ACT Government

The real problem with hypocrisy – it knows no honour

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera One of the first Communist texts I read, following the French edition of Quotations from…

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July 19, 2012

ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Assimilation / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Government welfare / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Rule of Law / Sexism

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

ACT Government / Australian Labor Party / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Law / Rule of Law

You’re not an Aboriginal Organisation: the ACT Government’s take on NAIDOC week

The Minister for Indigenous Affairs attack on Billabong Aboriginal Corporation underscores continuing racism within the ACT Government.

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July 4, 2012

ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law

Red the colour of our blood, black the colour of our skin

Jimmy Governor after his arrest – source Singleton Library I killed the school-teacher and Mrs Mawbey. … My missis was always telling me that Mrs Mawbey was always getting on…

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June 21, 2012

ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / International Law / Law / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Rule of Law

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’

Robinson Crusoe is an allegory for modern colonialism.

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May 14, 2012

ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Law Enforcement / Racial Discrimination Act / Rule of Law

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

Hypocrisy in the application of the law enforcement and the commission of crimes by those within their ranks undermines democracy.

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May 12, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law

Call me black: Proud to be an Aborigine!

The following verse is to Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting Jack Johnson, 1982 acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas. Jean-Michel Basquiat died at 27 years old from an overdose. He was the…

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May 5, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Genocide by stealth / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

A prayer to the Gods

Attacks and abuse - the price of speaking out against racism and corruption, all ignored by law enforcement and corrupt officials.

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May 2, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Equality / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Political theory / Rule of Law

Die Sünde ist ein Versinken in das Nichts

Du bist der Arme, du der Mittellose Du bist der Arme, du der Mittellose, du bist der Stein, der keine Stätte hat, du bist der fortgeworfene Leprose, der mit der…

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April 19, 2012

ACT Government / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Rule of Law / Stolen Generation

Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought of golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would…

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April 14, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Environment / Government / Law Enforcement / Mining

Aux objets répugnants nous trouvons des appas

Clive Palmer finds more charm in his coal than the Great Barrier Reef, which he plans to imperil through his exports.

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April 5, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

You can talk a mob into anything; its feelings may be – usually are – on the whole generous and right; but it has no foundation for them; you may…

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March 28, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law

Why Australia needs a Royal Commission into the AFP

On August 30 last year Blak and Black lodged a petition on the GoPetition website calling for a Royal Commission into the Australian Federal Police (“AFP”). Blak and Black has…

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March 24, 2012

ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Government / Racism

The great Aussie sporting culture’s hidden racist agenda

This post was penned in an outburst of indignation this morning after reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled AFL clubs' unwritten rule on Aborigines which discusses the AFL’s…

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March 16, 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…

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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

Australia's lack of respect for indigenous rights and the rule of law should negate its participation in any international peace keeping operations.

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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

Ernst & Young has its fingers in projects that disadvantage Indigenous people across the world, including in West Papua.

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February 22, 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

Indigenous people in Australia are subjected to more aggressive treatment by the criminal justice system compared with other Australians.

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February 16, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Globalisation / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Solomon Islands / Terrorism

The masks we wear: Ernst & Young and global terrorism

…the threats we face are no longer from known enemies, nations that have fleets or missiles or bombers that we can see come to the United States, nations that can…

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January 24, 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…

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January 23, 2012

Bakchos on Humbug in the Emerald City: Trump, the Populist Wizard
Agree Hakeem!
Bakchos on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
Hakeem I’ll be posting proof in the next few days to show that Tu Pham orchestrated the entire thing.
Hakeem on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
Olikoye the entire group is watching how this plays out. A group of white people ganging up on an Indigenous…
Hakeem on Why Pham’s Decisions Matter: Conflict of Interest in the Public Service
Mel I too would like to know why Tu Pham hasn’t been charged.
Hakeem on Morality Without Religion, Society Without Morality
God isn’t the problem, it’s the weaponising of religion by politicians that is the problem.
Hakeem on Humbug in the Emerald City: Trump, the Populist Wizard
Trump is a racist and a war criminal.

ACT Government

The real problem with hypocrisy – it knows no honour

Forty years on, Indigenous women still without rights

You’re not an Aboriginal Organisation: the ACT Government’s take on NAIDOC week

Red the colour of our blood, black the colour of our skin

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

Call me black: Proud to be an Aborigine!

A prayer to the Gods

Die Sünde ist ein Versinken in das Nichts

Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams

Aux objets répugnants nous trouvons des appas

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

Why Australia needs a Royal Commission into the AFP

The great Aussie sporting culture’s hidden racist agenda

Theft and racism, the festering sores in Canberra

Martens, Moti and the ‘rule of law’ in Australia

Copper and gold: the blood diamonds of West Papua

Racism in Australia’s criminal justice system

The masks we wear: Ernst & Young and global terrorism

Ernst & Young and the Diversity Council of Australia

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