What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?…
Forgiveness does not erase the need for accountability, for without it an oppressor will go on to repeat the harm, leaving the victim a puppet.
Lies, I know, can be so furbished And disguised in gorgeous wrappings That their skinny carcasses Not a soul would recognize. That's what you've been doing now, With your wonderful…
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…
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…
Workplace bullying and harassment has a predictable path. Knowing and understanding the dynamics can help an employee decide how to survive mobbing.
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…
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…
Mainstream media provides exceedingly low-quality intellectual food to Australians, but we don't have to eat it!
West Papua is being exploited for it's resources, environmentally polluted and it's people fail to benefit from the profits.
Amendments to Western Australia's heritage Act removes critical protections for Aboriginal sites, preferencing mining over Indigenous culture.
For an Aborigine, who has obligations to the land, the concept of Terra Nullius is both foreign and irrelevant.
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…
Last week, I came across this post by Cate via a mutual friend. I asked if Blak and Black could republish it, to share it with a more diverse audience…
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…
Jan Nemec's film acts as a warning about the dangers of authoritarianism, restricted freedomand the human response to stress.
The double standards of the AFP in the treatment of Indigenous women versus non-Indigenous underscores persistent racism and sexism in law enforcement.
You cannot believe how much you have to deceive a nation in order to govern it Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf Has anybody else noticed how frequently Prime Minister Julia…
Hypocrisy in the application of the law enforcement and the commission of crimes by those within their ranks undermines democracy.
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…