Corruption

Genocide in West Papua, collective responsibility and the role of Ernst & Young

The TNI under Suharto was seen as different from other armies because: Indonesian army sees itself as quite different from other armies in the world, because it was never created…

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February 4, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / International Law / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

West Papua and the vote of no choice!

These feelings which we Cubans have already acquired will have to be shared by someday. Today it hurts us if a Cuban is hungry, if a Cuban has no doctor,…

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February 3, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / International Law / Julian Moti / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands

Lost Sovereignty; a disgraced judge and a kidnapped Attorney-General

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…

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January 31, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Globalisation / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Solomon Islands / Terrorism

The masks we wear: Ernst & Young and global terrorism

…the threats we face are no longer from known enemies, nations that have fleets or missiles or bombers that we can see come to the United States, nations that can…

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January 24, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / Ernst & Young / Government / Law / Racism / Rule of Law

Ernst & Young and the Diversity Council of Australia

Employers have a legal responsibility to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent harassment and discrimination occurring in the workplace. Employers may also be held ‘vicariously liable’ for the actions of their…

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January 23, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / International Law / Propaganda / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua

What is actually the root of the problem in Papua?

The following is an extract of an interview between Bambang Dharmono, former Aceh military commander and negotiator representing Indonesia for the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM), to lead the Presidential Unit…

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January 10, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

Ernst & Young, the silence is deafening!

Following is a response to the statement published by Ernst & Young. People with things to hide generally sneak around, aiming to placate those who can advance their situation. They…

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January 5, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Racism

Ernst & Young comment on Tom Payne

The following statement published by Ernst & Young on their website and reported on the professional accounting and recruitment site Big4 has come to my attention.The following is a screen shot…

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January 1, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / India / Julian Moti / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / PNG / Racism / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands

Moti one of the many victims of white Australia’s black and white concept of justice

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…

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December 30, 2011

Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law

This ephemeral thing we call democracy

To forget the past is to the lose the future.

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December 29, 2011

Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity

Good Christian Souls

Best of the Season. This post is a little delayed, but hey, it is the Yuletide! “Does this discrepancy between reality and altruistic morality yield the positive effects which are…

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December 27, 2011

Accountability / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Justice / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

The Lombok Treaty: a win for self interest over justice

Australia placed its own interests before those of West Papuans, favouring its relationship with Indonesia over those of an occupied people.

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December 19, 2011

Asia-Pacific / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Propaganda / Racism / Shared humanity

Bintang Kejora: a struggle for a new dawn

The colonist Javanese attacks on West Papuans mimics the same abuses of British and Dutch colonists of the past.

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December 17, 2011

Accountability / Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands

Moti a champion of indigenous human rights

Julian Moti QC has defeated the charges brought against him by the Australian Government.

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December 8, 2011

Accountability / ACT Government / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Respect / Rule of Law

Ernst & Young, bastions of corporate responsibility

There’s been significant debate in the past year about the introduction of ethics classes in public schools in New South Wales. The St James Ethics Centre was tasked with developing…

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December 6, 2011

Assimilation / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Genocide by stealth / Government / Government welfare / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Northern Territory Intervention / Rule of Law / White Australia

Anti-Aboriginal racism in Australia has no bounds – NT Intervention extended by ten years

“Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians are part of our community we’re not nameless, faceless people who live on the margins of society. We deserve the respect and the…

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December 4, 2011

Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Education / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Police / Respect / Tertiary

Anti-Aboriginal racism rife in the Australian Community

The National Tertiary Education Union ("NTEU") has released the findings from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander member survey ‘I’m Not Racist But … Report on Cultural Respect, Racial Discrimination,…

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November 30, 2011

Accountability / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Environment / Equality / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Mining / Rule of Law

FMGL versus YAC – is the truth really out there

As most readers of Blak and Black, indeed as most readers of any daily paper in Australia will be aware there has been an ongoing dispute between Fortescue Metals Group…

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November 24, 2011

Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Mining / Racism / Rule of Law

Corporate greed and an update on a call for a Royal Commission into the AFP

I have spent the last few weeks travelling around remote Indigenous communities collecting signatures in support of a Royal Commission into the AFP and statements in support of my application…

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November 17, 2011

Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Mining / Yindjibarndi

Yindjibarndi update: Site damage

Blak and Black received the following from the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) last week. It is reprinted here in full and describes the damage to traditional sacred sites. Follow the…

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November 15, 2011

Watershedd on Sixty Years On: Aberfan and the Cost of Not Listening
The Aberfan Disaster is a testament to the attitudes that still permeate many corporations and government. No one likes to…
Kelly on Marathon, Not Hastings: The Inheritance a Bigot Never Read
Bakchos it’s a waste of energy trying to reason with racists.
The Faceless Freedom Fighter on Tu Pham and the Question She Could Not Answer
Paula the entire ACT government is built on racism and white supremacy. If it wasn’t, these issues wouldn’t be where…
The Faceless Freedom Fighter on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
Susan, Jon White’s appointment to the bench of the ACT Supreme Court shows in starting detail just how racist and…
The Faceless Freedom Fighter on Marathon, Not Hastings: The Inheritance a Bigot Never Read
My friend, you have experienced some of the worst life has to offer, yet you still find the energy to…
Fr Alfonso SJ on Marathon, Not Hastings: The Inheritance a Bigot Never Read
John Stuart Mill, the Victorian philosopher, said the battle of Marathon mattered more to English history than the battle of…

Corruption

Genocide in West Papua, collective responsibility and the role of Ernst & Young

West Papua and the vote of no choice!

Lost Sovereignty; a disgraced judge and a kidnapped Attorney-General

The masks we wear: Ernst & Young and global terrorism

Ernst & Young and the Diversity Council of Australia

What is actually the root of the problem in Papua?

Ernst & Young, the silence is deafening!

Ernst & Young comment on Tom Payne

Moti one of the many victims of white Australia’s black and white concept of justice

This ephemeral thing we call democracy

Good Christian Souls

The Lombok Treaty: a win for self interest over justice

Bintang Kejora: a struggle for a new dawn

Moti a champion of indigenous human rights

Ernst & Young, bastions of corporate responsibility

Anti-Aboriginal racism in Australia has no bounds – NT Intervention extended by ten years

Anti-Aboriginal racism rife in the Australian Community

FMGL versus YAC – is the truth really out there

Corporate greed and an update on a call for a Royal Commission into the AFP

Yindjibarndi update: Site damage

RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again

Moti affair

Moti affair

Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

Moti end game

Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

Moti and other affairs

Comment: Excellent Read