In Praise of Nostos
In my travels over the last week drumming up support for a Royal Commission into the Australian Federal Police I found myself in the pub at Bribbaree. While sitting barracking…
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October 5, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Stanhope Government / Stolen Generation
Aborigines are without any legal protections in Australia
One of my pet issues on Blak and Black is what befell the former Commissioner for ACT Revenue (“the Commissioner”), a Wiradjuri and member of the Stolen Generation(s), which made…
October 1, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Law / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Rule of Law
Bolt: A man who doesn’t need the pillow case
An interesting comparison drawn from the Bolt judgement. Yesterday marked a line in the sand in Australian journalism. It’s just one line, but a significant one, with the finding of…
September 29, 2011
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Democracy / First Nations/Indigenous / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / RAMSI / Rule of Law
AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again!
Post update The Australian Government has today 28 September, 2011 at 7:30PM announced that it has invoked its right to immunity from prosecution in the Solomon Islands over a secret…
September 28, 2011
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Complicity, obligation and mutual respect
When we look at a map of the world’s major trouble spots we see or at least I see, a white footprint superimposed over each and every one of these…
September 27, 2011
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Ernst & Young: A vehicle for hiding corruption in Canberra
There is no question about racism being a profound form of ignorance, but when it becomes something that informs employment decisions by one of the world’s biggest accounting firms, Ernst…
September 26, 2011
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Has the Pacific Islands Forum (“PIF”) become a tool for white neo-colonial interests?
The progress of human society, has in different ages, presented abundance of horrors and abundance of vices, which in treating history properly, we are obliged to pass over gently, and…
September 19, 2011
A letter from a loving & distressed father
Capt Fred Martens, who I’ve written about extensively on Blak and Black, has asked me to post this open letter to the public about the plight of his children in…
September 14, 2011
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Fear and Trembling – Australia’s gutless approach to the genocide in Papua
The following article appeared in Friday’s Jakarta Post: Maj. Gen. Wisnu Bawatenaya has been appointed to become commander of the Indonesian Army Special Forces (Kopassus) replacing Maj. Gen. Lodewijk F…
September 13, 2011
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The wisdom of Miles Jordana: Hidden in plain sight
The following is a modified version of an article which first appeared in the Fiji Sun on 12 September, 2011 and which Blak and Black has linked to since publishing…
September 12, 2011
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Beware the tolling bell
“Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris” (Now this bell, tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.) I have long loved John Donne’s Meditation XVII; it remains pause for…
September 10, 2011
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The AFP and whistleblowers, again!
Callahan and colleagues (2002)[i] suggested that organizations must focus on three trust-building tactics – accountability, reliance, and aspiration – to cultivate helpful internal whistleblowing procedures. These principles provide people and…
September 6, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Terrorism
The death of Gary Lee-Rogers – the AFP and whistleblowers’
It was pointed out to me last night that I had missed Mr Gary Lee-Rogers from my list of serving AFP/APS officers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for insisting…
September 2, 2011
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A call for a Royal Commission into the AFP
“A State cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law unless laws are administered fairly, rationally, predictably, consistently and impartially.” (Chief Justice Spigelman, as he then was, in…
August 31, 2011
Diallo and Moti, some thoughts
On 30 November 2010, the International Court of Justice delivered its Judgment in the case of Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo). The International…
August 30, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / ASIO / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Rule of Law / Stolen Generation / White Australia
The AFP and the ‘Nazification’ of Australian Society
I’m writing this post in response to some comments that have been left on Blak and Black over the last week or so. The comments are interesting from a number…
August 23, 2011
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Injustice within Justice
I have borrowed the title from Michael Stolleis' oxymoronically titled book Justice within Injustice which is about, oxymoronically, justice in the Third Reich. After having read Stolleis' essays, in which…
August 16, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Democracy / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / PNG / RAMSI / Respect / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands / Stanhope Government
AFP corruption and their per diem
In the 1960s Donald Horne observed, "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck." This observation was followed in the 1990s by Paul Keating when…
August 13, 2011
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YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION and ‘SOLOMON HUB’
Following is a press release issued by the YIndjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation on 4 August, 2011. Under the heading: THE FACTS ABOUT FMG’s PROPOSED ‘SOLOMON HUB’ IN YINDJIBARNDI COUNTRY. I have…
August 9, 2011
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Disguised extradition, Bennett, Tollman and Moti
In 1896 J. B. Moore, with what turned out to be prophetic insight, drew attention to the possibility of the immigration laws of the United States being utilised for the…
August 2, 2011