Discrimination/Racism

Beware there be Jinn in the forests: Indonesia and West Papua, a clash of cultures

Last weekend I took a stroll through the Mesopotamia exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. While reading the commentary attached to a number of the artefacts I realised, in a profound…

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May 20, 2012

ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / International Law / Law / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Rule of Law

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’ … first, I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life;…

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May 14, 2012

ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Law Enforcement / Racial Discrimination Act / Rule of Law

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

I’ve debated about the title of this post, torn with an alternative following on from the statement in one's Aboriginal heritage with a title that would allude to John Howard…

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May 12, 2012

Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / International Law / Julian Moti / Justice / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

AFP racism sparks diplomatic row between Australia and Vanuatu

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…

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May 10, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law

Call me black: Proud to be an Aborigine!

The following verse is to Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting Jack Johnson, 1982 acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas. Jean-Michel Basquiat died at 27 years old from an overdose. He was the…

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May 5, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Genocide by stealth / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

A prayer to the Gods

Watershedd is usually the more moderate of the contributors to Blak and Black. On this occasion Watershedd has shed the veil of temperance and speaks with the raw emotion of…

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May 2, 2012

Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Law Enforcement / Police / Racism

Ernst & Young, threats & intimidation

Yet another explanation needed by Ernst & Young ... In the words of a renowned Australian xenophobe, please explain, Ernst & Young. First, you employ an Indigenous Australian man (aka…

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April 29, 2012

Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law

Anzac Day: Lest we forget

There is a battle going on in this country, one the majority would rather ignore. It is a battle for equality between anything to marks a person as not conforming…

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April 25, 2012

Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Justice / Racism / Rule of Law

Kieffen Raggett: A victim of the racist fog blurring Australia’s consciousness

AQUÍ Mis pasos en esta calle Resuenan En otra calle Donde Oigo mis pasos Pasar en esta calle Donde Sólo es real la niebla. Octavio Paz – March 31, 1914…

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April 24, 2012

Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Education / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law / Tertiary

The Hunger Games, contemporary spin on ancient tale

My mind has been drawn to another of Rilke’s poems – Dreaming: This my labour: crowned by desire to wander the paths of days. Then sturdied, strong, send rootlet streamers…

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April 22, 2012

ACT Government / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Rule of Law / Stolen Generation

Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought of golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would…

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April 14, 2012

Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Propaganda / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity

Media, racism and manipulation

Media have divided the working class and stereotyped young African-American males as gangsters or drug dealers. As a result of such treatment, the media have crushed youths' prospects for future…

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April 7, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

You can talk a mob into anything; its feelings may be – usually are – on the whole generous and right; but it has no foundation for them; you may…

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March 28, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law

Why Australia needs a Royal Commission into the AFP

On August 30 last year Blak and Black lodged a petition on the GoPetition website calling for a Royal Commission into the Australian Federal Police (“AFP”). Blak and Black has…

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March 24, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / RAMSI / Rule of Law / West Papua

Vice-regal corruption: Australia and the UNSC

The Samoan Government has announced that Australian Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, will visit the country next week as part of a Pacific tour that also includes Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, the Solomon…

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March 21, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Neo-Colonialism / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

West Papua and the United Nations

July of 1969 was a big month. Whilst the ‘civilized’ world was focused on the deployment of three men to the moon, Indonesia was finalizing steps to wrest control of…

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March 20, 2012

Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Racism / Respect

Aboriginal and White Australia: How The Cultures Clashed

This post has been proferred by Imogen, a reader of Blak and Black. When the members of the First Fleet stepped off their cruise ships and on to Australian soil back in…

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March 19, 2012

ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Government / Racism

The great Aussie sporting culture’s hidden racist agenda

This post was penned in an outburst of indignation this morning after reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled AFL clubs' unwritten rule on Aborigines which discusses the AFL’s…

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March 16, 2012

Discrimination/Racism / Racism

Ways You Can Fight Racism

We like to think that we are now living in an enlightened era where racism is a thing of the past. While things have gotten better for minority groups in the United…

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March 15, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Fred Martens / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / PNG / Racism / RAMSI / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands

An ‘Ethics Commissioner’ without ethics: welcome to Australia

Yesterday, Thursday I received a phone call from Captain Fred Martens, the man who spent a 1,000 days in jail, having been wrongly convicted of an offence under Australia’s Child…

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March 9, 2012

Discrimination/Racism

Beware there be Jinn in the forests: Indonesia and West Papua, a clash of cultures

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

AFP racism sparks diplomatic row between Australia and Vanuatu

Call me black: Proud to be an Aborigine!

A prayer to the Gods

Ernst & Young, threats & intimidation

Anzac Day: Lest we forget

Kieffen Raggett: A victim of the racist fog blurring Australia’s consciousness

The Hunger Games, contemporary spin on ancient tale

Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams

Media, racism and manipulation

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

Why Australia needs a Royal Commission into the AFP

Vice-regal corruption: Australia and the UNSC

West Papua and the United Nations

Aboriginal and White Australia: How The Cultures Clashed

The great Aussie sporting culture’s hidden racist agenda

Ways You Can Fight Racism

An ‘Ethics Commissioner’ without ethics: welcome to Australia

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