In the fifteen years since Blak and Black spoke of the erosion of civil liberties, much of what was forewarned has been realised.
The 55th Pacific Islands Forum has highlighted the tug of war over seabed resources, pitching regional powers against each other and a Goliath.
“No-one ever argues that governments should have less integrity, that elected officials should not be accountable, or that public servants should behave unethically. Broad statements of the value of integrity,…
In Australia, I am nothing but a name, or nemo nisi nomen, is a term that can now be applied to our so-called liberties.
Human rights must be blind to religion, where the only teaching should be kindness to each other.
Judgement is our oldest belief, our most habitual holding-true or holding un-true, an assertion or denial, a certainty that something is thus not otherwise, a belief that here we really…
On 2nd May, 2012 the Vanuatu Daily Post reported that Private Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office Clarence Marae had been arrested at Sydney International Airport by the Australian Federal…
Australia's lack of respect for indigenous rights and the rule of law should negate its participation in any international peace keeping operations.
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty is both famous and obscure. A twentieth-century political theory, containing two canonical sentences: "Sovereign is he who decides on…
The following is an extract from a news article titled Keelty's rage at Moti manoeuvres which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on October12, 2006. Mr Keelty said yesterday he…
Across the world the common factor in regional conflicts is inequality and no-one is immune to the consequences.
It's time for a royal commission into the Australian Federal Police.
Dear Editor, Palmer CJ and Bond liaised on Moti’s removal I refer to the letter written by his Honour Chief Justice Sir Albert R Palmer CBE in response to an…
Note: The following article appeared in today’s edition of the Fiji Sun and Solomon Star It was written by me in my capacity as a human rights philosopher, researcher, activist…