Racism

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

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

Theft and racism, the festering sores in Canberra

For some years now I have been considering the concept of complicity. What constitutes complicity, how far does it extend, where does responsibility for wrongdoing cease? You can all blame…

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March 7, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Fred Martens / Government / Julian Moti / Justice / Law Enforcement / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law

Martens, Moti and the ‘rule of law’ in Australia

Australia's lack of respect for indigenous rights and the rule of law should negate its participation in any international peace keeping operations.

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March 6, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Government / Human Rights / Indonesia / Mining / Racism / West Papua

Copper and gold: the blood diamonds of West Papua

Ernst & Young has its fingers in projects that disadvantage Indigenous people across the world, including in West Papua.

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February 22, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law / West Papua

The Jayapura Five: Our choices and actions do affect the lives of others

Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And…

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February 21, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Labor Party / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Globalisation / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / WA Police

Racism in Australia’s criminal justice system

Indigenous people in Australia are subjected to more aggressive treatment by the criminal justice system compared with other Australians.

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February 16, 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

ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Racism / Rule of Law

Sticks and stones

Today’s news article that Dr. Charlie Teo addressed racism as part of his speech to the Australia Day Council has raised hackles within the local community. Andrew Bolt and Steve…

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January 19, 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

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

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There are lot of Brethren in Young, they are scary dudes.
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Goodness does not wait on theology. Civilisation cannot do without goodness.
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Racism

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

Theft and racism, the festering sores in Canberra

Martens, Moti and the ‘rule of law’ in Australia

Copper and gold: the blood diamonds of West Papua

The Jayapura Five: Our choices and actions do affect the lives of others

Racism in Australia’s criminal justice system

Ernst & Young and the Diversity Council of Australia

Sticks and stones

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

Good Christian Souls

The Lombok Treaty: a win for self interest over justice

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

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