ACT Integrity Commission, blinkered and bound
Why did the ACT Solicitor General want BnB taken down?
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June 24, 2024
ACT Integrity Commission 13 May 2024
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Uncategorized
20 Years of friends in the Australian Federal Police
Some days demand that we pause to reflect on an event on the same date in the past. For Blak and Black that day is 9 May and this year marks 20 years since Angel Marina wrote his now widely recognised letter of racism against the ACT Government’s then most senior Indigenous employee.
May 9, 2022
Image: AP/Silvia Izquierdo
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Racism / Sexism
Feminist disparity, Blak white and Swedish
Only when we march for every woman and girl will there truly be solidarity.
March 15, 2021
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Racism / Respect
The truth about First Nations employment in the ACT
An inquiry into the Aboriginal and Terres Strait Islander employment in the ACT excluded two key directorates that with longstanding racism issues - CMTEDD and JACS.
October 13, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Labor Party / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Human Rights / Justice / Racism / Stanhope Government
The Legacy of ACT Labor, 20 years of lazy government
Suppression of two public interest disclosures pointing money siphoned out of government coffers hallows corruption to go on unchecked in the Australian Capital Territory.
September 26, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Labor Party / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Human Rights / Justice / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Stanhope Government / Uncategorized
The ACT Barr Government, ducking the hard calls for another term
Why was Mullins fitted-up for seeking a missing public interest disclosure and why does the Barr Government not ensure transparency?
September 19, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Respect / Stanhope Government / Uncategorized / White Australia
Jon Stanhope, the man who washed his hands of Mullins
“Jon Stanhope appeared to see the world as both binary and polar. All that is good in the world was embodied by the Labor party, and all that is bad…
August 8, 2020
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#Justice4Mullins , a black life that matters
The following is an unfinished saga of racism & corruption; about how far one jurisdiction will go to cover up their misdeeds, the people who are complicit & the Australian…
July 31, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Stolen Generation
Is Integrity Dead in the ACT?
“You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.” Violet Miller, Suffragette, 2015. Over the past two years Mr Mullins has walked his long dark night of…
July 12, 2017
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Racism / Sexism
#Misogyny and #sexism – Australian political rhetoric
Before launching into this post, Blak and Black wishes to congratulate its good friend Mr. Julian Moti QC on his admission to the Fiji bar and imminent return to the…
June 30, 2013
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Reconciliation – now is the time
I want to tell you a story about a woman, Born in the first quarter of the twentieth century in an indigenous community, Who knew life on the land, a…
May 27, 2013
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Police / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism
A fish rots from the head
The most recent public airing of a racist attack on a Korean man and his aunt visiting from his homeland has prompted another round of self-reflection on the Australian psyche.…
April 9, 2013
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Northern Territory Intervention / Racism / Rule of Law
“May it ring for justice and change”
I like to learn how to say people’s names properly. Not that I have a particularly good memory for pairing names with faces, but I believe it is a sign…
February 17, 2013
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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…
January 13, 2013
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Sexism / Xenophobia
Resistance is futile – like hell it is!
I couldn’t resist writing this post. I just couldn’t. Because since well before the whole Destroy the Joint thing has started, Blak and Black has been fighting to draw attention…
January 2, 2013
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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…
December 25, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Fred Martens / Government / Human Rights / Julian Moti / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law
The rule of law and the democratic process
“No-one ever argues that governments should have less integrity, that elected officials should not be accountable, or that public servants should behave unethically. Broad statements of the value of integrity,…
December 10, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism / Shared humanity
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…
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…
November 13, 2012
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism
Ain’t I a woman?
If I could share a meal at a table with a small group of people from any time in history, Isabella Baumfree would be one of them. Perhaps, just perhaps,…
October 26, 2012