Environment

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…

7 Comments

December 17, 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…

19 Comments

November 24, 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…

11 Comments

November 23, 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…

15 Comments

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

Corporate profit / Corruption / Education / Environment / Globalisation / Hypocrisy / Mining / Tertiary

Not everyone is lucky in the Lucky Country

“Australia is different. Australia is a country with universal subsidised healthcare, subsidised tertiary education with an efficient and fair loans scheme which is paid at an acceptable rate only out…

24 Comments

October 22, 2011

Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Rule of Law

Systemic and Institutional Racism and Systemic Bias in the Australian justice system

While discussing the competing merits of Australia’s subtle forms of genocide it employs against its indigenous people versus Indonesia’s more direct and brutal methods it employs in West Papua with…

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October 17, 2011

Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Rule of Law / United Nations

You can’t preach the moral high ground and walk in the gutter: Australia and West Papua

Recurrent themes in Australian politics since the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the euphemistically though erroneously named ‘war on terror’ have been national security, border protection and exporting…

4 Comments

October 8, 2011

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide by stealth / Globalisation / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Racism / RAMSI / Respect / Rule of Law

Complicity, obligation and mutual respect

When we look at a map of the world’s major trouble spots we see or at least I see, a white footprint superimposed over each and every one of these…

15 Comments

September 27, 2011

Australian Aborigines / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Mining / Yindjibarndi

A can of worms

Double standards have never been so obvious. A can of worms. That’s what you get when you take the same politico-social argument from two ethnically diverse communities and come to…

17 Comments

August 20, 2011

Art / Bill of Rights / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Human Rights / Neo-Colonialism / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION and ‘SOLOMON HUB’

Following is a press release issued by the YIndjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation on 4 August, 2011. Under the heading: THE FACTS ABOUT FMG’s PROPOSED ‘SOLOMON HUB’ IN YINDJIBARNDI COUNTRY. I have…

7 Comments

August 9, 2011

Assimilation / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Environment / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Mining / Respect / Rule of Law / WA government

Native Title: An Australian White Wash

He is wizened. Lines mark a face that has felt the sun’s warming rays and burning beams, eyes see the land that holds his people’s Dreams, ears hear the stories…

3 Comments

July 17, 2011

Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Globalisation / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Mining / Respect

It’s time: for honesty and fairness when reporting on Aboriginal Australia

Let’s not put too fine a point on it. Without question, Aboriginal Australia is afflicted with enormous problems, not least of which are law and order and health issues. Add…

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July 9, 2011

Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Globalisation / PNG / Solomon Islands

The curse of mineral wealth

The heading of this post is not at attempt at an inscrutable Oscar Wilde type conundrum, it is a statement of fact for indigenous people unfortunate enough to inhabit land…

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June 27, 2011

Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Globalisation

Racism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina – Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek, is a philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany. He is the author of, among many…

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June 23, 2011

Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Indonesia / Mining / Neo-Colonialism

Drew Grant and the Organisasi Papua Merdeka

Firstly I want to dispel any illusions that my heading might have created about Mr Grant being in any way connected to the Organisasi Papua Merdeka. The connection between the…

3 Comments

June 12, 2011

Mining / PNG

Who owns Australia? Who owns the Pacific?

While the Australian Labor Party squanders billions of dollars chasing a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council to appease the ghost of its former leader, sacrificed before completing even…

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May 17, 2011

Accountability / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Mining

The Swansong Budget: Screw the workers to feed the obese (miners that is!)

The resource sector is expected to spend an historic $76 billion on mining projects next financial year, with mining investment accounting for six per cent of Australia’s gross domestic product…

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May 11, 2011

Accountability / Archaeology / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity

White fellas greed has no bounds!

“I'm not sure it's the law that would do it [silence political dissent], it's more the climate that does it. I've been critical, openly critical of aspects of government policy…

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April 12, 2011

Corporate profit / Corruption / Environment / Hypocrisy

Who said there isn’t a Santa?

They say that Christmas comes but once a year, but we all know that isn’t true. If you’re a public servant or an Australian Federal Police Officer it seemingly comes every day.…

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January 31, 2011

Environment

Bintang Kejora: a struggle for a new dawn

FMGL versus YAC – is the truth really out there

Rio Tinto: juggernaut of cultural fascism and participant in slow-motion genocide

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

Yindjibarndi update: Site damage

Not everyone is lucky in the Lucky Country

Systemic and Institutional Racism and Systemic Bias in the Australian justice system

You can’t preach the moral high ground and walk in the gutter: Australia and West Papua

Complicity, obligation and mutual respect

A can of worms

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION and ‘SOLOMON HUB’

Native Title: An Australian White Wash

It’s time: for honesty and fairness when reporting on Aboriginal Australia

The curse of mineral wealth

Racism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina – Slavoj Žižek

Drew Grant and the Organisasi Papua Merdeka

Who owns Australia? Who owns the Pacific?

The Swansong Budget: Screw the workers to feed the obese (miners that is!)

White fellas greed has no bounds!

Who said there isn’t a Santa?

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