First Nations/Indigenous

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Hypocrisy underscoring the ACT’s Bill of Rights

''Quite often before they get there [to court] they have done something quite serious. It becomes quite difficult because the offending behaviour is the first point that you've got to…

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January 13, 2013
Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Queensland / Queensland Police / Racism / Rule of Law / Terrorism / White Australia

David Hicks and Lex Wotton – it’s all black and white

David Hicks and Lex Wotton, two of Australia’s notorious. No I’m not suggesting that they are members of that Sydney based pseudo-outlaw bikie gang allegedly connected with the Ibrahim family,…

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January 7, 2013
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity – but, only if you’re white
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Northern Territory Intervention / Queensland / Queensland Police / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / White Australia

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity – but, only if you’re white

Liberté, égalité, fraternité; the national motto of France, indeed the emphasis on Fraternité during the French Revolution led Olympe de Gouges, a contemporary French playwright, political activist and journalist, to…

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January 5, 2013
A Contributing Life: the reality of Australia’s first people
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A Contributing Life: the reality of Australia’s first people

“… people with mental health problems want the same thing as everyone else. Even the disadvantaged should be able to lead a contributing life. This can mean many things. It…

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December 25, 2012
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Promises and passages – it’s all an illusion

  Promises and passage, that what’s they were sold. A truth not realized, the loss of all that was family and home. The South Sea Islanders who came to Australia…

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December 8, 2012
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The Medusa – the price we all pay for political corruption

Let us venture to advance another truth, a truth useful to the Minister himself. There exists among the officers of the Marine, an intractable esprit de corps, a pretended point…

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December 6, 2012
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Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation Media Statement

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA STATEMENT—Thursday 29 November 2012 http://yindjibarndi.org.au/   YINDJIBARNDI WANT SOLUTION TO FMG DEBACLE   Yindjibarndi Elder Bruce Woodley joins Sue Singleton, Brad Goode and Kerry Savas in…

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November 29, 2012
Destroy the Joint, schmoozing and the hypocrites
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Destroy the Joint, schmoozing and the hypocrites

The announcement of a Royal Commission into child abuse by clergy is as big an issue as was the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption, if not bigger. This is…

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November 15, 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…

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November 13, 2012
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Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN http://yindjibarndi.org.au/ Wednesday 31 October 2012 No amount of corporate spin, bulldust or threats can save Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) from the continuing revelations of whistleblowers and freedom…

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November 1, 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…

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July 7, 2012