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The Fable of Wazza and Numpty
Pride and culture cannot be bartered for mere tokens of approval.
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October 23, 2024
Morning Star flags
Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Indonesia / Racism / Refugees / United Nations / West Papua
Treaties, lies and the Morning Star Flag
“The West Papuans have become the victims of Australia’s regional foreign policy arrangements that prop up the anti-refugee policies of Operation Sovereign Borders.” Ian Rintoul, Refugee Action Coalition. Fifty-two years…
December 1, 2013
Accountability / Assimilation / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Racism / Religion / Respect / Shared humanity
There is a dream dreaming us
Actually, the natural man in Africa is a truly spiritual man. He has so much of the spiritual that he is overflowing with it. He has so much of it…
May 31, 2013
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#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity
#IdleNoMore is a growing movement of indigenous activism that started with Canada's First Nations taking a stand against a long history of systematic, institutionalized abuse from the Canadian authorities.
January 22, 2013
Assimilation / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Law / Northern Territory Intervention / Racial Discrimination Act / Religion / Rule of Law / White Australia
Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus
Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heart strings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make…
December 4, 2012
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A hypocrite for a Prime Minister, a hypocrite for a Chief Minister
Each man reaches perfection by doing his own duty; he worships god – from whom all beings come, by whom this universe was stretched forth – by doing his appointed…
November 13, 2012
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Forty years on, Indigenous women still without rights
It was freezing last night where I slept in my travels, below freezing in fact. In Bangerang country, home of the Yorta Yorta people, Mother Nature may have frozen the…
July 7, 2012
The stories, art and dance of Arnhem Land, the longest running show in history
NAIDOC week seems a fitting time to diverge a little from the normal themes of Blak and Black and have a peak into what was our culture prior to the…
July 3, 2012
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Law is The Law, but not if you’re an Aborigine
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which they have imbibed, they cannot trace how, rather than to root them out. The mind must be strong…
June 22, 2012
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The symbol of belonging
On the request of a friend, this post offers some insights as to why someone would wish to burn the Australian flag as an act of protest. The events in…
January 28, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / International Law / Propaganda / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua
What is actually the root of the problem in Papua?
The following is an extract of an interview between Bambang Dharmono, former Aceh military commander and negotiator representing Indonesia for the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM), to lead the Presidential Unit…
January 10, 2012
Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua
Indonesia and Australia the illegitimate states of the Asia Pacific Region
What is self-determination? The notion of self-determination as a universal principle, whether viewed through a political, moral, or legal lens, has been and continues to be imprecise and in dire…
January 2, 2012
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
Assimilation / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Genocide by stealth / Government / Government welfare / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Northern Territory Intervention / Rule of Law / White Australia
Anti-Aboriginal racism in Australia has no bounds – NT Intervention extended by ten years
“Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians are part of our community we’re not nameless, faceless people who live on the margins of society. We deserve the respect and the…
December 4, 2011
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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…
October 8, 2011
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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…
July 17, 2011
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A rose by any other name: Invasion
Earlier this week Sydney City Council voted to include the term ‘invasion’ in the Preamble to the city’s vision for 2030. It’s even made news in India. It’s caused a…
July 2, 2011
Reconciliation week: a joke played by ‘white’ Australians on Indigenous Australians and the international community!
Racial discrimination against Indigenous Australians is as alive and well in Australia today as it ever was. In fact, under the lost years of opportunity known to history as the…
May 29, 2011
Who owns history, who owns the truth?
In an opinion piece published in the Age newspaper, Yorta Yorta man Paul Briggs (2006) angrily rejected a proposal by Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough that Aboriginal culture be…
April 27, 2011
Superfluous People
For today’s post I’m borrowing a theme from Turgenev, specifically from The Diary of a Superfluous Man. As readers of Turgenev will know, much of his fiction is associated with…
April 1, 2011