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…
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…
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
Captain Fred Martens, whom I have written extensively about on Blak and Black in the past, was employed as a commercial pilot flying light aircraft within PNG and between PNG…
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
Invaded by Indonesia in 1961, West Papua is the crisis on Australia’s doorstep. The conflict generated by the usurpation of the former Dutch protectorate is not recognized as anything other…
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…
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
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
The current humanitarian crises in West Papua, formally West New Guinea (“WNG”), has at its roots Western colonial greed and paranoia over Soviet influence in the region. WNG was and…
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
Former Kopassus commander Lt. Gen. (ret.) Prabowo Subianto (who was “forced to retire because of his involvement in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of democracy activists in early 1998”) has…
December 17, 2011
ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Racism / Reconciliation
Ernst & Young – diverse or divisive?
A lot of noise is made about ‘closing the gap’ between Indigenous Australians and their non-Indigenous counterparts. There are so many factors to address; no one remedy is going to…
December 14, 2011
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
AFP implicated in West Papuan genocide
The following is a media release from Westpapuamedia.info According to credible local sources in Puncak Jaya, Indonesian troops razed a civilian village while conducting a massive offensive against National Liberation…
December 5, 2011
Asia-Pacific / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Mining / Racism / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua
Rio Tinto: juggernaut of cultural fascism and participant in slow-motion genocide
A rough translation of Rio Tinto from Spanish into English is Red River. Spain's Rio Tinto is characterized by deep red water that is highly acidic (pH 1.7—2.5) and rich…
November 23, 2011
ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law
Longing for a good neighbour
'Poetry, like the law, is a fiction’, wrote William Hazlitt in a critical essay of 1816. Hazlitt the critic took as his subject all aspects of his society’s culture, including…
November 20, 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…
November 17, 2011