Australia, you are racist!
So, you still think Australia doesn’t have a problem with racism? It’s time we took a good look at some evidence to the contrary, the most recent of which can…
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March 4, 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
Who are citizens of ‘Australia’s great democracy?’
First, democracy implies processes of communication through which individuals come to know as individuals what they want or think is right. Individuals should be the owners of their beliefs and…
February 23, 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
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
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
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government
Racism and Corporate Australia
Over the next few weeks I will be putting up posts written by those who have assisted me in collecting statements or who have introduced me to the victims of…
January 5, 2011
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Shared humanity / White Australia
‘The Aboriginal Mother’ a poem by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
An elegy for a lost child.
December 16, 2010
Accountability / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Respect / WA Police
Racism takes many forms
Kevin Spratt, an Aboriginal man from Western Australia, was tasered up to 41 times in a week and went to hospital with fractures, a collapsed lung and a dislocated shoulder…
December 11, 2010
The here and now of racism in Australia
Addressing the racism requires that we educate "white" Australia so as to dismantle the sources or prejudice.
September 12, 2010