mere 223 years after the English invasion and occupation of Aboriginal Australia, an invasion in which white ‘Christian’ males brought with them all of the then,…
February 5, 2011
Who said there isn’t a Santa?
They say that Christmas comes but once a year, but we all know that isn’t true. If you’re a public servant or an Australian Federal Police Officer it seemingly comes every day.…
January 31, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Respect / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government
The genteel art of bullying
I was recently discussing the genteel art of bullying with a former associate, Paulo Flores, who is a psychologist and mediator and Watershedd, a recent contributor to Blak and Black.…
January 30, 2011
Shades of hypocrisy
Some observations on the realities of being and Aborigine in 21stcentury Australia by an observer who isn’t. One of my piano teachers was the sole child of Polish Holocaust survivors.…
January 22, 2011
Will Australia ever move from Black and White to the Grey that sits between?
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by…
January 19, 2011
A blast in a bin; corruption holds sway
While strolling along the foreshore of Botany Bay today I spotted a Kingfisher. In Classical Greek mythology "Halcyon" is associated with the Kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the…
January 14, 2011
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government
The model litigant: A comment by Jen Trees
The Commonwealth and each of the States and Territories of Australia have an obligation to act as a model litigant in claims and litigation. This obligation is enshrined in legislation…
January 12, 2011
The ALP and AFP corruption
In a modern democracy the state controls the apparatus of power for the benefit of the people, or so the theory goes. The apparatus of power includes the police, the…
December 28, 2010